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Brewers of Indiana Guild Newsletter - July, 2006

B.I.G. News - ReplicAle

Each year the brewers in Indiana make a special ale for the Microbrewers’ Festival. This year it is a Saison with an Indiana twist – the addition of Shagbark Hickory syrup from Syrup Hickoryworks in Trafalgar, IN.

OG: 1050. IBU 20.
80% Rahr Pils
10% Rahr Red Wheat
6% Castle Carapils
4% Castle Munich
Summit hops
Shagbark syrup: 1 gallon per 10bbl
Yeast: White Labs Saison II (an R&D strain)
Attenuation 78 – 85%
Fermentation temp: 68 - 78°F

We’d like to thank Brewers Supply and White Labs for providing the grain, hops, and yeast. Dave Colt of the Ram Brewery made the recipe and pilot brews.

The ReplicAle will be served by the following breweries. Most hold it until after the Microbrewers' Festival.

Alcatraz Brewing - Indianapolis
Barley Island Brewing – Noblesville
Broad Ripple Brewpub – Indianapolis
Mishawaka Brewing – Mishawaka
Ram Brewery – Indianapolis
Rock Bottom Brewing – Indianapolis
Upland Brewing - Bloomington

Upcoming Events

The B.I.G. 11th Annual Indiana Microbrewers' Festival is Saturday, July 29th. If you don't already know all about it, see the web site.

See the B.I.G. Calendar for more regional beer events and music at brewpubs.

The Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire, Battle Creek, MI, will have a craft beer and cider tent through the event. July 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30. August 5-6 is the Buccaneer Beerfest

On Tap in Northern Indiana

Back Road Brewery - LaPorte

  • Available in bottles: Millennium Lager, Back Road Ale, Midwest IPA, Belle Gunness Stout.
  • Seasonals: Belgian Wit, Blueberry Ale.

Lafayette Brewing - Lafayette

  • On Tap: Prophet's Rock Pale Ale, Eastside Bitter, Piper's Pride, Eighty Five, Black Angus Oatmeal Stout, Eighty Five, Tippecanoe Common
  • On the handpull: Weeping Hog IPA
  • Current Seasonals
    • Emancipator Dopplebock
    • Summer Kölsch Bier - aged on apple chips toasted and soaked in chardonnay
  • Coming Up: ReplicAle

Mad Anthony Brewing - Fort Wayne, Auburn, Warsaw

  • On Tap and in bottles: Auburn Lager, Gabby Blonde Lager, Harry Baals Irish Stout, Porter, Ol Woody Pale Ale, Ruby Raspberry Wheat, Summer Daze
  • Seasonals on tap: Soft Wheat, American Red, Kölsch
  • Coming up: Oatmeal Stout, Belgian Golden Strong Ale, ReplicAle

Mishawaka Brewing - Mishawaka

  • On Tap and in bottles: Four Horsemen Irish Ale, Lake Effect Pale Ale, Ella Rose Porter, INDIAna Pale Ale, Founder's Stout, Wall Street Wheat Ale, Raspberry Wheat Ale
  • Seasonal on tap: Two Sisters Ale (7.8% IPA with Chinook and Cascade. Tom Webster's winner of homebrew club competition), Twisted Lemon Wheat Ale (5.5% with generous amounts of lemon grass)
  • Coming Up: ReplicAle

Nine G Brewing - South Bend

  • In stores now: Bitchin' Betty Citrus Wheat, Blacksnake Porter, Wingman Amber Ale
  • Coming up: Infidel Imperial IPA

Shoreline Brewery and Restaurant - Michigan City

  • On Tap: Foggy Loggy Lager, Ly.Co.Ki.We Kölsch, Benny's APA, Queen Mum IPA, Beltaine Scottish Ale, Drunken Toad, Region Rat Red Ale, Chester Brown Ale, Singing Sands Oatmeal Stout, Curse the Goat Doppelbock
  • Coming up: Grand Mum Double IPA, Big Bel Scotch Ale, Dim Wit Belgian

