Hip Hops: Poperinge’s Beer and Hop Fest is postponed but not forgotten
If not for COVID19's unexpected intervention, today we’d undoubtedly be visiting friends in Haarlem, Netherlands in preparation to ride the rails south to the small Belgian city of Poperinge, and the renewal of its...
Edibles & Potables: In consideration of “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices,...
Nothing could be more common than the salt and pepper on our tables. In our cuisine these two seasonings are always paired. Their containers are as alike as two eggs, indistinguishable except for the...
Bourbon News & Notes: Fall is the peak season for limited release bourbons
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 11 September, 2020, by Susan Reigler
A Bounty of Fall Limited Releases
While October may be peak season for fall color, it, along with September, also marks the peak season for...
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....
Decadence, depravity, Hunter S. Thompson and a commemorative Derby beer from Flying Dog
A half-century ago, a native Louisvillian observed that the Kentucky Derby hasn't ever been exactly as it appears, and this is more accurate than ever in 2020, when the pandemic has caused the race...
Bourbon News & Notes: Blanton’s Gold; Wilderness Trail; and a cooling Bourbon Slush from...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 4 September, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Blanton’s Straight from the Barrel Limited Release
As if regular Blanton’s Single Barrel wasn’t hard enough to find, an even more select bottling has just...
Hip Hops: Rethinking Germany’s Christmas markets during a pandemic, and other musings
Kindly allow me to begin by noting that mulled wine and shots of schnapps aren't the only libations available at the typical German Christmas market. After all, it is still Germany, and usually someone...
Edibles & Potables: Some news, some notes, and an on-line database of 5,000 historical...
A few items of interest for random Sunday reading ...
From Cuisine Noir, there's an initiative to help close the racial equity gap in craft beer.
The Crowns & Hops “8 Trill Pils Fund,” is launching...
Bourbon News & Notes: Four Roses and Old Forester special releases, and Maker’s Mark...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 28 August, 2020, by Susan Reigler
Fall Four Roses Releases
September is almost here, which is not only National Bourbon Heritage Month, but the beginning of the fall releases of...
Hip Hops: Beer most fowl, and other news items from fermentation nation
Last Wednesday Monnik Beer Co. and Falls City Brewing Co. released their collaboration batch of Black Is Beautiful, previewed here in June; as an unrelated aside, Falls City has completed its brewery expansion project,...
