In the market for your own brewery? Old Man River in McGregor, Iowa is up for sale and there will be an open house on March 27th. There will be half price appetizers and some gourmet food as well as 5 new beers being released.
The building was built in 1880 and has recently undergone a $4.5 million dollar renovation and has 8,236 square feet. Here’s the link to the Iowa Realty website for more info if you’re interested!
Huge drop coming from Abu Nawas this week that will bring many breweries and many beers from all over the world! Check it out!
Casa Bruja
Join us in welcoming Panama’s award-winning “Witch House” Casa Bruja Brewing Company to Iowa. A leader in the Latin American brewing scene.Founded in December 2013, Casa Bruja was the first craft brewery in Panama. Many consider it responsible for starting what is now a multi-billion dollar craft beer industry in their home country.
- Casa Bruja Flower Sour 24/12oz – Sour Wheat Ale w/ Flowers and Honey. Born from the belief that Beer traditionally uses flowers: hop flowers. 6.6% ABV.
- Casa Bruja Mixed Gose 6/4/12oz – A mixed 4pks of the most interesting Gose they make! Graviola(Soursop), Kaffir Lime, Guava, & Raspberry.
From Spain:CERVESERA DEL MONTSENY:
- Cervesera del Montseny Mala Vida 16/330 ml – Lucious Imperial Stout. 11% ABV.
- Cervesera del Montseny Mala Vida Bourbon 16/330 ml – Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels. 11% ABV.
- Cervesera del Montseny Mala Vida Brandy 16/330 ml – Imperial Stout aged in Brandy Barrels. 11% ABV.
Edge Brewing Barcelona:
- Edge Apassionada 24/330 ml – Tropical Berliner Weisse with passion fruit and hibiscus flowers. 4% ABV.
Brassiere de la Senne
- De La Senne / Crooked Stave Collab. Sunnyside of Bruxelles 12/375ml. – ***Super Excited about this*** Sunnyside Sour Red/Brown Ale brewed in collaboration with Yvan De Baets from Brasserie de la Senne. 6.7% ABV.
- De La Senne / Grimm Collab. I Still Love The Old World 12/500ml – Noble-Hopped Ale w/ Raw Wheat & Brettanomyces. An ode to the brewers and beers that have long inspired the Grimm philosophy. Created in collaboration with the legendary brewer/scholar Yvan De Baets of De La Senne in Brussels, this extra-hoppy old world ale shows off our unique and evolving house ale yeast — serially repitched since Grimm’s opening for favorable genetic drift — in combination with gentle Brettanomyces and noble hops. The result is a thirst-quenching Belgian-style blonde loaded with complex brett-forward fruitiness and a noble hop-driven lingering herbal bitterness. Raw wheat in the grist and a traditional step-mash process provide an elegant malt character to this brewer’s favorite beer. 5.3% ABV. ****
De Ranke
- De Ranke Franc Belge 330 ml – Well-bittered Belgian Pale Ale.
- Kriek De Ranke 6/750 ml – Kriek de Ranke is an unsweetened cherry beer of mixed fermentation. It arises from a blend of old Flemish ale, lambic and 25 kilos of sour cherries. 7% ABV.
- De Ranke XX Bitter 330 ml – Original hopped up Belgian, Hallertau and Brewers Gold hops.
- De Ranke XXX Bitter750 ml – Souped-up hoppy Belgian.
- De Ranke Saison de Dottignies 24/330ml bottles. Dry, earthy Saison. 5.5% ABV.
Achel
- Achel 8° Blonde 24/330ml – Blonde Trappist Ale 8.0% ABV.
- Achel 8° Bruin24/330 ml – BruinTrappist Ale 8.0% ABV.
- Achel Trappist Extra 6/750 ml – Belgian Quadrupel extraordinary ale is brewed by the Trappist Monks of the St. Benedictus Abbey at Achel, Belgium. 9.5% ABV
Blaugies
- Blaugies Darbyste 375ml – 375ml – of Belgian Saison made with fig juice.
- Blaugies La Moneuse 375ml – One of our all-time favorites! Delicious and Earthy, well-hopped farmhouse ale. 8% ABV.
- Blaugies Saison d’Epeautre 375ml – Saison made with spelt, dry and funky. 6.0%
Brouwerij Kerkom
- Kerkom Bink Bloesem 24/330ml – A unique Belgian Ale brewed with Honey and Pear Syrup. 7.1% ABV.
- Kerkom Reuss 12/750ml. Blend of Belgian Ale and well-aged lambic. 6.5% ABV ❤️❤️❤️
- Kerkom Bink Blond24/330ml – Delicious and balanced Belgian Blonde. 6.0% ABV.
