Louisville Beer Week returns Oct. 22-29.

A few weeks back, I shared a new bourbon with a friend. His bourbon journey is still getting out of the gate, but mine is into probably the second furlong and I wanted to give his a boost.
What I wasn’t expecting was a story that would unfold afterward and, in an unexpected way, come full circle, in a profoundly personal and emotional way.

I shouldn’t have opened my mouth. While watching football recently with my friend Butch, we saw a commercial for the McRib sandwich, that unholy abomination on bread that is rolled out every so often by corporate chain McDonald’s in its relentless effort to kill us all.

My thanks to LEO Weekly, who published an excerpt from my new book, “This Used to Be Louisville,” in its last edition. Here’s a bit of the excerpt with a link to the story.