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Brewers of Indiana Guild Newsletter - September, 2008
Upcoming Events
More events at http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/events.shtml. The Root Cellar at FARMBloomington plans to have a series of mini-fests. Music, samples, a bar, etc. Their first is:
B.I.G. News - Slow news month Roger Baylor give the Brewers Guild ink in Louisville. article A WebUrbanist series on Guerrilla Marketing may well be worth the 10 minute read if it gives you some marketing ideas. Indiana Brewery News YouTube shows "Jack Frey Explains Mashing" when the Jasper Homebrewers visit Turoni's. The Good Beer Show visits the Brass Monkey. Complete with the Brass Monkey, Kokomo song. "Every beer is brewed to order". Crown Brewing tells the Gary Post-Tribune why they opened in Crown Point. article Lafayette Brewing is adding their Organic Ouiatenon Wit Bier to the lineup. "This Belgian-style wheat ale is brewed with 100% USDA-certified organic ingredients. We combine pilsner and wheat malts with German Saphir hops and organically grown coriander seed and curacao orange peel to create a refreshingly tart ale with hints of banana, clove and citrus. Look for it to become a regular offering in the coming month." Brugge White, Black, and Tripel de Rippel have finally started to hit the shelves. $7 and $9 at The Hop Shop in Carmel, for instance. Possibly the most anticipated release since Dark Lord Day or Upland's Lambics. Upland is taking on-line reservations now for the next release of their lambics. No date is set for bottling of the 2nd generation Raspberry, Strawberry, Blueberry, Blackberry or the new Peach, Kiwi, and Cherry but they will email when that happens. Their innovative web-ordering form doesn't require a deposit or credit card; it just reserves you up to a case of 12 with maximums of 3 of any one variety. You'll have top pick up the bottles at the Bloomington brewery at a cost of $15 each. It may well sell out as last year's Strawberry and Raspberry rank number 5 & 6 in the Ratebeer ratings. Upland's beers are now available in the Louisville area of Kentucky. Mad Anthony's sponsored BBQ team Shigs In Pit smoked the competition on July 26th and took home the Grand Championship in the KCBS Sanctioned Cookoff held in Grand Rapids Michigan. The Shigs team competed against 47 other teams from throughout the midwest. More recently the team competed in the Madison IN Ribberfest and took "Fourth Place" Competing against 57 other teams. The Shigs improved their national ranking to 26th in the National BBQ Team Rankings. There are over 800 teams currently ranked. This year they have competed in seven competitions and have six top five finishes including, one grand championship and two reserve grand championships. Nashville In Bean Blossom and State Cookoff is the next destination for the team. Indiana News - Retailers
Guess who objects to those $1,000 3-way
licenses in Richmond. The folks that spent $100,000 for one. Didn't see that
one coming, did you?
article Indiana Homebrew News A very hearty and well-deserved congratulations to FOSSILS members Jay Hulbert & Dave Howard who, along with fellow Southern Indiana Brewing Crew members Jeff Gilley and Dan Brown, earned the coveted Best of Show award at the 2008 Kentucky State Fair Homebrew Competition for their American Pale Ale entry. - Beth Howard (proud wife, esteemed brewing partner and chief cheerleader) Indiana Events The Hoosier Beer Geeks sure can put on a party. New Albanian, Avery, Two Bros, and lots more. It went well into the midnight range. 10 folks, 2 years, 1 blog. May the Froth be With You. They put up a big post about the party. And even a 2nd recap.
The Festiv-Ale in Carmel raised over $43,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Great job by the CCF, Elizabeth Fraim, and all the breweries, distributors, volunteers, and festival-goers. There was ink in the Indy Star but IndianaBeer sorta missed it. SWIRCA's Southern Indiana Brewery & Winery Festival & More set a new record of about 900 people on Aug 16th. A good beer festival augmented by 12 wineries. Thought of by the wineries as a good wine festival with the unfortunate fact that beer takes up 3/4 of the space, variety, and excitement. The "More"? This year they added Margaritas. Barley Island, Bell's, Bluegrass, Broad Ripple, Brugge, Dark Horse, Half Moon, Mad Anthony, New Albanian, Power House, Schlafly, Turoni's Two Brothers, Upland, Warbird, and of course Fred's Finest Brewery was back with Muff's Beer. The Better than Nothin' band played Simon, Garfunkle, and beyond. The real hit was the Ohio Valley Homebrewers Association's new 12-tap outdoor bar. They needed all of that plus 7 in the annex jockeybox plus one more to serve the 20 offerings they had on tap. Another 16 were served from bottles. For the record, the first gone was the Watermelon Wheat.
