Hip Hops: Louisville area brewery news; also “Three years later, an altered world”
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Louisville area brewery news items have been coming so fast the past two...
Hip Hops: Working together, we can upend the Random Beer Chaos Generator
The article reprinted here first appeared at my web site on February 21. The cover photo depicts the tab at Päffgen in Köln (Cologne) that night in 2008 when six of us dropped by for...
Hometown Brewing’s Foxbody 5.0 garners praise from Beer Connoisseur
Hometown Brewing Company (4041 Preston Highway) is the "house" brewery of Craft House Pizza. The story goes something like this.
Tom Brown, part-owner of the family-owned regional Hometown Pizza chain, bought the Cumberland Brews production...
Hip Hops: The devil’s in the Wien tale
Are you an owner or manager of an establishment that serves draft beer? If so, is the random chaos model of draft beer selection making you dizzy? It doesn't have to be this way....
Hip Hops: “Last of the Summer Wine” is better with beer
Compo Simmonite: "I could murder some fish and chips."
Foggy Dewhurst: "You usually do."
Norman Clegg: "If ever there's been a neglected subject in poetry, it's vinegar."
Last week's market pub contemplation prompted further thoughts on a...
Hip Hops: Market pubs and Porter are good belly mortar (at breakfast)
We could stay up drinking until morning, all the while arguing about the differences (if any) between Porter and Stout, but the only point of agreement might be this.
Entire quickly became popular as the workingman’s...
Hip Hops: Holy Grale is 12 years young, and the party is tonight
Let's face facts. I scream, you scream—well, we all scream for better beer.
Okay, it doesn’t exactly rhyme, but one cannot have his ragged doggerel and drink it, too.
In my personal lexicon, an establishment that...
Hip Hops: Herold’s brewery tour in 1997, and Donum Dei’s chili cook-off in 2023
Before delving into grand old times in Czechia, this announcement.
APRON Inc.’s program of good works will be on the agenda when New Albany’s Donum Dei Brewery (3211 Grant Line Road #3) hosts its 5th Annual Chili...
Hip Hops: Two Louisville brewery startups, and fond memories of Czarnok Vendéglő
Admittedly I seldom venture beyond the historic center of metro Louisville unless it's time to drive to the airport from New Albany (speaking of which, why are we too dumb for light rail?) to...
Hip Hops: Do you speak Beer? Great. Now put away your #!@*&% phone
After all of these years traipsing around Europe—well, strictly speaking, I spent a few hours in Asia one day waiting for a ferry back to Istanbul, but otherwise the Europhilia is quite real—it annoys...
