Michael Jackson at Rich O’s Public House, 1994, with pre-digital photo bomb by BBC brewer David Pierce.
“When one thirsts for a glass of wine or a pint of beer, the brain gradually registers the order as a half-heard whisper. The volume is slowly turned up, creating a gentle, purring, reverberation throughout the nervous system. It seems a pleasurable massage at first, then becoming tenacious. You are in the hands of a higher authority that brooks no argument. It is desire, and the streetcar cannot leave its lines. Your destination is a rendezvous with a drink.”
— Michael Jackson, circa 2006
Last week: “Hip Hops: When Michael “Beer Hunter” Jackson came to Louisville in 1994 (part one).”
Pioneering British beer writer Michael “Beer Hunter” Jackson (1942-2007) spent a busy day in Louisville on November 19, 1994. Jackson was conducting a research tour of American microbrewing for a book he never published, although his findings later appeared as part of other writing projects.
No matter.
Jackson’s stops at Bluegrass Brewing Company, the Silo Microbrewery and Rich O’s Public House might seem like small beer 27 years later, but for those who were on the ground pushing local envelopes on behalf of better beer, Jackson’s stopover in Louisville was a taste of hoppy vindication.
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