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Hip Hops: “A Potable Cynic’s Word Book,” and what’s to come

Wikipedia provides a convenient definition to get these balls rolling. Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of […]

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Hip Hops: ACBHoF’s 2026 Landmark Craft Beers and CAMRA’s “you’re being lied to” push

The American Craft Beer Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of “Landmark Beers” was announced in August, 2025: Anchor Liberty Ale, Anchor Steam Beer, Celis White (Witbier), Samuel Adams Boston Lager and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Landmark Beers: This page is dedicated to individual beers that have left a lasting mark on American brewing and drinking […]

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

(Your attention is directed to this week’s installment of “40 Years in Beer”: Part 93: Beer, circus, and the Great NABC vs. Big Red Liquors War of 2003.) As our schoolteachers gladly will attest, repetition is an inescapable element of their working lives. Students in second grade this year may comprise different faces, but the […]

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Hip Hops: In search of lost time

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” ― Ferris Bueller Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning last ― Simon and Garfunkel, “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” Either you’re pumping the brake, or flooring the accelerator, […]

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Hip Hops: Beers by the light of day, but no longer at German rail platforms

“Day drinking” is a familiar concept. Beer tends to be my libation of choice, and the act of “drinking” is understood; after all, we’re not here to gaze lovingly at unopened containers as we contemplate the potential ramifications of Instagram trendsetting, but rather to enjoy their contents. Consequently, to me it’s all about daytime beers, […]

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Hip Hops: A philosophy of beer — and goodbye Alan “Hair of the Dog” Sprints

My beer column today is sponsored by me, and why not?: The 40 Years in Beer Compendium: links, previews, and coming attractions. Eleven years ago, as I began to seriously contemplate departing the beer business I helped to found, there came an opportunity to visit Transylvania University in Lexington and chat with some of the […]

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Hip Hops: “Curating” beer? Just stop it. Try “thinking” beer instead

Among the beer-related buzzwords that I’d like to see dumped from the top of the Burj Khalifa, then stomped, incinerated, drawn, quartered and dowsed with a flagon of Michelob Ultra fresh from heating to a low boil in the microwave, is the word “curated” in all its varied and chronically over-used tenses. “Curated” is making […]

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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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Prova Spirits garners three medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Previously, F&D observed the opening of Prova Spirits in August of 2025. Prova Spirits, a nano distiller in Phoenix Hill, opens this weekend Your correspondent, a confirmed Europhile, continues to feel excitement about the Prova project. Verily, here is a collection of distillates one doesn’t often witness hereabouts. The basics: Prova Spirits (Instagram, Facebook) is a […]

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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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