- Kerkom Bink Bruin 24/330ml – Mellow dark Belgian. 6.0% ABV
Brasserie Au Baron
Au Baron / Jester King Collab. Noblesse Oblige 6/750 ml – Bière de Garde brewed with honey and Simcoe, Cascade, and Sorachi Ace hops. 4.7% ABV.
Brasserie Thiriez
- Thiriez Amber Farmhouse Ale 330 ml – NEW FORMAT – Amber French Farmhouse, roughly Biere de Garde in style.
- Thiriez Blonde Farmhouse330 ml – NEW FORMAT – Hop-accented pale Belgian made with classic French Saison yeast strain (pssst. it’s from this brewery.)
- Thiriez Extra Farmhouse Ale330 ml – NEW FORMAT – Absolute Classic hoppy low-alc Farmhouse Ale. Inspiration for Jester King’s Petit Prince, Jolly Pumpkin’s Bam, Taras Boulba and many others!
- Thiriez/Get Radical Train to Mars 750 ml – American hops put to use in the French Countryside.
- Thiriez Vieille Brune 750 ml – Wine barrel-aged sour brown ale.
Kulmbacher Brauerei
- EKU 28 330 ml – Rich and dark strong lager, if you had to put this in a style, triple bock is probably where it would end up.
- EKU Pils330 ml – Clean bright straw-toned malts and pretty European noble hop character backbone this delicious and approachable pilsner.
- EKU Pils5L Mini-Keg (two-pack) – Clean bright straw-toned malts and pretty European noble hop character backbone this delicious and approachable pilsner.
- Kulmbacher Pils330 ml – Slightly leaner and drier than the EKU Pils, but honestly both are delicious.
- Kulmbacher Pils 5L Mini-Keg (two-pack) – Slightly leaner and drier than the EKU Pils, but honestly both are delicious.
- Kulmbacher Eisbock 330 ml – Strong dark beer (9.6%) enriched and concentrated by freezing and removing the ice and leaving the concentrated beer behind.
- Monchshof Kellerbier500 ml swing top – Well-bittered and unfiltered Amber Lager.
- Monchshof Kellerbier 5L Mini-Keg (two-pack) – Well-bittered and unfiltered Amber Lager.
- Monchshof Schwarzbier 500 ml swing top – Delicious and classic black lager.
- Monchshof Schwarzbier 5L Mini-Keg (two-pack) – Delicious and classic black lager.
Mahr’s Brau
England:
Big Grove in Iowa City will be celebrating their 3 year anniversary on March 14th and in doing so will be releasing 5 beers, 4 of which had yet to be canned. This beers will be available in Iowa City and Solon locations on March 14th! Here’s more from BGB!
Iowa City Lager | German Style Pilsner
Color TV | Hazy Double IPA w/ Galaxy
Passion Fruit Vanilla | Fruited Sour Ale
Creek Jumper | New World Pale Ale
Bananas Foster | Rum Barrel Aged Imperial Stout with BananasAvailable ONLY at Big Grove Brewery in Solon and Iowa City starting Saturday March 14. Both locations opening at 10:00AM.
Lion Bridge brewery in Cedar Rapids will be celebrating their 6th anniversary March 5th and in doing so will be releasing a couple of beers. Chocofetti Imperial Birthday Cake Stout and Click Bait double IPA will be released in cans. Here’s more on each of these brews:
Chocofetti (Imperial Birthday Cake Stout, 9%) – We’re havin a party, and everyone’s invited. We brewed this birthday cake stout up all special for our 6th birthday. Think chocolate cake and Funfetti frosting. Go ahead and have seconds.
Click Bait (Double IPA, 9%) – Brewed all special for our 6th anniversary, this batch has 6lbs of hops per barrel! Order a Click Bait to see the shocking results!
Confluence Brewing has released their February 2020 release schedule and it is packed with two brews being released every week! Check it out below:
2/7 Extinction Event NEIPA
2/7 Ferryman’s Peanut Butter Cup
2/14 50’s Dad
2/14 ExtraordinBerry
2/21 Ferryman’s Mexican Hot Chocolate
2/21 Wee Heavy
2/28 Ferryman’s Coconut
2/28 Warrior Monk
What better way to spend Valentine’s Day then slamming a few brews with the ones you love! On February 14th, Brick’s will be throwing some TG brews on the lines for your pleasure. Here’s the lineup:
Term Oil ~ served with Fudge Brownie
Morning Delight
Stout Hawk
Dragon Fandango
Pompeii
Psuedo Sue
No tickets necessary for this event, it’s first come first serve! Cheers!
