Indiana Beer News - October 16

Shoreline's board:

People's Brewing is getting 4 new 50bbl vessels and will be distributed statewide by Cavalier.

While at the Village Bottle Shoppe on Sagamore Pkwy in West Lafayette we saw 3 items worth mentioning: 

• Hopz cigars. Yep, with a z. Large hop-soaked and $12.39 each
• Mad Hatter Royalle Hopquila. Hop-infused vodka. $32.50
• Oh, and Peanut Butter Vodka.

Sarah tells us about Bloomington Brewing's Farmhouse Ale:

Each year we brew a special beer for our “Homegrown” series, primarily from the harvest of our Cascade hop vines at Loesch Farm. This year’s harvest was light due to the terribly wet spring which was then followed by a long mid-summer drought. Nevertheless, our small harvest has yielded a beautiful golden Farmhouse Ale which we brewed soon after the fall equinox with aromatic, Vienna and two-row malts. This effervescent Farmhouse ale has a wonderfully light maltiness and a soft cascade hop balance which doesn’t overpower. This is a refreshing beer with a gentle lingering sweetness, perfect with for quaffing with friends on a cool fall evening. Join us soon for a pint at Lennie’s. A single batch is all we have and like this glorious Indian summer, it will be gone far too soon. ABV 4.2%

The final BrewBracket Stout bracket (Thanks Mike). Watch for the next one in the spring.

Headline: Man believes he is in heaven after finding a free beer truck. Body: Before being sent to Northwest Community Hospital, he told police he didn’t think he had done anything wrong. article

The numbers are in for Munich's 2011 Oktoberfest: 7.5 million liter of beer consumed (half a million more than in 2010); 6.9 million visitors; and only 58 fights involving the traditional mugs, or steins, popular at the fest (down from 62 the year before). Organizers were pleased by sales, having feared a backlash against the new record price (9 Euros; about $12) for a liter.