Easy Entertaining — Home for the Holidays
Holidays can be stressful. End-of-year entertaining can present special challenges that don't plague your average host during less hectic seasons.
With the never-ending parade of office celebrations, neighborhood gatherings and family functions, holiday parties often seem...
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Maker’s Mark lowers proof to extend supply.
Maker’s Mark, one of Kentucky’s best-known bourbons, has announced it’s lowering the proof of its flagship brand from 90 to 84 (from 45 percent alcohol to 42 percent).
That...
Hip Hops: Mile Wide Beer Co.’s 4th anniversary is this week
Mile Wide Beer Co. celebrates its 4th anniversary this Thursday (10 December), and while Kentucky's current COVID restrictions preclude the sort of gala gathering the brewery deserves, there'll be two beer releases to mark...
Hip Hops: It’s the time of the season for al fresco beer festivals
The central task today for your correspondent here at “Hip Hops” is to issue reminders about several forthcoming al fresco beer festivals, each fully worthy of your patronage.
Saturday, July 15: J-Town Summer Craft Beer...
Major in spirits at Woodford’s Bourbon Academy
Woodford Reserve Distillery, 7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, will offer four one-day Bourbon Academy immersion classes, covering all aspects of the the craft of distilling, at various times in the new year.
The class includes an...
13th annual Four Roses Flower Hour is Friday, Feb. 7 at Nanz & Kraft...
It's time again for a refreshingly logical event that combines Four Roses Bourbon, flowers from Nanz & Kraft Florists, Valentine's Day and the American Heart Association.
It's the 13th annual Four Roses Flower Hour, a...
Gordon Biersch celebrates Active Heroes
Thursday, Nov. 9, from 6-9 p.m., Gordon Biersch Restaurant and Brewery, Fourth St. Live, will celebrate Veterans’ Day with a special tapping of their Veterans Day IPA, $3 pint drafts of the American IPA...
National Geographic gives shout-out to Moonshine U.
National Geographic has a long reputation of hyperbole in headlining its stories, but hyperbole is part of marketing, right? And whether or not the wording is a bit exaggerated, it is always fun to...
Hip Hops: When pairing beer with food, the trick is to transcend “nationalism”
Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER).
-- Frank Zappa
With apologies to...
Bourbon News & Notes: Jim Beam Lineage, Last Drop Distillers and new Glencairn whiskey...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 6 November, 2020, by Susan Reigler
An International Travel Release from Jim Beam
Many whiskey enthusiasts know that distilleries, both in the U.S. and other countries including Scotland and Japan, produce...