It’s always great to see a small town bar, especially my favorite watering hole, get their hands on some brews that most small town bars aren’t able to land. Chameleon’s Pub and Grub here in Mt. Vernon will have their own barrel-aged tap takeover that will feature this year’s Goose Island Bourbon County stout and also feature 3 Iowa brewed barrel aged beers. The event is next Thursday January 30th, stop on in if you’re around the Mt. Vernon area! Here are more deets on these tappings:
Winter is in full swing in Iowa and what could be better than belling up to the bar with a barrel aged brew to warm your insides. We will be tapping four beautifully crafted barrel aged brews featuring the nationally renown Bourbon County from Chicago’s Goose Island Barrel House along side three local brews. We will be offering specially priced flights on the night of the event so you can try all four! These beers are very limited and will go fast so be sure to stop before they go.
This year’s Bourbon County Stout, aged in a mix of Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace, and Wild Turkey barrels, yields a rich, complex mouthfeel. Flavors of cocoa, fudge, vanilla, caramel, almond, plus leather and tobacco, permeate this beer and deepen with each sip. At 14.7 ABV it won’t take long to forget the cold and to feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Our local options are as followed;
2019 Jesus on a Forklift a barrel-aged imperial rye stout from Exile Brewing Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. This heavy hitter was aged for 9 months in first use Heaven Hill Bourbon barrels and gives of flavors and aromas of rich chocolate, with bourbon and the rye lending some spiciness.
Back Road coconut porter aged in Jim Beam barrels from Millstream Brewing Co. out of Amana Iowa. Black malt and roasted barley give the beer its color, and coffee-like flavors.
Wake the F Up Iowa Imperial Coffee stout from Backpocket Brewing out of Coralville, Iowa. This beer features coffee from our fellow Mount Vernon business owners and friends at Wake Up Iowa Coffee and is barrel aged it in Cedar Ridge and Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels to make Wake The F Up Iowa – an imperial coffee stout that’s plenty boozy, plenty smooth.
We have an early list of breweries and beers that will be available at the 2020 Coralville BrrrFest thanks to the folks at flitebrite. You can access and create your untappd wishlist for the event by clicking here
Here’s the list, I’ll continue to post updates as they come in. Cheers!
-515 Brewing Company
*Dunkel on the Haterz
*Mexican Spring
*OJ Gets Lei’d
*Poobah of Passe
*Puppy Jake
-5ive Cities Brewing Company
-7 Hills Brewing Co.
*Baca Inocula
*Betty’s Private Reserve
*Bi-Polar Vortex
*Bold Blavatsky
*Cerebral Haze
*Muddy Tugger w/Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup
-Alluvial Brewing Company
-Backpocket Brewing
-Barn Town Brewing
-Bent River Brewing Company
*Barrel-Aged Marshmallow Stout
*Chocolate Covered Banana
*Lactobaxpress
*Liquified
-Big Grove Brewery
*Buster
*Cask Sera w/white peppercorn + pineapple
*Easy Eddy Strawberry Pineapple Milkshake
*Experimental Sour w/passion fruit, raspberry + vanilla
*Justice for Barb
*Richard the Whale Vanilla Coconut
*Snowbird
*Static
*White Stout
*Xibalba Wade Wisely
-Boone Valley Brewing
-Brightside Aleworks
-Carroll Brewing Company
*Black Lager
*Carroll Red
*India Pale Ale
*Mild
*Tokyo Pils
-Cedar Ridge
-Clock House Brewing
-Confluence Brewing
-Contrary Brewing
*Finger Licken’ Good
*German’s Chocolate Cake
*Punch You in the Eye
*Zoom Doggy (w/maple & cinnamon)
-Court Avenue Brewing Company
-Crawford Brew Works
-Dimensional Brewing
*Dad Bod
*Denim Venom
*Easy Steve
*Gussied Up
*Jumbled Up: Hazel
*Sweet Acoustics
-East Grove Meadery
-Exile Brewing Company
-Fat Hill Brewing Company
-Fenders Brewing
*Morning Ride
-Firetrucker Brewery
*Black Magic Coffee Stout
*Brigade Ale
*Burnout Brown
*Destination IPA East Coast Style
*Tropical Burn Mago DIPA
-Fishback and Stephenson Cidery
*Maple Starship
*Salty Poser
-Fox Brewing
–Franklin Street Brewing
-Front Street Brewery
–Gezellig Brewing Company
*From Zero to Iffy
*Hug Deal Gone Sideweiss
*Tank in the Frank!
