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Previously at this portal, during the course of exploring the annual profusion of outdoor beer festivals, I’ve considered the origin of “field” parties. As you might imagine, the chief prerequisite is the proximity of a field.
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Or, roughly as such:
When you were 17 years of age, looking more like 12, forever ducking prying eyes and requiring divine intervention to get served at randomly obliging package stores, the great outdoors constantly beckoned as a place of refuge.
Priority was placed on those patches of isolated farmland belonging to folks who didn’t know or care that we’d found someone older to procure the cheapest swill possible, borrow a steel tub otherwise used to hydrate future beefsteak, buy bags of ice, and await the grapevine-laden onslaught of teenagers who’d learned there was a field party in progress.
Pertaining to the specific field of use, I caution against selecting the one Bull McCabe rents. A humorless sort, our Bull.
Meanwhile, according to Merriam-Webster the word “jubilee” has several meanings.
- A year of emancipation and restoration established by ancient Hebrew law
- The ram’s horn used to announce this jubilee year
- A Black American religious song
- A special anniversary in non-religious terms (especially the 50th)
Jubilee + Field = Jubilee Field (Bar) — or, not your grandpa’s field kegger in the Knobs or a plenary indulgence, but an outdoor venue similar in concept to Union GameYard in Jeffersonville, and located adjacent to The Bard.
Michael L. Jones has an exclusive report at Louisville Business First: Jubilee Field Bar to be built next to the Bard near Old Louisville.
A planned outdoor bar and food truck park is expected to break ground in the Meriwether neighborhood, near Old Louisville, in 2024.
The Jubilee Field Bar will be located at 529 E. Burnett Ave., next to the Bard (a business formerly known as the Bard’s Town), which opened at 511 E. Burnett Ave. in March. The new development will consist of an outdoor bar on a three-quarter acre field with a permanent space for six food trucks.
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