Louisville Loves Mountains, with local craft beer: Friday, May 17.

NABC is teaming with our friends at Against the Grain and BBC to provide the beer concession for Louisville Loves Mountains on Friday, May 17. We'll have on hand kegs of Houndmouth Ale and Hoosier Daddy -- it's your last chance until October to drink HD (which also will be on tap at RiverRoots this weekend).

This has become one of the NABC brew crew's favorite annual events, because very rarely is there so direct a visceral connection between social activism and what actually matters about craft beer. Both urge us to act locally even as we think globally.

See the official press release at NABC's web site.

Music, Food, Beer, and Justice: Louisville Loves Mountains returns on Friday, May 18.

 

At last year's Louisville Loves Mountains event, Wendell Berry gave a stirring talk.

Louisville Loves Mountains returns on Friday evening, May 18. A block-long stretch of Longest Avenue will be cordoned off from where it meets Bardstown Road, in front of Carmichael's Bookstore and Heine Brothers' Coffee. Craft beer will be provided by Against the Grain, BBC and NABC. Here's the rest of the story from the Louisville Loves Mountains event page at Facebook.

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A popular community festival by Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Heine Brothers' Coffee, and Carmichael's Bookstore to raise awareness about mountain top removal mining..


MUSIC, FOOD, BEER, and JUSTICE!


4:00: Festival Start
4:30: Americana Community Center Drum & Dance Crew
5:00: Potluck Ramblers
5:45: Our Earth Now: Connect the Dots Presentation
6:00: KEYNOTE: Erik Reece, author of Lost Mountain
6:15: Bopper Minton from The Amazing Race (Current Season)
6:25: River City Drum Corps
6:40: Sugar Tree
7:15: Appalatin
8:00: Joan Shelley and the June Brides
9:00: The 23 String Band
10:00 Festival End


BEER BY New Albanian Brewing Company, Against The Grain, and Bluegrass Brewing Company (cash beer bar)


FOOD BY Ramsi's Cafe, Grind Gourmet Burgers, and Morel's


A percentage of sales from beer and food will go to support KFTC's work.


LIVE BLOGGING by Laura Marie Read


In the event of rain the festival will move to THE MONKEY WRENCH

NABC and a tale of three festivals on May 18, 19 and 20.

It’s that time of year again. Event calendars get crowded, feet begin hurting, sweat pours down in buckets, and livers cry out in primal agony. Summer festival season is here, and NABC has bookings all over the place. We incessantly bitch about it, but rest assured, we love every craft-beer-soaked-moment.

In metro Louisville, Derby Festival serves as one seasonal bookend, and lately, the outdoor events extend well into October. It’s usually the third weekend of May when festival solicitations really start to flow, and 2012 is no exception, so here’s a quick guide to where we’ll be serving NABC craft draft on the third weekend of the month, when (as usual) we'll be splitting squads, calling up the reserves, and trying to make beer available when and where we can.

Music, Food, Beer, and Justice: Louisville Loves Mountains returns on Friday, May 18

New name, same great weekend in Madison, Indiana: RiverRoots festival runs May-18-20, with Indiana craft beer.

NABC at the Buy Local 1st Fair at the Water Tower on Sunday, May 20.

Wendell Berry at Louisville Loves Mountains, Friday night.