Nimbus is running for mayor of Louisville! Progressive Pints all around!

With "mayor for life" Jerry Abramson recently announcing that he will not run for another term, Louisville needs a new kingpin ... and I'm delighted learn that one of our own, former Arizona craft brewer and current Bardstown Road coffee roaster (and Renaissance Man) Nimbus Couzin, is throwing his hat into the ring.

Louisville's Courier-Journal picks up the story: Physics professor Couzin to run for mayor.

Chat has started at the Louisville Restaurants Forum: NIMBUS FOR MAYOR !!!

My home and businesses are in Indiana, but let there be no doubt who we'll be endorsing in this one. I can't wait for the progressive, swill-free fundraisers!

Excellent beer list at Ray's Monkey House.

During the course of planning the new NABC Bank Street Brewhouse, John Campbell and I have had occasion to enjoy breakfast meetings with Gregg Rochman at various locations in Louisville. We keep getting drawn back to Ray’s Monkey House, located adjacent to Cumberland Brews on Bardstown Road where Twice Told books used to be, and hitherto a coffee roastery without alcoholic beverages.

But times change, and owner Nimbus Couzin, PhD, a onetime regular at the Public House back when he first started teaching at Indiana University Southeast, recently procured a beer and wine license. NABC will be there when we can. Until then, Nimbus’s beer list is roughly as follows. He promises that it will be evolving.

I think it’s a fine small starting list. Do you? By the way, here's a bit about Nimbus in an even earlier life.

Draft: (5 handles):
1. Stone Arrogant Bastard

2. Bell's IPA

3. Browning's Bourbon barrel Imperial Stout (rotating Browning's
selection)

4. Coming Soon - Cumberland Ray's Espresso Stout

5. Coming Soon - New Albanian selection when available (rotating)

Bottles:
Anderson Valley Hop Ottin’
Avery Karma
Avery Old Jubilation
Bell's Amber Ale
Bell's Pale Ale
Bell's Porter
Bell's Oberon
Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
Boon Framboise '95 Marriage Parfait (750ml)
Browning’s She-Devil IPA
Browning’s Bourbon Barrel Stout
Dogfish 60 Min. IPA
Franziskaner Heffe Weiss
Franziskaner Hefe Dark (16.9 oz)
Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Great Lakes Holy Moses White Ale
Mackeson XXX Stout
Newcastle Brown Ale
North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
North Coast Red Seal
Pyramid Apricot
Pyramid Hefe
Rogue Dead Guy
Rogue Mocha Porter
Samuel Smith Organic Ale
Samuel Smith Taddy Porter
Spaten Optimator
Woodchuck Cider (Pear, Granny Smith, Dark and Dry, or Amber)
Young's Double Chocolate Stout (16.9 oz)