It usually surprises people to learn that I’ve lived in Floyd County, Indiana my entire life, and in New Albany since the early 1990s. Europe may be my spirit continent, and I visit there regularly, but I live here.
By all accounts a chunk of Southern Indiana (SoIN) is counted as being part of the Louisville metropolitan area, whether defined geographically, governmentally or culturally. I can get mighty cranky when Louisvillians choose to forget this fact, primarily because no one living in Kentucky has a leg to stand on when it comes to superiority complexes.
In my view as a lifelong resident of Indiana, our being the less populated zone of the wider metro area means that SoIN is in the prefect position to complement Louisville. We’re the same in most respects, and have our own interior worlds, but we bring a slightly different perspective to the metro in a wider sense.
This remains my belief, one that I’ve tried to act upon throughout my career in beer. To be sure, during the early years at NABC we always were proud to see Kentucky license plates in the parking lot, but at the same time we stayed cognizant that the bulk of our...Read more
