“The Beer Hunter” Movie Premiere

Presented by: LouisvilleBeer.com Saturday, June 22 @ 7PM BBC Taproom (Clay & Main)

ValuMarket Highlands Beer Festival 2013 – Spring Edition

1250 Bardstown Road
May 18th | 5pm – 9pm | $5 Entry
$1 per 2-3oz tasting / $30 unlimited tastings

Congratulations to West Sixth IPA – Best Beer in KY

A HUGE congratulations goes out to Lexington’s West Sixth IPA for winning the 1st Annual Beeracket (brought to you by our friends at Liquor Barn).

Best Beer Cheese Recipe

Beer Cheese in Louisville (Part One)

No Cooking With Beer series would be complete without mentioning beer cheese (a 2-parter, no less).

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ValuMarket Highlands Beer Festival 2013 – Spring Edition

1250 Bardstown Road
May 18th | 5pm – 9pm | $5 Entry
$1 per 2-3oz tasting / $30 unlimited tastings

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One lump or two?

(I’m delaying Part Two of “Indiana Statecraft” until June 1; thanks for waiting — RAB) As the venerated journalist David Brinkley once put it, “Everyone is entitled to my opinion.” Well, that suits me. I’m highly opinionated, and much of the verbiage comes barreling out of my subconscious via the written word. For me, writing [...]

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“The Beer Hunter” Movie Premiere

Presented by: LouisvilleBeer.com Saturday, June 22 @ 7PM BBC Taproom (Clay & Main)

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Pickles, Pie and Beer

Oh My, It’s The State Fair. The Kentucky State Fair has it all, including the hoppy, homebrew heaven of one of America’s largest homebrew contests.  Local homebrewers, mostly from Kentucky and Southern Indiana, compete in 28 beer style categories (94 sub-categories) for ribbons, fabulous prizes and bragging rights.  There is even a contest for best [...]

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There is a Season, Brew, Brew, Brew

The onset of springtime here in Kentucky is particularly noteworthy for a few things: the deluge of pollen, creating an oh-so-pleasant onslaught of allergies, beautiful green trees, and for the homebrewers, making delicious spring seasonal beers. Though not every beer I make is brewed according to the season, I do very much enjoy it when [...]

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Come for the Derby, Stay for the Craft Beer

If you’re in town for the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby, be sure and stay an extra day or two to check out the amazing beer scene here in Louisville. There’s a lot more than Stella Artois and Mint Juleps here. Thank GOD. View Louisville Beer Map in a larger map

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1st Lexington Craft Beer Week Planned

Events Scheduled Across Lexington May 13-19  With the craft beer culture on the rise, the first ever Lexington Craft Beer Week is being organized by LexBeerScene (www.lexbeerscene.com), a new web site focusing on Lexington’s craft beer brewers and bars as well as the local food truck scene.  Throughout the week of May 13-19, events will [...]

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Indiana Statecraft (Part One)

What was that? How many breweries are located in the state of Indiana? Only your friendly statewide trade organization knows for sure, although with the situation changing so quickly from week to week, the Brewers of Indiana Guild (BIG) probably isn’t capable of a completely accurate count, either. The best guesstimate bandied about during BIG’s [...]

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John’s Remembrance IPA

The Brewer. John hasn’t brewed in a number of years, BK (Before Kids).  Now that his kids are human enough he decided he wanted to get back into brewing.  John’s a chemist and structural biologist, so that makes him pretty well suited for his day job discovering new cancer treatments at the James Graham Brown [...]

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Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing to create first ever beer collaboration between two Lexington breweries.

Collaboration, called  “Country Western”, will celebrate the first ever Lexington Craft Beer Week in May Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing, two Lexington-based breweries, have brewed the first ever collaboration beer brewed by two Lexington breweries. The beer, which will be called “Country Western” in a celebration of the collaboration, will be a hoppy [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities

Because of the position/friendship/awesomeness I hold, I had the opportunity to travel down to Atlanta for the Men’s Final Four.  Although Atlanta is the home of Sweetwater Brewing, I’ve done my fair share of brewery tours so immediately started researching the area to find some good beer bars.  Although my schedule was pretty hectic with [...]

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The Sahara of Slugger Field

Anyone have a bucket?

The Triple-A Louisville Bats began play earlier this month amid the usual hot stove and cold fridge speculation as to whether Louisville Slugger Field finally would join the craft (beer) (food) (bourbon) (dining) (localism) (choose one) revolution currently underway in Louisville, as well as in most other baseball outposts scattered through the remainder of the [...]

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Congratulations to West Sixth IPA – Best Beer in KY

A HUGE congratulations goes out to Lexington’s West Sixth IPA for winning the 1st Annual Beeracket (brought to you by our friends at Liquor Barn).

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Hoppy Spring!

Spring is coming to Louisville.  How do we know this to be true? One of the early vestiges of spring … the hops have sprung.  The vines that will support the buds that will bring our beer bitter character and floral delight are starting to make their way out of the ground and reach ever [...]

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Quality Patrol

The 2013 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) took place in the nation’s capital last week, and my record remains unblemished, because [...]

No Ordinary Day

Recipe: check. Ingredients: check. Friends: check. Pint: check. This is no ordinary day. This is a brew day. Whether you’ve [...]

East Nashville Beer Festival – Review

Though you may not know it by looking outside recently, Spring is on the horizon for us here in Kentuckiana. [...]

Against the Grain Save Ferrous

Let me begin by saying that this beer is not for the faint of heart. You may be able to [...]

Country Boy Collaborates with Japanese Brewery

Our friends over in Lexington sent us the following press release. If Amos Moses is any indicator of how good [...]

2013 Kentucky Beeracket

Liquor Barn and LouisvilleBeer are proud to present the Kentucky Beeracket. The power is in the hands of our visitors to vote for the best beer in Kentucky