You’ve no doubt heard the tired old bromide: “When the going gets tough, the tough get their posteriors over to Athens, Greece for an ouzo and some grilled squid.”
Excellent advice even if I never once considered myself to be tough, merely misunderstood, and so a pleasant wooden chair at a seaside taverna with a loaf of eliopsomo, a jug of Fix and thou sounds restful and restorative to me.
But we’re not there quite yet, so here are five semi-local beer headlines.
File under “Be Respectful to Your Elders, Sonny Boy”
Our Fall 2022 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is out, and it has been dubbed the Craft Brewery Issue: FEATURE – A Guide to Louisville Craft Breweries.
This emphasis came about when I was asked to update the Louisville area brewing scene, began writing, and finished with four times as many words as intended.
Here’s an excerpt.
Today there are somewhere between 33 and 38 craft breweries open for business in greater Louisville, depending on how one chooses to count taprooms without a brewing system (Upland, Hi-Wire), and companies with more than one brewhouse (Against the Grain, Great Flood).
There are six breweries in my hometown of New Albany alone, which now has one for every 6,122 residents. You’ll no doubt be as shocked as me to learn that when measuring breweries per capita, New Albany is ahead of Portland, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh, although not brewery-crazy Asheville.
Contrast these many current choices to 2003, when Food & Dining Magazine first emerged, and there were only five operational “microbreweries” in metropolitan Louisville.
I did my level best to ensure accuracy, but there’ll inevitably be mistakes, and if you spot one let me know. In fact, the first potential revision occurred less than 24 hours after the magazine hit the streets.
Monnik has closed its New Albany location
All I know for the moment is Monnik Beer Co.‘s restaurant and bar in SoIN have ceased operations; however, it appears brewing will continue in the rear of the property, at least for the time being. The Germantown flagship remains open for business.
F&D broke the story of Monnik’s second brewery in January 2020, and the overhaul of the former NABC Bank Street Brewhouse soon began, only to be delayed by the pandemic until late January of 2021.
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