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Indiana Brewers Unite For What’s Right (Indianapolis, IN) – In an effort to gain the public’s support for raising the limit on the amount of beer that brewers are able to produce in Indiana, Sun King Brewing and Munster-based 3 Floyds have launched “Support Indiana Brewers.” Current state law allows Indiana’s brewers to produce up to 30,000 barrels per year to be sold in Indiana and keep their Small Brewers Permit. Breweries can produce more beer under the current law, but exceeding the limit would eliminate Sun King’s abilities to operate a tasting room and distribute its own beer in Indiana. 3 Floyds plans to invest more than $10 million on expansion efforts this year, and will have to ship any increase in production out of state if current laws don’t change – and they need to.
Darkness Comes (Narragansett, RI) – To celebrate their 125th anniversary, Rhode Island’s Narragansett Brewery has created a new line of beers in honor of the legendary horror icon, H.P. Lovecraft, Rhode Island’s resident author who happens to share the same birth year as the brewery -1890. Ever since re-emerging in 2005, the brewery has made a point to stay true to its historical roots. The Lovecraft line is an extension of that philosophy and each beer in the four-part series will be directly inspired by certain Lovecraft works. ACB thinks this is a truly horrible idea and we love it.
New Zealand’s Best Brewery (Wellington, NZ) – The Garage Project has just been voted New Zealand’s best brewery by the members that country’s “Society Of Beer Advocates” which has absolutely nothing to do with the Beer Advocate you’re thinking of. We’d like to send a big “shout-out” to our friends Pete Gillespie, Jos Ruffell, and Ian Gillespie and their entire brewing crew – great guys, brilliant beer.
Arkansas Craft Beer Scene Rising (Little Rock, AK) – the craft beer movement came later to Arkansas than it did to other states – but it is clearly on now. The industry has grown about 500 percent in the last four years, according to Arkansas Business and there are currently 19 craft breweries plying their trade throughout the state.
What We’ve Been Drinking Lately (Washington, DC) – We’d like to thank all of the American craft breweries who shipped us beer in 2014. It’s been great to sample the brews that we write about and it helps us have a better feel for what’s happening out there. We’ve been drinking nothing but big beers lately and last night we got into some trouble with the return of something special from SweetWater. Happy Endings is a massive 9% ABV Imperial Stoutthat’s brewed with Centennial and Willamette hops and finished off with a dry-hop addition of Cascade and Simcoe. This beer took home a silver medal at the ’14 World Beer Cup and sent us to bed happy.
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