Fewer taps (about 15) than the others detailed at IndianaBeer but an excellent bottled beer selection and a bar that always has good conversation. A round-the-world club will entice you to come back.For the city's best single malt Scotch selection, try the Ale Emporium's equally classy but slightly more pickled ex-brother, T.D. Alibis, 7381 N. Shadeland Ave. Neon Johnny's on the Northwest side of Indianapolis was also an Ale Emporium years back. It hasn't changed muchAll beers priced separately on convenient menu. $3.30 per pint is normal with some going up to $7 of course. Most pints are priced under $3 on Wednesdays.

Beer Sellar

6466 E. 82nd St.
317-849-BREW

East of Castleton Square on the north side of 82nd. Behind Fazoli's and next to Hooters.

A roadhouse-style sports bar with "50 Taps, 100 Bottles & 1 Bitchin' jukebox". A small chain affiliated with Hooters (there's one of those next door) also in Nashville, TN and Newport, KY.They truly do have 150 beers and we're always happy to see a big choice. You won't find anything truly exotic but its a good basic, inoffensive, selection.The marble-top bar seats 17 with views of 4 TVs. Two 6' pool tables and a shuffleboard table. Rock cover bands, Thurs, Fri, Sat.Most pints $2.50 - $4.50.

Mondays: $2.50 drafts.
Sundays and/or Thursdays: half-price pitchers. For instance $5 for a pitcher of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
Sandwiches: Around $7

Binkley's Kitchen and Bar

5902 N. College, Indianapolis, IN 46220

Offering a few good beers on tap. Feels like a chain restaurant but much classier. Full menu focusing on sandwiches, pastas, and burgers. All around $8.00

Chatham Tap

719 Massachusetts Ave, Indianapolis

Downtown English-theme pub opened in September, 2007.

Fare such as Hobgoblin, Smithwick's, Bass, Fuller's ESB, Dirty Helen. Guinness, Tetley's, and Boddingtons on nitro. All served at appropriate temperature. Large bottled selection.

Daily beer specials:
Tues: $20 Buckets of 5 English Bottled Beers
Wed: $3.50 Indiana bottles. $3 Dirty Helen
Thurs: $4 English pints.

Food includes English standards such as Steak & Guinness pie, Sausage & Mash, Fish & Chips along with burgers, pizza, steaks, salmon, pork chops. Sunday: Steak & Yorkshire Pudding: $12.

Smoking allowed after 11pm.

Chumley's

838 Broad Ripple Ave.
317-466-1555

50 taps and 99 bottles. Draft beer ranges from $2.75 to $4.50. Bottles from $2.75 to $6.00. Pizza and a full menu of sandwiches at $6-$7. Good beer folk. Their beer club gives you a T-shirt and your name on the wall after 50 different selections. There's also a Chumley's in Lafayette.

Fox and Hound

4901 E. 82nd
317-913-1264

Next to Castleton Wine on the south side of 82nd east of Allisonville Rd.

Mon - Sat: 11am - 3am
Sunday: 11am - 12:30am

Web site

Big wood & TV place with 36 taps and 65 bottled beers. The restaurant portion and menu are much like a TGIF but there are eight 8-ft pool tables in two recreation rooms. One is cigar-friendly. Steel darts, board games. The beers on tap cover a wide range that can be found at high-volume upscale bars plus a few specialties for folks like us. Bottled selection is more interesting with a dozen microbreweries represented. Thursday is $2 pint day. Other special days for cheap budmillercoors.A $25 (lifetime fee) mug club allows 23oz numbered mugs for the price of 16oz pints. Also 1/2 price wings. Family dining until 10pm.
21 and older after 10pm. There's also a Fox and Hound in Evansville and many more around the country.

Representative Food Menu

Starters	$5 - $7
Wings	10 / $6.50
Sandwiches, burgers	$6 - $7
Baskets	$7 - $11
Ribs	$12 - $17
Pizza	$8
Salads	$5 - $6
Soups	$4

Daily specials.

Late menu (11pm - close) is $2 off appetizers.

JR Holiers U-Call-It

At Emerson and County Line Roads.

Lots of bottled beers and 6 interesting taps (3 Floyds, Whitsun, Bells, Rouge, Goose Island for example). The draft Kirin Ichiban and Goose Island Hexnut are two of the favorites. Decor is sort of bistro with couches and racks of wine. Large cigar humidor. And like any modern bar, a dozen different martinis. They open the beer/wine/martini bar at 5pm but he pub behind the restaurant is open more normal hours including a killer home-like lunch menu. Their grilled cheese and bacon sandwich and veggy soup are just like my wife's.

Neon Johnny's

2650 Lake Circle
317-879-1212
In Willowlake Shopping Center at 86th St. and Township Line Rd.

This is the old west-side Ale Emporium and not much has changed since the new moniker - and that's a good thing. 20 taps, 70 bottles. They call it a sports bar and there are lots of TVs including a digital link. The magnificent back bar dates to the 1900s. Just a mall-crawl away from a BW3.

The Russia House

1475 W. 86th St
317-876-7990
Behind (way behind) Half Price Books.

Mon-Thu 5:30pm-9:30pm
Fri-Sat 5:30pm-10pm

Some interesting Eastern European beers you won't find elsewhere. 12 or 16 oz bottles are uniformly $4.Entrees range from cutlets at $9 to Mondovian Beef at $15 and full spreads for two at $40-$50. And, of course, borsch.

Cristal Lager - Czech Rep
Alderis Zelta Lager and Porter - Latvia
Stary Melnik - Moscow
Kozlak Porter - Poland
Obolon Lager - Ukraine
Golden Pheasant - Slovenia
Plus one American beer: Old Rasputin.

Slippery Noodle Inn

372 S. Meridian St.
317-631-0619
Meridian and South Streets.
web site

Blues bar that has a mundane selection of beers - the only interesting one being Oaken Barrel's Razz Wheat. It's listed here because it's an Indianapolis institution and great place to experience the blues. Another place claiming to be the oldest bar in Indiana. The Knickerbocker in Lafayette is older but closed during prohibition.

Spencer's Stadium Tavern

802 South West Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46225
(Corner of West & McCarty Streets)
317-916-8888
Website

Historic tavern. 8 taps, 7 of which are dedicated to local and craft beers. Small but good variety in bottles. Bartender is Dustin Boyer, a brewer and beer geek.

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