High energy, busy, noisy, too many TVs, NTN, karaoke. For the stereotypical beer lover, this place has everything going against it except one of the best beer selections in town. There are 44 beers on tap plus another hundred or so bottled beers. Ask for a beer menu and check the board for today's specials.Part of a 4-pub 4-block walking crawl with the Alcatraz, Ram, and Rock Bottom.

Basics

On Maryland St between Meridian and Pennsylvania. On the next street south of Washington.

15 E. Maryland St.
Indianapolis
317-916-9464 (voice)
317-916-2640 (fax)

Web site
Manager Mike DeWeese. email

Mon - Thurs 11am - 2am
Fri - Sat 11am - 3am
Sunday 11am - midnight

Parking at meters and in the Circle Center garage.

Casual dress.

Seats 150 total.
Reservations not taken.

Will fill growlers.

Entertainment

NTN Trivia 
Karaoke.
Steel darts.

Mug Club

Free Passport Club. Drink 100 different beers in a year and get 2 nights lodging at one of 50 resorts around the country.

 

Suitability factors:

Sitting at the bar Busy but conversational.
On a date Stop in before or after an event at the fieldhouse.
Out with the guys There are folks who come in for the NFL NTN.
Business dinner Naw. Don't think so.

Representative Beer Menu
(This is the actual menu for 1/29/03)

On Tap
(All draft beers are available for carryout in half-gallon growlers)
USA Micro Brews
  • Dogfish Head
         60 Minute IPA
  • Northcoast Brewing
          Old Rasputin Imperial Stout 16oz
  • Goose Island
          IPA
  • Hair Of The Dog
         Fred 10oz
  • Rogue
          Imperial IPA (I2PA) 10oz
          Dead Guy (Bock)
          Hazelnut Brown
          Smoked Bock
  • Redhook
         Blonde
         IPA (Cask Conditioned)
         Nut Brown
         Blackhook Porter (nitro)
         Winterhook
  • Sierra Nevada
         Bigfoot Barley Wine 10oz
         Porter
  • Bell’s
         2 Hearted IPA

Indiana Micros

  • Three Floyds - Hammond
         Alpha King Pale
         Robert The Bruce Scottish Ale
         Dread Naught (Handpull)
  • Oaken Barrel - Greenwood
         Razzwheat
  • Mad Anthony - Ft. Wayne
         Ol’ Woody Pale Ale
  • Back Road Brewery - Laporte
         IPA

Germany

  • Spaten Optimator
  • Hacker Pschorr Weisse
  • Hacker Pschorr Dunkel- Weisse

England

  • Newcastle Nut Brown
  • Bass Pale Ale
  • Guinness Stout
  • Gayle’s Prize Old Ale 10oz
  • Harviestoun Old Engine Oil

Australia/Canada

  • Fosters Lager

Belgium

  • Lindemans Framboise (Lambic) 9oz
  • Stille Nacht 10oz

Ciders

  • Woodchuck Draft Cider
  • Woodchuck Pear Cider

Major Domestic

  • Bud And Bud Light
  • Miller Lite
  • Coors Light, Blue Moon, Killians
  • Sam Adams Winter Lager
In Bottles
All available for carry-out

USA Micro Brews

  • Three Floyds Extra Pale
  • Abita Amber
  • Anchor Liberty
  • Bells Expedition Stout
  • Dogfish 90min IPA
  • Dogfish Midas Touch
  • Dogfish Immort Ale
  • Dogfish Chicory Stout
  • Dogfish Pale Ale
  • Dogfish World Wide Stout
  • Oaken Barrel Gnaw Bone Ale
  • Upland Porter
  • Rogue Brutal Bitter
  • Rogue Shakespeare Stout

Major Imports

  • Amstel Light
  • Ayinger Weisse
  • Becks
  • Grolsch
  • Harp
  • Corona
  • Dos Equis
  • Fosters Oil Cans
  • Heineken
  • Red Stripe
  • Molson Ice
  • Moosehead
  • Labatts Blue
  • Warsteiner

