Growler sales has passed the House. 75 – 20.
The 12th Gravity Head starts Friday. The Program is online. J.W. Lees Harvest Ale on Sat.
Mike shows HBG readers the Sun King canning line .
If your day is going slow, the NY Times has Tasting Belgian Golden Ales where they give stars to Jolly Pumpkin and others.
Australia's Supercar race in October they limited the amount of beer spectators could bring in. To twenty-four 12oz cans. Per person. Per day. The Snakepit lives.
World Class Beverages has made brewing and distribution friends all over the country. That's a large part of Jim Schembre's job nowadays. The Hopapolooza at the Microbrewers Festival was an example of Jim coaxing out some rare and interesting beers that we don't usually see here. Now they have 24 cases each of Hair of the Dog Adam, Fred, and Ruth. Adam rates a 100 at Ratebeer and Fred is a 99. Nuf said. They'll hit stores maybe even this week. press release with video
SB 75 passes 2nd reading in the House, should go up for 3rd today
Some tastes:
Coming to Oaken Barrel: A bit of the Java Stout test brew, a Java Porter. California Common, Scottish, and then Uberweizen returns in time for the Final 4.
More pictures of Winter Warmer here and here.
The five Scotty's has made a determined effort to have a great beer list and to have a selection of Indiana beers. Chumley's is nicely following suit and the Lafayette store is almost a mirror of Broad Ripple. The Black Sparrow (warning, music) in Lafayette has mostly bottles but their taps after the Winter Warmer were enough to warm one's taste buds. People's Mr. Brown and Pilsner; Sun King L'Espresso Robusto and Amarillo the Princess Warrior; Three Floyds / Piece Ham on Rye; Founder's Double Trouble; and Dogfish Head 90 Minute.
The Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers doesn't like Walgreen's gobbling 200 liquor store permits in Indiana. Pres. John Livengood makes a good case in "State alcohol license quota system broken".
Granite City is having a national homebrew contest. Winner will be their summer seasonal. $600 cert. for each best of category. April 11-25th.
Jared Williamson of NABC and Josh Davies of Arcadia made a guest appearance at the Livery's kettles for the Benton Harbor brewery's 5th anniversary brew. Jared will tell you all about it. Plus pictures, pictures,
Kahn's. Indy. Beer. 15% off. Feb 17-23.
BrewDog wants the record back from Schorschbrau so they've made a 41% ABV Sink the Bismarck. Ships on Feb 22nd. £40 ($62) per 330ml bottle. Plus shipping. Buy it here. article
And a good time was had by all.
Brad (not pictured here) won the Keg Hold men's division at 1:54.
Jessica Johnson took Linda Swihart's throne in the women's at 1:55.
Clay Robinson shows off a prototype for the Sun King cans to come.
Unfortunately none of Upland's Bourbon Barrel Aged Teddy Bear Kisses
made it past the jockey box due to an internal leak.
Going around the room we found lots of reasons to be at the Winter Warmer.
Along the way, more IPAs, Barley Wines, Smoked Porters, and even a Gose.
The traditional brewer's picture
Senate Bill 75 has has been merged with two others as it goes to the House. One will end the silly prohibition while polls are open. The other will extend Sunday sales from 1:30am (Monday morning) to 3am – but will also require an ID check for everyone when buying alcohol for carry-out. These three new provisions were all sort of approved by the 2-year study group and the combined bill is headed for Trent Van Haaften's Public Policy Committee.
My take: If more stuff doesn't get amended to it, Van Haaften may even OK this since it's balanced – there's something for both sides. Taverns get an extra hour and a half to be open at a time when there's no business anyway. Booze Nazi's get to ensure everyone is carded – even regular customers and retired folks who are certainly over 50 years old*. And they can placate the pesky brewers. Let's stay optimistic.
Jason's take: on Hoosier Beer Geek.
