by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap You didn't expect any math involved with being a craft beer fan, but here’s a problem for you to work out. Take St. Louis + Goshen + a homebrew kit + culinary school (x2) + Boston + Chicago...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Sun King Brewing has been a major player on the Indiana craft beer scene ever since they opened in 2009. Owners Clay Robinson and Dave Colt are fixtures in the Indianapolis brewing community through their individual and combined...
What: “On the Table,” presented by West Fork Whiskey and hosted by HI-FI Indy, is a virtual roundtable discussion that will feature leading voices from Indiana’s food and beverage industry discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the local ecosystem, how they have adapted to changing...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap NOTE: originally published on 12/06/2019. I was looking at the Harry Stuff Brewing page on UnTappd and noticed that they aren't getting as many check-ins as they should. Yes, we're in a pandemic and people are out less,...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap note: Originally published 03/02/20, this is the next set of stouts to talk about. 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...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap It’s January, time for new beginnings and resolutions, but what’s best is that it isn’t 2020 anymore. For some people, January is dry. Dry January probably started decades ago on an individual level (in 2003 one guy called...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap I don’t really want to write about this, but I do suppose 2020 deserves a swift kick out the door. A review of Indiana craft breweries in 2020 isn’t exactly like trying to put lipstick on a pig...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap If you can find anyone who's sorry to see 2020 go, let me know – we’ll need to have a long talk. The loss of life is devastating and the burden on small businesses to find ways to...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap You don’t see people using straws with beers very often, unless it’s a person with a physical challenge or trying to not mess up lipstick. I asked J.J. and Bobby at Moontown Brewing about straws and beers and...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap First published on 12/25/2018, and then again 0n 12/25/2019, I guess it's a tradition. On this Christmas holiday, a little light reading about the history of Christmas beers is in order. America makes alot of Christmas beer - alot....
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap note - Originally published last winter, we'll repeat this since it's stout weather again, and we'll try to get through all the stout styles in the next few weeks. We’re amidst the dark days of craft beer. You can...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap Walter and I took a drive down to Madison this past weekend to visit Mad Paddle Brewery and New Madison Brewing. Madison is a beautiful town with a lot to offer residents and the tourists. From Hanover College...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap About 25 years ago Walter and I were in Nick’s English Hut in Bloomington - we were there a lot back then. I ordered a black and tan, but to my shock and horror this particular server brought...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap The Indiana Brewer’s Cup (Indianapolis) and the US Open Beer Championship (Cincinnati/Oxford) might not have the notoriety amongst beer drinkers that the World Beer Cup or the Great American Beer Festival have, but in the brewing community these...
by Mark E. Lasbury for Indiana On Tap I saw a funny and poignant meme for our times the other day. Talking about Covid-19 and craft bars it said, “You can’t sit inside, but it’s fine to sit inside as long as the inside is outside.”...