Indiana Beer News - October 12

This busy week:

• Tonight: Book Signing for Hoosier Beer. 6:30 boring speech. 7:30 Pub Quiz. Shoreline, Michigan City. No charge.
• Tonight: Sierra Nevada Brewmaster, Steve Dresler, at Binklley's Kitchen. 7pm+.
• Tonight: Flat 12 tap takeover. Stacked Pickle, Fishers. 5-9pm
• Tonight: Release of Triton Brewing Bourbon Barrel Stout and Victory Lane Bourbon Milk Sout (collaboration w/Flat 12). 3pm+ 
• Tonight: Greenbush Brewing Company Indiana launch. Fiddler's Hearth, South Bend. 5pm+
  
• Thursday: Tapping of All Hops Go To Heaven. Ram Fishers. 6:30pm
• Thursday: Big Red Beerfest. Bloomington. $30. 6-9pm
• Thursday: Belgian Beer Dinner. Club LaSalle, South Bend. Menu
• Thursday:  Sierra Nevada tap takeover Alley Bar, Bloomington.
  
• Friday: Big Red Beerfest. Bloomington. $35. 6-9pm
• Friday: True Brew signing. Lawrenceburg Public Library. 6-8pm. Samples by Great Crescent. $25
  
• Saturday:  Unveiling of NABC/Great Crescent/Turoni's collaboration Steamboat Common. At Soup, Stew, Chili and Brew, Madison. A fundraiser for the Howard Steamboat Museum. 11am-4pm
  Saturday: Porter's Perfect Pint Festival. Hawthorne Park, Porter. $35/$40. 1-5pm
• Saturday: Wandering Owl Wine & Beer Trail. Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve. Evansville. 3-6pm. OVHA, Turoni's, etc. $35/$40. 812-479-0771 x 107 for tickets and info.
• Saturday:  Brocktoberfest Specialty Beer Festival. Brockway Public House, Carmel. 4-8pm.
• Saturday: Triton Brewing Grand Opening. 5-11pm. 
• Saturday:  Gonzo Fest, Monkey Wrench, Louisville. 3-11pm. $20/$25/$30

Did you know the 2012 North American Beer Bloggers Conference could be in Indy? Roger breaks the news.

Lastly, keep this book in mind: “Full Steam Ahead: Reflections on the Impact of the First Steamboat on the Ohio River 1811-2011” from the Indiana Historical Society Press. It is a book of essays edited by Rita Kohn, the Hoosier state’s First Lady of craft beer appreciation, who to the surprise of no one was the motive force behind NABC's commemorative brewing of Steamboat Common. As always, we'll drink a toast to Rita with the tapping of the very first keg.

Oktoberfest is some work and some play.