Beer Buzz – Sunday Beer In Indiana, Golden Road To Brew In Sacramento!

American Craft Beer|February 26th, 2018|

The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s some more of what’s been happening in the beer world, while you’ve been drinking your way through a late-February weekend.

Hoosiers To Finally Get Sunday Beer (Indianapolis, IN) – Indiana is the last state in the country which still bans carryout beer, wine and liquor sales on Sundays, but the prohibition-era laws could change in a matter of days.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb is expected to sign into law a bill that would allow Sunday take-out alcohol sales after state lawmakers passed the measure overwhelmingly last week.

Indiana is home some of the strictest liquor laws in the country, so the passage of this bill was a win for the state’s citizens. But as we predicted the state’s liquor store lobby was still able to retain their clients’ stranglehold on where you can purchase cold beer in Indiana. So if you want a cold beer (even on Sunday) you’re still gonna have to visit the local liquor store.

One final note…If Governor Holcomb doesn’t sign the new liquor legislation into law ON A SUNDAY, he’s missing a huge press opportunity and needs to fire his PR person…just sayin.’

Words To Drink By (Redding, CT) – “Always do right…This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, entrepreneur

AB InBev’s Golden Road Building Outpost In Sacramento (California) – And so it begins…The Sacramento Bee is reporting that AB InBev-owned Golden Road Brewing has begun construction on a new brewpub and beer garden in the city’s midtown entertainment district.

Just as with the Golden Road’s outpost in Oakland, the Los Angeles-based brewery’s new Sacramento home will be a borderline pop-up affair. Golden Road Oakland will consist of a half-dozen large shipping containers arranged in a square on a parking lot to create a beer garden like inner courtyard complete with fire pits to add what they can to its inner city urban ambience.

And just like at Golden Road Oakland, one of the shipping containers at the Sacramento location will house a brewing unit. So yes, Golden Road will eventually be brewing onsite which we expect is going to make other city craft brewers like Device and Track 7 Brewing (both local and independent) crazy.