An annual favorite returns to Lion Bridge in a few weeks as Majestic Beast makes its way back to tap lines and cans! Here’s more from Lion Bridge!
A newly imagined beast that is oh so majestic. Strata and Azacca dry-hop with a healthy addition of Comet at the end of boil to add even more beauty to this magnificent creature.
A new beer coming from Lion Bridge brewing in a couple of weeks as they are set to release Polotmavy (pronounced polo t’ma veh) on Wednesday November 9th when the doors open at 3 p.m. Here’s more on this brew from Lion Bridge:
This Czech Amber Lager utilizes floor-malted Bohemian Pilsner Malt and Saaz hops to produce a beautifully-clean drinking experience.
Old Town Lager
Corvette Steve – Fruited Sour
Double Blasticity – DBL IPA
HNBC Peanut Butter Porter
Two big releases this week coming from Backpocket Brewing! “This is Fire” will be released this Friday (10/7) and “Iowa Nightmare” will be coming at us on Saturday (10/8)! Here’s more on these two delicious sounding releases!
Friday 10/7 THIS IS FIRE! This double dry hopped IPA was brewed with our friends at Reserve Artisan Ales! This hazy IPA is crafted with Flaked Wheat and Golden Promise Malt for a full body and soft, pillowy mouthfeel. Ekuanot and Galaxy hops create a flavorful IPA, with flavors of citrus, peach and passionfruit.
Saturday 10/8 Iowa Nightmare! This pumpkin stout was barrel aged in Mississippi River Distilling Company barrels for 9 months. This big, bold stout has flavors of oak, coffee, chocolate, and dark fruits. After being in barrels, we added squash purée and pumpkin pie spices for the perfect seasonal treat!
Braaaaaaains Blackberry Cherry Plum
A new Braaaaaaaains! We stuffed this one with Blackberry, Cherries and Plum and then hit it with our double secret smoothie treatment of sea salt, lactose, and vanilla!⠀
NEW – Two Right Eyes – Hazy DBL IPA
For this banger we set out to laser focus our vision, flip our perspective and get weird with our hopping scheme. To kick it off we chose our lovely and hand-selected Citra & Mosaic. It’s all very nerdy and scientific but basically we reimagined a totally new dry hop schedule and used our evil robot centrifuge to create a total juice unit. It simply explodes with notes of apricot, pineapple, kiwi, melon and that sticky icky dankness we just can’t get enough of. ⠀
Prrt – So Good
You know you’re in for a good time when you see people walking around with cotton candy, and this one’s definitely a good time. PRRRT So Good is loaded it up with Strawberry & Blueberry and then hit it with cotton candy floss for that real melt in your mouth, sticky fingers at the fair cotton candy flavor.⠀Contains no lactose.
Chonk – Birthday Cake
Oh lawd… We took this sundae sour and baked it up with a mountain of confetti cake, filled it with strawberry and raspberry jelly then covered it in frosting and plopped a candle on top. It’s our party and we’ll Chonk if we want to!
El Dorado Extra Extra Juicy Bits DIPA – 8.6% ABV Hazy Double IPA brewed with 14+ lbs per bbl of Citra, Mosaic + El Dorado hops and Double Dry Hopped with Extra Extra El Dorado.
Guava Lime Gose – 4.4% ABV Sour Ale w/ Guava, Salt, Coriander and Lime Juice, Colorado
Punch Out Vodka Smoothie Laguna Blend 6.0% ABV Vodka with Peach, Mango and Apricot fruit and natural flavors.
Microdosing Strata IPA – A 7.2% Single hop, Microdosed New England IPA. This is the fifth in the series that uses a single hop (Strata) added every day during primary fermentation – Microdosing. The previous four have been very well received for single, single New England IPAs, making us very excited for this release. Microdosing: Mosaic is 4.24 and Microdosing: Citra 4.15 on Untapped.
I Am The Manager DIPA An 8.4% Double New England IPA. It features Strata, Equanot Cryo, Loral Cryo, Mosaic and Experimental 586 hops.
Perpetual Sounds DIPA – 7.7% ABV. Double IPA brewed with mosaic and amarillo hops. Ripe peach, earl grey, lemon, blueberry, pine.
Tonal Range DIPA – 8.0% ABV. Tonal Range we experimented with dialing back that residual sweetness but made sure to not lose the creamy body that’s so important to us in our hazies. This batch showcases Idaho 7, Ekuanot and El Dorado hops, imparting some dank flavors while still showcasing a dialed-in, slightly dryer malt bill.
A Bushel of Apples – Collab with Affy Tapple. 6.0% ABV. Peanut Caramel Apple Ale with apple juice and natural flavors.
Strawberry Biscuit Ale – Collab with Hardee’s 5.2% ABV. The Strawberry Biscuit Ale is a full-bodied, cream ale that incorporates delicious hints of strawberry jam and buttermilk.
Richard the Whale 2022
Wednesday, October 19 at 10am — Richard the Whale will go on sale for pre-order… then you can sip and sit back with our favorite barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout when he resurfaces on December 3 in our Iowa City, Solon, and Des Moines taprooms.
