Hip Hops: Handbags, gladrags, weird beers and 139,351 synapses later
40 Years in Beer is a memoir of my life and times in the beer business. The first of these serialized installments came into being in 2022, the 40th anniversary of my inaugural shift in...
The Bar Belle: “Can the Bar Belle go bougie? Hold my beer”
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2024_vol_82_/16
The editor feels obliged to define a term before introducing the topic of the day, primarily because folks as old as me actually remember who Karl Marx was.
This definition comes from Preply.
Bougie (Pronounced: /bu.Ê’i/)...
Neat Bourbon Bar & Bottle Shop lands on USA Today’s “best bars” list
Food & Dining Magazine’s spirits and nightlife columnist Sara "The Bar Belle" Havens is preparing a profile of Neat Bourbon Bar & Bottle Shop (1139 Bardstown Rd.) for our Fall 2024 print issue, which...
Hip Hops: Why are curated luxury beer lists so unremittingly mediocre?
It's a lovely July day for a rant, don't you think?
One thing I've always tried to do with consistency is to advocate for my segment, which for more than 40 years has been the...
Edibles & Potables: Age limits, carding, and non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits
“If we leave the door open to there being a marketing push for non-alcoholic beverages among kids, could that then lead to increased alcohol use among this generation? We don't want to wait to...
Hip Hops: Coopers Sparkling Ale — not Foster’s Lager — is Australian for...
During the Stoned Age, when Crocodile Dundee and Outback Steakhouse roamed the earth with impunity (and nary a sliver of ironic detachment), so did a beer called Foster’s Lager.
Foster’s Lager was created in 1887...
Hip Hops: 20 years on, and maybe at long last we’ve reached post-postcraftbeerism
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_05_summer_04/22
Behold the Summer 2004 Food & Dining Magazine beer column, titled "Beyond the Longneck," this implying a state of existence blissfully free of mass market corn and rice lagers.
I mentioned this beer column debut...
Cocktail Contessa: Delicious gin cocktails for easy summer sipping
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2024_vol_82_/22
F&D’s Cocktail Contessa columnist Heather Wibbels is an award-winning whiskey and cocktail author and the managing director of Bourbon Women. She is a digital content creator and photographer, creating whiskey drinkers one cocktail at a time.
In addition...
Hip Hops: Anchors, rivers, riots, flagships and cask ale
This week's cover photograph was taken in 2007 and offers a view of the Weyermann Malting Co. in Bamberg, Germany. Unsurprisingly, it is situated adjacent to the railyard.
The inaugural Rollin’ on the River Craft...
Hip Hops: El Nopal Mexican Style Lager, new from Against the Grain
This week's "Hip Hops" column actually came yesterday, but we'll take our local beer news wherever we can find it (and besides, it's a slow restaurant news week coming on the heels of Memorial...
