Naughty Claus 2011 is on tap now at both NABC locations.

Naughty Claus 2011

Santa needs daze off, too

A rich, full-bodied holiday spiced seasonal that changes wardrobe a bit each year as we experiment with festive additives. Usually unveiled for Saturnalia, NABC’s annual observance of Christmas’s pagan roots.

Malts: US Pale Ale Malt (Rahr), Belgian Aromatic Malt,
Simpsons Crystal Medium

Sugar: Hosey Honey … http://hoseyhoney.com

Hops: German Hallertauer Magnum

Spices: Orange Peel, Sweet Ginger Root, Cinnamon, Nutmeg (dry-gingered in the Brite tanks)

Yeast: Chouffe (House Belgian)

OG: 19 degrees Plato
ABV: 8%
IBU: 20

Solidarity in 2011.

Dave and Josh brewed a double batch of NABC Solidarity at Bank Street Brewhouse on Friday and Saturday. There'll be another half-batch to follow. Here's a view of the mash on Friday.

As a Baltic Porter, circa 8% abv, Solidarity lends itself to wood aging. We have a couple of rye whiskey barrels ...

... and a total of seven oak barrels formerly used for wine (comprising three different previous usages). Solidarity will fill these, with special releases coming as they mature.

There will be enough non-wood-aged Solidarity for 150 or so cases of bombers for release to Indiana and Kentucky, and the forthcoming half-batch more will be brewed to cover draft needs, both on premise and distribution.

2nd Annual Gonzo Fest in honor of Hunter S. Thompson, Saturday October 15, 2011

(Submitted)

2nd Annual Gonzo Fest in honor of Hunter S. Thompson, Saturday October 15, 2011

Blasting off with a Pre-Gonzo art opening with live local music on October 14th!

Announcing the Second Annual Gonzo Festival! Join us as we pay tribute to the life, work, and legacy surrounding one of America's greatest alternative writers, Louisville's own native, Hunter S. Thompson.

The Gonzo Fest will take place on Saturday, October 15 from 2:00pm to 11pm at The Monkey Wrench located at 1025 Barret Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204.

General Admission tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of the event. Limited VIP Rooftop access tickets are available for $30. This is a non-refundable rain or shine event. All discounted advance ticket purchases will receive a $5 discount -- for both General Admission and VIP tickets. Tickets are available at The Monkey Wrench. Must be 21 years old to attend.

This will be a celebration featuring some of the best live local music & national recording artists, poets, authors, visual artists and more. Headlining this year's Gonzo Fest are national recording artists from
Athens, GA recently seen on the David Letterman show, The Whigs. The music lineup also includes The Broken Spurs, Fresh Millions (Austin, TX), Scott Carney from Wax Fang, Cougar Express, Nerves Junior (voted best album of the year), David Wax Museum (Boston, MA), Tyrone Cotton and Lydia Burrell.

Special guests in attendance will be Kentucky's Congressman, John Yarmuth. Lt. Governor candidate Dea Riley, plus Kyle Meredith from
WFPK will emcee the entire Second Annual Gonzo Fest.

Gates will open at 2pm. Music, food and festivities will start at 3pm. Local and regional craft breweries such as the BBC, Kentucky Ale, New Albanian and more will be in attendance. In honor of the event, we'll be featuring Gonzo Imperial Porter from Flying Dog Ales. "Good people drink good beer"--Hunter S. Thompson. We also want to thank this year's sponsors Four Roses Bourbon and Red Bull, who will be providing
drink specials.

If you can't wait until October 15th to 'get your gonzo on', celebrate with us on Friday night, October 14th at The Monkey Wrench for the Gonzo Art opening! All art will be based upon the life and inspiration of Hunter S. Thompson, and will be on display throughout the weekend. Some of the artists include: Andy Cook, Carol McLeod, Evan Lebowitz, and Alexander King -- all of whom worked together last year on the "Hunter's Louisville" mural painted on the wall of the Monkey Wrench. There will also be live music provided by the local sensations The Murals, Son of the Widow, and DJ Geo.

Please take a look at highlights from last year's event & promotion for this year: http://www.youtube.com/user/solesolutionstudios#p/u/7/Xe3z8XwuRAY

Contact: Dennie Humphrey
The Monkey Wrench
1025 Barret Avenue
Louisville KY 40204
(502) 583-2433
whodennie(at)gmail.com
Find us on Facebook: The Monkey Wrench

Fringe Fest 2011 at BSB: A Directory.