But it does beg the question… which variant styles should we pull from the oceans of options?? Chocolate Coconut Cake, Well Baked, and Coffee were reallllly tasty in 2021.
Wade Wisely and Greener State of Mind Returning
Wade Wisely and Greener State of Mind each return on Friday, September 30 with a mission to improve the quality of Iowa’s waterways!
Raise a glass of our annual Oatmeal Coffee Stout project with coffee from JBC Coffee Roasters and you’re benefiting The Driftless Flyathlon. And when you pick up our citrus-forward pale ale in collaboration with GreenState Credit Union, proceeds support the mission of Wings2Water.
And after they hit the shelves of our breweries, they’ll both find their way across Iowa to your favorite beer coolers in the first week of October.
This Saturday (9/24) starting at noon you’ll have the opportunity to get your hands on some tasty beers at Clock House as they will be celebrating their 5 year anniversary and will be spoiling us beer lovers in doing so! Here’s what they have in store for us:
*BA 5th Anniversary Stout: 14 hour long-boiled Imperial Stout aged in Cedar Ridge Bourbon Barrels for 12 months then rested on toasted coconut, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans. Available in 500 ML bottles. $25 per bottle. No limit.
*Clock House Black Lager: Crafted with a blend of pilsner and dark roasted malt then bittered with Hallertau Mittelfruh. This easy drinking Black lager has notes of floral and smooth coffee. Available in 16oz 4-packs.
*Glow Frog: Dry-Hopped with Strata, Nelson, and Cryo-Pop. Huge mouthfeel with notes of lemon, mango, papaya, and grape.
*Lucasville Slugger: The man, the myth, the Clock House legend. Lucasville Slugger is a New England IPA dry hopped with Citra and Sabro. It was then rested on 500 Grade A Madagascar Vanilla Beans. ‘Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.’ Available in 16 oz 4-packs.
*Tropical Snozzical: A tropical version of Snozzberry Sour! Brewed with Dragonfruit, Prickly Pear, Mango, and Passionfruit! Available in 16oz 4-packs. S
*Sour Patch Man: Our base kettle sour infused with loads of Blue Sour Patch Kids. Our spin on what adult candy would taste like. Available in 16 oz 4-packs. One 4-pack limit per customer.
*Watermelon Sour Patch Man: The Sour Patch Man series continues with a watermelon version! Loaded with multiple pounds of watermelon gummies! Draft only.
*Firkin Tapping Lineup:
4 PM: Root Beer Lager
5 PM: Anniversary Stout w/ Peanuts and Nutter Butter Cookies
6 PM: Tropical Snozzical w/ Ghost Peppers
Another delicious sounding release coming from an Iowa brewery this week! This time, it’s happening in the Czech Village at Lion Bridge! Hope to see you there this Wednesday! Here’s more on this release courtesy of Lion Bridge’s Facebook page:
This Wednesday we are releasing MY SECOND RODEO in bottles and on draft.
This is an Imperial Milk Stout w/Vanilla, Cacao, Cinnamon, 10.5% – Rested on Madagascar Vanilla Beans, Ecuadorian Cacao, and Saigon Cinnamon, this stout has seen a thing or two. Not their first rodeo.
Look out for this special beer!
Lua Brewing will be the place to be as they are welcoming 3 new beers to their portfolio this coming Friday September 16th! A collab with Pulpit Rock and another with Horus Aged Ales out of California! Here’s the latest from the folks at Lua:
Two and a half years ago, we spent some time with our friends from @prbrewing and designed a stout recipe destined for barrels. Our friendship with the team at Pulpit is a special one, having such admiration for their beer long before Lua materialized. We look to the team there to inspire us, and push us to constantly improve our craft. We also have immense respect for them personally, and admire their integrity and care for their customers and community.
The beer we came up with was straightforward, a double mash, long boil stout that rested for well over 2 years in bourbon barrels. Two of these barrels were exemplary in our eyes, and worthy of showcasing on their own, unblended. The beer became Wistful, an homage to the time it was brewed, before the residual sugar arms race really reared its head.
WISTFUL BARREL #1 (14.9%) Imperial stout aged in a single Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel. Limit is one (1) 375mL bottle per person.
WISTFUL BARREL #2 (14.9%) Imperial stout aged in a single Blanton’s bourbon barrel. Limit is one (1) 375mL bottle per person.
GRACKLE (15%) Kyle from @horusagedales came over to the Hawkeye state a few months ago and helped us brew this big ol’ stout. Imperial stout conditioned on a whole buncha macadamia nuts, walnuts, almonds, coconut, cinnamon, vanilla, & cacao nibs. Limit is two (2) 750mL bottles per person.
TWO WAYS to order:
– The good old fashioned line! Grab your favorite lawn chair and camp out. You’ll be handed a ticket for your bottles in line, and doors open at 11AM for purchases. Cutoff for tickets will be 10:30AM. Stay, have some pours, & hang
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– Online ordering through TOAST! Bottles go live at 10:45AM CST. Proxies are allowed (just make sure your proxy has your order number and name ready at pickup). All bottles MUST be picked up at the Lua Taproom by end of service (11pm) on 9/16.
See you all this Friday. Who’s ready for a #PatioStout?!
