by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap The 2021 International Beer/Cider Awards gave out medals in late August with two Indiana breweries winning multiple medals. The North American Brewer's Association was formed in Idaho in 1996 and has endeavored to secure craft beer’s role in...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap First off, I'm sorry for the shortness of this piece. I want to get the information out, and will revisit this topic again in a week or so, after we recover from Hops & Coaster Drops and make...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap The federal August jobs report showed that leisure and hospitality employee numbers were flat. The total number of jobs produced was much below expected, but who would have guessed that leisure and hospitality would have added NO jobs...
Limited-Time Release to Hit Stores Labor Day [caption id="attachment_60774" align="alignright" width="300"] image credit: Oliver Winery[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Blooming, Ind. (Sept. 2, 2021) — Now among the 30 largest wineries in the U.S., Oliver Winery is bringing back its award-winning Apple Pie wine on September 6. The seasonal wine will be available...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Walter and I are bleary eyed and in need of long rest from our vacation. We clocked about 2000 miles in just over a week making a counter-clockwise loop around Lake Michigan. We had time for some good...
Long-time local ad agency and Fort Ben brewer partner during the pandemic to reinvigorate Triton brand. For Immediate Release, August 11, 2021 : (Indianapolis, Ind.) The Flatland, an Indianapolis advertising agency and Triton Brewing, one of the original craft brewers in Central Indiana, partnered to refresh the Triton brand in...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap As craft beer, wine, and cider fans, there are constant threats to our enjoyment of our hobby – labor shortages that limit tasting room hours, can and bottle shortages, rising costs…… but we continue to support Indiana craft...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Beer festivals are back, boy! Ticket sales for festivals have been beyond belief so far in the summer of 2021, with record crowds at all of the Indiana On Tap festivals so far – and a 5500 person...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap This past weekend was a bit of a strange one for me. Walter is traveling, so I did a festival on Saturday on my own - it felt weird. Luckily, it was Brews on Buckeye, and nobody can...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap It’s not a surprise to hear that I drink a lot of beer in a lot of breweries and bars. And it follows from that statement that I meet a lot of beer slingers. I write at the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 21, 2021 What: Indianapolis-based craft whiskey distillery West Fork Whiskey will officially break ground on the primary phase of its 35,000 square-foot agritourism facility in Westfield, Indiana. The $10 million+, 12+ acre development is located on the northeast corner of 191st Street and Horton...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Details are things I often have a hard time holding on to for any length of time. So when somebody says they went through 3 kegs last night at the taproom, or that everyone is being asked to...
What: “On the Table,” presented by West Fork Whiskey and hosted by The Vogue, is a virtual roundtable discussion that will feature leading voices from Indiana’s food and beverage industry discussing “coming out of COVID”: how the labor market is impacting local bars and restaurants,...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap On the evening of July 10th the Indiana State Fair held a virtual awards ceremony to honor medal winners of the Indiana Brewers Cup in both homebrewer and commercial categories, across more than 30 style groups. The pandemic...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap It’s amazing how much of Indiana craft beer doesn’t have anything to do with making beer. There’s cleaning, there’s food, there’s management and customer relations, there’s countless financial and governmental issues. And then there’s the physical location. Going against...