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Hip Hops: Old Louisville Brewery, Feed Louisville — and chef-crafted Zest bowls

As usual, let’s preface today’s pint of Kentucky Common with a shot of local history. In the beginning, “craft” beer was accompanied by platters of food ― and I’m not referring to “The Peasant Wedding,” that famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Beginning in the 1990s, when small, independent breweries first introduced brought freshly […]

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Hip Hops: I drank a Shock Top, and other tales of mystery and imagination

Words have meaning ― most of the time. Um, much of the time? I keep forgetting that it’s 2026, and the advent of the post-literate era. Words with meaning comprise beer style definitions, even if many of the definitions we now accept as fixed and immutable have existed only since the 1970s, when the pioneering […]

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Hip Hops: Quiet, please ― or, the case for “Nothing Nights” at pubs serving better beer

The preceding video is your soundtrack, in Dutch. Today’s featured photo depicts the interior of The Imperial, a Wetherspoon pub in Exeter.  As noted previously within the comfortable confines of this fermentable precinct, J D Wetherspoon plc (branded as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and known colloquially as “Spoons”) is a British pub chain. I’m the first to concede it’s the […]

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Upland Brewing acquires Floyd County Brewing Company, with a rebrand on the way

On Tuesday evening, Indiana Beer & Spirits News broke a biggie. New Albany’s Floyd County Brewing Company, its Enchanted Forest & Music Hall, and the half-city-block surrounding them known as “Thirst and Main” have been purchased lock, stock and a gently used Monty Python Life of Brian video by Bloomington’s Upland Brewing Company (presumably its […]

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Hip Hops: This “lager revival” of George Washington’s 1757 ale recipe is muddled and pointless

44 years ago, when I first got into the business of promoting the timeless virtues of better beer (when the availability of superior beer could hardly be taken for granted), a key point quickly emerged. If you wish to sell better beer to consumers, you first must teach consumers why better beer matters. I’ll always […]

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Hip Hops: A foamy Budvar tutorial with the “Beer Pope” at Vienna’s fabled Schweizerhaus

Following is a story about a very special beer garden in Vienna. First, kindly allow an unconventional kickoff. My wife Diana took most of the photos reprinted here, and somehow escaped being shown in any of them. That won’t do. This view is from the 1516 brewpub near the Ringstrasse in central Vienna, a few […]

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Hip Hops: Zombie Schlitz is deceased (for now), plus other negligible talking points

What I’d prefer to write about today is my recent visit to the Schweizerhaus restaurant and beer garden in Vienna, which serves the finest draft Budvar that is likely to touch your lips any time soon. By next week, the essay should be finished. My reverie will gradually fade, and then what? For now, kindly […]

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Hip Hops: AtG’s “last call” at Slugger Field; a Pubcast with Sam and Jerry; and how Louisville craft beer began

By this time, Louisville’s beer aficionados should be aware that while Against the Grain Brewery is leaving its brewpub/taproom home at Louisville Slugger Field, the brewery’s production arm in Portland remains, producing the beers we all know as well as a rapidly expanding array of beverages not to be confused in the least with beer. […]

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Hip Hops: In praise of English Mild on the occasion of a Trellis-Creole collaboration

Regular readers may recall the ongoing, evolving changeover at 1576 Bardstown Road, a familiar and cherished address that once hosted Against the Grain’s neighborhood public house spin-off (2019 – 2024), and before that, the long-running Cumberland Brews (2000 – 2019). There may have been another occupant since then, but who can remember the purely trivial? […]

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Hip Hops: Porter — and remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years on

 As of Monday, November 10, it has been fifty years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank  during a sudden, violent storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members. Far too often we’re amnesiacs when it comes to history, but the men who were lost that terrible night in 1975 are […]

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Hip Hops: Hop Atomica rises, Hi-Wire falls, and Atrium releases “Employee Ownership Nectar”

As I write these words, Hop Atomica (1318 McHenry St.) is preparing to host Apron Inc.’s monthly Happy Hour Friend-Raiser. There’s a huge added bonus: Dan Dry will be there, exhibiting a few of his many award-winning photographic works, and helping give a leg up to Apron in the process. I’ll be there. Learn more […]

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Hip Hops: As craft beer convulses, Gen Z embraces cask ale in Great Britain

Today’s atypically brief stream of beery consciousness is brought to you by Spain, where we just enjoyed a week relaxing in Valencia and Palma de Mallorca. Our journey abroad coincided with the post-Great American Beer Festival news cycle, centering on craft beer’s decline, death and zombie afterlife, or whatever the adjustment is being called this […]

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Hip Hops: “We may take a holiday in Spain,” so what about the cerveza?

The late, great British beer writer Martyn Cornell visited the Spanish island of Majorca (Mallorca) in 2015, subsequently recording the experience at his Zythophile (Zee-tho-fyle) web site: The porter in Majorca tastes like what it oughter (apparently the title is a pun on a Heineken advertisement from the 1980s). If you want a single statistic […]

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Hip Hops: I won’t apologize for %!@$&* hating Stella Artois

Cover canine photo credit: Care. Diligent readers may recall that I participate in a weekly podcast called The Pubcast, which originates at Donum Dei Brewery in New Albany. There isn’t an overarching theme to our discussions, although guests often are drawn from the food and drink trade, and beer talk regularly lands on the docket. […]

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Hip Hops: Dispassionate, objective thoughts about Louisville’s landmark beers (version 2.0)

Back in February the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame (ACBHOF) inducted its first membership class of twelve brewery owners, brewers, writers, educators, and importers, who were “recognized for their involvement in, and support of, the American craft beer industry.” ACBHOF Announces its Inaugural Inductees In August came the ACBHOF’s first selection of Landmark Craft […]

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