One of the ideas we've started kicking around lately (after new business cards, new t-shirts, coasters, a New Year's party, and selling our services to Budweiser*) is a Hoosier Beer Geek breakfast - inspired by Mikkeller's Beer Geek Breakfast beer - at a restaurant to be determined.
And that's where the idea sits right now, because coming up with a restaurant to host the event is an issue. First off, it would help if they already had a decent beer selection. Better yet, we'd like to find a restaurant that was open to us bringing in our own selections. Secondly, we'd need a restaurant that's open to us bringing a crowd of beer geeks first thing in the morning. And lastly, we need a crowd of people who are interested in wasting a Saturday and being drunk by 9 AM or so.
So that's where you come in. Would you be interested in a Hoosier Beer Geek breakfast? I'm going to stick another poll up on the right hand side of the page - place your votes. Leave a comment and suggest a breakfast beer. Suggest a restaurant.
And that's for the help.
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*Has anyone else noticed they're not advertising Budweiser as "the great American lager" instead of just "this is beer"? Weird.
I would very much be in on this. Founders KBS and regular Breakfast Stout are obvious choices. I don't have enough to go around, but I was at the Heorot on Sunday and they have a ton of both that if someone was willing to go up there we can get enough for all. Also, their prices are almost at cost of the liquor store that is really impressive.
ReplyDeleteI would even like a nice sweet Kalamazoo Stout with a big stack of silver dollar pancakes.
I'll go ahead and toss this question out about the Heorot. He has an awesome selection of vintage and rare beers, but I'm a little bit wary because I would expect that kind of stuff to carry a hefty price tag. How do his prices compare to what I would pay for the same product at a liquor store? Like if a JW Lees Harvest Ale is 6.99/7.99 at the PartiPak, how much are the even more rare ones that the Heorot has?
ReplyDeleteStan has the best prices on things I've ever seen at a bar. Honestly everything in the pub is barely above what you would find it here and some stuff is cheaper than Party Pak. He was only asking 10.50 for bombers of Fantabulous Resplendance and those were 10.99 at Party Pak when you could get them. They were selling Stone RIS (Gone and can't get anymore since April) for 4.99. Stone 7th Anniversary, yes 7th Anniversary, for only 5.99. Hoppis Maximus was only 2.75. My bottle of Samuel Smith winter welcome was 4.99. I've never seen prices that anywhere. I don't even see how is making any money off of it. I don't know how much the JW Lees in a bottle was, but the Cask JW Lees is amazing for a 1.25 a shot. The best beer bar in Indiana by a long shot with the best prices I've about ever seen.
ReplyDeleteHell, my friends, why don't you grab a mob of people and let's do it at the Heorot. Get Dell to cook up a big breakfast and drink up. The Mikkeller's Beer Geek Breakfast is by far the best stout I have ever had in my life. We did it on Good Beer Show 139.
ReplyDeleteHow much would it cost to rent a bus and have them take us all from Indy?
ReplyDeleteCount me in for breakfast, wherever is happens. Never been to the Heorot and a bus trip would be a great way to do it (the return trip has been a concern of mine).
ReplyDeleteI've got some feelers out on a bus - we'll let you know more when we know more.
ReplyDeleteI think that a good possible breakfast beer would be what they use in Germany (A shandy gaff) or also posibly a good small beer from the UK
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