Beak's and Elector at the Black Keys concert (Iroquois Amphitheater) on Wednesday, August 11.

We're only a week away.

On Friday last week, teams from NABC and River City Distributing (our Louisville wholesaler) met for lunch at the Blind Pig in Butchertown. Hoptimus was involved, but not so much that I couldn't navigate home on my bicycle.

I mention this because we now know that Beak's Best and Elector will be the NABC beers on tap for the Black Keys show at Iroquois Amphitheater on Wednesday, August 11. Thanks to River City for designating NABC as the "official" local craft beer sponsor for the evening.

The Black Keys are guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. The group's most recent album, Brothers, is its highest charting album to date, and it is scarcely an exaggeration to peg the band's summer tour one of the season's hottest tickets. I'm happy NABC will be on tap for the perfect send-off to our annual journey to Madison, Wisconsin, for the Great Taste of the Midwest (August 14).