Beer

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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Hip Hops: The Reinheitsgebot matters, except when it doesn’t

I remember the day many years ago when my German friend drew one of those proverbial lines in the sand. We were debating the merits of a blueberry chocolate stout, long before such hybridized stylistic Frankensteins became the daily norm in craft beer. “It just isn’t right,” he said. “According to the Reinheitsgebot, you must […]

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Hip Hops: Might as well go down swinging, right?

Recently we stopped for beers at a Louisville brewery taproom, and it was fine. There were no problems. Customers brought their own food, all ages were present, and the atmosphere felt suitably festive. The recorded music wasn’t terribly intrusive, and we were able to chat without shouting, which was a pleasant change. Edibles & Potables: […]

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Hip Hops: An obligatory Oktoberfest (beer style) three-way, and grudging pumpkin ale

As our schoolteachers will attest, repetition is an inescapable element of their working lives. Students in second grade this year may be different, but the lessons are the same as those taught to last year’s cohort. Level by level, building from the previous ones, we’re introduced to the basics, intended for us all, reserving more […]

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Hip Hops: Cold beer conversation (a little truth, a little frustration)

With apologies to George Strait. If you grew up as an American during the 1960s and 70s, nothing could have prepared you for a future of stylistic diversity as it pertains to beer and brewing. Naturally the same might be said of food and dining, in a broader sense, given that our role models back […]

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Hip Hops: But what if brewing wasn’t supposed to be EZ?

A year and a half has elapsed since it was first revealed that beer would be “brewed” for the first time since the 19th century (was it ever?) in Georgetown, Indiana at a restaurant to be dubbed Rails & Ales Brew House. The time has arrived for the eatery’s soft opening days, and it plans […]

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