Indiana Beer News – July 3

The Black Swan Brewpub have released DJ’s first beers. Double hopped Pale Ale and a Scottish Ale.

Sun King’s Johan the Barleywine is available in cans at the brewery. See HBG’s review.

Sun King Sunlight Cream gets ink in Twin Falls, Idaho of all places. article

A bus will again be coming up from Louisville/New Albany for the Microbrewers Festival. Leaves about 12:30. Back by 9pm. $85 includes lunch and Fest ticket. details

What’s Brewing, the CAMRA newspaper reports “Worst barley crop for 40 years threatens to increase beer prices”.

A drought in southern England and northern Europe and this could reduce the 2011 crop from between 20 to 50 percent. There won’t be enough Maris Otter for home consumption and any exports will have skyrocketing prices.

Elsewhere in the same issue, Rhys Jones says the merger of AB InBev and SABMiller should be named ABISMill.

Indiana Pale Ale – Available in Times Square.

A Zymurgy poll lists the “Best Beers in America”. Sure are a lot we can get in Indiana.

1. Russian River Pliny the Elder 2. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale T3. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA T3. Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout 5. Bell’s Hopslam 6. Stone Arrogant Bastard 7. Sierra Nevada Celebration T8. Sierra Nevada Torpedo T8. Stone Ruination 10. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 11. Stone Sublimely Self Righteous 12. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine 13. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout T14. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter T14. Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale T16. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA T16. New Glarus Belgian Red 18. North Coast Old Rasputin 19. Bell’s Expedition Stout T20. Deschutes The Abyss T20. Left Hand Milk Stout T20. Odell IPA T20. Samuel Adams Noble Pils T20. Surly Furious T20. Troegs Nugget Nectar T26. Rogue Dead Guy Ale T26. Samuel Adams Boston Lager

28. Anchor Steam T29. Bear Republic Racer 5 T29. Ommegang Three Philosophers T29. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy T29. Three Floyds Alpha King T29. Three Floyds Dark Lord T34. Avery Maharaja T34. Dogfish Head Indian Brown T34. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron T34. Three Floyds Gumballhead T38. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA T38. Lost Abbey Angel’s Share T38. New Belgium La Folie T38. New Belgium Ranger T38. Oskar Blues Old Chub T43. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA T43. Great Divide Yeti T43. New Belgium 1554 T43. Russian River Blind Pig T43. Ska Modus Hoperandi T48. Alesmith Speedway Stout T48. Dark Horse Crooked Tree T48. Green Flash West Coast IPA T48. Summit EPA T48. Victory Prima Pils