Hip Hops: Louisville’s vibrant local brewing scene is crawling back from COVID
To me, beer is about people. Whether in an intimate barroom or a vast outdoor beergarden, people have always gathered to have a beer or two, and maybe some snacks. The times can't always...
Bourbon News & Notes for 19 June, 2020: From Kentucky Peerless to Early Times,...
Kentucky Peerless Reopening in Stages with New Single Barrel Selections
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co., 120 North 10th Street, reopened its retail shop for in-store and curb side pick-up service on 17 June. The opening coincides...
Hip Hops: A Bohemian countryside beer walk (1989)
There have been hundreds of lovely and utterly unconnected beer vignettes amid my wanderings, when there was time to indulge a genuine feeling of timelessness. One of them came in June of 1989.
It was...
Edibles & Potables: Sunday headline potpourri
Enjoy your eating and drinking, life is about variety and I’m certainly not going to stop drinking wine or cocktails. If you say "I’m into wine and don’t like beer," that’s like saying, "I...
Bourbon News & Notes for 12 June, 2020: Kentucky distilleries begin reopening; Kentucky Bourbon...
Slow and Cautious Re-openings for Distilleries
Some Kentucky distilleries have begun reopening for tours this week, as well as reopening their gift shops. But they are proceeding with caution. In general, tour sizes are smaller...
Hip Hops: Eiderdown Abfahrt … Grale’s pause … Akasha-Atrium brewer switch … and more...
We've made it all the way to June, and already it appears that 2020 will go down in history as one of the nation's most momentous years. When it comes to beer and brewing,...
Sweet tea is the house wine of the South
It starts making its appearance as you cross that mythical, yet definitive boundary that is the acclaimed Gateway to the South — the Mason-Dixon line. It is found in the land where the term...
Bourbon News & Notes for 5 June, 2020: Buffalo Trace, Barrell Craft and a...
Buffalo Trace Distillery’s 19th Annual Great Buffalo Chase will Benefit the VFW
Every year for almost two decades on the Fourth of July, Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort has hosted the Great Buffalo Chase 5K...
Hip Hops: Who are you going to believe, me or your own two eyes?
Last week the local topic of much conversation pertained to the pandemic, a word derived from the Greek pandēmos -- pan meaning "all" and dēmos, "people." Interestingly, the English poet John Milton later coupled...
Edibles & Potables: Herring makes breakfast better
"A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats."
-- Sholom Aleichem
When it comes to social media, other people go berserk about postings on politics and religion, but...
