Hip Hops: The Reinheitsgebot matters, except when it doesn’t
Greeting from Minneapolis, where we're spending my birthday week. The Beer Hall at Surly Brewing is a ten minute walk from our Airbnb. There'll be a couple of Twins games, Hmong cuisine and the...
Hip Hops: The perfect partner for Louisville’s global cuisine? It’s Louisville Beer Week 2023
On May 2nd at Shippingport Brewing Company, the lads over at Louisville Ale Trail revealed a "going global" theme for Louisville Beer Week 2023, and I must admit this is a conceptual pathway near...
Louisville to host Tailspin Ale Fest at Bowman Field on Feb. 22
File this under “Way Cool!” DRAFT Magazine has chosen Louisville to host its Tailspin Ale Fest in Louisville on Saturday, Feb. 22 from 3-7 p.m.
We know what you weather worry warts are thinking: “Beer...
Master Distiller Parker Beam dies
Heaven Hill distillery has announced in a press release that long-time Master Distiller Emeritus, Parker Beam, died yesterday “after a long and valiant battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS.”
Parker Beam had been with...
Rye Not? — The Other American Whiskey
Bourbon drinkers are aware that their favorite whiskey, while distilled from a fermented grain recipe that is mostly made up of corn, usually also contains a fairly large percentage of rye, as well as...
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: Tailspin Ale Fest is back; also, what about craft beer’s “growth”?
This Saturday (5 March; temperatures expected in the low 70s) Tailspin Ale Fest is back to its regularly scheduled program and location at historic Bowman Field, but if you've snoozed on VIP tickets, that...
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...
Friday is for Chocolate Indulgence at Copper and Kings
Copper and Kings, 1211 E. Washington St, will present a showing of the 2000 comedy Chocolat Friday at 7 p.m. and mirror the protagonist's intention to tempt you with chocolate delicacies by offering 3...
Hip Hops: How do craft breweries survive the pandemic? Any which way they can
When your business plan goes out the window, don't dive after it. Just open more windows. Here's a link to get started: "How Coronavirus Could Change the Way You Get Your Favorite Craft Beer,"...