The goal of NABC's Fringe Fest is create a vibrant cultural counterpoint to Harvest Homecoming and provide unique music, tasty fest food, artistic purveyors, and – most importantly – great craft beer. Fringe Fest embraces everything creative and original, and welcomes anything outside of the social ‘norm’.

It's time for our fourth Fringe Fest, and here's the information for 2011. We begin today at 12 Noon.

NABC Wet Knob Harvest Ale 2011 is released - Brewed with genuine, fresh Floyds Knobs hops from Abstonia Farm, and with a new American Pale Ale formulation by David Pierce. Wet Knob will go on tap at both NABC locations on Thursday. There are only eight kegs total, so this is the time to make a special trip ... because the Knob may not last the Weekend.

Musical lineup and performance times - All performances take place at the Taxpayers' Memorial Patio.

Fringe Fest 2011: Fest food from Matt, Bernie and the crew - It's a special menu for Fringe Fest.

Fringe Fest 2011: Come and visit NABC's arts and crafts vendors - Some of our best friends are setting up shop, so come examine the wares.

Fringe Fest 2011: Come and visit NABC's arts and crafts vendors.

To reduce our exposure to the potential vicissitudes of inclement weather, we modified Fringe Fest for 2011. The current forecast is for absolutely gorgeous autumn skies the next three days -- all the better!

For 2011, all music is being performed on the patio, and the current parking area -- formerly housing the stage -- is being devoted to beers served from Rosa, our draft truck, and shopping from a selected number of vendors. Here is a list of the confirmed vendors provided by Jessi Cheak, Bank Street Brewhouse general manager.

1. Tony and Shannon Nava- Jewelery
2. Katie Ashby- Glass upcycled wind chimes and jewelry
3. Katy & Ben Traughber- photo prints, jewelery, art
4. Holly Meredith- Feather art/jewelry
5. Nick Owens- Graphic Art (featured at the 21c) –
6. Matt Dobson – The Paper (Friday/Saturday only)
7. Leslie Doyle - (Friday/Saturday only)
8. Katie O'Kelley/Adam Canter- Glass Blowing (Demo)
9. Susanne Bell - Liberty Tattoo (Mobile Vendor)

Fringe Fest 2011: Fest food from Matt, Bernie and the crew.

Bank Street Brewhouse's chefs Matt Weirich and Bernie Collier will be preparing a special a la carte Fringe Fest menu for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Note that owing to the craziness of Fringe Fest and Harvest Homecoming, the normal BSB menu is suspended for these three days.

Most of the usual NABC beers will be available, with the addition of the annual release of Wet Knob, an American Pale Ale brewed with "wet" (freshly harvested, unprocessed) hops from Abstonia Farms in Floyds Knobs.

Chili with 3D Valley Beef & Fiedler Farms Pork
Pork Tacos
Duck Fat Fringe Fries
Short Rib Sandwich
Duck Wings & Beans
Corn Soup

Thanks to LEO Readers' Choice voters for thinking of NABC.

I’ve never personally encouraged voting in various reader polls, and NABC does not ask its fans to cast dozens of ballots for the sake of the cause. Sometimes we win, sometimes we don’t … and sometimes, as a New Albany underdog, it just feels damned good to be vindicated as a restaurant and brewery by readers of a Louisville-oriented publication.

That’s why I’m thanking the academy and happily contradicting my usual shtick by posting the following results in LEO’s annual Readers’ Choice poll. After all, a quarter-million votes is a large sampling, and far less prone to tipping by tampering. Allow me to offer kudos to all of our employees, and also to the many folks who picked NABC. We didn’t do badly for a brewery that technically is not a Louisville brewery.

Best Beer List
1) New Albanian Brewing Co.
2) Holy Grale
3) Sergio’s World Beers
We're inferring the Pizzeria & Public House's revamped BJCP-centric bottle list and Hoosier-heavy draft roster. Eric Gray and Ben Minton get the credit for these.

Best Restaurant (Southern Indiana)
1) New Albanian Brewing Co.
2) Rocky’s Italian Grill
3) La Rosita
We're inferring Bank Street Brewhouse, while not ignoring our Pizzeria's longtime success.