Belgian And Belgian Style Ales

  • Arabier
  • Bos Keun
  • Chimay Cing Cents
  • Chimay Grand Reserve
  • Chimay Premier
  • Delirium Nocturnum
  • Delirium Tremens
  • Duvel
  • Gulden Draak
  • Hennepin-Usa
  • Lindeman Cassis
  • Lindeman Kriek
  • Lindeman Peche
  • Maudite-Canada
  • Oerbier
  • Orval
  • Piraat
  • Pranqster Ale-Usa
  • Rare Vos-Usa
  • Stille Nacht
  • Trois Pistoles-Canada
  • Duinen Dubble
  • Duinen Tripple
  • Latrappe Quad

Bocks

  • Celebrator Double
  • Eggenberg Urbock

Specialty Imports

  • Flag Porter
  • John Courage
  • Froach Heather Ale
  • Mcewans Scotch Ale
  • Moretti La Rossa
  • Negra Modelo
  • Old Peculier
  • Old Rasputin
  • Pilsner Urquell
  • San Miguel Dark
  • Skullsplitter
  • Xingu Black Beer
  • Young’s Chocolate Stout
  • Young’s Dirty Dicks
  • Young’s Ol’ Nick Barley Wine
  • Sam Smith Imperial Stout
  • Sam Smith India Ale
  • Sam Smith Nut Brown
  • Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout
  • Sam Smith Organic Ale
  • Sam Smith Pale Ale
  • Sam Smith Pure Lager
  • Sam Smith Taddy Porter
  • Sam Smith Winter Welcome

Major Brands

  • Bud 
  • Bud Light
  • Coors Light
  • Miller Light
  • MGD
  • Michelob
  • Michelob Light
  • Michelob Ultra
  • Sam Adams Cherry Wheat
  • Honey Brown
  • Icehouse
  • Rolling Rock
  • Sam Adams Light

Alternative Beverages

  • Bacardi Silver
  • Mikes Hard Lemonade
  • Skyy Blue
  • Smirnoff Ice
  • Sauza
  • Jack Daniels Hard Cola
  • Hornsby Cider

All beers are separately priced ranging from under $2 per pint to over $8 per 23 oz glass.

Six 4oz samplers for $6 - they pick. For instance, recently it was:

  • Three Floyds Robert the Bruce
  • Sprecher Dopplebock
  • Back Road Maple City Gold
  • Fuller London Pride
  • Rogue Mocha Porter
  • Left Hand Milk Stout.

Wednesday - $3.25 Indiana pints
Thursday - $3.75 Rogue or Stone pints
Friday - $3.75 Mad Anthony 20oz imperial pints

Check the daily specials on the board and the list of new beers at the server's station.

Representative Food Menu

Finger Foods $3 - $6
Salads $4 - $6.50
Burgers, Sandwiches, Wraps $4 - $6.50
Steaks $15 - $19
Wings $6.50 per dozen
Tenders $6.50 per half dozen
Legs $4 per 4

10% food discount for American Homebrewers Association
and Institute For Brewing Studies members (and one guest).

1/2 price appetizers Mon-Thurs 5-7pm.

Other Indianapolis BW3 Locations
(with smaller beer menus)

2514 Lake Circle Dr.
86th & Township Line
(just a mall-crawl away from Neon Johnny's).

6235 Guilford Ave.
Broad Ripple

8440 Castleton Corner Dr.
Castleton

2683 East Main Street
Plainfield

8020 US 31 South
At Stop 11 and US 31

6135 W 25th St.
Speedway Shopping Center
(Next to Union Jack).

There are also BW3's all over the state Some are better than others, of course.

715 N. Green River Rd.
Evansville
812-471-9464

5405 Pearl Drive
Evansville
812-423-9464

1803 E. Markland Ave.
Kokomo
765-457-WILD

3400 Teal Road
Lafayette
765-477-9325

360 Brown Street
W. Lafayette
765-743-1188

500 E. 81st Ave.
Merrillville
219-794-9453

5000 S. Franklin St.
Michigan City
219-872-9464

1200 U.S. 41
Schererville
219-865-3222

123 W. Washington St.
South Bend
219-232-2293

3718 US 41 South
Terre Haute
812-242-9464

1425 W. Dupont Rd
Fort Wayne
260-490-6556

 
The taps at 86th St.