Recbar 812 build-out underway. Here's my beer advice.

Always a pleasure to link to the IU Southeast newspaper.

Here's a suggestion for Recbar 812. If they're intent on 20 draft lines, then become an unofficial "tied" house for an Indiana brewery (obviously contractual agreements are not legal) and devote half those lines to them.

Sun King? Three Floyds? 18th Street? Daredevil? Be different, guys.

Or, just be an Indiana-beer-only draft house; it would be easy enough to do, and the inevitable mass market swill could be served in cans.

No charge. Just buy me a drink some time.

Recbar 812 powering up downtown New Albany, by Bryce Shreve (Horizon)

Jeffersontown arcade-bar’s owner looks forward to expanding

New Albany’s Pearl Street will soon be home to an expansion of Louisville’s popular arcade-bar known as Recbar.

The New Albany Recbar location will occupy more than double the square footage of its Louisville location. Founder and owner Corey Sims plans on housing over 200 games at Recbar 812, including Centipede, Donkey Kong and several mini-bowling lanes.

In addition to Recbar 812’s myriad arcade games and pinball machines, Sims plans on having between 16-20 brews on tap, similar to the Louisville location’s 16 taps.

Recbar’s announcement to expand in mid-April was a pleasant surprise to its Facebook followers, but Sims said it had been decided from the beginning.

“We always believed Recbar would be a concept that we could expand beyond our current location,” Sims said. “New Albany was the perfect fit” ...

Gahan issues oblivious economic development proclamation: "We don’t have anything like this. We have a few pinball machines, we have some arcade games."

Listen to the Economic Development engine pencil sharpener get it wrong: Recbar opening second location in downtown New Albany (at WAVE 3).

"We don’t have anything like this. We have a few pinball machines, we have some arcade games, but this will be a concentration of them, and it will serve all ages, even folks like me who remember pinball in the 80s – and Space Invaders."

This will come as a complete surprise to the Super Coin Op Bros and their patrons at NABC's Pizzeria & Public House, where a popular arcade has been up and running for a while now.

Maybe Hizzoner didn't know. Maybe Gahan thinks I still own part of NABC. Maybe the pencil sharpener is taking credit for so many things that have absolutely nothing to do with him that he can't keep track of his vacuous boasts.

But Gahan's assessment is mistaken -- and he owes the Super Coin Op Bros an apology, doesn't he?

Recbar in Jeffersontown to open second location in downtown New Albany.

NA Social shared RecBar's post.

For more about RecBar Louisville, click here.

That's all I have, seeing as prior to seeing NA Social's post, I didn't even know there WAS such a thing as Recbar. The old Rosita's location has been moribund for a very long time, so this is good news.