Scott Ellis and Eddie Sahm aren’t looking to create the next hipster draw. Nor are they trying to spark a buzz among local hopheads. They just want a spot where they can make the kind of beer they want to drink. “We see the average guy in Nora out mowing his lawn. He works hard, he’s got kids at North Central, and he likes to relax,” Sahm says. “We want to be the place where that guy goes to get a beer.”
Enter Big Lug Canteen, the latest in a family dynasty that includes Rockstone Pizza and Sahm’s Place, which Sahm, son of local entrepreneur Ed Sahm, bought outright after working in restaurants since he was 14. Opening this spring in the former Snooty Fox location (the longtime watering hole that closed not long after a 2011 appearance on Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible), this brewery and full-service restaurant will feature the flagship beers and rotating seasonal taps of brewer Ellis, a Selma, Indiana, native who got his start at Three Wise Men Brewery before becoming head brewer at Ram Brewery in 2014… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY
