Winterfest in Indy 2/1

Are there normally food vendors on site?

 

There have been in the past.

 

Brewery list has been released, hopefully we can get a list of the beers soon.

18th Street Brewery
450 North Brewing Company
Against The Grain Brewery
Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Company
Arcadia Ales
Back Road Brewery
Bare Hands Brewery
Barley Island Brewing Company
Bell's Brewery Inc.
Bier Brewery
Big Dawg Brewhaus
Black Acre Brewing Company
Black Swan Brewpub
Bloomington Brewing Company
Broad Ripple Brew Pub
Brugge Brasserie
Bulldog Brewing Company
Carson's Brewery
Chapman's Brewing Company
Country Boy Brewing Co.
Crown Brewing
Cutters Brewing Company
Danny Boy Beer Works
Daredevil Brewing Company
Dark Horse Brewery
DESTIHL Brewery
Evil Czech Brewery
Falls City Brewing Co.
Figure Eight Brewing
Finch's Beer Company
Flat 12 Bierwerks
Fountain Square Brewery
Goose Island Beer Company
Great Crescent Brewery
Half Moon Restaurant & Brewery
Hawcreek Brewing Company
Iechyd Da Brewing Company
Indiana City Brewing Company
Lafayette Brewing Co
Lakefront Brewery Inc.
Mad Anthony Brewing Company Inc
New Albanian Brewing Company
New Day Craft Mead & Cider
New Holland Brewing Company
Norris English Pub llc
O'Fallon Brewery
Oaken Barrel Brewing Company
Oskar Blues
Outliers Brewing Company
People's Brewing Company
Planetary Brewing Company
Power House Brewing Company
Quaff ON! Brewing Company
RAM Restaurant & Brewery
Revolution Brewing
Rhinegeist Brewery
Rivertown Brewing Company
Rock Bottom--College Park
Salt Creek Brewery
Schlafly Beer
Shoreline Brewery
Summit Brewing Company
Sun King Brewing Company
The Bluegrass Brewing Company
The Rivertown Brewing Company
Thr3e Wise Men
Three Floyds Brewing Company
Three Pints Brewing
Tin Man Brewing Company
Triton Brewing Company
Turoni's Main Street Brewery
Tyranena Brewing Company
Union Brewing Company
Upland Brewing Company
Urban Chestnut Brewing Company
Virtue Cider
ZwanzigZ Brewing

 

Yes, but part of the plan of attack is having a map and knowing which brewers are in proximity to one another so you are not running across the building to go from one brewer to another, although typically World Class and their brands will be along one long table.

 

Agreed. I'm used to Great Taste type programs and brewer/beer lists. Apps are great too. Maybe in the future.

 

Flat12 always keeps it interesting. Looking forward to several of these.


Reposado Saison du Flat- Last summer’s french saison replicale aged 6 months in Extra Anejo tequila barrels. 8%
Saison-a-rita – Blend of Reposado Saison du Flat and a lightly salted lime wheat beer. 7.5% The Brewer
Tepachedor- A tropical IPA brewed with coconut and pineapple. 6% Burbajas
Flan Porter- Porter infused with traditional flan ingredients. 5.6% El Jabal
Del Grango Pale- Walkabout pale infused with hibiscus and lime. 5.3% The Gentleman
Jose esta persona terriblé - What started as Satan’s Butthole (amber infused with 9 different chilis) has been infused with 1 more chili, oregano, peanut butter, cocoa, and mango. 5.9% Tzpiti
PePe- Mexican style cerveza with wheat and New Zealand Haultertau hops. 5.2% Burbujas
Pedro Gordo- Pedro Gordo hails from Cuidad Juarez, Mexico where intense violence has surrounded his life since birth. Pedro spends his days balancing a sweet facade that in other environments could be his nature with an inner fire that will eventually consume him. Last years winter Replicale Owd Gordo Old Ale infused with Ancho and Guajillo chilis. 9.8% Jefe de Bomberos
*****chata- A mysterious temptress of a beer. Here tell it’s brewed with rice, almond flour, lactose (milk sugar), vanilla, and a touch of cinnamon. 4.8% Pervertido Gentle
Molon Lave- Lacto-Matic Milk Stout infused with chicory coffee, green chiles and habanero peppers. 5% The Gimp
Centeno Grande- Imperial Rye cousin of Pogues Run Porter brewed with almost 200lbs of Mexican Pilocillo sugar. 8.1% The Brewer
Dulce Dama Roja- A belgian wheat with agave, an American amber with cane sugar and tamarind, and Hello My Name is Amber all blended together and spiced with white and black peppercorns. 5.7% Professor and Saltamontes
El Tacquiria Bohemia Roja - Just the right amount of lime zest, cumin, cilantro and chipotle peppers are added to a slightly hopped up red, sometimes known as The Taco Beer. The Brewer, Pervertido Gentle and Chupacabra
Replicales:
Massive Retaliation-
Our version of the 2014 Winter replicALE is a hoppy American stout made with Galena, Calypso, and Chinook in the boil and Dry Hopped with Simcoe and Citra. 7.4%

BIG Owd Gordo-
2013 Winter Replicale aged in Blantons barrels acquired by the Brewers Guild. 10.5%
Pin(Cask):
Centeno Grande (above) with toasted coconut and cocoa nibs.

 

Interesting is an understatement Warrants an earlier visit.

 

I don't think I will be able to make it, if anyone is interested in a ticket go to this link.

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/indiana-brewers-guild-winterfest-2013.149668/

 

They never publish a complete beer list, as the brewers arent required to submit one to the guild. Some brewers (Flat 12, Sun King perhaps others that I havent seen) will publish theirs ahead of time.

Due to the change in format this year, this will no longer be the case.

 

Sun King just posted theirs to Facebook and Twitter.

https://twitter.com/SunKingBrewing/status/429324159982657536

 

Flat 12 previewed a couple of beers they are bringing for the fest at Kahn's "Big game beer tasting" yesterday. The Reposado saison and Massive Retaliation were quite good.
My understanding was BIG was going to publish a beer list, but due to constraints of their website which is being updated, preclude this in a timely fashion.

Boilerfood- please expound on "change in format". My understanding is Champions Hall is one big room, and thus I assumed they would be lined up as usual.

Hoosier Beer Geek blog also has some lineups for those who chose to respond.

 

1 extra VIP ticket. Face $55. Txt if interested. 317.572.7080. Sean

 

I'm going to be hanging around Revolution a lot today

 

As someone who wasn't able to make it today, I'm curious what the unexpected standouts were? Any insight is appreciated!

 

It was a blast. So many great beers.

Rheingeist was fantastic. I loved all of their beers.
Revolution had a barrel aged barley wine that was a real highlight of the day.
Urban Chestnut had a peach Berliner/sourish that was great
Figure 8 had a chocolate imperial stout / blueberries on cask that was delicious
Iechye Da's milk and cookies stout and coffee porter were very good
The Flat 12 saison was really nice. I need that one over a plate of Mexican food
I liked about everything from Barehands
Daredevil Ripcord on cask was tasty
Cartel had a peanut butter cup porter randalled through peanut butter cups. I probably got the 'beetus from it, but it was tasty


There are plenty more, but those are ones I'm thinking about now

 

18th Street was awesome.

 

Had a great time, traffic was a total shitshow and we didnt even get in the door until 4:15, wish we had left earlier. But the breweries did a very nice job, and met a bunch of awesome people, as per usual