Best Local Beer
1) New Albanian Brewing Co. Hoptimus
2) Bluegrass Brewing Co. APA
3) Bluegrass Brewing Co. Bourbon Barrel Stout
Note that NABC's David Pierce originally formulated both BBC winners, and has been Hoptimus' personal fitness coach.

Best Local Brewery
1) Bluegrass Brewing Co.
2) New Albanian Brewing Co.
3) Cumberland Brews

It would be fascinating to see how many breweries in locales like Chicago, St. Louis and Leuven, Belgium, received votes as "local."

Preview: Fringe Fest 2011.

NABC's fourth Fringe Fest will take place on Thursday, October 6 through Saturday, October 8 at Bank Street Brewhouse. For the unitiated, this is the same time as New Albany's Harvest Homecoming, which attracts thousands to downtown New Albany. From its inception, our aim with Fringe Fest has been to offer a more thoughtful, craft-beer-fueled alternative to the nearby bedlam. This year, we're tweaking the concept.

Music will be on the side patio, with no main stage outdoors. The current parking lot will be the licensed temporary beer sales area, to be occupied by arts, crafts and vendors. Chefs Matt, Bernie and the kitchen team will prepare their special Fringe Fest menu in the existing kitchen, and beer will be served like always inside BSB and on the patios in addition to the temporary area. The annual batch of Wet Knob Harvest Hop Ale will be ready for pouring, alongside the usual suspects and perhaps a surprise or two.

We hope it will be a reoriented and yet familiar Fringe Fest -- diverse like always, but more intimate, and with NABC's hugely weather-dependent risk lessened. As information arrives, I'll update Fringe fest in future postings. Meanwhile, to tip things off, here are the music bookings.

Thursday, October 6

6:00 p.m.
Misha Feigin

7:15 p.m.
Irish Session w/John Woodard

9:30 p.m.
Ben Traughber

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Friday, October 7

6:00 p.m.
Splitbow

7:15 p.m.
Jerry & Simon

8:30 p.m.
St. James Hotel

10:00 p.m.
Roz Tate w/Chris Shireman

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Saturday, October 8

6:00 p.m.
Thunder Wrane

7:15 p.m.
Delve

8:30 p.m.
Digby

10:00 p.m.
Bear’s Choice

Your continuing beer education: "Here's to Beer" non-credit IUS course returns this Fall, 2011.

My "Here's to Beer" Indiana University Southeast non-credit course returns on Wednesdays this fall, with sections starting in September and November. Enrollment is underway now. Both sections are identical, designed for "beginners" just coming to the sunny side of beer enthusiasm, so don't fear the dark, and consider picking one of them and attending.

September 21, 28; October 5, 12

November 2, 9, 16 & 30

Yes, you must be 21, and classes take place at the NABC Pizzeria & Public House at 3312 Plaza Drive (just off Grant Line Road) in New Albany. For $69, you get four class sessions, generous beer samples, and a mode of presentation that hasn't yet devolved to power point. It's oral history, sometimes incisive, other times rambling.

Official Course Description: Here's to Beer! (101).

Is beer the new wine? It's definitely no longer your grandfather's fizzy lager, and you'll learn why with the help of NABC's longtime brew guru, Roger A. Baylor, who will guide you through the brewing process, discuss beer's history in society and culture, and survey beer's many styles from Dark Mild to India Pale - all with appropriate samples.

Note: After successfully completing 101, students become eligible to register for Even More to Beer (202), an advanced beer education class that will be offered in Spring, 2012.

Get on board by visiting Indiana University Southeast’s web site via the links above, and for more, read this IUS Horizon newspaper article from spring, 2010: wordpress.com/2010/03/07/non-credit-course-educates-students-on-history-of-beer/">"Non-credit course educates students on history of beer."

Great Taste Roadtrip 2011: Saturday, August 13 (GTMW).

No comments ... just a crazy, fun and enriching day by Lake Monona with the Craft Nation faithful.

NABC's advertisement in the 2011 Great Taste of the Midwest program.

NABC Beer Descriptions, for the Great Taste of the Midwest 2011 official program.

NABC beer descriptions for the Great Taste of the Midwest 2011 official program, as submitted earlier this summer. We're only a few days away!

