Admittedly I seldom venture beyond the historic center of metro Louisville unless it’s time to drive to the airport from New Albany (speaking of which, why are we too dumb for light rail?) to fly to Europe, and as such, it completely escaped me that Oldham County Brewing Company closed at the gold course on November 1, ending one of the more unique arrangements to vend craft beer—The Beer Hunter meets Caddyshack—albeit with a plan by the brewery’s reconstituted ownership to begin anew elsewhere.
Eleanor Tolbert has the relocation story at Louisville Business First: Oldham Brewing Co. to move near Old Louisville, change name.
Inside Job Brewing Co. is seeking a zoning change for a building at 1031 S. Sixth St. The company was formerly Oldham Brewing Co., which is moving from Prospect to the Limerick neighborhood.
Tolbert also gets the byline for this: Trellis Brewery to open in the Smoketown neighborhood.
Trellis Brewing is planning to open at 827 Logan St. on the Merchant’s Ice Tower property. The 7,500-square-foot building on the property was a former ice storage for the tower, said Trellis Brewing Co-founder Kyle Jahn.
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Trellis Brewery will focus on grain-forward, clean lagers to highlight the unique flavor of Kentucky-grown barley, rye, and wheat through a partnership with South Fork Malthouse from Cynthiana, Kentucky, a news release said. It will also offer other modern IPAs and stouts.
In 1987 I spent two weeks in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. As mature readers will recall, it was a Warsaw Pact nation at the time, even if a gradualist program of economic reforms colloquially referred to as “goulash communism” enabled a certain degree of private enterprise.
Boundaries were being pushed in Hungary, but there were limits. Larger enterprises remained nationalized; smaller retail and service businesses might be privately owned, or not. No one could foresee these considerations being rendered moot by 1990.
The charms of travel in the East Bloc during this period were three-fold for me.
Foremost, while communism may have been a shared imposition, the national histories, cultures, and languages behind the Iron Curtain varied and were uniformly fascinating.
In addition, the cost of living for a western tourist was ridiculously inexpensive, even if I generally resisted the...Read more
