Hip Hops: An evolving recipe for Eastern European Sauerkraut Soup with proper beer accompaniment
In a quickly forgotten context just the other day at Facebook, I made the comment to someone that "beer is good food."
Somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain-wave labyrinth I knew the Dead...
Hip Hops: Beer to go with your Thanksgiving meal … in 2005
Revisiting one's past scribblings can be enlightening or embarrassing. Puzzlement can ensue: what was I trying (and succeeding, or failing) to say?
This act of willful rereading can cross cosmic boundaries and produce the hangover-like...
Hip Hops: A chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years in beer
I try to keep the self-aggrandizement to a bare minimum here at Hip Hops.
(brief pause for a round of beers, a bathroom break, and sustained hilarity)
This being said, and honored only in the breach,...
Hip Hops: Is that a real dancing chicken hat, or is that a Sears...
I went out for a walk right after dinner on Halloween evening in the hope of stretching my legs prior to barricading two humans and three cats safely inside our house in preparation for...
Hip Hops: Blind taste tests are helpful in dispensing with visual beer adulation
I was dining on pastitsio and kebabs at the estimable Beer Time pub in Athens (cover photo), and washing them down with a selection of Greek craft beer, when it suddenly occurred to me...
Hip Hops: Louisville Beer Week is back, celebrating Year Five
Another edition of a rejuvenated Louisville Beer Week is on the horizon. This year’s calendar begins on October 21 and concludes on the 30th.
A “beer week” is a locally-oriented tribute to, and a celebration of,...
Hip Hops: Off to Greece to get my Fix
The Fall 2022 issue of Food & Dining Magazine (#75) is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Go here for a preview of the features,...
Hip Hops: All is flux; nothing stays still
You’ve no doubt heard the tired old bromide: “When the going gets tough, the tough get their posteriors over to Athens, Greece for an ouzo and some grilled squid.”
Excellent advice even if I never...
Atrium Brewing’s month-long birthday celebration begins NOW
Witness Atrium Brewing, which opened at 1154 Logan Street in Shelby Park on September 25, 2020. It was enough just to launch a brewing business in the middle of a pandemic, much less throw...
Hip Hops: Read ’em if you’ve got ’em
"The Craft Brewery Issue" of Food & Dining Magazine (Fall 2022; Vol. 75) is coming in September.
Today's cover photo was taken in May, 1995, at the Drawbridge Estate in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, where an...