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At the NABC main station, C02 pour:

*B’Urban Trotter
Elector
Hoptimus
Jaxon
*Naughty Girl
Solidarity (special timing TBA)
Thunderfoot
Tunnel Vision
Yakima

Cask-conditioned NABC (pins at the NABC station; tapping time TBA):

Scotch-pin-aged Quadrageddon
Scotch-pin-aged Solidarity

Cask-conditioned NABC (firkins at the real ale tent):

Beak’s Best
Community Dark

* Collaboration with De Struise Brouwers and Louisville Beer Store

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NABC beer descriptions

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At the NABC main station, C02 pour:

B’Urban Trotter
Double India Pale Ale
ABV: 9.2%
IBU: 208
OG: 21 degrees Plato
Finish Line at the Starting Gate
If the Kentucky Derby is the greatest two minutes in sports, then B’Urban Trotter is the finest few moments of sipping, because what better place for a brewer/ostrich rancher from Flanders to seek inspiration than Louisville’s annual Run for the Roses? With collaborative assistance from NABC and Louisville Beer Store, De Struise’s Urbain Coutteau created this “Derbied” Double India Pale Ale to be dry-hopped and bourbon/oak aged, with a suggestion of mint for the home stretch.

Malts: Rahr 2-Row, Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner, Castle Biscuit, Simpsons Medium Crystal

Hops: Cascade (mash, dry), Summit (first wort), Summit (bittering), Chinook (bittering, flavor, dry), Northern Brewer (flavor), Simcoe (dry)

Yeast: American (Chico) Ale

Special additions: Vanilla beans and honey were added during the whirlpool.

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Elector
Imperial Red
ABV: 7.5%
IBU: 62
OG: 18.5 degrees Plato
Makes Democracy Pointless
Richly malty and excessively hopped, Elector was first brewed on Election Day, taking its name from the Electoral College. In like fashion, Elector’s unique character makes democracy utterly pointless. It severs party affiliations, crosses the aisle, and commands you to drink early and vote often. That’s because whenever Elector is on the ballot, there’s only one real choice.

Malts: Rahr Pale and Simpsons Medium Crystal

Hops: Nugget and Cascade

Yeast: House American

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Hoptimus
Imperial IPA
ABV: 10.7%
IBU: 100
OG: 22.6 degrees Plato
Sterner Stuff
Living vicariously through others is a sad compromise meant only for rank amateurs and subpar international lagers. Rather, we all might profit from the principled example of Hoptimus, which lives vivaciously, audaciously and capriciously through itself. With a snarky hop character that is blatantly unrepentant, Hoptimus ensures that meek palates surely will not inherit the earth.

Malt: Special Pale

Hops: Four additions of high alpha Nugget, one late addition of Cascade, dry-hopped with whole cone Cascades

Yeast: House English

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Jaxon
Barley Wine
ABV: 11%
IBU: 100
OG: 28 degrees Plato
Drop the Leash and Let Him Run
The newest member of the Brewers’ Best Friend Series teasingly asks the question, “With a bark like that, who needs Pat?,” because Jaxon, NABC’s properly pedigreed Barleywine, is brewed and aged by David Pierce (creator of the legendary Bearded Pat’s Barley Wine) at Bank Street Brewhouse. Only the first runnings are collected from the mash tun, with no sparge. Three separate mashes make up one batch.

Malts: Special Pale, Dingeman's Biscuit, Cara 45, Special B

Hops: Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook in two additions;
Cascade in the whirlpool; dry hopped twice with whole cone Cascade

Yeast: House English

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Naughty Girl
Belgian India Blonde Ale
ABV: 6%
IBU: 69
OG: 14.4 degrees Plato
Naturally Naughty -- by Nurture
It all began as a Belgo-American ménage a trois, but then the brewers arrived and transformed the trans-oceanic affair into a beer love pentangle. The collaborative minds at Louisville Beer Store, De Struise Brouwers and New Albanian Brewing Company offer this, a willfully disobedient India Blonde Ale with a hop on her shoulder.

