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Hip Hops: Quiet, please ― or, the case for “Nothing Nights” at pubs serving better beer

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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Prova Spirits garners three medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition

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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Hip Hops: This “lager revival” of George Washington’s 1757 ale recipe is muddled and pointless

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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Hip Hops: A foamy Budvar tutorial with the “Beer Pope” at Vienna’s fabled Schweizerhaus

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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Hip Hops: Zombie Schlitz is deceased (for now), plus other negligible talking points

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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Hip Hops: AtG’s “last call” at Slugger Field; a Pubcast with Sam and Jerry; and how Louisville craft beer began

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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Hip Hops: In praise of English Mild on the occasion of a Trellis-Creole collaboration

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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The Cocktail Contessa: “Gifting drinks is my love language”

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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Hip Hops: Porter — and remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years on

 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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The Bar Belle: “Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens gets back to basics. THE BAR BELLE | Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer: Fearing for the lives of Louisville’s cherished dive bars, The Bar Belle has compiled a short list of the dives that remain, along with the places where we […]

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2-for1 F&D bourbon columns: home tasting how-to, and an autumnal potpourri

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, you’ll find a two-for-one bourbon flight. First up, whiskey tasting tips from Susan Reigler, with photos by Dan Dry. BOURBON: How To Conduct Your Own In-Home Bourbon Tasting: Tasting whiskey is not like tasting wine. Whiskey, including bourbon, is far higher in alcohol by volume than wine and […]

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Hip Hops: Hop Atomica rises, Hi-Wire falls, and Atrium releases “Employee Ownership Nectar”

As I write these words, Hop Atomica (1318 McHenry St.) is preparing to host Apron Inc.’s monthly Happy Hour Friend-Raiser. There’s a huge added bonus: Dan Dry will be there, exhibiting a few of his many award-winning photographic works, and helping give a leg up to Apron in the process. I’ll be there. Learn more […]

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Hip Hops: As craft beer convulses, Gen Z embraces cask ale in Great Britain

Today’s atypically brief stream of beery consciousness is brought to you by Spain, where we just enjoyed a week relaxing in Valencia and Palma de Mallorca. Our journey abroad coincided with the post-Great American Beer Festival news cycle, centering on craft beer’s decline, death and zombie afterlife, or whatever the adjustment is being called this […]

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Kentucky Hop Water has entered the THC beverage market

My friend Michael Moeller, previously a founder of Kentucky Ale Trail, first launched a non-alcoholic, craft beer-influenced “straight” beverage. Now things have gotten a tad hempy. Since I know Michael writes his own excellent information releases (kudos; he’s a man after my own heart; you have NO IDEA how many unreadable releases come my way), […]

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Hip Hops: “We may take a holiday in Spain,” so what about the cerveza?

The late, great British beer writer Martyn Cornell visited the Spanish island of Majorca (Mallorca) in 2015, subsequently recording the experience at his Zythophile (Zee-tho-fyle) web site: The porter in Majorca tastes like what it oughter (apparently the title is a pun on a Heineken advertisement from the 1980s). If you want a single statistic […]

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