Random Beer Roundup - Mark E. Smith Reads Football Results Edition

More Indiana Beer Week activities - if you're not doing anything beer related this week, turn in your beer geek card. This is just a touch more for your Thursday calendar:

Hey Indy Peeps-

Check it out this week--my National Sales Assistant Angela Prosper will be in town to roll out some barrels of new HE'BREW and totally new Coney Island Lagers. Track her down for a taste and and "welcome-to-IN" hang out session. Cheeeers!!

Jeremy

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Beginning on Thursday, July 17 at Crown Liquors (12480 N. Meridian, Carmel, Indiana, 317-706-0850, 5 pm - 7 pm, cash bar) come join Shmaltz Brewing ringleader Angela Prosper for a taste of their Coney Island Craft Lagers(TM) and select HE'BREW Beers including their new fig-infused offering Rejewvenator, Origin Pomegranate Strong Ale and Bittersweet Lenny's RIPA. Shmaltz Brewing will also host a tasting on Friday, July 18 at Locals Only Art & Music Pub (2449 East 56th Street, 317-255-4013, all night, cash bar, localsonlyindy.com), and will feature both their Coney Island Craft Lagers(TM) and HE'BREW Beers on Saturday, July 19 at the 13th Annual Indiana Microbrewers Festival (Broad Ripple Opti-Park, 820 E. 67th Street, www.brewersofindianaguild.com, 3 pm - 7 pm).

Some of that you probably knew already.

Lions and tigers and bears and dogs and cats and squirrels and monkeys and giraffes are all animals. But only dogs get to go to the bar.

YAPPY HOUR

PRESENTED BY
The Humane Society of Indianapolis
AND
Rock Bottom Restuarant and Brewery
Come join us August 13th with your dog at the Rock Bottom Brewery at College Park (2801 Lake Circle Drive, Indianapolis)

At Yappy Hour you can enjoy good times, good food, and good beer (and no cats - Mike), as well as find out what is on your dog's mind by visiting a pet psychic and get training advice from the Humane Society's resident trainers.

$5 Cover, 5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Burgers, brats and beer will be available for purchase.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS

Despite the lack of cats (or giraffes for that matter) this is a nice cause, definitely well worth your time if you like getting your dog drunk*, or drunk as a dog. Also, don't drink and drive. And the same goes for your dog.

More on AB/Inbev - Although we said we wouldn't cover this much, here's an article from the Times of New York that sort of makes the fine folks of St. Louis look like kids who had their toys taken away.

Congrats again, losers! - Here's the list of the Indiana State Fair Brewer's Cup winners. Congratulations, winners.

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*DO NOT GET YOUR DOG DRUNK.

Mark E. Smith has nothing to do with anything.

A Very Special Random Beer Roundup

Adding "A Very Special" to anything automatically increases interest 100%. Be sure to check out A Very Special Hops for Pops this weekend.


If only there were some sort of prize for something like this..
It's not drinking, it's celebrating Indiana - The Brewers of Indiana Guild* has posted a calendar up for Indiana Beer Week (July 10-19, 2008). Of special interest might be the cross-tapping of beers throughout Indianapolis (starting Monday, July 14th):

Alcatraz Brewing will have Half Moon Honey Rye
Barley Island Brewing will have Three Floyds Gumballhead and Warbird Shanty Irish
Broad Ripple Brewpub will have Lafayette Brewing Tippecanoe Common
Brugge Brasserie will have Half Moon Honey Rye, Mad Anthony Cream Stout, New Albanian St. Radegund's English Pale Ale and Three Floyds Alpha Naught (in the upstairs addition, opening Saturday July 12 (you guys are absolutely sure, right?))
Ram Restaurant and Brewery will have Turoni's Main Street Helles Bock (anyone got any idea on this beer?)
Spencer's Stadium Tavern will have Shoreline Beltaine Scottish Ale and New Albanian Community Dark

For those of you in Columbus, Power House Brewing will have Brass Monkey Green Tea Pale Ale on tap starting Monday July 14th - this is a tasty and interesting beer, so get it while it lasts.

Also of note is a post beer week (Thursday, July 24th) Indiana Replicale Face-off at Spencer's Stadium Tavern Indy. We're going to make a concerted effort to attend.

For all the Indiana Beer Week details, click here to visit their overwhelmingly eventful calendar.

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If somehow you missed the INBEV/Budweiser takeover news, don't worry about Budweiser.. Schlafly is attempting to buy INBEV. (Hat tip, StlHops.)

Of note is that if the INBEV thing goes through, and with MillerCoors actually owned by a South African company, Sam Adams will become the largest American brewery. So I guess that makes Boston Lager "The Great American Lager". Next time someone gives you crap about your choice of craft beer over the Big Two, ask them what they have against George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Glenn Danzig, Hacksaw Jim Dugan, (vintage) Jenna Jameson and Big Bird (all great Americans).

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*Not to be confused with the Brewers Guild of Indiana or the Indiana Guild of Brewers or the Guilded Brewers of Indiana