Last week I mentioned posting a brewery list for Hops for Pops. I'm pretty sure Chris Maples did ALL the legwork on this, and he's done a pretty nice job of putting together a list of Indiana's heavy hitters with a special St. Louis guest:Upland
Schlafly
New Albanian
Rock Bottom - Downtown
Half Moon
Brugge
Barley Island
Warbird
Oaken Barrel
Wabash Valley
Mad Anthony
Broad Ripple Brew Pub
Tentative:
Bluegrass Brewing Company
It's fantastic to see such great support from the Indiana Beer community. Salute!
Chris left this in the comments for those of you reading via email:
"I'm not sure that we're going to be able to get a complete beer list prior to the event, but Cavalier is pouring Mad Anthony, plus some other stuff yet to be determined. Boston Beer will be represented with Sam Adams (not sure of styles, yet) and Twisted Tea. World Class will be pouring Victory's Golden Monkey, Prima Pils, and Hop Devil, plus Wyder's Cider. We have a limited supply of New Albanian's Elector, and when it's gone, it's gone. We still have a couple of breweries to confirm, but I'm guessing we're going to have at least 20 different breweries represented with 40-50 different styles."In addition, we'll have raffles for a few items including a bottle of 2008 DarkLord (and if the winner sells it on Ebay I'll personally guarantee that I'll have his/her whole family killed). If I'm not mistaken, there will also be some sort of raffle for a package of airline + event tickets for the Great American Beer Fest in Denver in October.
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Although we ran listings for Friday's Indy Wine and Brew Fest at The Rathskeller and Saturday's Brew-Ha-Ha, there wasn't a large Knight of the Beer Roundtable presence at either event.
Kelly (and Matt?) did volunteer at Brew Ha Ha - but we're wondering if any readers attended either event. Judging from these pictures at Indiana Beer, there were plenty of folks at the Rathskeller event. If so, how'd it go? Any suggestion or comments that might give us ideas or tips for this weekend's Hops for Pops? Did you drink anything spectacular? Anything horrible? Drop us a comment.
Good things: Curvee Van De Kaiser, Sweetwater Donkey Punch, Terrapin Hop Shortage ale, lazy magnolia pecan brown ale
ReplyDeleteBad: Goose Island Kolsch (I think somehow this was last years batch), New Holland Existential Ale, and a can of steel reserve my buddy had
On the fence: Mama Mia pizza beer. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either.
I was going to comment here about Brew Ha-Ha but I started writing and it got huge, so I just made a post out of it. The short version: New Albanian rocks.
ReplyDeleteHow were the bathroom lines?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that we're going to be able to get a complete beer list prior to the event, but Cavalier is pouring Mad Anthony, plus some other stuff yet to be determined. Boston Beer will be represented with Sam Adams (not sure of styles, yet) and Twisted Tea. World Class will be pouring Victory's Golden Monkey, Prima Pils, and Hop Devil, plus Wyder's Cider. We have a limited supply of New Albanian's Elector, and when it's gone, it's gone. We still have a couple of breweries to confirm, but I'm guessing we're going to have at least 20 different breweries represented with 40-50 different styles.
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