Dribs and Drams

Summer's over and the September festival season is over. That doesn't mean nothing's going on.

Oct 2	Indianapolis	Kiwanis Club's Pints for Half-pints.  $20. 6-10pm.
Oct 3	Evansville	America on Tap. 2nd Ave & Sycamore St. 1-5pm. $35.
Oct 3	New Albany	Biers on Parade at the New Albany Farmers Market. 1-6pm. Free. Food & Beer extra.
Oct 10	Porter	Porter's Perfect Pint Festival presented by Pat's Liquors. 1-5pm. $35-50.
Oct 10	Indianapolis	Barrels on Bonna barrel aged beer festival. Hosted by Black Acre Brewing. 1-5pm. $50.

Rita tells the tale of Black Acre prior to their Barrels on Bonna (which promises 20+ Hoosier breweries with samples of special brews.)

She also scooped us with the 10 GABF Medals brought back to Indiana. Bier, Flix, Mad Anthony, Sun King, Tap Beer Co. (a new brewpub in Bloomington), Taxman, Thr3e Wise Men if you want the spoiler. more

And she talks about People's Brewing's Local Farm Series.

Last week she talked to Greg Eaton about his new Deer Creek Brewery in Noblesville.

Brewer David Pierce leaves NABC to return to BBC Thanks for making the big facility hum. I still owe you a taxi ride.

Back in the heyday of the elaborate family park - the ones with permanent rides like roller coasters, Ferris wheels, boat rides, swimming beaches - many were built by interurbans in order to attract weekend traffic. This fine tradition is now back in northwest Indiana.South Shore CVA Collaborates with Local Breweries to Launch Brewery Trail App - details here. Oh, that's the convention and visitors bureau, not the interurban. Rats.


Indiana Brewery Will Fetch You A Beer For Your Dog (Flat 12, if you want the spoiler.)

Other Beer Stuff

Hey, has anyone see the Wheaties beer? Let us know when you try it.

Bud Light Apple? They gotta be kidding.


Other stuff entirely

Did you know there's an American Whiskey Trail?

All about Canadian Whiskey.

And the world's largest bottle of whisky. (Tomintoul Distillery 105 litres  - oops, spoiler alert)

17 whiskey cocktails and the Sezerac as a plus.

11 items of false knowledge about alcohol.

Oktoberfest Time

Before we get into this season's drndle-fest there are a couple of news notes:

1) Kennywood Brewing Supply is moving from their Crown Point digs to space in the Saint John Malt Brothers Brewery, 9575 Wicker Ave. St. John. They are closing the downtown square space as of Monday, Sept 28 and opening in St. John on Oct 1. Until the 28th everything is 20% off (except Blichmann)

2) Amazon is selling "The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All: Know Your Booze Before You Choose" Somehow I don't think the Kindle version will go over as well.

3) Taxman Brewing in Bargersville has added a fitness/exercise area for those who enjoy a quaff after their gym owrkout. Just one Saturday per month though.

OK, lets go to Munich. The Chive has a  short look at the history and the rules: There’s more to know about Oktoberfest than beer (15 Photos).

The Thirsty Swagman also looks at Drndls.

And so do we.

Dribs and Drams

There's plenty to do again this weekend:
  

Sept 17-18	Bloomington	Quafftoberfest beer dinner. 6-9pm. $65. Friday is on Grant Street with beer, games, music. 3:30-10:30pm.
Sept 17, 18	Bloomington	Upland Sours tours. Free. No reservations needed. 3, 4, and 5pm.
Sept 19	Evansville	Brewbeque. Noon-8pm. $10 (cash bar)-35.
Sept 19	Indianapolis	Beginning Brewing Class. Great Fermentations. 10am.
Sept 19	Indianapolis	Indy Eleven Oktoberfest. 5:30-7:30pm. $20-30.
Sept 19	Hobart	Brews & Blues Festival. 2-6pm. $40-65.
Sept 19-20	Nashville	Rally in the Alley. Big Woods. 1pm-midnight. Sunday is the Kegs & Eggs Brunch in Nashville and Bloomington.
Sept 19	Whitestown	Brew Fest. 1-6pm. $35-55.
Sept 19	Racine, WI	Great Lakes Brewfest. 3-7pm. $49.
Sept 19	St. Charles, IL	Brews on the Fox. Plus BBQ contest. 4:30-9:30pm. $45-65.
Sept 19 - Oct 4	Munich, Germany	Oktoberfest
Sept 20	Hobart	Brews & Blues Festival Park. 3-6pm. $35-65/
Sept 20	Indianapolis	CANvitational Pan Am Plaza. (Hoosier Beer Geeks are coordinating volunteers)
Sept 24	Columbus, OH	Fat Tire Clips Beer & Film Tour. 7-8:30pm.
Sept 24-26	Denver, CO	Great American Beer Festival

Rita tells us about the Brewpub's first 25 years then she talks to David Sims of Heirloom Acres about  Taxman Brewing's gastrofood.

18th Street Brewery looks at Hammond expansion

Brewery project makes history with city application (Wasser in Greencastle)

New Corner brews up homage to IPR

Review of the SWIRCA brewfest.

Other 

What’s The Right Way To Make A Tom Collins?

Why Is American Beer So Bland?

