BIMP will be pouring from 6-9pm this Friday April 3rd @ the Earth Works Art Fair. Sample some homebrew and enjoy an evening filled with art, music, fire spinning, and food! Find out more on their Facebook Event Page.
The Bountiful Breweries of The United States of America
Here is the a brand spankin’ new Pop Chart Lab beer creation! The Bountiful Breweries of The United States of America is surprisingly current (at least as far as Indianapolis is concerned), and features over 2,500 breweries. This would be an awesome tool for planning your next beer tour! At 60″ X 40″, this behemoth is sure to make your friends jealous. Click here to preorder. We last wrote about Pop Chart Lab’s “The Magnificent Multitude of Beer”, which like the rest of their work is incredibly detailed. Check out our previous post on Pop Chart Lab here.
The Magnificent Multitude of Beer
Pop Chart Lab has created the mother of all beer taxonomy posters! The aptly titled “The Magnificent Multitude of Beer” is incredibly detailed. Each beer style is linked divided into Ale and Lager, then to individual style, an example, and finally the glass it should be served in. Well done! It looks like they took their original “Very Many Varieties of Beer” and continued to add to it. This 60″ x 40″ poster will surely be the envy of your beer enthusiast friends. Check out our previous post on Pop Chart Lab here.
Sun King CANvitational PROMO CODE
We are super excited about Sun King’s first ever CANvitational this weekend. Even more so knowing there is a promo code for a reduced price General Admission ticket. Use the promo code CANLOVE to get $20 off normal admission. This event takes place at Pan Am Plaza on the 100 block of Georgia Street in downtown Indianapolis this Saturday September 28th from 1-5pm. The event is held in conjunction with The Arts Council of Indianapolis’s Power2Give initiative, which helps support organizations with particularly special projects in the community. The Arts Council grants the city’s arts-related funds through competitive grant programs, provides fellowships to talented artists in all disciplines, participates in and leads community initiatives in the arts, elevates artists and arts organizations through increased visibility and programming, public art programs for the city of Indianapolis, and convenes groups and encourages collaboration in the arts. For a first run, Sun King has brought some tremendous names to Indy, including breweries that don’t typically make it to Indiana including:
Sun King Brewery Indianapolis, IN
21st Amendment Brewery San Francisco, CA
Arcadia Brewing Company Battle Creek, MI
Avery Brewing Company Boulder, CO
Baxter Brewing Co. Lewiston, ME
Blue Dog Mead Eugene, OR
Boston Beer Company Boston, MA
Brewery Vivant Grand Rapids, MI
Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn, NY
Cigar City Brewing Tampa, FL
DC Brau Washington, DC
Great Crescent Brewery Aurora, IN
Half Acre Beer Company Chicago, IL
Marble Brewery Albuquerque, NM
Maui Brewing Lahaina, HI
Morgan Street Brewery St. Louis, MO
New Belgium Brewing Fort Collins, CO
Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons, CO
Revolution Brewing Chicago, IL
SanTan Brewing Company Chandler, AZ
Schlafly Beer St. Louis, MO
Sierra Nevada Chico, CA
Sixpoint Brewery Brooklyn, NY
Ska Brewing Durango, CO
Sockeye Brewing Boise, ID
Surly Brewing Company Minneapolis, MN
Tallgrass Brewing Company Manhattan, KS
Tin Man Brewing Co. Evansville, IN
Two Brothers Brewing Company Warrenville, IL
West 6th Brewing Company Lexington, KY
VIP tickets are available for $75, and gets you 1 hour early entry into the event as well as a t-shirt. General Admission tickets can be found here. There may be a limited amount of Promo Code tickets for the event, so make sure you get them ASAP otherwise they are $50. Designated Driver tickets are $10. Sample beer from over 30+ breweries, enjoy local food from Indy’s food trucks, and listen to DJ Helicon and DJ Action Jackson in the newly renovated Pan Am Plaza area. Like I said, there are some big names included in this list of breweries. This will definitely be an event not to miss!