-Green Tree Brewing
-Iowa Brewing Company
*Barrel-Aged In-Tents w/ Trung Nguyen Legendee Coffee
*Barrel-Aged OREOja
*Bohemian Rapids
*Cousin Eddie’s Breakfast Ale
*David Hefehoff
*Double Barrel Hang Fire
*Eagle Lime
*Jinkies! – Lotus, Exp. 07720, Exp. 09326
*Oja’s Peanut Butter Cup Porter
-Jackson Street Brewing
*4 Non Blondes
*Hell’s Half Acre Stout – French Toast
*Imperial Chocolate Peanut Butter Treat
*Nannerbock
*Sioux City Sours & Barrel Aged Stouts
-Jefferson County Ciderworks
-Kalona Brewing Company
-Keg Creek Brewing Company
*Brick Red Ale
*Illuminator VII
*Kashmir Kush DIPA
*Mas Mexican Style Lager
*Moongold Apricot
*Rehashed IPA
-Lake Time Brewing
*Funfetti
*Haze of Our Lives
*Lost Dutchman
*Oreo Speed Wagon
*Peanut Butter Porter
*Welcome to the Jungle Juice
-Lark Brewing Company
-Limestone Brewers
-Lion Bridge Brewing Company
-Millstream Brewing Company
-Mississippi River Distilling
–Mistress Brewing Company
-NoCoast Beer Co.
-Parkside Brewing Company
*Belly Dancer Chai Stout
*Kyle
*No Scurvy
*Raspberry Mother
-Peace Tree Brewing Company
-Pivo Brewing
*Balltown Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Brownie Milk Stout
*Dorchester British Best
-Pulpit Rock Brewing Company
-Quarter Barrel Arcade & Brewery
-Reclaimed Rails Brewing
-ReUnion Brewery
*Cosmic Creamsicle Juice Factory
*Imperial Banshee (2019)
*Ocean Sprayed Cranberry Gose
*Reunion Lager
*Rock ‘N Roll Bus Driver
*Tank Puncher IPA
-Second State Brewing
*Schwarzbier
*Vienna Lager
-SingleSpeed Brewing
*A-Two-Hoo
*Gable
*Hard Won Not Done
*Slightly Heightened Conversation V2.0
*Tip the Cow
*Tip the Cowconut
*Two Cows (Walk into a Barrel)
*Victory Dance
-Thew Brewing
*Candy Double Tappa
*Hello Hazy
*Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree
-Third Base Brewing
*At the Heart of Winter
*Smoak ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
-Toppling Goliath Brewing
*Cherry Fandango
*Dorthy’s New World Lager
*Dragon Fandango
*King Sue
*Mornin’ Delight
*Pompeii
*Pseudo Sue
*Supa’ Sumo
*Term Oil
-Torrent Brewing Company
-Twisted Vine Brewery
*5 Horizons Black Lager
*Cali-Steamer
*Snowlicious
*Twisted Blonde
*Westown IPA
*Whadda Juicebag
-West O Beer
-Wild Culture Kombucha
-Wilson’s Hard Cider
*Old Blue
*Pina de Iowa
*Sutliff Hard Cider
-Worth Brewing
We are in the middle of Lion Bridge’s Barrel-Aged January and last night I was able to get a sneak peek of one of, if not, their most sought after beers, Home Baked! (Thanks Lange Brothers!).
I wouldn’t say last year’s release of Home Baked was a surprise hit since all of what Lion Bridge releases is of the best quality, but I think after a few social media posts, untappd check ins, and Iowa Craft Beer Crew posts this beer hit “best of Iowa” status quickly and the demand went through the roof! Attention from the 2019 version continued through the year and the countdown to today’s release (1/15) began! Here’s the deets from LB on their brew:
Dessert for your desert island. Fudge and saigon cinnamon meld with a little bit of hazelnut goodness to produce something we liken to a cookie in beer form
I was lucky enough to be a +1 at the early release for Lion Bridge’s CSA members and eagerly watched with bated breath as the beer tender poured my beer. Served at the perfect temperature, maybe even let sit a bit after the initial pour, the aromas of hazelnut and cinnamon hit your nose immediately. The first sip is cinnamon with the roasted hazelnut, almost a coconutty taste to it followed by hit of fudge. The second sip…. pure decadence!
The beauty of this beer is that not one adjunct dominates the flavor, they all mesh perfectly well and you get a hit of each with every sip. This is a beer to seek out, to beg a buddy to mule for you if you can’t get to CR, to pray to the beer gods that one winds up in your kitchen ready to be poured. Every sip comes with a smile!
This is one of the best beers that is brewed in Iowa…without a doubt and this year’s version may even be better than the 2019. Lion Bridge does it again…place of employment is canceled today, beer releases at 3:00 p.m…..hmm.. it looks like the beer gods want me to get more of this I believe! See you there and Drink This!
Another exciting release from Lion Bridge will be taking place on February 12th as they will be releasing the “Emperor of Ice Cream”! Deets below:
The Emperor of Ice Cream (Imperial Milk Stout w/Strawberry, Chocolate, Vanilla, 8.5%)
Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Released on draft and available in 4-Packs (1 case limit). We will have a cupcake pairing from That One Cupcake Place.
