The Craft Food & Wine Festival returns to the Columns at One Commerce Square this Sunday. Tickets include a glass and a souvenir tasting tray and guests get to sample Memphis’ finest foods from about 40 different vendors. There will be wine, beer, and cocktails as well. The event benefits Church Health. Like what you’re tasting? You’ll be able to purchase more of it from the food artisans, right then and there. This event is 21 and up, and you must show a valid ID at the door. Tickets:
- VIP ($125) gets you in the festival at 3 PM and gets you all-access, including a private VIP area downstairs.
- General admission ($65) gets you a souvenir tasting tray and glass. You get in at 4 PM and will enjoy unlimited tastings from chefs and food entrepreneurs, as well as wine, beer, and cocktails. Music by DJ AD.
The CA has a look at Memphis neighborhoods with the largest home price increases in 2023.
- Believe it or not, the biggest increase was in Frayser, up 24% from a year ago.
- Downtown is second, with average home prices moving on up from $251,500 to $294,900 for a 17% increase.
- Rounding out the top five: Whitehaven, Raleigh, and South Memphis.
Memphis Tigers basketball news: Chandler Lawson has entered the transfer portal. 12 of the Tigers’ 13 scholarship players from last season will now most likely be gone due to transfers, the end of their eligibility, or the NBA draft.
Just made a trip to Walgreens and came back with a beer recommendation. For $2.99 you can get a 25 oz. can of Bud Light at the ‘greens. Or you can get a 25-ounce can of this:
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA. It comes in at a whopping 9% ABV. It’s time to reintroduce a measure I created in this blog in 2015, the Value Drinking Index.
A beer’s Value Drinking Index = (number of ounces) * (percent ABV) / (price including tax)
When out at a bar, you generally want to see a VDI of at least 15 (craft beers and imports) or 20 (domestics). When buying beer to take home, you want to see the VDI a little bit higher.
For the Voodoo Ranger IPA:
VDI = 25 (ounces) * 9 (% ABV) / 3.28 (Walgreens price incl. tax)
That works out to an enormous Value Drinking Index of 69. Wine me, dine me, 69 me! Or beer me, dine me, 69 me, I guess.
Today is National Ice Cream Soda Day, a good reason to visit the old-fashioned soda fountain at A. Schwab on Beale Street.
Well, that’s it for this not-terribly-newsy Tuesday. Back tomorrow.