Posted in: Historic Miscellania The Rise and Fall of the Billy Goat Beer

If you strolled down the streets of Indianapolis in 1900, you would have needed a bale of cotton stuffed in your ears not to hear a conversation or two auf Deutsch. Thanks to Germany’s turbulent...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania An Indiana History of Craft Beer

Beer—drinking the frothy beverage has been a part of the Hoosier identity for generations. From pre-prohibition production to the rise of craft beer in the 2000’s, the beer industry has been prevalent in Indiana. The...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Indiana City Brewery (Home Brewing Company Bottling Building)

In case you missed it the first time we published it… Early last year, our own Joan Hostetler featured the Home Brewing Company for a February 2013  “Indianapolis: Then and Now” feature. Today in A Room with a...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Good for What Ales You

As you toast the new year with your jug, mug, glass, or stein, it is perhaps a good moment to consider Indy’s tempestuous temperance history: While, no doubt, early area residents soothed their thirst with a variety of alcoholic...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Indiana City Brewery (Home Brewing Company Bottling Building)

Three original Home Brewing Company bottles in the Indiana City Brewery tasting room. – Photo by Ryan Hamlett Earlier this year, our own Joan Hostetler featured the Home Brewing Company for a Feburary “Indianapolis: Then and Now”...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Old Style Lager

Spring’s here, and summer’s coming – and sometimes what’s better than a nice cold beer?  This beautiful full-color ad from the early 1950’s features Old Style Lager, brewed only (at the time) in La Crosse,...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then & Now: Home Brewing Company, 24 S. Shelby Street

Courtesy of the Indiana Album, ca. 1912 lantern slide from the collection of Joan Hostetler Micro breweries have taken off in this country, and Indianapolis is no exception. Soon our city will have another new...

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Posted in: Then & Now Then & Now: Anheuser Busch Brewing Association and Capitol City Fence Company, 920-24 E. Ohio Street

Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, Bass Photo Company Collection 26612 Many have understandably mistaken this gem of a building for a Carnegie library, but it was built sometime around 1900 as the Indianapolis branch...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Indianapolis Brewing Company

We’ve featured this before, but this being the final answer to the anagram of last night’s Pajama Game, we’ll feature it again.   Beer ad and what’s in Tomlinson Tap? Before day’s end, we will...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Breweriana Mania

It’s a familiar scene from the movies. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love and decide to move in together. Girl takes one look around the living room and decides that if she’s...

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