Hip Hops: Introducing weekly scribblings about beer and brewing
For more than a decade, "Hip Hops" has been the title of my column for the quarterly print-edition of Food & Dining Magazine. Now it will be deployed on a weekly basis here at...
Hip Hops: It’s the time of the season for al fresco beer festivals
The central task today for your correspondent here at “Hip Hops” is to issue reminders about several forthcoming al fresco beer festivals, each fully worthy of your patronage.
Saturday, July 15: J-Town Summer Craft Beer...
Hip Hops: News of the Beer (with requisite editorial commentary)
Toss one out, and we'll "bat" it around...
NEWS ITEM: THANK A FARMER: Floyds Knobs farm grows hops featured in local beers, by Brooke McAfee (News and Tribune).
ROGER'S TAKE: Not a day passes without your faithful...
Hip Hops: Keg Liquors changes owners, plus a round-up of local beer news
Yesterday in a message posted at his personal Facebook page, The Keg Liquors owner Todd Antz revealed the sale of his stores in Clarksville and New Albany to Southern Indiana businessman George Patel, who...
Hip Hops: Local beer thoughts prefacing a potentially stormy Monday
The weather authorities say there might be rain later this afternoon. Louisville's food and drink community is expecting more than thunderstorms.
"Gov. Andy Beshear says he will announce further steps on Monday to try to...
Hip Hops: Two regional beer writers you should know
Rather than waste precious shoe leather during a pandemic, I fetched a growler of Fuller’s London Pride from my “other” workplace and devoted last week’s column to a rumination on a theme of personal...
Hip Hops: Like I was saying, Oktoberfest in July, Halloween in … January?
The following installment of our weekly beer dialogue first appeared on August 17, 2020, and is being reheated today (bei stovetop, nicht microwave) because of two excellent reasons: (1) it remains relevant, and (2)...
Hip Hops: Labor Day news roundup and dreams of German beer gardens
It's the Labor Day holiday, and I'm keeping the beer report short this week.
Last week Craig and Whitney Martin, beer columnists at LEO Weekly, assembled an excellent overview of Louisville metro's craft brewery scene....
Hip Hops: Erin Go Blagh 2022, the timeless St. Paddy’s etiquette primer
"I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public-house under my room."
― J.M. Synge, The Aran Islands
Each year as St. Patrick's...
Perhaps too little curiosity killed the HopCat (Louisville), which will close for good
On March 20 we reported all HopCat locations nationwide were closing temporarily amid pandemic food service and bar shutdowns. Earlier this afternoon, HopCat - Louisville (1064 Bardstown Road) took to social media to confirm...
