November's Ten Recommendations - Midwest Breweries

Every month I am going to be giving my recommendations of beers you should drink.  I am going to be breaking it up into two different categories easy and hard to find.  Tag me on instagram @midwestbreweries or Facebook at Midwest Breweries when your drinking this great beers.

EASY TO FIND

Stone Brewery's Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale  Can this brewery create a bad beer?  Hell no!  Fairly easy to find this beer.  It's unique combination can create a bad day into a good night.  Click here to find Stone Brewery Beers.

Kentucky Pumpkin Barrel Ale Can you handle a pumpkin ale not only aged in bourbon barrels but also has above a 10% ABV?  Defiantly a Pumpkin beer for that is not for the faint of heart or low tolerance.  Click here to find Kentucky Ales.

New Belgium Brewing's Accumulation  A great IPA that I have picked up the last three years.  Be careful drinking this beer, Indiana does not need snow accumulation like last year. Click here to find.

Leinenkugel's Red Lager Having a little bit of Irish in you never hurts.  Drinking a lager can warm you up as the temperature continues to drop.  Click here to find.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery's 90 Minute IPA How could I not add a Dogfish Head beer when they just came back to Indiana?  At 9.0% ABV drinking two of these in 90 minutes will wash away any day's worries.

HARDER TO FIND 

(picture from Alton Brown's Twitter account @altonbrown)

Black Acre's Saucy Intruder Rye IPA If Alton Brown bought a growler of this beer do I even need to say anything?  Available at their brewery 5632 E Washington St. Indianapolis, IN 46219.

Quaff On's Busted Nuckle A night full of these you might end up with a busted knuckle, but I have not had this experience.  Find Quaff On Beer here.

Sun King Brewing's Fistful of Hops Red Don't let the Christmas colors on the can deter you from picking up this beer in November.  Find Sun King Beers here.

Three Pints Brewing's Buffaloe Black IPA - An exotic beer that is worth trying.  One of favorite beers, even going as far as going to Three Pints Brew Pub on my birthday just to have this beer.  Find Three Pint's beers here.

Mashcraft Brewing's Easy Street Shuffle - I might be beating you over the head with this beer but it deserves the praise!  It can make you feel like your in a more tropical environment as winter weather begins to arrive.  To find Mashcraft beers click here.

That is my list for November.  Don't for get to tag me in your pictures.

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What made me love craft beer!

The beer that got me started loving the craft and art of creating quality beers was Fat Tire.  I had a group of friends that were older than I was from church when I was 20 years old.  I always heard them talking about this great beer that we could not get (at that time) here in Indiana.  Making semi-annual trips to St. Louis they would come back with a car load of beer they would hand out to their friends and then drink for the next six months.  Their detection to this beer was staggering.  

On my 21st birthday after a night out at the bars (which I will only say I was less than an active participant in my classes the next day) I was given a six pack of this beer.  Still to this day when I am at home and have a Fat Tire it takes be back to that first taste sitting in front of a television in a friends room watching, if my memory serves me right, the Big Lebowski.  A beer not meant to be chugged but one that was meant to be savored with friends and making memories that would be remembered not just the next morning but ones that will shape the corse of who we are as a person.  

This is less of a review and becoming more sentimental about some of the best times during my developmental years.  Yet it lead to what only lasted a few weeks but was enjoyable evenings with friends one semester called New Beer Mondays where several of us would all grab a different six pack and sit around watching Monday Night Football in a cramped house on the college campus (one of those friends pointed out a few months ago that we have now all known and been apart of each others lives for more than a decade).  Each Monday brought fun activities, lively story telling, and a growing bond between friends.  

It is this kind of bonding and fellowship that comes from sitting around a table, bon fire, or tailgate with something that is created with care.  I hope that the journey of discovery and drinking local can create memories that become as sentimental as the ones I have; because when you have those special moments with craft beer they can always be relived one glorious pint at a time.