Monticello May 11. 1821.

I have no reciept for brewing, & I much doubt if the operations of malting & brewing could be succesfull[y] performed from a reciept. if it could, Combrune’s book on the subject. would teach the best processes: and perhaps might guide to ultimate success with the sacrifice of 2. or 3. trials. a capt Miller now of Norfolk ... was during the late war, confined by the Executive to our neighborhood, perhaps indeed by yourself. I took him to my house. he had been a brewer in London, and undertook to teach both processes to a servt of mine, which during his stay here & on one or two visits afterwards in the brewing season, he did with entire success. I happenes to have a servant of great intelligence and diligence both of which are necessary. we brew 100. galls of ale in the fall & 100. galls in the spring, taking 8. galls only from the bushel of wheat. the public brewereis take 15. which makes their liquor meagre and often vapid. we are now finishing our spring brewing. if you have a capable servt and he were to attend our fall brewing, so as to get an idea of the manual operation, Combrune’s book with a little of your own attention in the beginning might qualify him.

- Thomas Jefferson (transcribed from the Jefferson library at Monticello)

Blaming Overeating On Drinking

Micropubs leading the way for better beer as new research shows 70% of pubs now serve real ale

  - yes, it's a CAMRA press release. but its good news 

CAMRA announces the Top 16 pubs in Britain. I can vouch for 3 and the blog will start covering British pubs next week.

CANvitational quick pics

Here are a few of our pics from CANvitational on Saturday, Sept. 12!
Weather was great, crowd was great, so many beers we can't get here and good beers we love here!
If YOU have some pics you would like to see us share, send to bob1ostrander@gmail.com

We will post some highlights from this event soon!

Mad Anthony OktoBEERfest Event Draft List

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Dribs and Drams

Stuff to do this week:
 

Sept 10	Fort Wayne	Belgian & Sour Beerfest. J K O'Donnell's. 1-4pm. $75.
Sept 10	Fort Wayne	OktoBeerFest dinner. J K O'Donnell's. 6pm. $35.
Sept 12	Fort Wayne	OktoBEERfest Headwaters Park. Hoosier beer only. Cigar area. 2-6pm. $45.
Sept 12	Indianapolis	Sun King CANvitational at Pan Am Plaza. 45 breweries. Noon-5pm $40-75. Greg has arranged some free tickets - see previous post.
Sept 12	Nashville	Hoosier Hops and Harvest Story Inn. 1:30++. $30.
Sept 12	South Bend	Zoo Brew Potawatomi Zoo. 7-10pm.

Later this month:

Sept 17-18	Bloomington	Quafftoberfest beer dinner. 6-9pm. $65. Friday is on Grant Street with beer, games, music. 3:30-10:30pm.
Sept 19	Evansville	Brewbeque. Noon-8pm. $10 (cash bar)-35.
Sept 19	Hobart	Brews & Blues Festival. 2-6pm. $40-65.
Sept 19-20	Nashville	Rally in the Alley. Big Woods. 1pm-midnight. Sunday is the Kegs & Eggs Brunch in Nashville and Bloomington.
Sept 19	Whitestown	Brew Fest. 1-6pm. $35-55.

Reblogging:

Rita's Beer Buzz covers Speedway's Daredevil and the upcoming Big Woods location. Then she tackles Oktoberfest biers.

Last week she talked about Heady Hollow, Redemption and Deviate.

Eric Strader visits Tibbs Brewing in Kalamazoo. blog

Indiana News

Indiana Moon(shine) is brewing

Flat 12 is putting out Deflator Doppelbock. 

New Albanian beer co-founder to depart.

Brewers' Unions

First there were the post-medieval guilds. These were partly outshoots of schools, partly church-run, and partly organizations of for-profit breweries. Brussels' Guildhouse on the main square is a good example of the expense these folks could go to.

Then the Brewers Association of America followed the Campaign for Real Ale in England which followed the Brewers of Europe on the continent. As the craft beer revolution started states started their own guilds (we have the Brewers of Indiana Guild).

CAMRA is actually a drinkers' guild. England has the Society of Independent Brewers and now there's another starting - the United Craft Brewers. This one, the only one with "craft" in the name is reported to be on the way to defining "craft". article

That will be handy since the BA calls even Sam Adams as craft beer. The big boys might not run the BA but the BA certainly is bent on placating Bud, Molson/Coors, and others of that ilk. We await UCB's progress.

Misc.

11 Obscure Beer Styles That Are Worth a Try. Burton Ale KK (Black IPA), Chicha, Dampfbier, Faro, Grodziskie, Gose, Gruit, Joppenbier, Kentucky Common, Kottbusser and Koyt.

Pennsylvania Cops Steal Wine Collection In Mafia Reminiscent Shakedown

Judge Dismisses Jim Beam False Advertising Lawsuit Over “Handcrafted” Label - "customers understand the whiskey is made using some machines".

US Regulators Eyeing Diageo Over Inflated Sales - The SEC says they channel stuffed, sending more cases than retailers ordered.

UK MP launches "badge of honour" for pubs in effort to curb closures.

More Kroger Outlets Installing In-store Beer Taps. Now in Lexington, Little Rock, Los Alamos, Memphis and Richmond VA. More are planned for Cincinnati and Dayton.