Another packed weekend: Coffee, anniversaries, hops, goats and pizza.

I'm told that the new Dueling Grounds Cafe is open for patronage in advance of tomorrow's bigger event. Check it out, and report back.

Tomorrow: 5th Anniversary of Destinations Booksellers, Sunday, October 18.

The Confidentials will be there at the bookstore/cafe on Sunday, but first we're driving out to Greenville for quality time at Capriole Farm's Fall Open House.

In other weekend event news, Lupulin Land Harvest Hopcoming is under way at NABC's Public House & Pizzeria, and the BBC Taproom (Main & Clay in downtown Louisville) is staging its Volksfest today.

As a final note, the NABC staff made a lunchtime sales call to Wick's on State yesterday (Friday), and when we left at 12:25 p.m., I counted 95 customers dining in or carrying out. That's very impressive, and I view it as another fistful of garlic waved in the faces of the bloodsucking naysayers.