“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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Heather “The Cocktail Contessa” Wibbels explains how to batch and gift cocktails. THE COCKTAIL CONTESSA | Batched, Bottled, and Bowed Gifts with Seasonal Style: Whether it’s bourbon cream, a freezer martini, or a mason jar of infused syrup, gifting drinks is the columnist’s love language. It’s personal, practical, […]
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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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