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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: 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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Edibles & Potables: Traditional Albanian fare at Tak-Fak in Tirana

You’ll have kindly noted a previous missive addressing Albanian cuisine. We returned late last week from the Balkan Mystery Tour 2025, a marvelous (if a tad chilly) sweep through North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. All my Europhile buttons were pushed, repeatedly, and I’ve returned to America rested and ready for…well, writing a book it seems. […]

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Hip Hops: Pivo in Skopje with the greatest seismologist of them all (1987)

I’ll grant you that portions of this story do not pertain specifically to beer, although judicious quantities of Скопско пиво (Skopsko Pivo) were consumed in late May of 1987, when a bumbling 26-year-old hick from somewhere near French Lick (New Albany, Indiana to be precise) found himself afoot in Yugoslavia, a nation that ceased to […]

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