  Three Floyds Brewing - Munster

  • On Tap and in bottles: Alpha King Pale Ale, Robert the Bruce Scottish Ale, Pride and Joy Mild, Dreadnaught Imperial IPA
  • On Tap: Calumet Queen (Kölsch), Moloko Plus Milk Stout, Dolomite Malt Liquor, Brian Boru Irish Red, Bob Da Broot Scotch Ale, Broodoo Harvest Ale, Deesko Berliner Weiss
  • Recently released in bottles: Gumballhead American Wheat
  • Coming up: Young Sportsman Wit, Alpha Kong

Warbird Brewing - Fort Wayne

  • In Stores now: T-16 Red Ale
  • In select pubs: P-47 Wheat

On Tap in Central Indiana

Alcatraz Brewing- Indianapolis

  • On Tap: Searchlight Golden Ale, Weiss Guy Wheat, Big House Red, Pelican Pale Ale, Birdman Brown, Prison Porter, Old Glory Stout
  • Seasonals on tap: Sledgehammer Ale (6.0%), Bock (6.5%), Schwartz Imperial
  • On Tap: Light Wheat Ale, American Wheat Lager, Light Summer Brown, Pale Lager (Amarillo hops), Black Lager.
  • Seasonals: Pilsner, Abbey Ale.
  • Coming up: IPA Lager (yep, a lager with honey, Amarillo and Cascade hops), Bock (Honey and Hallertau hops), Sorghum beer.

Barley Island Brewing - Noblesville

  • On Tapand in bottles: Barfly IPA, Dirty Helen, Flat Belly Wheat, Blind Tiger Pale Ale, 60 Shilling Scotch Ale, Rust Belt Porter
  • Seasonals on tap and in bottles: Sheet Metal Blonde Wheat Ale
  • They also offer IPAs from Three Floyds, Upland, and Bell's in order to compare Barfly IPA to the others claiming to be best in the Midwest.
  • Coming Up: ReplicAle

Broad Ripple Brewpub - Indianapolis

  • On Tap: ESB, IPA, Red Bird Mild, Lawn Mower Pale Ale, Pilsner, American Red
  • On Tap - Cask Conditioned: Porter, Traveling John's Best Bitter
  • Coming up: German Hefe, ReplicAle

Brugge Brasserie - Indianapolis

  • On Tap: Pilsner, Sacre Fleur Saison, HouBlonde (a Chouffe Houblon Doublen IPA Tripel clone), Belgian Pale Ale.

Oaken Barrel Brewing - Greenwood

  • On Tap and in bottles: Indiana Amber, Snake Pit Porter, Gnaw Bone Pale Ale, Razz-Wheat, Alabaster Witbier
  • Seasonals on tap: Uberweizen
  • Coming up: Saison with DuPont yeast. Beir de Garde with Crystal Rye. Cherry Stout.

Ram Restaurant and Brewery - Indianapolis and Fishers

Growler refills are 1/2 price at the Ram during July. Every day of July.

  • On Tap: Indy Blonde, Butt Face Amber, Big Red IPA, Ram Pilsner, Big Horn Hefeweizen, Total Disorder Porter
  • Seasonals on tap: Belgian Wit, Sausalito Summer California Common, Summer Session Ale, Bohemian Pilsner
  • Coming up: ReplicAle

  Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery - Washington St, Indianapolis

  • On Tap: Circle City Light, Sugar Creek Pale Ale, Raccoon Red, Brickway Brown
  • This month's Hoosier Ma Stout: Oatmeal
  • This month's Wheat: German Hefeweizen
  • This month's seasonal beer: Miracle IPA, Super Beer X (a strong amber)
  • On the handpull: IPA
  • Coming up: Kölsch, Pilsener (for the Brickyard race), Wit, ReplicAle

Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery - 86th St, Indianapolis

  • On Tap: Circle City Light, Heartland Red, Double Barrel Pale Ale, Brickway Brown
  • This month's Hoosier Ma Stout: Milk Stout
  • This month's Wheat: American Wheat
  • Seasonals: IPA
  • On the handpulls: Wheat, Pale Ale
  • Coming up: Kölsch (June 22th)
  • Coming to the handpulls: Brown, Naughty Scott

