Craft Beer--Beer Events Calendar--Information
I visited Goodwood Brewing’s recently opened location in Indianapolis last Thursday where I enjoyed dinner and a flight of their beers. The ales that I sampled were Bourbon Barrel Ale, a dark ale at 6% ABV, 33 IBU; Bourbon Barrel Stout, a double stout at 8% ABV, 33 IBU; Goodwood IPA at 6.9% ABV, 67 IBU; and Ales for ALS IPA at 6% ABV, 40 IBU.
Should the location look familiar, it is the former location of The Ram. Pictures follow.
The last Muncie stop was at Elm Street Brewing. There I had a flight of one of their beers as well as three guest taps. These included:
Elm Street Nonchalant On Most Occasions, a double IPA dry hopped with Cryo Citra, Cryo Mosaic,, Sabro and huge amounts of Barbe Rouge hops, 7.5% ABV 62 IBU.
Half Acre Fully Saturated Double Daisy Cutter Imperial IPA 8% ABV
18th Street Cone Crusher Imperial IPA 8.6% ABV
Lagunitas The Waldo’s Special Ale (2021) Triple IPA 11.7% ABV 100 IBU
I visited two breweries in Muncie yesterday and enjoyed quaffing some flights. My first visit was at The Guardian where I sampled four of their brews as listed below:
The Rez, their flagship American IPA brewed with CTZ and Mosaic hops 7% ABV, 81 IBU. Azacca Smash, a single hop (Azacca) and single malt (American 2 row barley) double pale ale 7.75% ABV, 50 IBU Haze Tupid, a New England style IPA brewed with Citra, Cascade, Mosaic and Idaho 7 hops 6.8% ABV 47 IBU Five Dots, a vanilla porter 6% ABV 34 IBU.
I visited Urban Vines last weekend and I had an enjoyable time quaffing a couple of ales and listening to the Grace Scott Band on a beautiful evening. I drank a Beez Neez Double IPA at 9.2% ABV and 78 IBU as well as a Monk’s Breakfast Belgian Tripel at 8.7% ABV and 20 IBU. For more information check out Sherman Burdette’s reporting from this week on FOX 59.
If you identified the Field of Corn from my last post, as being in Dublin, OH, you were correct. The last stop on the beercation was at North High Brewing in this city. The brewpub was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior as The Artz House, which was originally built as a farmhouse by the Artz family in 1890.
The brewpub is located on North High Street and their motto is, “Beer so good, they named a street after us…” I enjoyed a west coast IPA, named Hopes, at the pub. It was 6.8% ABV and 70 IBU. Images of, and at, the North High Brewpub follow.
This ends the Beercation.
Hoppy is now happy to be back home again in Indiana where he awaits more adventures!
This stop on the trip was the Finger Lakes area of NY.
The answer to this question is Ithaca. Hoppy, being thirsty, proceeded to the nearest brewery.
At Ithaca Beer I quaffed a Flower Power IPA, which was named by Food and Wine as one of the most important American craft beers ever brewed. It was 7.2% ABV and 75 IBU.
The next stop on the trip was Hopshire Farm and Brewery in Freeville, NY. Here I enjoyed a flight of beers. These included Beehave, a Honey Ale at 5.2% ABV and 10 IBU, Brambles, a Raspberry Wheat Ale with 4.8% ABV and 20 IBU, Shire Ale, a Scottish Ale clocking in at 7.8% ABV and 30 IBU, Near Varna, an IPA at 7.5 % ABV and 74 IBU and Sympathy, a Belgian Strong Golden Ale with 7.9% ABV and 25 IBU.
Following are images from Hopshire Brewery.
This ends the New York State portion of the trip. From the next picture can you identify the last stop on the Beercation.
