So it goes . . .
COVINGTON, KY — Braxton Brewing Co. announced on Monday, Feb. 17, that it will release its newest IPA, Hop Fit this March.
Hop Fit will clock in at 100 caleries and four percent alcohol-by-volume per 12-ounce can.
The low-carb IPA is expected to be available in Kroger stores throughout Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington for $9.99 per six-pack.
Braxton will mark the releaste of Hop Fit on Saturday, March 7, with a launch party at its main taproom, located at 27 W. Seventh St. in Covington.
The party will include a “POUND & POUR” workout class, an obstacle course, a live DJ, sampling and more.
Braxton made waves in the low-calorie craft drink market around the same time last year with its release of Vive, a lineup of hard seltzers.
Tap here for more information about Hop Fit and Braxton Brewing Company.
It’s straight down the line for both of us, remember?
Femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson, Double Indemnity
Anyone who has ever worked overnight or early weekend morning shifts knows the sometimes eerie, sometimes peaceful solitude of inhabiting a world asleep.
Cincinnati appeared more eerie than serene as I headed to the station one early Saturday morning in March 2014.
Heavy fog rose off of the Ohio River, swallowing the John A. Roebling bridge and low lying downtown streets.
I remember thinking of a scene from “Double Indemnity,” one of my favorite black-and-white films of the 1940’s, as I rolled up to the bridge.
The classic film noir features square-jawed actor, Fred MacMurray as life insurance agent Waltner Neff and silver screen sex symbol Barbara Stanwyck as the sultry Phyllis Dietrichson.
In the movie, Dietrichson uses her womanly wiles to convince Neff to off her husband and cash in on the life insurance policy Neff sold the poor sap in the first place.
Film noir being film noir, Neff and Dietrichson’s plot doesn’t go off quite as planned. There’s a double cross and a dogged insurance fraud investigator that leads to this final scene . . .
Lucky for me, I neither met a dangerous woman nor got hit by oncoming traffic when I stopped on the bridge to take the picture inspired by Double Indemnity.
(I did go on a few bad dates in 2014 through about mid-2017.)
I work next to a castle. Kids dig it. So do photo-taking tourists. Below is a then-and-now slide show followed by a little history on the “castle” located on Gilbert Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“The Elsinore Arch (sometimes called Elsinore Castle, or Elsinore Tower) is an impressive stone entrance to Eden Park, with steep stairs leading to the Cincinnati Museum of Art. It was designed by Charles B. Hannaford in 1883 as a result of the Kronborg Castle backdrop for Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ at Music Hall. It was not only intended as an impressive entrance, but also a means for the Cincinnati Water Works to extend the water main supply tunnel, which started at a reservoir in Eden Park. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
