Soul Shakedown Party

Soul Shakedown Party is a barrel-aged specialty beer from Sun King Brewing, an Indiana brewery with taprooms around Indianapolis. The brewery lists it as an Experimental Beer in its own competition results but publishes no page for it.

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Specs

Brewery Description

Soul Shakedown Party uses rum barrel aging to round out the huge toffee and port character of our Wee Muckle Scotch Ale

Source: Untappd (hand-read citation): Soul Shakedown Party

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The listing gives molasses and orange peel as flavors rather than confirmed additions; no recipe ingredients are entered. Untappd (hand-read citation): Soul Shakedown Party

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines have no standalone entry for this competition category; their Other Strong Ale or Lager entry sets elevated alcohol at 8% ABV and up and notes that wood- and barrel-aged beers meeting that threshold are categorized separately. The listed strength exceeds that threshold.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Sun King Brewing is in Fishers, IN. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: In planning.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website.

Related

• Brewery: Sun King Brewing

Links

• BeerAdvocate: Soul Shakedown Party
• Untappd (hand-read citation): Soul Shakedown Party
• Sun King Brewing
• Sun King: our beers
• Sun King: blog
• Sun King: 2025 Indiana Brewers Cup results
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked untappd.com, beeradvocate.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, sunkingbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, sunkingbrewing.com.

Research Notes

• The brewery's beer list and blog were checked; neither has a page for this beer, and no 2026 GABF post was found on the blog (latest post dated 9/23/26).
• The brewery's July 2025 post lists the beer as 1st place, Specialty Beer, labelled Experimental Beer, at the 2025 Indiana Brewers Cup.
• Search result snippets (not opened, so not used as specs) described it as a rum barrel-aged Scotch ale built on a Wee Muckle base, with conflicting figures of 14.1% ABV (Brewbound) and 9.0% ABV (Taphunter), both at 30 IBU. Brewbound, Taphunter and BeerAdvocate all returned HTTP 403, so none of these figures is verified.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13: Found a readable matching Untappd listing with ABV, IBU, base style and rum barrel treatment. BeerAdvocate also lists 13.7%, while a review there reports 14.1% for the 2021 festival pour. The current product listing value is retained, not asserted as a measured 2026 medal batch; earlier search snippets cited in the first pass remain unverified. No hop varieties or brewery beer page were found.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: A new brewery-domain search found awards mentions but no Soul Shakedown Party beer page or named hops; ingredients from other beers on award pages were excluded.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Soul Shakedown Party lists 9% ABV, 30 IBU, style "Scotch Ale" (entry last modified 2020-05-02). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery blog tag page lists awards only; the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended.