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Brewers of Indiana Guild Newsletter - October, 2006
B.I.G. News Associate Members should be getting their Beer Geek T-Shirts real soon now. The delay was completely my fault (an email to World Class bounced on a typo and I stuck it in my junk folder - blah, blah, blah). Sorry about that but the tie-dye should be just in time for Halloween trick-or-treating. The numbers are in. Last July's Microbrewers' Festival had 2200 attendees. $21,000 was raised for the Optimist's Club and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Next year's event is planned for Saturday, July 28th, 2007. This is the same weekend as the Brickyard, er, Allstate 400. The time of the festival may be moved back two hours to 4-8pm. This would get a bit cooler temperatures and, with daylight savings time, still end 90 minutes before sunset. Also, the race qualifying on Saturday ends at 3pm so people could conceivably get to both events. Indiana Brewing News Black Majic wins Silver
Medal
UPLAND SOLD Indiana's largest brewery has had some major changes in the last couple of years. Ed Hermann, Matt Hill, Ken Price, Andrew St. Lawrence, Kari Gjerdingen, Chuck Watts and now owner Marc Sttinger have gone walkabout. Caleb Staton, Shaun Byrnes, Aleleen Martin, Russel Wyatt, Penn Jensen have arrived. And this week, new cellerman Mike Lahti and new a clutch of new owners are settling in. Doug Dayhoff leads the new ownership team with Adam Estes, Warren Cutshall, and Gene Jones making up the rest of the backfield. Doug is the hands-on guy who will use Penn's extensive industry experience to guide Upland in some new expansion plans. All was explained at a Mug Club party last Saturday. The brewery was packed with devotees to celebrate the Oktoberfest release, have a pitch-in, and to enjoy a good band, Double E.
Below are the three latest additions
Expansion plans? Yep. A 25ft extension to the back. Another floor above the brewery. An underground parking garage. Well, maybe not that much expansion, but the other two are probable. Buying the bar next store seems to be out of the picture right now and land space is tight so the first two will be necessary.
Four Oliver Winery wood casks of Caleb's lambic base will spend the rest of the year resting in the back room at Upland before some fruit from Huber Winery gets added for a secondary fermentation. They plan to use Raspberry, Strawberry, Peach, and a combination of Blackberry and Grape. It will be ready for it's debutante ball late next spring. At taste of the maturing lambic reveals a happy life right now accumulating a soft tartness and other Belgian Brown notes. It's a little thin right now but that's to be expected. Our cheeks can't wait to try the final result.
Two changes have been made recently to keep the Columbus Bar's customers happy: 1) all 20 taps are interesting beers, no budmillercoors at all. 2) Free wifi. The whole gang is really into beer. This is obvious from their employment application with questions such as "What three ways is beer packaged?", "Name four beer styles.", and "If you had your own theme music, what would it be?".
On the tap side, Jeff has deemed Ken's Shagbark Saison Replicale aged properly for consumption and it will come on line in the next few days when the Uberweizen season ends. Coming up in October: a Double IPA and (drum roll) it's Apple Buzz time again - the malt/cider/mead concoction will be back for another round of lip-smacking, tongue-tanging, mouth-tarting, crispness. This winter look for a return of Leroy Brown and a Stout. It does look like Warbird's excellent P-17 Hefeweizen will hit the liquor stores in bottles instead of cans. Since, obviously, the canning line they have can't handle bottles it will still be a while. Rats. Right now it's available only in keg form. The Heorot now has a website. Hurrah. They've even included the full tap and bottle menu. That's all 56 taps. But be aware it's like many web sites a little out of date. For instance, don't rely on the Tub Beers list. Right now they have Phucket, Arcadia Whitsun, and Mad Anthony Porter in the cooler for $2.50 each. Taps include Monty Python's Holy GrAle. Spaten Optimator, Popering's Hommelbier, and Grotten. Upcoming Events Please see http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/events.html for Indiana (and some surrounding area) events. Also lists bands playing at breweries. We think it's the most up-to-date calendar of Indiana events available. The Lupulin Land Hop Festival at Rich O's will feature Roger's current choice of tongue-scraping beers. He reports the following are in and ready to pop on the 13th: Avery Maharaja IIPA; DFH 90-Minute; Great Divide Hercules; Rogue I2PA, JLS Integrity, Morimoto Imperial Pilsner, Juniper PA; Lenny's RIPA; Stone RUination; Hitachino Nest Classic; Houblon Chouffe; Jever Pils; Poperings Hommel Bier; St. Georgenbrau Kellerbier. New Albanaian Brewing's Hoptimus will be joined by Oaktimus. Plus the usual suspects: Alpha King, Arrogant Bastard, 2-Hearted, etc. including Croupier and Elector. Brennan says the October 16th tasting of Belgian Tripels (Import vs Domestic throwdown) at Kahn's in Indy may have 15 delights available for trying. Free. 5-7pm. On Tap in Northern Indiana
On Tap in Central Indiana
On Tap in Southern Indiana
Miscellaneous News (if you didn't read it at IndianaBeer.com already) The Potable Curmudgeon is back in New Albany from the cycling/train trip to European pubs and the Roger is starting to publish the stories. Moravia, Czechoslovakia and trains so far. Duvel Moortgat has bought Brasserie d'Achouffe. This might result in a little confusion in Indiana since they are represented by two different distributors (and two different importers). Right now stocks of Achouffe, MacChouffe, etc are substantial in stores and we don't expect shortages. In fact, Michel Moortgat of Duvel is quoted as being committed to doubling the brewing capacity at Achouffe from 35,000 hecotlitres (30,000 bbls). Coming to Indiana: Carlsberg Jacobsen Saaz Blonde and Original Dark Lager. In the last 2 months Michigan authorities have arrested more than 30 people for redeeming cans bought in Indiana. Michiganders pay 10¢ deposit on aluminum cans and it's become big sport to take a few hundred north to the vending machines in Coldwater, Niles, and New Buffalo. Often troopers are waiting in parking lots for Indiana license plates. Indiana has a quota on three-way liquor licenses; one for every 1,500 people in an incorporated city. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette says "he quota system is a throwback to Prohibition and is a disingenuous attempt to limit the flow of booze in Indiana." Fort Wayne wants to get more bars and restaurants in their Municipal Riverfront Development District but this quota is getting in the way. The city has 198 liquor licenses but the quota system calls for only 138. The extra 60 got grandfathered in during city annexations of surrounding territory. Since new licenses aren't forthcoming it's legal to sell your license. The new Club Soda bar paid $265,000 for it's license. Yike.
He'Brew's newest is Monumental Jewbelation. 10 malts, 10 hops, 10% ABV. Rated 4 Bunnies by Playboy.com. Now in Indiana.
Did you know Madonna's favorite beer is Timothy Taylor's Landlord? Did you care? Why is this news in Indiana? <smacking forehead on desk - repeatedly> And now the rumors are that A-B will buy Absolut vodka. <grabbing two aspirin before resuming smacking forehead on desk> SABMiller bought the rights to Fosters in
Indiana for $120,000,000. Oh, wait, that's India. 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. Some 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. |
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Oh, one more possible
addition. Ed Hermann is back in Bloomington and may take on a part-time
consulting role. He won't be getting the Head Brewer job back though as
Caleb Staton is happy there.
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Jeff Helms (right) has a new Assistant Brewer at
The
Church of England is using a beer glass instead of a toasted cheese sandwich
to attract members. But why do they have it on