* The law will provide that it's a defense to not have carded a person who obviously looks 50 years old. This only applies, of course, after a citation has been issued for not having carded the customer in the first place. And that defense may require a photograph or video of the transaction. Remember those ID cameras that took a picture of your drivers license and your face at the same time? They might come back.
More local beer news at Gina's regular Friday Random Beer Roundup.
Here's a headline you don't see every day. Lap dancing crackdown sets 'worrying precedent' especially when juxtaposed with Councils hail new lap dancing curbs.
I am a Homebrewer – Polish version. Na zdrowie.
Greg Emig spent yesterday introducing his bottled Lafayette Brewing beers to Indy. A few folk at Kahns and a bigger mob at Barley Island Broad Ripple. The Hoosier Beer Geeks were there with a camera and a notepad. You can find the Oatmeal Stout and Tippecanoe Common in 6-packs now in Indy.
Saturday is Lafayette Brewing's Winter Warmer. Sold out of course. They will also be unleashing this year's Marley's VSOP downstairs that day. If you have ticket, though, you can go upstairs for some tastes of past year's Boris.
Ram's Irish Red is Adrian's recipe and he's hit a good one. Nice rocky ivory head. Bright dark red. Initial malt meets a bitter attack then smoothes to a dying balanced taste leaving a clean mouth asking for another sip.
John Holl tells us there's a keg of Warbird T-6 Red Ale on tap at the Melody Inn (Illinois & 38th in Indy). We've confirmed it's still in good shape. $4.75. Anyone for a wake? Yes, the place does smell like urinal cakes, there's cover charge, and the lead singer chick only has 2 notes in her tone-deaf repertoire but it is, after all, a wake.
Bell's Batch 9000 will hit the stores next week. Find out where at the Beer Spy.
For those of you interested in the Beer Judge Certification Program and taking the exam to become a ranked beer judge, Ron Smith will be leading a study group starting in a couple weeks and the exam will be on Saturday, March 27th. The people that usually participate in this have been brewing for a while and want to take their brewing and evaluation skills to the next level. There are 4 long (6 hour) Saturday sessions on Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13 and Mar 20, plus an optional practice judging session on Thursday night, Mar 25.
New Albany votes itself wet. Finally you can buy a beer in New Albany. NY Times - Roger Baylor's take. Come on, you know there's a trick to this. Go ahead and click anyway.
Sierra Nevada's 30th Anniversary Series release schedule:
Mid-March – Fritz and Ken’s Ale – Imperial Stout
Mid-May – Charlie, Fred and Ken’s Ale – Imperial Helles Ale
Mid-July – Jack and Ken’s Ale – American Barleywine
Mid-October – Our Brewer’s Reserve – Oak Aged Ale (a blend of Oak-Aged Bigfoot, Celebration Ale and fresh Pale Ale)
Scott Bort's Weekly Local Craft Roundup in the Post-Tribune tells all the following and much more. Yes, it's a regular column. Thanks, Scott.
We didn't know they own Barrel House brewery in Cinci – which they are selling.
The HBGs review Shallos, Black Biscuit, and Ranger IPA.
Russian River's Pliny the Younger completely sold out at the bar in 10 hours. Almost up to Dark Lord speed. article
John was with the old Indy Star and now writes for Beer Connoisseur Magazine, beernexus.com, andeswines.com, newjerseynewsroom.com, and even the NY Times (with, say, the original 36 Hours in Indianapolis – sorry Mike). Here's his review of Winterfest for Beer Connoisseur.
They point is, all you folk at the good beer places (you know who you are), please welcome them and buy them a beer – their spending their advance doing research. And if there's an open mic, Nate will have his guitar with him.
They'll be at Sun King tonight and Oaken Barrel tomorrow (Saturday). Look for Nate next week in Kokomo, Lafayette, and Da Region. John heads south from the 20th hitting Evansville, New Albany, and Batesville; then to Ft. Wayne, Mishawaka, LaPorte, and the Michigan Winter Beer Festival.
