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...
Four Roses sponsors Derby City Brewfest
A Bourbon distillery is sponsoring a beer festival Friday, May 6, Oaks Day, because this year there will be a competition for beers aged in Bourbon barrels – in Four Roses Bourbon barrels, of...
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: New brewery (Epiphany), new sites (AtG, Goodwood) and new Sterling
Major league baseball returned last week, and the excellent all-about-sports publication The Athletic honored the occasion with a cleverly timed and well-written beer article: "Hop prospects for Opening Weekend: The best new local brews...
Make plans now to attend The Bourbon Classic 2014, Jan. 31-Feb. 1
After its successful launch in 2013, The Bourbon Classic is back and bigger to boot.
Held Jan. 31-Feb. 1 (Friday and Saturday) at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, the Classic is a celebration...
Bourbon News & Notes: New Riff expansion; a Four Roses steamboat release; and the...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 23 April 2021, by Susan Reigler
A Special Four Roses Release Honoring the Great Steamboat Race
This year’s Derby Week Great Steamboat Race between the Belle of Louisville, the Belle...
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 a potpourri Wednesday, and I’ve got the blues so bad
Love is a many splendored thing. Love bites. Love can be too much, or not enough; it can seem endless, tender, blind, crazy and forbidden, often all at once. As Paul Mauriat might attest,...
Copper & Kings gets shout-out from beverage industry magazine
“Beverage World,” an industry magazine that focuses on the global beverage market with coverage of innovative producers, distributors and marketers, has listed Louisville’s Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. as one of 10 up-and-coming...
If you didn’t O.D. on Bourbon during Derby Week, here’s a chance to really...
For four days, May 14-18, The Kentucky Bourbon Affair will be a four-day “bourbon fantasy camp” that will let you explore the deep secrets of Bourbon to your heart’s content.
The event will feature a...
