I’ve heard the same question asked time and time again at beer fests, “Where is McCordsville?” It’s no surprise that most people from the “big city” don’t know about McCordsville. It’s a small town, not much happens there, it’s out of the way, it’s not really directly off of a major interstate, and Taylor Swift never played there. But it is a town that should be on your bucket list for brewery stops. Scarlet Lane Brewing calls this little town home, and they are overly happy to do so. Why wouldn’t they be? They have awesome neighbors, ample room for storage, and the freedom to experiment.
On Saturday, October 17th I had a chance to head on over to Scarlet Lane for their double feature horror movie night. The two movies that were being featured were Chopping Block and 3D Friday the 13th Part 3. For those of you that have never heard of Chopping Block here’s a fun fact for you: it was shot and recorded right here in Indianapolis! I believe Fishers to be more specific, but still! I was actually looking forward to this night for a long time. You see, many of the more avid readers already know that I love beer, but what I love just as much as a good beer is a good horror movie! I actually used to run a horror movie blog but that was back during a time where I didn’t have all these adult responsibilities, which I never signed up for by the way! Imagine my excitement when I saw that not only was there a horror movie recorded right here in Indy but one of my favorite breweries was going to be playing it! There was no way that I was missing this.
Scarlet Lane went all out on the decorations for this event too. You had a cadaver with candy for guts, a life size Jason Voorhees watching over the donuts, provided by Sunrise Bakery, more little skeleton heads than one person would know what to do with, and they even fed all of us ghouls with a Simeri’s dinner. If dinner wasn’t really your thing then you always had the candy and beer to fall back on. They even had a few that I haven’t had the privilege to try yet available on tap! Beers like:
Postscript – an Indiana Blue with more berries in it than I could ever possibly remember but had almost no fruity taste to it. I kept going back up for this one because it just seemed perfect with the weather and the blood and the guts and the fire pit.
Vivian Red IPA Bourbon Barrel – First, I love the Vivian Red IPA! I get it everywhere I go that has it. Now they sprinkle in a little bit of bourbon barrel? It’s almost like they just want me to never leave their brewery.
Katrina McClure – for you sour fans out there this is a must have. It’s a light sour though, so don’t expect to get your lemon face on. The sour probably comes from the apple but it’s not a cider; the opposite actually. It sits like a stout, it looks like a stout, but it is very easy to drink and leaves a nice spice after taste.
The cast and crew did a phenomenal job of playing characters that are just like you, if you hate your job and get laid off and have to do odd jobs for about a month before finally saying “screw it”. It’s not like these are just “friends” of the director actors either: they come with a pretty impressive reel with films like V/H/S, Scalene, and Babysitter Massacre. If you have a chance to catch this movie, you should go ahead and watch it, or buy it, or stream it, or how ever else you ingest media these days. Have they started streaming directly into our heads yet?
If you haven’t been to Scarlet Lane Brewing yet, I highly recommend making the short drive. Everyone there is awesome and friendly, and they are doing some huge things in the craft beer community! Like their collaboration with Taxman brewing called Heaven & Hell that will be released the entire week of October 26th. There are a number of places around Indianapolis to pick up this hefty 13%, two beer collaboration. Don’t worry: we have compiled them all in one easy to read web page here. You don’t want to miss the chance to try this collaboration, it is NOT going to be around for long. So get out there and find it before it’s too late and you find yourself running from a machete wielding serial killer at Crystal Lake because you thought it would be a good idea to sneak off and have a little nookie time with your bae. Ugh…amateurs!
Cheers!