Malts: Rahr 2-row, Rahr Premium Pils, Castle (Belgian) Aromatic, CaraPils

Hops: Cascade, Galena, Golding, Cascade for warm dry-hopping

Yeast: De Struise House Ale

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Solidarity
Baltic Porter
ABV: 8%
IBU: 18
OG: 21.1 degrees Plato
Solidarity or Death
In the 1980’s, the Solidarity trade union movement in Poland helped end the
Communist Party’s hegemony. In 2011, we watched as Wisconsin fought its own battles against repression. We tip our hats to Solidarity, both as a concept and a movement, with this robust liquid reminder of Baltic foresight in activism … and strong beer.

Malts: Special Pale; Simpsons Aromatic, Dark Crystal, Chocolate and Black; CaraPils

Hops: Magnum in the kettle; Willamette in the whirlpool

Yeast: Common Lager

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Thunderfoot
Cherried Imperial Stout
ABV: 12%
IBU: 90
OG: 25.2 Plato
Ultimate Urban Renewal
There can be no doubt. Thunderfoot actively renounces the gentle tweak, the mild revision, and the imperceptible hint. Thunderfoot neither seeks to make a plausible case for adaptive reuse, nor can it be bothered with the nuances of historical preservation. Thunderfoot puts its elongated foot squarely down, advocating your palate’s restructuring the old-fashioned way – whole cloth, entire, complete, irresistible, certain and inevitable.

Malts: Special Pale, Simpson's Roasted Barley, Simpson's Dark Crystal, Flaked Oats

Hops: UK Challenger, Willamette

Special treatment: Hop-backed with dried Bing tart cherries. Aged for one year on oak and dried tart cherries.

Yeast: House English

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Tunnel Vision
ABV: 9.5%
IBU: 20
OG: 22.1 degrees Plato
The Ultimate in Sexy Subterranean Chic
Those hardy immigrant gnomes who came from the venerable hills of the Ardennes to take up residence beneath the mysterious Knobs of Southern Indiana get lonely, too. That’s why NABC gave them Tunnel Vision, a potion reminiscent of home, and sufficiently versatile for consumption in all seasons -- and on all continents.

Malts: Castle Pale, Castle Aromatic, Weyermanns Vienna, Flaked Rye, Honey Malt

Hops: Magnum

Special: Orange Peel, Coriander

Yeast: Belgian Chouffe

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Yakima
Rye India Pale Ale
ABV: 7.5%
IBU: 130
OG: 17 degrees Plato
How the Midwest Was Won
“Yakima is simple in design: This beer is for me, the hophead Brewmaster here in the land of no coast. After many years of liquid research, the time came to satisfy my inner desire to craft a Rye IPA so immaculate that it would ‘up’ our revolution even further. Mission accomplished.” -- Jared Williamson

Malts: Rahr 2-row, Flaked Rye, Weyermann CaraFoam

Hops: Columbus, Centennial, Cascade

Yeast: House ale

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Cask-conditioned NABC (pin at the NABC station; tapping time TBA):

Scotch-pin-aged Quadrageddon
It’s Belgian, it’s strong, and that’s all any of us know. Aged in a wooden pin that formerly held Lagavulin-conditioned JW Lees Vintage Harvest Ale

Scotch-pin-aged Solidarity
As above; Baltic Porter aged in a wooden pin that formerly held Lagavulin-conditioned JW Lees Vintage Harvest Ale.

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Cask-conditioned NABC (firkins at the real ale tent):

Beak’s Best
American ESB
ABV: 5.3%
IBU: 35
OG: 14.75 degrees Plato
American Bitter & Soul Liniment
Brewed with English malts and American hops, and named in honor of globetrotting historian and educator Don "Beak" Barry. You really need to meet the Beak, and sample his ale.

Malts: Simpsons Golden Promise, Simpsons Medium Crystal, Castle (Belgian) Aromatic and Special B

Hops: Triple hopped with Cascade pellets

Yeast: House English

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Community Dark
English Dark Mild
ABV: 3.7%
IBU: 12.5
OG: 11.5 degrees Plato
Inside Is What Counts
Indiana State Fair Brewers Cup gold medal winner, 2011. Inspired by traditional English Mild, the style that fueled the factory workers who made the Industrial Revolution, Community Dark is revolutionary in its own way: Dark-colored but light-bodied, and a session ale suitable for New Albany’s emerging downtown renaissance.

