“Mug Shots”
From 2009 – 2011, I wrote a column for Louisville Eccentric Observer (aka LEO Weekly) called “Mug Shots.”
If I recall, it was Cary Stemle’s idea (ironically, we now both write for Food & Dining Magazine), but alas I did not survive Cary’s humorless successor, who somehow was made uncomfortable by my recurring pattern of mercilessly abusing Anheuser-Busch/AB InBev.
The column reprinted here inspired a promotion between my New Albanian Brewing Company and Brendan’s, a pleasant but long since departed pub a block down from Bluegrass Brewing Company’s flagship location on Shelbyville Rd. A preview of this event follows the mug shot, as originally published at my Potable Curmudgeon blog.
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Beer: Why not for breakfast?
You don’t need to climb to the top of the nearest mountain for a consultation with the resident guru to know this: you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.
I’m not referring to hair of the dog (lower case), although Hair of the Dog (upper case) remains a respected small-batch, high-gravity Oregon brewer of beers that just might succeed in curing a hangover when judiciously consumed during the morning hours after a long evening’s debauchery.
But this isn’t where I’m proposing to go this week.
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