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By coincidence, Beer, the Campaign for Real Ale‘s magazine came with an article about delivering beer during WWII. Since Dribs and Drams recently had a picture of a Spitfire equipped with beer tanks instead of drop tanks, I can’t resist parsing author Martyn Cornell’s prose. The first delivery to troops was made four weeks af ...

Hundreds of sour and wild beer lovers jammed historic 1886 vintage Indianapolis City Market on Saturday, May 17, to sample and celebrate sour beer at the Upland Sour + Wild + Funk Fest. This Fest was held on the upper level mezzanine where in most of the space that Tomlinson Tap, purveyors of only Indiana beer, does not occupy. There was a DJ ...

Go grab a craft beer as you read this! This is the week to celebrate craft beer! Just a few years ago if anyone would have said that yellow fizzy beer would decline and new bars would survive on craft beer alone we might not have believed it. Back in 1982 the first Great American Beer Festival was held in Denver with 20 breweries serving 35 ...

News of the day – or the week – or May(be not). New Albanian’s Bank Street Brewhouse changed this week from an epicurean restaurant to a tap room. Article, Blog, Blog A Granite City Food and Brewery is scheduled to move to Indy’s Circle Center Mall. This will be the second GC in Indy and the fourth in Indiana (incl. Fo ...

What category of beer best represents the style and attitude of American craft brewers? I would make an argument for the extreme flavors and high alcohol of an Imperial IPA. But before Vinnie Cilurzo unleashed Pliny the Elder on hop lovers in 2000, American Pale Ale (APA) had been steering brewers in that direction for over two decades. The lan ...

It's May Day and what better way to honor International Worker's Rights and deeply held Communist and Socialist beliefs than writing about the release of a Russian Imperial Stout! The last Saturday in April has slowly become a day to either praise or revile Three Floyds Brewery as a craft beer enthusiast and although my past writings have no ...

The history of Cutters Brewing Company embodies the spirit and passion of aspiring artisans from all walks of life. The project started in 2010 in Bloomington with two friends brewing on a small two-barrel system on the weekends. Beers were bottled by hand into bombers and distributed to a few local liquor stores and bars. Things have develo ...

National Homebrew Competition Congrats to the following Indiana homebrewers who placed beers in the regional rounds of the National Homebrew Competition. Their beers now advance to the final round to compete for a national medal during this year’s National Homebrewers Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Good luck everyone! Matt Anders ...

A while ago I had written a story about what drives me to go out and try the new beer from all these new breweries popping up left and right in Indiana. In my blog I mentioned how at this point I was more likely to go out to a brewery boasting something different, generally a twist on an already solid beer instead of just going for the same sty ...

Congrats to the following Indiana breweries who are coming home with medals from this weekend’s World Beer Cup competition: Carson’s Brewery (Evansville) Red Dawn Silver Medal: American-Style Wheat Beer Thre3e Wise Men Brewing (Indianapolis) Hot for Teacher Ms. Doppelbock Silver Medal: German-Style D ...