Ram Brewery, Indianapolis

[Nosybear]

Sitting here with a flight of Ram Brewery beers. Personal opinion Nosy, Ok. Excellent hefeweizen, blonde is Ok, amber and porter are quite nice. Avoid the IPA and pale ales-harshly bitter. Maibock is weird and not in a Good way. Scottish is thin. Glad I live in Denver!

 

[EvanAltman36]

Sitting here with a flight of Ram Brewery beers. Personal opinion Nosy, Ok. Excellent hefeweizen, blonde is Ok, amber and porter are quite nice. Avoid the IPA and pale ales-harshly bitter. Maibock is weird and not in a Good way. Scottish is thin. Glad I live in Denver!

I live in Indy, haven't been to Ram in a long time. We've got several much smaller craft breweries now; if you're ever in town again for whatever reason I can give you suggestions. I'm actually heading to Denver in July and would like to try out a few places; might get the chance to head up to Ft. Collins too, so I'd love to do New Belgium again.

 

[Nosybear]

A few places to visit in Denver:

- Dry Dock Brewery (actually in Aurora)
- Prost Brewing
- The Cheeky Monk
- Grimm Brothers Brewery (Loveland)
- Breckenridge Brewery

The possibilities are endless, actually. So many brewpubs, so little time.... Actually in the hotel (I was in the Omni), the bar had a number of good Indiana brews. I kept giving the Ram a second chance - the first beer I had there was their porter and it was quite nice. I can't guarantee a tour but if you'll let me know if you are visiting the Dry Dock or Prost, let me know. It's always nice to meet someone you correspond with here!

 

[EvanAltman36]

Cool, I'll see what my timing looks like. I have a meeting and then I'm heading to a Cubs/Rockies game when I'm there.

I'm sure the bar had Sun King, Flat 12, Triton, maybe Upland. The Broadripple area here has a few brewpubs, and there are a lot more bars catering more to the craft beer crowd, so there are a lot more diverse local and regional beers on tap now. My brother-in-law and I were thinking about doing an Indiana brewery tour over the course of a few days in the summer.
Went to New Belgium a couple years back and it was one of those really unseasonably warm weekends in mid-November when it was 75 and sunny. Of course, the next day was 30 and it snowed a foot.

 

[Nosybear]

Re the weather in November: Welcome to the High Plains. You get used to it after a few years.... ) Shorts and parkas do go together here.