(“Hip Hops” appears a day early this week.) As referenced in last week’s column, almost two centuries ago Hew Ainslie, an immigrant from Scotland, became New Albany’s first known commercial brewer. If there were others before him, the pertinent records no longer exist. Ainslie’s short-lived SoIN brewery was located in the vicinity of the current … Continue reading Hip Hops: Hew Ainslie, an early New Albany brewer, Scots nationalist and poet