by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Note: originally published on 3/14/2017 Hops in beer are for flavoring and act as an antibacterial. And most craft beer fans also know that hops are an ingredient that can make beer bitter. Beers that are considered more bitter –...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Note: I had started this piece before the shutdown, and had considered holding off on it until everyone could get back into the taprooms. But on second thought, I realized that it's important that we keep in our...
by Andrew Dickey for Indiana On Tap (Indiana On Tap note: this piece was written before the shutdown began. As you read it, see if you think the shutdown would have changed the focus or outlook.) At the end of 2017, I took a step back from...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap NOTE: Updated as of 03/31/20 I don't believe that beer events are an important thing when compared to the public health. Some beer events benefit worthy charities or community efforts, while others help to promote craft breweries and Indiana...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Indy Independent Relief Fund will use dedicated beer sales to provide for laid off employees Indianapolis, March 20, 2020: Members of the Indianapolis craft beer industry have come together to form the Indy Independent Relief Fund (IIRF), a registered non-profit organization designed to generate...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Do you know what’s worse than beer that goes un-drunk and makes no money for a brewery? It’s beer that goes out of date in the keg or can while it sits there waiting for all the people...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap With restaurants and breweries closed for the time being, there are two things Indiana craft drinkers are learning to do more of – drink at home and cook. I wholeheartedly recommend that you order carryout from your favorite...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Whether it’s from the SARS-CoV-2 (the scientific name of the new coronavirus) or the public/private reactions to it, we’ve entered a short period of uncertainty in our economic and public health. It doesn’t matter if you agree or...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap St. Patrick’s Day – we all love the green of the costumes and most of us love the bagpipes, at least for a day. The beer…the whiskey….we can all get behind those, but then again the green beer...
by Andrew Dickey for Indiana On Tap Leap day is awesome when it falls on a Saturday. February 29th this year saw several awesome beer events, but my friend Chris saw there was going to be a Stout Bonanza at MashCraft Brewing. I knew this was...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Is there a cause important enough that craft beverage producers would actually pay to serve at a festival? For breweries, and increasingly for wineries and distilleries, festivals are events that need to be thought of as marketing opportunities,...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap If there’s anything you can count on besides death and taxes, it’s innovative events at Trubble Brewing in Fort Wayne. From their eating contests to carnivals, kombucha pairings, Festivus Day, and pet costume contests, there’s always some kind...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap UPDATE: BE SURE TO CHECK WITH EACCH LOCATIONS TO SEE IF THE EVENTS ARE STILL BE HELD, WHAT WITH THE END OF THE WORLD COMING AND ALL. St. Patrick is the best known of the patron saints of Ireland,...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap The Tap Brewery from Bloomington led the winning ways for Indiana in the recently contested Beer Army Beer Wars. The results, announced on March 2nd, show that Indiana won 25 of the 240 medals awarded (10.4% of all...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap In our first discussion of the stouts (linked here), we talked about how they originated with the porters, which traveled back and forth across the Irish Sea and ended up as “stout porters” and then just stouts. We...