I am also a craft beer junkie and my favorite brewery has to be the Three Floyds' Brewery in Munster, Indiana. All the beers I've tried from them are excellent, but sadly, they're a bit hard to come by here in downstate Illinois, which is a beer drinker's wasteland (unless you live in Champaign/Urbana, Bloomington/Normal, or Springfield, but I live in an incredibly redneck part of the region), so every time I go out of town, I make an effort to hit up a halfway decent liquor store to see if I can pick up the stuff or any other microbrewed beer.
Another brewery I really like is the Brugge Brasserie in Indianapolis, which is a good Belgian inspired brewpub with excellent food as well. The beer they're most well known for is the Tripel Del Ripple, which is like 11% alc, but you would never know it from the taste. I've had their other beers and far as I can tell, you can't go wrong with any of them. It's somewhat depressing because I haven't gotten a chance to go to Indy recently and hit up any of their bars and microbreweries ever since the economy slowed down, so I'm stuck here in my hometown where most of the bars are dive bars infested with white trash and where the patrons consider BMC to be the best beers ever. In spite of that, I try to get ahold of as much microbrewed beer as possible.
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