Quietly, Lori Rae Beck and Tyler Trotter (of the Holy Grale / Louisville Beer Store) have been raising the bar. Not as quiet as a 26% Double Black Al...

Asheville, NC – “Beer City USA”
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessit...

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 ...

Game – The Review
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve eaten my fair share of critters in my day. Some had fur, some feathers, scales, you name it, and chances are I’v...

Close Only Counts…
The line typically ends in horseshoes and hand grenades. Horseshoes, local to Kentucky, can typically be found in lots of places in the Bluegrass Stat...

Slamming the Gateway Door
It was the winter of 2006. A Friday, we’ll go ahead and assume. I had trekked all the way from my graduate school shack near Iroquois Park to Whole Fo...

Raise a Glass
Since the weeks proceeding up to Christmas, I’ve probably started and stopped at least three articles I wrote for the website. I thought I had a few ...

What I want for Christmas
Dear Santa, It’s that time a year again when you get list upon list of wants and needs from snotty nose kids around the world. Well, I’m going to thr...

I Am Not Thankful For…
Since the start of November, my Facebook newsfeed has been inundated with statuses regarding what people are thankful for. Secretly, I mock most of t...

Mmmmm…Stouts.
Well now that the dust has finally settled down from Louisville Craft Beer Week (and my bank account and sleeping habits are back in check) it’s time ...