I recently told you of my new found love of Flanagan’s Ale House. Now I tell you that if you’re a beer fan you should head over to Flanagan’s tonight, November 20, 2008, for Kentucky IPA Pint Night.

Flanagan’s will be featuring a single-batch Kentucky IPA that started life as a homebrew recipe. Apparently a contest was thrown to bring together homebrewers and craft brewers and this “hoppy, English style ale” is the result. And also apparently at Flanagan’s, on pint nights, each pint ordered wins you a free collectible glass while supplies last.
Some more details about this IPA, the contest and the brewer (since I know so very little about beer):

The Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am competition celebrates the deep connections that have always existed between homebrewers and professional craft brewers by teaming up amateur and professional brewers in a competition held during the Great American Beer Festival.

This year, over 60 craft breweries selected award-winning homebrew recipes from American Homebrewers Association (AHA)/Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) sanctioned homebrew competitions. Kentucky IPA was the winning selection at this year’s Kentucky Brew-off, an annual spring homebrewing competition hosted by Alltech’s Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.

The professional brewer scaled up the winning homebrew recipe and brewed a commercial-sized batch in their brewery. The brewery then submitted their entry into the GABF Pro-Am Competition to be judged in a Best-of-Show style judging against all the other GABF Pro-Am entries. The top three beers are awarded first, second, and third place, and both the winning breweries and their partner homebrewers receive gold, silver, and bronze GABF Pro-Am medals (respectively). The medals are presented during the GABF awards ceremony on October 11, 2008 in Denver.

In 2007, Bill Caldwell of Paris, Kentucky won the Pro-Am silver medal with his Kentucky Hefeweizen, a Bavarian-style wheat beer. This year’s English-style IPA was formulated by Kevin Patterson of Lexington.

There were only a handful of kegs allotted for Louisville, and it will never be produced again.