Indiana Beer Reviews Brugge's Fleur De Cinq is a very vibrant flowery Saison. Rose hips? Still, a tart finish that keeps on tarting. Intriguing. The Happy Pils at Rock Bottom, 86th St, Indy, is absolutely the way it should be. If Bud made this, they'd still be in business. Liz made it will all Sterling hops which impart a nice earthy bitterness with a touch of Czechness. Upland Bumblebee Saison - Rich ruby red with a small white head. Just enough carbonation to be sprightly on the tongue without sharpening the taste. Has all the appropriate fruits plus a darker peppery hoppy side to the long finish. At 7%, a Camisole dropper. Are the high rankings of Imperial Stouts justified? Here's a comparison review of a lot of the best. Spoiler alert: KBS bests DL by a half point. On Tap Please see http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/ontap.html for the current tap lists of Indiana Breweries. Miscellaneous News (if you didn't read it at IndianaBeer.com already) Come November we here in Indiana won't be able to vote for Gene Amondson, the Prohibition Party candidate. Heck, he got 1,944 votes in 2004, down from 258,596 in 1904. Not exactly beer but the Northeast Indiana Associate Chapter of Women Who Used to Be Young and Almost Health (WUBYAH) see to have fun meetings. Club minutes The Pigs pub in Norfolk, England, happily takes food in trade for beer. Fruit, vegetables, fish, rabbits, and they've even traded for a deer. "now boasts the most home-grown menu in the country." short article Meantime Brewing has an extensive web site about London Porter. A worthy read. "From Stroh's to Shiner Bock, from Hamm's to Hudepohl, Salon brings you an incomplete, biased guide to this great piss-beer nation." article
Iowa State University installs a rubber sidewalk to keep the concrete from being broken by beer kegs. Sounds like a party school but it's a disappointing article. Old and busted: Coke and Mentos. New and still busted: Carlsberg and Mentos Where's the coldest beer in Columbus, OH? There's an article, but to save you the pain, it's . . . Cheeseburger in Paradise. Mt. Shasta's line of Weed Ales, brewed in the town of Weed, was prohibited by the TTB from putting the slogan "Try Legal Weed" on their bottlecaps. Upon appeal, the TTB said "OK, go ahead". article Got an iPod? You need an iBeer. Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence. Prestigious? Not so much after they give it to a fake restaurant with a wine list including a $275 entry that smells like bug spray. blog Photoshop Challenge: Create your own Guinness poster. fark You've probably heard that
And of course, there's Pints for Prostates. So far no Liters for Livers though. Mostly fail: Using Hallertauer hops in deodorants. Complete fail: In Cucumber-Grapefruit scent. catalog Coming in September: Michelob Dunkel Weisse. Coming in October with a shudder: MillerCoors new Sparks Red (citrus-flavored caffeinated beverage) with 8% ABV. About the InBud deal: "Expectations are that all properties including brewery-owned distributorships, micro-brewery holdings, Modelo stock, and theme parks will be sold off to reduce InBev’s debt." None of the Fuller's Vintage Ale for 2008 is left in the importer's warehouse. Distinguished Brands reports a complete sellout of the 3,000 cases brought into the US this year. About 1/3 of that went to California. Today's trivia: Erdinger Weissbräu’s number one worldwide on-premise account is the On the Waterfront Café in Venice Beach, CA. Whoops: Craft Brewers Alliance Inc., formed by the merger of Widmer Brewing and Redhook Brewery, lost $1.38 million during the 2nd quarter of 2008 on revenue of $12 million. Pizza Beer, the movie. Distiller licenses for brewpubs and wineries in Michigan is $100 per year. That's why they now have 11 distilleries. We're jealous. Even Michigan State University is distilling. article And of course the story of the guy who missed being on Pan Am flight 103 because of Carlsberg Special Brew. 20 years ago, beer could save your life. macabre article
The fullest-of-Pennsylvania-beer-cans-and-trays wall and ceiling picture you will see today. article News compiled by Bob Ostrander, Marketing Director/Webmaster. It's probably fairly accurate but then Bob has been known to have a drink or two while hacking this stuff out. Call it pour judgment. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Brewers of Indiana Guild, in which case Bob will lose his job. It's illegal in Indiana to offer any alcoholic beverage at discount through coupons, prizes, or the fact that the drinker is female. Sorry. Any resemblance of to any beer, living or dead, is purely a coincidence. Prices slightly higher west of the Mississippi. Colors may vary. Requires 4 AAA batteries (not included). |
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