Archive | November, 2011

They’re Legislators, Not Logicians

“Drinking should be done in the privacy of one’s own home — where it’s necessary.” -Phil (Abe Vigoda) Fish, on “Barney Miller” Last week I shuffled down to the drug store to buy a tube of toothpaste, and while waiting at the corner to cross the street, a Wal-mart semi-trailer truck came barreling toward the [...]

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2011 Highlands Beer Festival

Nothing breaks up the holiday grind better than a great beer (or lots of ‘em) and there’s no better place to imbibe on December 3rd than at the Highlands Beer Festival at Mid City Mall. This is the third year for ValuMarket’s overwhelmingly popular indoor beer festival and this year’s event is shaping up to [...]

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Cropped Out 2011 is happening now!

Cropped Out is a locally and independently developed music festival set to take place in Louisville, KY on the second weekend of November 2011. The fest is designed to highlight the creative efforts of Louisville natives, friends, family, and fellow thinkers from Nashville to Chicago to Brooklyn and beyond. Since the earliest baby breaths of [...]

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Pint/CounterPint II

Pint/Counter Pint was created out of necessity when Adam Watson (Against the Grain Brewery) wrote a loving response to the first Baylor on Beer article, Know your Enemy, written by Roger Baylor (New Albanian Brewing Company). At first we laughed whole-heartedly and admired the conviction and stance of both parties, and then we thought, “Hey, wait [...]

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Homes Away From Home

We went for a stroll last Sunday and passed one of those fly-by-night evangelistic churches, this one occupying an old shotgun house. A man I’d never seen before waved as we passed, and he called out, “One of these Sundays, why don’t you come to church with us?” I thought about it, and answered: “Sure, [...]

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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

One lump or two?

(I’m delaying Part Two of “Indiana Statecraft” until June 1; thanks for waiting — RAB) As the venerated journalist David [...]

“The Beer Hunter” Movie Premiere

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]