Hip Hops

Hip Hops: R.I.P. Jack McAuliffe (New Albion), who focused on BEER, not ephemera

There is a frequently quoted aphorism by the philosopher George Santayana, from his book Reason in Common Sense. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Admittedly, I’m old. Old enough to remember a time when beer in America was uniformly bland, watery and golden; manufactured by a handful of monolithic corporate […]

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Hip Hops: A few Czechoslovak lagers at Mamut in Bratislava (1991)

Today’s post is adapted from a vignette previously published as part of my “40 Years in Beer” series. Because writers enjoy being read, links to my web site will continue to be featured here, as with yesterday’s installment: 40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet (Act I: 1999 – 2009). Once […]

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Hip Hops: Rose Hill Lager Haus, because lager is a way of THINKING about beer

Kindly be reminded that the Summer 2025 (Vol. 86) issue of Food & Dining Magazine is currently available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. You can subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue, or read it at issuu (above).  […]

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Hip Hops: It’s all about the beer (and at least 43 years drinking it)

I like baseball. It suits meandering conversation over beer and sausages, without the alarming incidence of brain injuries suffered by football players, although I usually deign to watch the Stupor Bowl in order to properly criticize the idiotic advertisements. It is instructive to document the multitude of ways that we as Americans have lost our […]

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Hip Hops: One fine day at the Augustiner Bräustübel in Salzburg, Austria

In 2003 I  took a 27-day bicycling holiday in Germany and Austria, starting all by myself and later meeting up with good friends. The ride began a few miles from Frankfurt, following various cycling routes to Vienna, roughly a 500-mile trip. A majority of the paths were dedicated to bicycles alone, and most of them […]

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Hot off the presses: The Summer 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

The Summer 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | MeeshMeesh: Well before a prestigious James Beard Award nomination raised Chef […]

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Hip Hops: Wernesgrüner Pils, a fine beer on a budget (at Aldi)

Today, a truncated “Hip Hops.” Worry not; I’ve grown no less wordy in my dotage, but the time demanded by undertaking to write an actual book, and simultaneously working on two book-length (internet only) projects, suggests a rigorously disciplined use of my time. And … if you know me, it should be obvious that discipline isn’t […]

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Hip Hops: Count me as a beer classicist, but not a beer classist

In a former polemical life, and at a different portal than this one, I authored an occasional column called Shane’s Excellent New Words. The basic premise: “Because for some of us, words mean more than money.” Specifically, the concept was aimed squarely at its namesake, a local consigliere who liked to joke in the fashion of […]

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Hip Hops: Blind taste tests dispense with purely visual beer (label) adulation

As a prelude to the following (originally published on Oct 19, 2022), kindly note that the columnist is returning to stand-up (beer ed, not comedy) at Harbor & Hops (3010 Gottbrath Parkway, Jeffersonville) on Monday, May 26. We’re hoping to hold this sort of event on a semi-regular basis. Thanks to Greg Brown for opportunity […]

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Hip Hops: Duke Ellington, Madonna and the Western canon inform my beers

Just because the “Hip Hops” column is about beer, it doesn’t mean that beer must be the subject of a “Hip Hops” column. Rather, it might be possible to make an indirect yet principled point about beer while barely mentioning it, happily freeing those afflicted with our current era’s short attention spans to engage in […]

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Hip Hops: Remembering May Day in glorious Vienna, 1987

Today is May 1, or May Day, which in Europe is a traditional festival marking the beginning of summer. In addition, in a great many locales worldwide, May Day is known as International Workers’ Day. Saturday, May 3 marks the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, which I need not explain, to be followed almost […]

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Hip Hops: Confessions of a beer-loving Europhile

Today’s column is excerpted from 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Five: The end of the beginning (1989-1990), an installment of my serialized memoir of a career in beer. Part 76 was published in March, and more are on the way as time allows; read them free of charge at my website, and find the series […]

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Hip Hops: The shocking fate of an innovative brewer in pre-Prohibition New Albany

I’m writing a book about beer, and the first of several deadlines is today. Speaking as an expository writer (my efforts at fiction have always been abysmal), one must learn in order to teach. Consequently, research began in January, and the only sure thing is that more of it will land on the cutting room […]

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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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Hip Hops: “Erin Go Blagh 2025” is your recurringly necessary St. Paddy’s Day etiquette primer

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). I concede that it’s been a good while since I wrote about St. Patrick’s Day entirely from scratch. That’s because past efforts have always been ripe for […]

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