Kickshaw Barrel Works’ owner/founder Bill Heinrich has the list of accounts that will be selling Kickshaw’s first release which is scheduled to be happening the 1st week of August. Very excited for this release and to see what Bill has in store for us! Here’s the list courtesy of Kickshaw’s Facebook page:
Initial list of accounts for the first Kickshaw release:
Off-premise!
John’s Grocery, Iowa City
Benz Beverage Depot, Cedar Rapids
North Dodge Hyvee Wine and Spirits, Iowa City
Mount Vernon Road Hyvee Wine and Spirits, Cedar Rapids
Lion Bridge Brewing Co., Cedar RapidsOn-premise!
Lincoln Wine Bar, Mount Vernon
Club 76 The Lodge, North Liberty
Red Vespa, Solon
Big Grove Brewery, Solon
Lion Bridge Brewing Co., Cedar RapidsThe first run is going to be pretty short, but if you’d like to get on board with some Kickshaw, please let me know and we’ll see what we can do. And there will be more coming, barring any catastrophes.
Big Grove Brewery will be invading Mosleys this Saturday June 25th as part of the Pig Pedal Classic Bike Ride. This ride raises money for Children’s Cancer Connection and Mosley’s is one of the stops on the tour. Here’s more info on how to become part of this great fundraiser:
Along with those stops, at Mosleys, Big Grove Brewery will be taking over the lines with these 12 offerings:
This past weekend my wife and I were traveling to Dike for a fundraiser and decided to set some time aside to travel to downtown Cedar Falls to visit SingleSpeed Brewery. I had never been to SingleSpeed but only had their white IPA at a beer festival, which I found refreshing, so I was looking forward to checking out another Iowa brewery.
Here’s what we tried:
Single Speed will be opening up another brewery in what was the Wonder Bread building in Waterloo. I believe they will still operate out of their Cedar Falls brewery as well. More on the new brewery 
Sierra Nevada’s popular Beer Camp Across America hits Reds Ale House taplines tomorrow night! (Tuesday June 14th). The 6 one-time only beers are West Latitude, Stout of the Union, Moxee-Moron, Family Values, Pat-Rye-Ot, and Sweet Sunny South. Get to Reds tomorrow night and check them out! More info on the press release below!
I should have probably done a post about something a bit easier to get a hold of, but I think many Iowa beer lovers make the trek to Decorah a few times a month to get the latest and greatest for TG, so why not talk about the latest double IPA I really enjoyed that you can get in Decorah as well?
Prairie will be releasing 3 beers this month. 2 of which we’ve seen and 1 that is new and going to be added to their year round lineup. Here are the brews:
**Prairie Apple Brandy Noir –
for a Pop-Up Taproom Takeover at Blackstone in Iowa City. Sam Hall once again making it happen by getting one of Iowa’s newest and hottest upcoming breweries to take over his lines at Blackstone. I hope to see some people there, if you attend, stop by and say hi! Here’s the list:
Official Press release:
Here’s who will be appearing on at “The Tappening” on June 11th in the Port of Dubuque. A pretty solid looking list. Haven’t seen what specific beers will be brought but a nice Iowa representation along with 7G and Johnson Brothers. Hope you can make it!