Drink: no tavern in the record, then a sports bar, a brewery, and a fries dish with the place's name on it

1830s–PRESENT · THE TWO TOWNSHIPS AND THE CORRIDOR

The drink record of this ground is the tavern record first, and the tavern record is a negative with a long fuse. No tavern, inn, or ordinary is named for Harris or Clay township in Chapman (1880) or Howard (1907) — the station test above carries the search — and the county's temperance story, which Howard prints as a chapter (the county's first temperance society organized in January 1832, the Sons of Temperance after it), belongs to South Bend's ground and is pointed to, not retold. What the ground's own dry-and-wet course was — whether Clay and Harris voted themselves dry under Indiana's local-option regime in the years before statewide prohibition, and what the prohibition years ran across a township line that touches Michigan — stands in no source: the township returns were printed in the press of 1909–1918 and kept in the county's election record, and the want is registered in the gaps roll (GAP-FOOD-5) with those settlers. Through the whole corridor era's first decades, the ground's drinking was done, like its shopping, across the lines in Mishawaka and South Bend — with one documented exception standing inside the deli entry above: the old Macri's, where the regulars played trivia and drank beer late into the night, a deli doing a tavern's work in the years before the corridor had one.

The tavern form arrived with the chains of the corridor's own region. Between the Buns — the Osceola sports-bar house founded in 1985, whose own copy claims an ESPN top-eight sports-bar ranking among its honors — kept a Granger room at 12797 Indiana 23 by 2011, when the farmers market's own directions placed the market "next to Between the Buns restaurant," and in 2012, when the Kids Club Card roster printed the Granger location among its five. The room closed in the chain's contraction: by 2017 the review record counts the house shrunk from five locations to its Osceola original, and the Granger room's own closing year stands in the gaps roll (GAP-FOOD-7). In December 2011, while that sports-bar room still traded up the road, the ground got its brewery. Bare Hands Brewery opened in December 2011 at the Princess Way industrial court — the firm is the Businesses leg's, at business strength; the drink record is this: a South Bend native, Chris Gerard, who had home-brewed for years, brewing professionally at last in a suburban industrial suite, ten rotating taps, small batches, a taproom that became the local beer culture's clubhouse, its Mail Order Bride Russian Imperial Stout and Thai.P.A. the signatures the trade press carried. In May 2014 the brewery became a story of the community carrying one of its own: closing the taproom on the night of May 17, Gerard suffered a significant brain injury; his father Barry stepped in to run the brewery; the Indiana brewing community rallied with benefit pours across the state, and the benefit golf outing for his family's costs was set for June 23, 2014, at Knollwood Country Club, in Granger. By June the Tribune's account had him on the mend, stopping by the brewery to greet the crew. The brewery trades still, in its fifteenth year — the oldest drink institution on the ground, and the first brewery seated here in any record reached: the test for a predecessor was run against both county histories, the directories, and the press record, and no brewery, distillery, or winery stands in either township before it (the farm era's cider and stills, if any, left no record that names them, and none is invented here). Its address prints two ways in the record, unmerged: the brewery's current listing gives 12804 Sandy Court; the 2014 press printed 12801 Sandy Court and 12801 Princess Way — one court, two street names, as the sources give them. The corridor's later drink layer prints at chronology size: Bar Louie's three-story arrival at GrandView in August 2020 (the Businesses leg carries its whole course, mall tenancy and bankruptcy survival included); JC's room at Toscana, carrying a bar among its listed trades; and The Pitt Stop, a sports grill at 13020 Indiana 23 whose 2024 menu carries the one dish in the entire record that bears this place's name — Loaded Granger Fries. A place that waited a century and a half for a tavern has a namesake plate of fries. The record is allowed its small jokes, as long as they are documented.

Sources:

1. Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), township chapters searched for tavern, inn, hotel, brewery, distillery, and winery entries: none named for Harris or Clay; Howard's temperance and prohibition chapter (the 1832 society, the Sons of Temperance) is South Bend material, pointed to only.
2. Between the Buns: company profiles (founded 1985; Osceola headquarters, 1720 Lincolnway West); the Granger Farmers Market's own 2011 directions ("next to Between the Buns restaurant"); the Kids Club Card roster (© 2012: "Between the Buns Granger, 12797 Indiana 23"); the 2017 review record (five locations shrunk to the Osceola original).
3. Bare Hands Brewery: the brewery's own published account ("opened in December, 2011… Owned and operated by South Bend native Chris Gerard… 10 rotating taps"), its current listing (12804 Sandy Ct); Indiana on Tap, May–June 2014 (the May 17 injury; Chris and Kim Gerard; the home-brewing years; the brewers' rally; the address as printed there, 12801 Sandy Court); the South Bend Tribune, June 2, 2014, via Indiana on Tap ("Granger brewery owner on the mend": Barry Gerard operating the business at "12801 Princess Way"; the June 23 Knollwood benefit outing; the $60,000 goal); The Full Pint, October 3, 2012 (the brewery in its first year).
4. The Pitt Stop, Granger (grangerpittstop.com; menu, 2024): 13020 IN-23; "Loaded Granger Fries" as printed on the menu. This build's Businesses leg: the Bar Louie course whole (pointed to).