Official Indiana Beer Thread (2022)

Hammond? Are these guys brewing out of 18th St?

 

Thanks. Wasn't sure if it meant pastry stouts or pastry sours. Honestly, hadn't even thought of milkshake IPAs. Whoops.

 

1- Is Sour Note no longer around?
2- Wasn’t Sour Note part of 18th St?

 

I wasn't aware this was open, but fb says they opened on March 4th for carry-out only. I tried Alligator Blood pre-pandemic when they sold cans out of Windmill. That beer was good and I'm intrigued by barrel fermented hazies (without lactose or vanilla beans). Will swing by to check it out. Thank you for the head's up!

 

Dunno for sure but I'm guessing Foreign Local is the original Windmill brewer.

 

This is honestly a response to a lot of recent comments on this particular page of the forum. I've been there to pick up some beers. No taproom yet. They are located in the old Sour Note building right down the street from 18th Street. The guy that does this brewery joined Windmill and was the reason they started making milkshake/hazy IPA's and other hyped "styles" of beer and got Windmill's name out there.
I grabbed two of their beers. The DIPA with vanilla bean and caviar is just decent and needs some work. Nothing to go out of your way for. The fruited sour is made with maple syrup, blueberries, cinnamon, vanilla, and lactose. Was actually quite tasty and not as sweet and "smoothie"-like as expected. Heard their lager is actually quite good though.
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P.S. - 18th Street has really gone downhill. Agree with you all. When they first opened at the Miller location, the beer was top notch for the area and have to agree that it had a Pipeworks vibe to it given Drew's experience over there. The first batch of Deal With the Devil was only 7% and stood up to Zombie Dust imho (which has also really went downhill).

 

Need we remind you that nothing good comes from being positive? When something positive happens, something negative is right around the corner.

 

All joking aside, I am excited to hear about the dark lager. I wish I had known today. I went to a specialty store WTF (that’s Way the fuck) across town to try to get more soup options for my sick 2 year old with egg/dairy allergies, and it would have been the perfect spot to look for that beer. Maybe she will need more soup soon…

 

Assuming this makes it to Chicago, I'm 100% grabbing a single. I'll invoice you if it sucks.

 

I was obviously joking...but Chicago is AWASH in dark lagers right now, so I'd bet against this, personally!

 

I think Fear The (Devil) Reaper is ok. So that's like one out of 347.

 

Fuzzyline's first bottle release is tomorrow, May 14th. From their post:

Blue Balloon - Anniversary edition. 6.8% ABV This is a higher strength version of our regular Blue Balloon with blueberries, blackberries, rooibos tea, marshmallow,
and white chocolate.

Abuelita Muerta - Imperial stout. A play on our Dead Milk Man stout. 13.4% ABV and made with Abuelita's hot chocolate, Piloncillo sugar, New Mexico Chiles, and cinnamon.

 

And looks like construction has already started for this:https://www.nwitimes.com/business/l...cle_aac0e62f-718e-5cef-bad7-b873744652cc.html