Owing to the subject matter, this “Hip Hops” column supplants the usual Sunday slot for “Edibles & Potables.”
You may have heard the news that Monnik Beer Co. (Schnizelburg’s oldest brewery) will be moving into the space recently vacated by Pivot Brewing Co. at 1753 Bardstown Road in the Bonnycastle/Deer Park neighborhood.
BUT … as Michael L. Jones reported last week at Louisville Business First, this will not be another branch of the same known Monnik, as was attempted unsuccessfully in New Albany a few years back.
Rather, it is to be an entirely new concept, as yet unrevealed. This means that onlookers from a distance (like me) are free to speculate wildly without just cause about what will be materializing.
Well, it’s my pleasure. All I have are these memories, and I know this proposal is unlikely, but …
Assuming this new concept involves Monnik’s house-brewed beer, which of brewer Buddy McHagan’s creations might be gathered together and arranged to inspire a conceptual spin-off, as opposed to a satellite taphouse with karaoke?
Monnik’s McHagan brews a great many styles of beer on an annual basis, including British (Churchill Best), Belgian (Eagle Skull) and American “craft” (IPA) beers. These are ales, but lagers like Hauck’s American...Read more