News, missives, and happenings from breweries at Gina's Random Beer Roundup. Including this:
Aside from actual beers, we are excited about the arrival of our Canning Line from Cask Brewing Systems which is slated to show up on February 15th. It will take us a week or so to uncrate, set up, wire, plumb and get it all ready, so we plan to begin canning before the end of the month. We won't be able to release our cans until after we receive our printed cans, but we will keep you posted as to the actual release date of Sun King in CANS..
Sunday: Spencer's Stadium Tavern will show the game, serve Sun King for $3, and let you walk outside to bow to the Colt's cathedral after every touchdown.
Feb 11: Bell's night at Rocky's Sub Pub, Jeffersonville. HEART for Valentines Day. Hopslam, Expedition Stout, Amber Ale, Rye Stout and Two Hearted Cask. If you southerners haven't met Veronica, this is your chance.
Gravity Head kicks off on Feb 26th at the New Albanian Public House and the 60-beer list is posted. 8 to 18%.
The Scotty's Brewhouse folks are opening Scotty's Lakehouse in the Geist area northeast of Indy on March 1st. They promise 90% of their taps and bottles will be Indiana beers.
New to Indiana and showing up soon from World Class: Hair of the Dog Adam, Fred, and Ruth. Bell's Batch 9000 Double American Stout.
Review: Bank Street Brew House in Louisville's Metromix. with slide show.
The TTB has issued volume 3 of The Beverage Alcohol Manual (BAM) Basic Mandatory Labeling Information for Malt Beverages. This will be on the test.
Here's the trailer for the Beer Hunter movie due out sometime this year.
Gales Prize Old Ale will be returning this season. We hope they send some stateside.
We at IndianaBeer were too busy to take many pictures but other people did. Here are some galleries: NUVO - Big Woods – Three Floyds – HBG – Setup. It's also reported at Beer Connoisseur.
and all the fixins to brew a batch of beer.
The South Central Chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America
showed lots of historic and rare Indiana breweriana.
Click the pic for a bigger, enlargable version.
Winterfest is over. 2800 punters.
Rita's article on Seventy five years of beer cans didn't make the printed Nuvo but it's online.
Half price growlers all week at the Ram.
Darren Conner is leaving Great Fermentations to start a brewpub with two other people.
"It's with some sadness that we announce that Darren, our long-time brewer and general jack-of-all trades will be leaving us. Darren is going to be the proud new owner/brewer of a brewpub here in town! So, while we lose him as an employee we will still get to enjoy his delicious beers in the future. All of this opens up an awesome opportunity for someone out there to come and join the GFI staff. It is very important that this person is currently an all-grain brewer or is serious about becomming one in the very near future. Taking over warehouse operations as well as helping customers will be the main focus of this position. If you are interested send an email to brian@greatfermentations.com and be sure that the word "job" is in the subject line. Thanks Darren for your years of helping people make Great Fermentations!"
Rumors and confirmations.
Separated at birth?
Rogue Pacman yeast is back in Wyeast's Private Collection.
Thank Heaven for Beer has a Review of Wyeast 1968 - London ESB Yeast.
Fascist Youth Vandalize Liquor Stores. MADD is putting stickers on beer bottles in Massachusetts. Without checking with Label Approval first.
Lew Bryson notices California Wine is Upside-Down. In a riot of apt mixed-metaphors, he concludes "Stop making pricey beers? No, absolutely not: it's working...for now, and the money's good. But should you think about adding other strings to your bow? Definitely. The little mammals beat the dinosaurs, you bet. But you don't see mammoths, sabretooth tigers, and giant beavers around any more, do you?"
The Beer Wars Movie should be on your On Demand cable menu and is available on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, etc.
Manchester United seeks new beer sponsor. Totally unrelated, yet for some reason mentioned here in the same paragraph, they played Arsenal yesterday and it was broadcast in 3D. That's a first. They seem to have found field shots don't need 3D. article
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