Misc News – Jan 5

"On Wed. Jan 13th Rocky's Sub Pub on the river in Jeffersonville, IN will host the best display of beer from the best brewery in the state. On draft: Gumballhead, Dreadknaught, Robert the Bruce, Pride and Joy, Alpha King, Alpha Klaus, Broo Doo, Moloko,Ham on Rye, Großer Kurfürst, and hopefully Alpha King on a beer engine. Bottles: Behemoth, Black Sun Stout, Gorch Foch, Dreadnaught, Pride and Joy, and Alpha King. Lincoln Anderson from 3 Floyds will be down for the event to talk about some of these great craft brews. It should be a great night, hope you can join us."

Should we wait for NBA season to unveil our new logo?

The Hoosier Beer Geek 2009 End of Year Readers Survey: RESULTS.

Here's the 2010 release schedule for Dogfish Head.

Don't stare at Left Hand's new JuJu Ginger Ale label. It's moving to seasonal ale status this year and will be out in Feb.

Predictions for 2010 and the Next Decade from Beer Business Daily. Interesting. Beer is heavy, other beverage packaging is much lighter. 7-Eleven to private label but with troubles. Stuff like that.

Got 5 minutes? Here's a diatribe on the Abt/Quad style.

Over in Europe Guinness announced a 5% price hike and Heineken a 4% hike.

Misc News – Oct 1

Congratulations to Dave Helt of Milwaukee for his Best of Show at the Crown Challenge with a Brown Porter. He was also reserve BOS at the Wisconsin State Fair this year.

Congratulations to Eileen Martin (Upland) for getting an American Distiller's Institute internship at Huber's Starlight Distillery. more details

Rocky's Italian Grill now has 32 taps inside and 16 taps on the veranda. 5 mundane, 4 imports, 1 cider, 11 USA craft regulars, and 11 more rotating. Plus nice views of the Ohio, even on a dull cloudy day.

  

World Class has a couple of dozen captioned snaps of their trip to GABF 2009.

The Knights of the Beer Roundtable goes through the Berghoff catalog. Wikipedia can be believed, but in the Berghoff/Huber case they only go back to 1960. Here's the real poop – it's an Indiana beer.

Magic Hat will serve beers from the Night of the Living Dead 12-pack (plus Lucky Kat) at the Oct 13th beer dinner at the Fireside Grill, Indy. $35 complete. Call for reservations – 317-823-1000.

Five Uses for the Hop.

New Belgium will bottle Ranger IPA in early 2010 as a regular offering. Simcoe, Cascade, Chinook hops to 60 IBU. 7% ABV.

Headline: "Major fake vodka plant raided". A still in Leicestershire, England making fake Glens brand vodka. They had 9,000 gallons of pure alcohol on hand – enough for 130,000 bottles. That is major.

Britain has changed the rules so tips can't be figured in to the minimum wage (£5.80 - $9.33 US).

Ernst & Young figures there were about 3,000 breweries in Europe in 2006 and 3733 in 2009 – a 25% increase. That's 2.5 million jobs.

Rocky's Italian Grill

If you're looking for seating on the Ohio, good beer, a spectacular view of Louisville, and Italian food, try:

Rocky's Italian Grill

715 W. Riverside Dr
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
812-282-3844

Thomas Kapfhammer, Prop.
web site

Mon - Fri: 11am – 10:30pm
Sat: 11am – 11:30 pm
Sun: 11am – 10pm

Directly west of Buckhead Mountain Grill

First the beer. 16 interesting taps of the 24 total. 8 taps are devoted to rotating beers from (one each of) New Albany, Upland, BBC, Bells, Brownings, Schlafly, plus Leinie and SAdams. Plus beers from Brugge, FFF, and Warbird. Well chosen bottled list that's short of an around-the-world club but has lots of unusual countries represented. Oh, and Dogfish Head 120.

Samplers are $7 for your 5 choices. The last 3 days of each month, all non-domestic draft is $3 (which would include Spaten Lager, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni, New Castle, Murphys, and Kasteel Rouge.

Meals are, of course, Italian cuisine at $10-$15. Pizzas, Calzones, Subs, also. A wide range of small portion meals run $6-$8, a nice touch.

Italian ¿Tuscan? architecture meats warehouse sports bar chic inside. The black girders and flat screen TVs make it look like one of the chains (which is is not). This one-store chain has been open since Elvis died and moved to the current waterfront location in 2000.