IndiHop

Great way to check out the neighborhoods! For only 25 $ you get to try as many as 50 craft beers! And all the business that host a stop are super friendly and enthusiastic about the visitors. Definitely coming back next year!

2^nd annual indihop
I love the concept of Indihop, I went and experienced places that I never would have tried and now what to come back!
Pros: day drinking, beautiful weather, lovely interactions with business owners, food was excellent, shuttle bus was awesome.
Cons: only one beer tasting at each location, URBAN CHESNUT-​event sponsor was not having tastings at their new beautiful brewery??? CRRRRRAzy!
They were rude in fact about it.
Ohhh the lines waiting for beer, around 6pm many of the locations were running out if beer.
Oh well, had a great time and got sufficiently drunk!

TW – it’s totally worth $ 20… you crazy.

Got to experience the second year of IndiHop, sort of a bar crawl event that goes up and down the Grove and Cherokee Street. A bus shuttles you between the two locations. The event went from noon to five, but we didn’t get there until 2ish. For 20 dollars, I don’t think it was worth it unless you spend the whole time there. You go into all the local shops and get a pour of a different type of local beer at each place. I definitely did not get 20 dollars worth of beer, but again, we weren’t there the whole time. It was fun to check out all these cool local places, some of them old friends, some of them new places where I was like, oh yeah, I’ve heard of this place! It was really cool. Also discovered a few new spots which I will definitely be working into my regular rotation.
I think my biggest complaint was the shuttle. We waited probably a half an hour for it, which of course wasted more beer drinking time. Then, the shuttle took the most ridiculous route to get to the other location. It took forever to get there. Honestly. It was annoying. The shuttles were supposed to run until 7:30, which many people planned to use as their designated ride. They took down the shuttle stop signs when the event was over, but we did end up seeing a shuttle, which we flagged down. This was at about 6:30. The driver said we were lucky because they were on their last run. Last run? Really? They brochure said 7:30. I really hope everyone got home safely. I would have been pissed if I had had to pay for a cab when I was anticipating being able to take the shuttle.
Anyway, overall it was a good time, but nothing spectacular. They need to iron out some kinks to make it worth 20 bones. Also, this is the kind of event where if you’re with cool people and you’re a cool person, it will be fun, but if you’re boring, or with assholes, it will suck.