Sun King CANvitational
Sun King’s first ever CANvitational will take place at Pan Am Plaza and on the 100 block of Georgia Street in downtown Indianapolis on September 28th from 1-5pm. This event is held in conjunction with The Arts Council of Indianapolis’s Power2Give initiative, which helps support organizations with particularly special projects in the community. The Arts Council grants the city’s arts-related funds through competitive grant programs, provides fellowships to talented artists in all disciplines, participates in and leads community initiatives in the arts, elevates artists and arts organizations through increased visibility and programming, public art programs for the city of Indianapolis, and convenes groups and encourages collaboration in the arts. For a first run, Sun King has brought some tremendous names to Indy, including breweries that don’t typically make it to Indiana including:
Sun King Brewery Indianapolis, IN
21st Amendment Brewery San Francisco, CA
Arcadia Brewing Company Battle Creek, MI
Avery Brewing Company Boulder, CO
Baxter Brewing Co. Lewiston, ME
Blue Dog Mead Eugene, OR
Boston Beer Company Boston, MA
Brewery Vivant Grand Rapids, MI
Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn, NY
Cigar City Brewing Tampa, FL
DC Brau Washington, DC
Great Crescent Brewery Aurora, IN
Half Acre Beer Company Chicago, IL
Marble Brewery Albuquerque, NM
Maui Brewing Lahaina, HI
Morgan Street Brewery St. Louis, MO
New Belgium Brewing Fort Collins, CO
Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons, CO
Revolution Brewing Chicago, IL
SanTan Brewing Company Chandler, AZ
Schlafly Beer St. Louis, MO
Sierra Nevada Chico, CA
Sixpoint Brewery Brooklyn, NY
Ska Brewing Durango, CO
Sockeye Brewing Boise, ID
Surly Brewing Company Minneapolis, MN
Tallgrass Brewing Company Manhattan, KS
Tin Man Brewing Co. Evansville, IN
Two Brothers Brewing Company Warrenville, IL
West 6th Brewing Company Lexington, KY
VIP tickets are available for $75, and gets you 1 hour early entry into the event as well as a t-shirt. General Admission tickets for the event are available for $50 for entry at 1pm. Designated Driver tickets are $10. Sample beer from over 30+ breweries, enjoy local food from Indy’s food trucks, and listen to DJ Helicon and DJ Action Jackson in the newly renovated Pan Am Plaza area. Like I said, there are some big names included in this list of breweries. This will definitely be an event not to miss!
Vintage American Beer Ads
In the spirit of our upcoming King of Beers American Lager/Pilsner tasting, I thought it would be cool to post some vintage beer ads from America’s major brewers of this particular style. I love how debonair they make the drinkers of these fine fermented products look! If you have any other vintage ads please share in the comments below.
Three Floyd’s Brewing Photos on Brew Bokeh
Michael Donk of Brew Bokeh has taken some amazing photography of some of the best breweries across the country and around the world. Recently he has added a collection of photos taken at Indiana’s Three Floyd’s Brewing Comany. Make sure to drop by his page to check these great photos, and show him some love on Facebook or Follow him on Twitter! You can view the full Three Floyd’s Album here.
Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout
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Just when you’ve thought you’ve brewed with everything… Enter bull testicles! Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado definitely made me smile with this new recipe. There are literally 25lbs of bull testicles in this 8 barrel batch of Foreign Export Stout. The recipe started as an April Fool’s joke, but later bloomed into the “Ballsiest Beer Ever.” So how does it taste? Here’s a description posted on their webpage.
Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout is an assertive foreign-style stout, slightly viscous, with a deep brown color. It has equally deep flavors of chocolate syrup, Kahlua, and espresso, along with a palpable level of alcohol and a savory umami-like note.It finishes dry and roasted with a fast-fading hop bite.
Either way, please refrain from bringing any testicle beers to our next homebrew competition at Great Fermentations or you may be the only one drinking it 😉
Awesome Custom Ceramic Growlers!
HandmadeCeramicGrowlers.com has got some pretty amazing beer vessels available on their website! They not only do custom logo growlers for breweries, but they also have a tier known best as “Uber Growlers” that are sure to incite growler envy among your draft carrying compadres. The company is called Carlburg Pottery, and they pride themselves on using American sourced materials to make truly one of a kind growlers for beer enthusiasts of all types.
I’m super impressed with this work!
Wonderful Beer Paintings for Beer Lovers
So I came across a really great blog tonight as I searching for brewing art. Beer Paintings – Original Art for Beer Lovers By Beer Lovers is a blog showcasing some fantastic oil paintings that integrate bottle caps, hops, and other beer odds and ends. I’m really impressed with these paintings! They even have an Etsy page where you can order custom oil paintings of your favorite brewery bottle caps! Please take some time to drop by their site (beerpaintings.blogspot.com) as they do an excellent job. Much respect!