Toss one out, and we’ll “bat” it around…
NEWS ITEM: THANK A FARMER: Floyds Knobs farm grows hops featured in local beers, by Brooke McAfee (News and Tribune).
ROGER’S TAKE: Not a day passes without your faithful columnist, a native of Floyd County (and long-suffering resident of New Albany), doffing his chapeau to the fact that six breweries now operate there. Amazing. Add to these a hop farm, Knob View Hops, which is the subject of an excellent extended profile in the local newspaper. All we need now is a barley grower, an artisanal malthouse to prepare the harvest for use in the brewhouse, and maybe a monastic brewery located up the hill at Mt. St. Francis.
A boy can dream.
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NEWS ITEM:
Hi-Wire Brewing to Open Louisville Location
ROGER’S TAKE: Hi-Wire’s new taproom is opening Friday (August 20), which is fine by me seeing as everyone I know associated with the launch is first-rate, and the Asheville brewery’s beers are, too.
My quibble has nothing to do with Hi-Wire, although onlookers continue to describe it as the “first out-of-state brewery with facilities in Kentucky,” and I’m not so sure this assertion is correct.
Isn’t BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse also an out-of-state brewery with facilities in Kentucky? It dates back to 2008, I believe, or “dated”; I&rs …
