Indiana Beer News - November 3

Rita tells us the Mayor of Indianapolis named October 28th Sun King Day.


Washington Post headline:Beer: The secret behind the cult of Three Floyds - article

Hoosiers Doing Something blog has an good reference article: Indiana: Crossroads of Beer (thanks guys)

Crown, Cork and Seal, the people who make bottle caps, may go bankrupt over, what? The answer is asbestos. It's complicated. article

Goose Island's beer this year will be King Henry barleywine.

WashDC has illegalized sales of single beers in come wards (neighborhoods). Enter the 2-pack of unintended but absolutely predictable consequences.

Anheuser-Busch said in October it plans to invest more than $1 billion from 2011 to 2014 in its U.S. facilities to modernize brewing operations and reduce emissions.

The latest collaboration: Mitchell's Ice Cream and Great Lakes Brewing have teamed up for... wait for it... Christmas Ale Ginger Snap ice cream. article

Miller news ...  "taste flow" cans for Miller Lite, which will debut next summer and feature a second opening on the can top designed to increase airflow and reduce "glug." The optional new hole can be opened with a key or other object. article (without and reference to "church key").

Headline: Man believes he is in heaven after finding a free beer truck. Yeah, the usual after-festival mixup. article

Washington DC opens a stock-market bar. The more pints you buy of any particular brew, the farther its cost will drop. This seems a bit opposite of the laws of supply and demand. And what happens when 99% of the beer is brewed by 1% of the brewers. Oh, it is. Anyway, here's the article.

And we finish with a picture that has nothing whatsoever to do with beer.