Terre Haute Brewing - Terre Haute

  • In stores now: Champagne Velvet, Velvet Amber Lager, CV Gold Label Bock

On Tap in Southern Indiana

Bloomington Brewing - Bloomington

  • On Tap: FreeStone Blonde, Quarrymen Pale Ale, Ruby Bloom Amber, Big Stone Stout, B'Town Light
  • Seasonals on tap: Vision Weiss
  • Coming Up: Belgian Strong Ale (Release on July 13 at 5pm).

Little Cheers Restaurant and Pub - Evansville

  • On Tap: Platinum Blonde, Chocolate Porter, ShrAmber

Main Street Brewery (Turoni's Pizza and For-Get-Me-Not-Inn) - Evansville

  • On Tap: Vinny's Light Lager, Honey Blonde Ale, Thunderbolt Red Ale, Blue Eyed Moose
  • Seasonal: Wit's Up
  • Coming up: Belgian Tripel

New Albanian Brewing (Rich O's Public House and Sportstime Pizza) - New Albany

  • On Tap: Bob's Old 15-B, ConeSmoker, Croupier IPA, Community Dark, Elector, St. Radegund Bitter, Hoptimus
  • Special NABC beers: Hoosier Daddy Crimson & Cream Ale, St. Bob's Old 15-B aged in a wood JW Lees Harvest Ale (Port) cask, Kaiser 2nd Reising Pre-prohibition Pilsner
  • Coming up: Hoptimus, Artemisia Ale (Gruit brewed with molasses and mugwort), Strathpeffer Heather (Gruit brewed with honey), Jenever Rye (Gruit brewed with rye and juniper berries)
  • Coming up on the handpull: St. Radegund Bitter

Upland Brewing - Bloomington

  • On tap and in bottles: Wheat, Weizen, Amber, Pale, Porter, IPA
  • Seasonals on tap and in bottles: Ard Ri Irish Ale
  • Coming up: Wit, Saison in bottles at Bloomingfoods
  • Coming up later: Mulberry Wheat

New beers coming out from Cavalier Distributing:

 

  • Aldaris Porteris
  • Bard's Tale Dragon's Gold (Gluten free)
  • Bison Brewing Chocolate Stout, IPA, Belgian Trippel (All organic)
  • Bluegrass Brewing Professor Gesser's, Home Wrecker
  • Boulder Sweaty Betty Blonde
  • Breckenridge 471 IPA in 12oz 6-packs
  • Breckenridge Summer Brite
  • Caleconian Golden Promise Organic Ale
  • Clipper City Hefe, Loose Cannon, Peg Leg Stout, Raspberry, Red Sea at Night, Small Craft Warning
  • Ettaler Curator Doppelbock
  • Founders Old Curmudgeon
  • Hambleton Gluten Free Ale
  • Hebrew 10:10, RIPA Lenny Bruce Tribute
  • Hofbrau Mai Bock
  • Kenya Tusker
  • Lakefront Cherry, White
  • Left Hand Twin Sisters Double IPA
  • Menabrea Amber, Birra
  • Shipyard Summer
  • Sprecher Scotch Ale
  • St. Bernardus Grotten Flemish Ale
  • Stone Vertical Epic 6/6/6
  • Two Brothers Cane and Abel, Dog Days, Incinerator Blonde Dopplebock
  • Red Stone Meads - Black Raspberry, Sunshine

Coupons and Specials

Growler refills are 1/2 price at the Ram during July. Every day of July.

Here's a Barley Island $5 coupon courtesy of World Class Beverages.

Indiana Brewery News

Upland went through 15 kegs at the Ohio River Festival in Madison, IN. Wow. Right now Caleb and company have a lot of projects in the vessels.

