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  • Hall’s Beer Cheese to launch pimento spread during SFA Live

    Source: Hall’s Beer Cheese 01.19.2021 By Emily Park LEXINGTON, KY. – Hall’s Beer Cheese LLC is releasing a new addition to their line of specialty dairy products during SFA Live 2021. The new Hall’s Pimento Spread will be available in the spring.   Several years in the making, the Hall’s Pimento spread features a creamy blend of cheese with the snap and savory of fresh…

  • Kentucky by Heart: Testing your knowledge of Ky’s history, culture and geography with a ‘County Quiz’

    Jan 19th, 2021 By Steve FlairtyNKyTribune columnist Though I’m not sure I’ve been to all 120 Kentucky counties, I believe it is pretty close to that number. I’ve found that if you study the history, culture, and geography of each, you’ll learn some quite interesting trivia, though the people who make up those counties would…

  • Hall’s Beer Cheese, America’s Original Beer Cheese, Expands Into the Midwest Grocery Giant, Hy-Vee Supermarkets

    January 12, 2021 LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES — Hall’s Beer Cheese LLC, the company behind the nationally recognized Hall’s Beer Cheese, considered the original beer cheese, expands its rapidly growing footprint into the Midwest market. Hall’s newest retail partner, Hy-Vee Supermarkets, is the perfect home for this specialty dairy best seller. The product has been…

  • Hall’s Beer Cheese expands into the Midwest

    January 7, 2021 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Hall’s Beer Cheese LLC, the company behind the nationally recognized Hall’s Beer Cheese, recently expanded its growing footprint into the Midwest market. Hall’s has partnered with Hy-Vee Supermarkets. The product has been a staple for years on the Kroger, Sam’s Club and Liquor Barn shelves in the Southeast market, and…

  • Winchester distillery and restaurant ties farm to table

    BY RYAN C. HERMENS NOVEMBER 19, 2020, 12:26 PM Wildcat Willy’s Distillery at 31 E. Broadway St. in Winchester, Ky., offers moonshine, bourbon and food made with local ingredients, many from Laura Freeman’s Mt. Folly Farm. Kentuckians are no stranger to spirits. But when Laura Freeman, owner of Mt. Folly Farm, wanted to open a distillery, she…

  • Main Street Winchester encourages Kentuckians to shop local during the holidays

    By Winchester Sun Email the author Published 10:09 am Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Main Street Winchester is partnering with the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and Kentucky Main Street Program for a special holiday promotion highlighting small businesses in Main Street communities across the commonwealth. Kentucky Main Street works to encourage downtown revitalization and…

  • How to make a Country Ham for Christmas

    November 30, 2020 Christmas Past. Christmas Present.BY TOM YATES No doubt, it’s been a heck of a year. After months of masking up, being apart, and staying socially distant, we’ve missed birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, weddings, holidays, and much much more. And now, it’s coming on Christmas. Different and distant. In our new normal, Christmas won’t…

  • Kentucky breweries working with local farms to create Kentucky Proud Beer

    By Alex King -October 26, 2020 LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – This year’s Kentucky Proud Beer Series begins Wednesday, the focus is creating Kentucky Proud Beer with Kentucky agriculture. “Just, you know, seeing your product go into beer and bourbon.” The beer series is a staple of Kentucky’s fall calendar. Many of the breweries are using Kentucky malt…

  • How to Throw the Ultimate Breeders’ Cup Watch Party

    EVENTS / TRAVELOctober 23rd, 2020 BY Penelope Miller This year’s Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland Race Course will be unlike any other: in addition to offering world-class racing, it’s going to be an at-home affair for all racing fans this year due to the ongoing pandemic. That means that you have a chance to get really creative with your Breeders’…

  • State’s tribute to craft beer drinkers almost here

    By Steve Rogers -October 19, 2020 FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – Kentucky’s annual fall dream for beer drinkers is almost here. Crafting Kentucky Proud beers with Kentucky agricultural products is the focus of this year’s Kentucky Proud Beer Series, Agriculture Commissioner Dr. Ryan Quarles has announced. Now in its fifth year, the beer series combines the best of what Kentucky…

  • Kentucky crafted beers infused with Kentucky Proud products on tap for Oct. 28 release in annual series

    Oct 21st, 2020 Crafting Kentucky Proud beers with Kentucky agricultural products is the focus of this year’s Kentucky Proud Beer Series, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has announced. Now in its fifth year, the beer series combines the best of what Kentucky has to offer from its breweries with its farms. “Every October, Kentucky’s craft brewers…

  • Celebrating Halloween at home this year? Good. Now whip up one of these ghoulish beverages

    Kirby AdamsLouisville Courier Journal As Halloween approaches, you may be asking if it’s safe to celebrate the holiday in the traditional way or if you should be finding alternatives to toast the spooky season. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that most traditional Halloween activities, such as costume parties and door-to-door trick-or-treating,…