Downtown Indy brew tour. Advice?

Daredevil should be on your list, stopped by there Friday before Memorial Day, good beer.

 

Black Acre. Deviate. Brugge in Broad Ripple.

 

If you're just looking to stay downtown (like you said), then you could work from the southside/fountain square: Fountain Square Brewery, Chilly Water Brewery, Metazoa Brewery, Indiana City Brewery, Sun King Brewery, Flat12 Brewery…. you could hit all of those downtown, they’re all within 3 or so miles of each other.

 

None. If you really want to stay around downtown you'd be better served to go to Tomlinson Taproom in City Market (only serves IN beer) or The Tap Mass Ave. From a brewery perspective outside of Sun King, top priorities should be Deviate, Black Acre, Central State (the Koelschip is their beer bar), and Daredevil, in no particular order. I personally like Deviate the most (by a wide margin) but they are by far the longest distance from downtown (~25 min drive). The other 3 would be a pretty reasonable Uber ride at no more than 15 min from downtown.

 

As Quimby said, Tomlinson Tap Room is a solid play and it's 5 blocks from Sun King, you can walk it easy, and they've got a very nice selection from across the state.

To make it three I'd throw in Chilly Water. Great location, solid selection/variety, well made beer.

And if you get crazy and want to hit everything listed earlier, I forgot St. Joseph, so add that to the list.

(Full disclosure: I work at Sun King and appreciate that you've made us a priority.)

 

http://indybrewbus.com/

You should check into that. I've never done it but I have seen that bus at Deviate.

 

Here's a map for a better idea of the area.

https://goo.gl/maps/oUpLwp9BiK12