Beer

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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Scott Hand Day is today, at Monnik Beer Co.

Never forget. Scott Hand was a singular figure in Louisville brewing history, and it is fitting that Monnik Beer Co. (1036 E. Burnett Ave.) honors his memory each year. Join us at Monnik (on Thursday, March 20th) to celebrate a very dear friend of ours, Scott Hand. We’ll be releasing a special beer we call […]

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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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Donum Dei Craft, 8th Dei Pizza and the Drunken Unicorn release 2025 (Mar. 15 & 16)

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 (read it at issuu). Donum Dei Craft, the established New Albany brewery and distillery (3211 Grant Line Road #3), will again be offering a pre-St. Patrick’s Day Drunken Unicorn […]

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Hip Hops: Bock’s back story includes Vitus and NuLu Bock Fest, but NEVER steel wool

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). Our recent Balkan Mystery Tour (February 12 – 21) got off to a miserable start when a perfect winter’s storm of snowy Chicago weather […]

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Hip Hops: New Albanians on a beer holiday in Old Albania (1994)

The following “old” Albanian beer-everie is excerpted from my ongoing online memoir, first appearing on July 29, 2024: 40 Years in Beer (Book II) Part 54: New Albanians on beer holiday in Old Albania (1994). Albania in 1994 was a traumatized country in recovery — from decades of communism and centuries of mountainous isolation. It […]

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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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Hip Hops: Why I’m pumped about Monnik’s new Rose Hill Lager Haus

Hi, I’m Roger, an erstwhile “beer guy” charged with holding down this digital fort in quiet desperation, or something like that (the metaphors flow like craft cocktail programs in frantic times like these). Today is not customarily “Hip Hops” day, but I drink the pint I’m dealt/handed/poured, which comes to me from Amanda Hancock at […]

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Hip Hops: San Francisco’s Toronado beer bar at the crossroads

Here’s the text from Toronado’s feed at Instagram. Beer Week 2025 (Feb. 7 – 16) will be a special occasion for the Toronado family. After 38 years, our owner and founder Dave Keene is retiring and selling the business. This marks the end of an era for the generations of beer drinkers that have shared […]

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Hip Hops: Trellis Brewing’s decoction, Donum Dei’s chili cookoff, plus no-jive dives (and boozers)

The Winter 2024 (Vol. 84) 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. Last fall I was delighted to be given the assignment of profiling Trellis Brewing Co. […]

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The Bar Belle: “3 broads visit 3 breweries”

Our cover photo comes to us from AB InBev.  A few years ago, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens was joined by two of her friends on a year-long “brewcation” quest that brought them to the three biggest breweries in America: Miller, Budweiser and Coors. BAR BELLE | 3 broads visit 3 breweries: The Bar Belle […]

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Hip Hops: Jimmy Carter’s homebrewing heroics, the state of the “craft” biz, and #PubJanuary

Cheers, and thank you to an American homebrew hero, President Jimmy Carter. His legacy will live on in every batch of beer brewed. — American Homebrewers Association Rest in peace, James Earl Carter Jr. In my estimation, the former president was a far more complicated human than he has been portrayed by defenders and detractors […]

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New Year’s Eve on Swiss time at Holy Grale

Take it away, Ringo. My personal strategy for coping with the stressful demands of welcoming a new year is to be fast asleep in my own bed when the clock strikes midnight. Judas Priest is fine by me, but “living after midnight, rocking to the dawn” no longer tops my list of objectives. But to each […]

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