Hip Hops: A compendium of spent grain as 2022 limps to a conclusion
John Holl (seated foreground) and co-author Nate Schweber sign copies of their “Indiana Breweries” book at the New Albanian Brewing Company Pizzeria & Public House in 2011. Last Tuesday afternoon (via Zoom) I joined Suzanne Schalow of Craft Beer Cellar Belmont in Belmont, Massachusetts and Chris Quinn of The Beer Temple in Chicago to record an episode of the “Drink Beer, Think Beer” podcast with host John Holl. It was great fun chatting, and I can’t wait to visit their establishments some day. The show is now live, and here’s the link: Ep. 166 – State of Beer Bars 2022. As 2022 circles the drain—speaking for myself, it wasn’t so much a bad year as relentlessly challenging with requisite exhaustion—allow me to refer to the Fall 2022 issue of Food & Dining Magazine (Vol. 75), in which I compiled a feature snapshot of craft breweries in the Louisville metropolitan area. No sooner had this...Read more