What ya Drinkin'??

[john mills]

Centraal Grand Cafe, Milwaukee. Belgian bar on recommendation from Northern Brewer store. 23 beers on tap, pages of bottles also avail.
4 oz samples of draft 4/$12
Tandem Dubbel, Kwak (strong pale ale), Gulden Draak (brown tripel), Piraat (IPA), Monks Cafe (can't pass this up on draft), Grimbergen Dubbel.

[Don]

Pipeline Porter from Kona Brewing, Kona Hawaii
Great porter made with Kona coffee

[Don]

Just hooked up my 13th. tap in my cooler.
On tap for this Sundays GHBF is:

Imperial Breakfast Stout
Winter Warmer "09"
Belgian Blue Wit
Barley Wine
IPA
Red's Red Ale
Some Kind of Wheat Stuff
Concord Wheat
Raspberry Wheat
Oatmeal Stout
Old Ale "10"
Old Ale "11"
and Root Beer
We also have some bottles, of a friends home made wine:
Cherry
BlueBerry
BlackBerry
Plum
StrawBerry
White
Red
On the grill will be Hamburgers, Hotdogs and brats.
(Just heard a friend is bring some smoked pork butt)

So if you have a little time Sunday 9/11 stop by and join us for the
4th. Annual Great Heisler Beer Fest - between 1 and 8 pm.

If you do come please bring a lawn chair, and a snack to share. If you want to share some if your beers bring them along.

PM or call for directions.
Don Heisler

[BREWsmith]

Sitting at the Gerst Haus drinking a Great Divide Yeti which is a Belgian style stout. Sounds weird, but tastes great. I wish I had time (and the metabolism) for two.

[Dwayne_Delaney]

Anaheim Chili IPA at the Ram Downtown Indy.

Outrageous pepper aroma and flavor with no heat at all.
Good Beer, very well balanced with a good hop bite.
It would have been nice to have some heat though.

[BREWsmith]

Anaheim Chili IPA at the Ram Downtown Indy.

Outrageous pepper aroma and flavor with no heat at all.
Good Beer, very well balanced with a good hop bite.
It would have been nice to have some heat though.

You could always blend it with Sky's pepper beer!

[BREWsmith]

At the Gerst Haus, Flat 12 Glazed Ham Porter. They are out of Indy, but I was unfamiliar with them.

Glazed Ham Porter


IBU: 34.1
ABV: 6.3%
Mmmmm, Glazed Ham. It conjures up memories doesn’t it, or perhaps strange food fetishes? No matter, from this day forward it should conjure up a taste memory of one helluva seasonal robust porter from Flat12. Our Glazed Ham Porter balances the spices of a favorite holiday platter and the deep roasted malt of the finest porter. Next Christmas, volunteer to bring the Glazed Ham…in a glass, everyone will thank you for their favorite gift of the season.

[Michael Erwin]

At Cafe Lou Lou in Louisville...

New Albanian Hoptimus on tap... Ok.

New Albanian Elector on tap... OUT OF THIS WORLD!

[jefrey3]

Turoni's 2nd double IPA, Moose Squared, is now on tap at the Main Street location. We are running it thru a corny keg containing about 5 pounds of Cascade hops on the way to the bar. It is not as sweet as the first batch of Moose Squared. 7.5-8.0 ABV & 125 IBU's on paper.

[john mills]

Turoni's 2nd double IPA, Moose Squared, is now on tap at the Main Street location. We are running it thru a corny keg containing about 5 pounds of Cascade hops on the way to the bar. It is not as sweet as the first batch of Moose Squared. 7.5-8.0 ABV & 125 IBU's on paper.

make that double

[Michael Erwin]

Turoni's 2nd double IPA, Moose Squared, is now on tap at the Main Street location. We are running it thru a corny keg containing about 5 pounds of Cascade hops on the way to the bar. It is not as sweet as the first batch of Moose Squared. 7.5-8.0 ABV & 125 IBU's on paper.

I discovered tonight what Moose Squared times two equals... And I'd tell you, if I could pick myself up off the floor!

[john mills]

$3.50 pints People's IPA at Twenty Taps Indy....and a 9.2% ABV, 77 IBU Imperial Red, Aud Ri by Upland.

[BREWsmith]

I'm in Seattle enjoying a Pliny the Elder. In about 45 minted I'll be enjoying a Pliny the Younger. The pub received less than a keg of Younger and have tickets to the first 70 people in line. I was lucky!

Postscript:

Wonderful beers, wonderful atmosphere! I'm not sure I like either Elder or Younger better than DFH 90 and 120, but both are premier examples of American craft beer. The best part though was spending quality time with Amy, my future daughter-in-law.

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[john mills]

Did a little road trip yesterday and hit some brew pubs that are new to me, and some that aren't. Black Swan & Three Pints in Plainfield, Granite City & 3 Wise Men in Indy, Oaken Barrel in Greenwood, and both New Albanian locations. Highlights: Dark Mild for breakfast at Black Swan, Baltic Porter on cask from 3 Wise Men for lunch, gravity head was going on at NABC so I can't remember much (I started with Founders old ale), but the food is incredible at NABC's Bank Street location.

[loydenochs]

The reason I wasn't at the February meeting and won't be at the March or April meetings is: I was hired as a full-time software consultant by Ciber Inc. My first assignment began February 29 in Portland Oregon.

I've only had the time to find one of the many brew-pubs in the area, but its a dandy!

Hopworks Urban Brewery (http://hopworksbeer.com/) is on US26 (Powell Blvd) between Ross Island and I-205. Its located in an old tractor dealership. They keep 10 of their beers on tap (6 regulars and 4 rotating/seasonal) and also have 2 cask conditioned varieties available. Their sampler tray is amazing; when I tried it, it even had an 11% barleywine on it.

Good food, too!

Hope to be home for the May meeting.