Beer

Hip Hops: Wernesgrüner Pils, a fine beer on a budget (at Aldi)

Today, a truncated “Hip Hops.” Worry not; I’ve grown no less wordy in my dotage, but the time demanded by undertaking to write an actual book, and simultaneously working on two book-length (internet only) projects, suggests a rigorously disciplined use of my time. And … if you know me, it should be obvious that discipline isn’t […]

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Rollin’ on the River Craft Beer Festival, in Jeffersonville, Sat., June 7

One week from today will be the second annual edition of Rollin’ on the River Craft Beer Festival, which will take place on Saturday, June 7 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. entry for VIP ticket holders) at the Howard Steamboat Museum at 1101 East Market St. in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The craft beer experts […]

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Hip Hops: Count me as a beer classicist, but not a beer classist

In a former polemical life, and at a different portal than this one, I authored an occasional column called Shane’s Excellent New Words. The basic premise: “Because for some of us, words mean more than money.” Specifically, the concept was aimed squarely at its namesake, a local consigliere who liked to joke in the fashion of […]

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Hip Hops: Blind taste tests dispense with purely visual beer (label) adulation

As a prelude to the following (originally published on Oct 19, 2022), kindly note that the columnist is returning to stand-up (beer ed, not comedy) at Harbor & Hops (3010 Gottbrath Parkway, Jeffersonville) on Monday, May 26. We’re hoping to hold this sort of event on a semi-regular basis. Thanks to Greg Brown for opportunity […]

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Gravely Brewing’s taproom is moving to Main St.

Gravely Brewing is shaking it up. Here’s the text. A New Gravely is Brewing! ✨🍻 It’s official, later this summer we will be moving from our beloved Baxter Avenue taproom to a new 10,000 sq. ft. space on Main Street in Nulu. Our new location will feature our award-winning craft beers in a new, open-concept […]

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Hip Hops: Duke Ellington, Madonna and the Western canon inform my beers

Just because the “Hip Hops” column is about beer, it doesn’t mean that beer must be the subject of a “Hip Hops” column. Rather, it might be possible to make an indirect yet principled point about beer while barely mentioning it, happily freeing those afflicted with our current era’s short attention spans to engage in […]

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Hip Hops: Remembering May Day in glorious Vienna, 1987

Today is May 1, or May Day, which in Europe is a traditional festival marking the beginning of summer. In addition, in a great many locales worldwide, May Day is known as International Workers’ Day. Saturday, May 3 marks the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, which I need not explain, to be followed almost […]

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Hip Hops: Confessions of a beer-loving Europhile

Today’s column is excerpted from 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Five: The end of the beginning (1989-1990), an installment of my serialized memoir of a career in beer. Part 76 was published in March, and more are on the way as time allows; read them free of charge at my website, and find the series […]

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Hip Hops: The shocking fate of an innovative brewer in pre-Prohibition New Albany

I’m writing a book about beer, and the first of several deadlines is today. Speaking as an expository writer (my efforts at fiction have always been abysmal), one must learn in order to teach. Consequently, research began in January, and the only sure thing is that more of it will land on the cutting room […]

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Hip Hops: My earnest pursuit of Żywiec Porter (1987 – 2002 – 2018)

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). — (Originally published on April 12, 2021.) In the spring of 2002, I chartered a minibus and a dozen of us took a trip through Hungary, Slovakia, […]

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Scott Hand Day is today, at Monnik Beer Co.

Never forget. Scott Hand was a singular figure in Louisville brewing history, and it is fitting that Monnik Beer Co. (1036 E. Burnett Ave.) honors his memory each year. Join us at Monnik (on Thursday, March 20th) to celebrate a very dear friend of ours, Scott Hand. We’ll be releasing a special beer we call […]

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Hip Hops: “Erin Go Blagh 2025” is your recurringly necessary St. Paddy’s Day etiquette primer

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). I concede that it’s been a good while since I wrote about St. Patrick’s Day entirely from scratch. That’s because past efforts have always been ripe for […]

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Donum Dei Craft, 8th Dei Pizza and the Drunken Unicorn release 2025 (Mar. 15 & 16)

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (read it at issuu). Donum Dei Craft, the established New Albany brewery and distillery (3211 Grant Line Road #3), will again be offering a pre-St. Patrick’s Day Drunken Unicorn […]

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Hip Hops: Bock’s back story includes Vitus and NuLu Bock Fest, but NEVER steel wool

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). Our recent Balkan Mystery Tour (February 12 – 21) got off to a miserable start when a perfect winter’s storm of snowy Chicago weather […]

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Hip Hops: New Albanians on a beer holiday in Old Albania (1994)

The following “old” Albanian beer-everie is excerpted from my ongoing online memoir, first appearing on July 29, 2024: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in Old Albania (1994). Albania in 1994 was a traumatized country in recovery — from decades of communism and centuries of mountainous isolation. It […]

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