  • A Saison that will be sold just at Bloomingfoods store as part of their 35th anniversary. 8%. Used DuPont's yeast then blended with Upland Wheat.
  • A Mulberry Wheat just now into fermentation using mulberrys from a tree out back of the brewery. This will appear at the brewpub only.
  • 4 Bordeaux casks from Oliver Winery were filled with a lambic about 10 weeks ago for release in one or more forms next year sometime - or maybe even later than that.
  • Right now the Ard Ri is the seasonal. An 8% Imperial Red that is strong and has a lot of hop presence. This is Ron Smith's homebrew recipe for World Class Beverage's Beer Geek Contest.

The Columbus Bar has rapidly become the successor to All the Buzz since Jon Myers and Doug Memering moved downtown. They also plan to brew their own on site.

Where to drink beer in the USA (Beer Advocate version, RateBeer version). Rich O's is #19 and #3 respectively. Three Floyds brewpub comes in #34 at BA. Indy's BW3 ranks 60th at RB.

Classified Ad:

Mad Anthony Brewing Company is seeking a head brewer for our growing brewing operation in Fort Wayne Indiana. We operate a 7 barrel pub brewery and a 15 barrel production brewery in the same location. We provide beer for our 3 restaurants and we self distribute draft and bottle beer locally and statewide through a distributor. The right person will possess solid brewing experience and knowledge as well as leadership qualities. For consideration or more info contact Todd Grantham wtgrantham@comcast.net.

Chris Roegner is breaking ground for a brewpub in Kokomo. Located along US 31, it will have 8400 sq ft. of space for a restaurant and a 3.5/7bbl system. Chris, who was the manager of the West Point Steak House near Lafayette, doesn't have brewery experience himself but will be looking for a brewer once the equipment is installed by the Chicago firm supplying the vessels. He hopes to be open by the end of the year. Interested in a challenging start-up head brewer position, email Chirsroegner@aol.com.

The Indianapolis Star commented on the sartorially comfortable Brugge Brasserie.

Other Indiana News

Eric Watson is now at the Titletown Brewing Co. in Green Bay, WI. Interestingly he's making a "Cole Porter". Cole Porter was the grandson of J.O. Cole who owned the Peru Brewery in Indiana from 1885 until Prohibition.

Big Red's big store in Bloomington has added beer to the Saturday wine tastings. Noon-6pm. July's choice are American IPAs.

Did you know Huber Winery has a distillery making brandies and fruit infusions? Did you know there is an American Distillers Institute for small distilleries? Started by Bill Owens of Buffalo Bill's Brewery? That publishes American Distiller, edited by Penn Jensen of Upland? And an annual meeting at the Huber Winery? Next year's meeting is in April, 2007.

Stopped in at the Saint Meinrad Archabbey while in southern Indiana to investigate rumors of a brewery there dating back to the 1860s. Actually they had a brewery for a short time back in 1860 that was located in front of the abbey grounds on what is now Brewery St. Legend says the first brew was so bad it was fed to the hogs. At any rate, they leased it the brewer in 1861.

But that's not the end of the story. Father Gabriel (below) resurrected the brewery tradition in 2001 with a 5gal homebrew operation where he makes 10 or so batches every year - mainly for feast days, picnics, and special orders for retreat guests. Red and a Lawnmower are his favorites but he recently made a coffee stout. He mainly brews from kits from a mail-order distributor back in his native Iowa where he managed a Marriot restaurant (he's also working on a cookbook).
 

The Ohio Valley Homebrewers Association in Evansville now has a website. www.ovha.net.

According to an article in the Courier & Press, 15 liquor stores in Evansville are suing the private Vanderburgh County Substance Abuse Council to stop them from hiring underage college students to go into liquor stores (and restaurants, drug and convenience stores) to try to buy alcohol. Indiana State law (IC 7.1-5-7-12) says "it is a Class B misdemeanor for a person to employ a minor in or about a place where alcoholic beverages are sold, furnished, or given away for consumption either on or off the licensed premises, in a capacity which requires or allows the minor to sell, furnish, or otherwise deal in alcoholic beverages." The president of the VCSAC is Ron McDonald of the Indiana State Excise Police. It also receives money from "countermeasure fees" assessed by the courts in Vanderburgh County.

