Lack Of Brewery Makes Boone County A “Beer Desert”

There’s one at 96th and Michigan. There’s another one in the Village of West Clay, and there’s one in Carmel along 116th Street. And yet Zionsville still lacks something that appeared on the wish list for the town’s master plan.

A brew pub.

“I’m baffled by it, too,” Bob Harris, manager for Harris FLP, said. “I thought for sure there would be one by now.”

The Boone Co. Economic Development Corporation agrees — and is hoping to bring a local option for craft beer into the “untapped” market.

“We definitely think, looking at the demographics of Zionsville and Whitestown, it shows that there’s a younger crowd there that has a little bit more disposable income. Those are exactly the sorts of individuals we think microbreweries really tend to market to or appeal to,” Molly Whitehead, executive director…CONTINUE READING AT CURRENT IN ZIONSVILLE