Malts: Special Pale, Dark Crystal and Chocolate malts

Hops: Double hopped with EK Golding

Yeast: House London

Fifth Annual Art on the Parish Green in New Albany's Midtown is Saturday and Sunday.

The Fifth Annual Art on the Parish Green at St. Paul's Episcopal Church begins today. The church is located just around the corner from my house in what we call Midtown, and is the oldest Episcopalian congregation in Indiana, dating back approximately 175 years. For Art on the Parish Green, 11th Street is closed between Main and Market, and the church's lovely historic grounds are given over to a multitude of arts and crafts, with live music, food and NABC beer. It takes place today and Sunday, and you can read more at the Art on the Parish Green Facebook site.

An assemblage of NABCs: It’s N.A.B.C.ieged III, beginning January 25.

The New Albanian Brewing Company has long embraced the metaphorical properties of innovation and inundation, and will continue these proud incantations on Tuesday, January 25, with the third incarnation of N.A.B.C.ieged.

This draft showcase at the Pizzeria & Public House (3312 Plaza Drive, New Albany) is all about us -- our NABC beers, as brewed at both our New Albany locations by brewers Jesse Williams & Jared Williamson, and David Pierce (Director of Brewing Operations).

Our brewers and their beers are the future of our business (and aesthetic) enterprise, and in 2011, the entire beer program at our traditional Pizzeria & Public House location is set to undergo an exciting metamorphosis as we reduce our carbon footprint, transition away from reliance on imports, and embrace an even greater advocacy of stylistic education, as reflected by the continuing gains of America’s craft beer revolution.

Including our own NABC revolution, hence: N.A.B.C.ieged III: Even More Than Before.

The idea is to have as many as possible of our own NABC beers on tap at one time at the Pizzeria & Pub (pour sizes and pricing to be determined). The event will last as long as the kegs do, and then we’ll begin preparations for Gravity Head, our annual paean to craft brewing’s outer extremities.

As during the inaugural N.A.B.C.ieged one year ago (a second edition was later held at Louisville Beer Store), we're showcasing these NABC drafts at the Pizzeria & Public House rather than Bank Street Brewhouse, for the simple reason that we have more available spouts for pouring. Last year’s record is 24. In 2011, we hope to beat it.

Given the amount of work required to swap all these kegs of beer and keep them pouring, say a silent prayer for brewer Jared Williamson, and beer managers Ben Minton and Eric Gray, who'll be doing the heavy lifting, literally.

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The final lineup won’t be known until just before the curtain rises on January 25, but the list below is reasonably accurate.

Regulars (including *Session Series)
*Abzug
Beak’s Best
Bob’s Old 15-B
*Community Dark
Elector
Hoptimus
*Tafel Bier
Tunnel Vision

Brewer’s Best Friend Series
Abby’s Dubbel
Elsa von Horizon
Henna
Jasmine
Jaxon

Footed Stout Series
Cloven Foot
ThunderFoot
WeeFoot

Seasonals
Ackerman’s Imperial Double Stout (2011 Winterfest ReplicAle)
Amarillo (Single Hop)
Ancient Rage
Bonfire of the Valkyries
C2 New Albanian/O’Fallon/Schlafly collaboration)
Cascade (Single Hop)
ConeSmoker
ELI
Hop-O
Imperial Bonfire of the Valkyries
Le Diable Blonde
Le Douche Mentale
Oaked Ancient Rage
Oaktimus (16 months old?)
Saison de Houblon
Samu-Rye!
Solidarity

Casks
Sour Rye Belgian Strong (pin)
Dry Hopped Abzug (firkin)
Scotch Black Grass (pin)

For further information, contact me:

Roger A. Baylor, Carnival Barker
New Albanian Brewing Company
Public House & Pizzeria
Bank Street Brewhouse
Cell: 502-468-9710
New Albany, Indiana
roger@newalbanian.com

But will it be comprehensive?

Just an FYI for Indiana residents.

Statewide smoking ban gains support in Indiana, by Lesley Stedman Weidenbener (Courier-Journal)

Support is building to make Indiana the 34th state in the nation to impose some kind of state-wide smoking ban, although questions remain about whether to exempt some businesses, including casinos and bars.

Forty cities, towns and counties in Indiana have imposed bans of varying reach, and supporters say they think 2011 could be the year the General Assembly passes a statewide restriction.