Five Star Distributing in Huntington is now one year old. Accounts they handle include Miller, Coors, and Warbird.

Miscellaneous News (if you didn't read it at IndianaBeer.com already)

So you'd like to run your own pub. Maybe you'd like to be a king also. It's possible. The Ship Inn on Piel Island near Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England has just such an opening.

New Belgium Brewing had a 12% increase in sales during 2005. Now they are planning to spend $21,500,000 on an expansion and plan to put out 400,000 bbl in 2006 and the expansion will let them double that amount.

Okocim Porter - Did the Potable Curmudgeon bring it back from the dead? Part 1, Part 2.

The Great American Beer Festival has added a Pro-Am competition for the 25th anniversary edition this September. It's for homebrewers who have won the right to make their beer in a commercial brewery. Indiana qualifies for at least four entries (Duneland Homebrewers / Shoreline Brewery, MEGA / Mishawaka Brewing, State Fair Best of Show / Broad Ripple Brewpub, and World Class Beer Geek / Upland).

Pabst is moving to a Chicago suburb (Woodridge) from San Antonio. Well the headquarters at least. The beer will still be brewed by Miller and others.

New Holland is expanding to a 22,000 sq ft plant north of town. The cramped production brewery on the east side of downtown will be history but the brewpub facility won't be affected.

Quotes:

  • Archie Bunker: Lemme tell ya, Edith, you can't really *buy* beer... you can only rent it.
  • Morse: They don't spell Australian beer with four Xs out of ignorance.
  • Jack O'Neill: I hope you like Guinness. It's a perfect substitute for... food.
  • Red Green: Blecch! Hmm. Well, I have no idea what we did wrong, but our first batch of homemade beer did not taste all that great.
    Harold Green: Well, Uncle Red, did you boil and sterilize all the beer vats and beer bottles?
    Red Green: How do you mean?
    Harold Green: Well, you gotta boil everything to make sure all the germs have been removed.
    Red Green: Well, we wipe them on our shirts. Our shirts are clean.
    Harold Green: Uncle Red, you gotta make sure the canisters are perfectly sterile.
    Red Green: Harold, the only thing perfectly sterile up here is Old Man Sedgwick. Besides, how can you boil a hot tub?

Bells is adding twelve 400bbl fermenters. Ken Belau is the new head brewer.

The Potable Curmudgeon makes a very good, but sad, observation about wasting beer.

World Cup fever. How to quench it? In Nuremberg, 70,000 England fans drank 1.2 million pints of beer. To save you from grabbing your calculator, that's 17 pints per person. Cologne has run out of Kölsch. article. But are they drinking Bud? If you don't mind a little crudeness, here's what the more rabid Germans think of Bud's sponsorship of the games.

In a related note, Bavaria Brewing of The Netherlands gave away 1000 or so orange Lederhosen to supporters to wear at a first-round game. FIFA folks wouldn't let them in because of the Bavaria logos. So 1000 Dutchmen watched the game in the stands in their underwear. article

Did you know the Supreme Court's first flag desecration opinion was about beer? In 1907 they agreed that states could ban pictures of the U.S. flag on beer bottles (Stars and Stripes brand beer to be specific) because it would "degrade and cheapen" the flag.

Cannes, France: The International Advertising Festival has voted the best two TV ads of the year as beer ads. First is Guinness's Noitulove (Evolution spelled backward) and second place went to Carlton's "Big Ad".

News compiled by Bob Ostrander, Marketing Director. It's all considered accurate but then Bob has been known to have a drink or two while writing this so-called tome. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Brewers of Indiana Guild, in which case Bob will lose his job. All coupon offers are for Associate Members only, non-transferable, and may be withdrawn due to unforeseen circumstances, acts of the gods, bankruptcy, or other capricious reasons. It's illegal in Indiana to offer any alcoholic beverage at discount through coupons, prizes, or the fact that the drinker is female. Sorry.