Annual “Cousin Eddie Party” set for Thanksgiving Day (11/23)@ Iowa Brewing!

A tradition unlike any other returns in 2023 as Iowa Brewing Company in downtown Cedar Rapids (708 3rd St. SE, Cedar Rapids) will be putting on their annual “Cousin Eddie Party” on Thanksgiving Day! Starting bright and early at 7 a.m. and going to noon, it’s a perfect way to start Thanksgiving morning with family, or get a good buzz before dealing with family…your call. Showcasing their “Cousin Eddie” breakfast ale and celebrating the culture of Cousin Eddie and a wonderful beer, Iowa Brewing will be the place to be Thanksgiving morning! Here’s more courtesy of the brewery’s Facebook page:

“You serious, Clark?”

Yeah, we are serious! It’s that time of year for our Annual Thanksgiving Day Cousin Eddie Party. Doors will open at 7:00AM and stay open until noon.

The deets:
– Cousin Eddie Breakfast Ale (Barrel-Aged)
– Cousin Eddie Breakfast Ale
– Patio open with space heaters
– Expanded taproom into brewery/production area
– Special Edition Cousin Eddie t-shirts

For the newbies:
– Come dressed as Cousin Eddie (if possible)
– Show up in your PJs (no birthday suits)
– We will be busy; please be patient
– If you see a jello mold with cat food, don’t eat it

LET’S PARTY!

MORE, Phase Three, Weldwerks, 450 North, Blackstack, and Iowa Brewing beers coming from Pequod!

Chula
Fruited Gose is brewed with authentic Indian Alphonso Mangoes and a tangy Chile Spice Blend from our friends at Big Mich 6.5%

Moreover
Double Dry Hopped, Hazy IPA is a delicious juice bomb thanks to a hefty hopping of Citra, Motueka, & Simcoe hops. An endless succession of juicy pineapple, grapefruit, and tangerine notes are leveled out with just a hint of bitterness that resolves into a smoooooth and refreshing finish. 6.5%

Lil Space Booties
A session hazy like none other, these lil’ booties carry a heap of juicy hop characters. Thanks to an un-apollo-getic amount of Galaxy and Citra hops, you can expect to experience the same atmospheric symphony of mango, pineapple, and fresh peach but with a featherweight ABV so you can keep you maintain your orbit with ease. 5.5%

La Push, Baby
Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Eclipse, Citra, & Chinook. The aroma tantalizes your senses with a symphony of enticing notes. Fragrant waves of tropical fruits, like juicy mangoes and ripe papayas, intermingle with the heady sweetness of caramelized pineapples. 8%

Oktoberfest 
We brewed this amber beauty strong and true to style, with a bold malty backbone and a refreshingly mild hop presence that’s accentuated in crystal-quality footwear.
5.5%

DDH Double Pixel Density
We brought up the ABV of our regular Pixel Density and gave it our double dry hop treatment of some sticky-icky fruity citra and citra cryo. 8%

DDH Perpetual Sounds
A favorite around the brewery and we are glad to have this Double IPA back. A tried and true Pacific Northwest hop combination of Mosaic and Amarillo pull flavors of blueberry, peach and grapefruit. 7.7%

Double Nectar Mango Sicilian Lemon
Double Nectar is back with a brand new fruit combo! Unleashing a tropical storm in a pint, this fruited Sour Ale is a ‘sip-n-slide’ into a pool of mango and Sicilian lemon – a zesty lifesaver for these toasty summer days. 7.8%

LULZ Pink Lemonade
A crisp, refreshing hard seltzer featuring pink lemonade. Back for the 2023 spring and summer season! Welcome back, sunshine and LULZ Pink Lemonade! 5%

Juicy Bits
Our flagship IPA features a huge citrus and tropical fruit hop character from the Mosaic, Citra & El Dorado hops and softer, smoother mouthfeel from the adjusted water chemistry, higher protein malts, and lower attenuation. The end result is a beer reminiscent of citrus juice with extra pulp, thus the name Juicy Bits. 6.7% 

The Captains Club
Tropical Sour Ale with coconut, passion fruit, macadamia nuts, and macadamia nut honey… all it’s missing is the hula skirt and lei 5.2%

Auto Tune
Collaboration with Mikerphone Brewing. Hazy DIPA uses Citra, Lotus + Mosaic hops and is gushing with notes of pineapple, lemon, and papaya 8.8%

Strawberry Cheesecake 
Sour Ale with Strawberry Puree, Cream Cheese, Milk Sugar & Graham Cracker. 4.5%

Space Tunnel 
Hazy IPA that boasts flavors of tangerine, strawberry, citrus, and a hint of stone fruit. 6.5%

BlurriestWe had to remake our BLURRIEST collab with Imprint Beer Company for this upcoming ALL COLLAB release! It’s conditioned on loads of Blackberry, Banana, Mango, Raspberry, Marshmallow & Coconut! 5%

ZirconZircon, part of our Gemstone Series, is a Sour Double IPA collab with Homes Brewing! It’s conditioned on Red Prickly Pear, Lychee, Tangerine, Vanilla & Lactose! 5%

Slushy XL Candy Clouds We got together with Weldwerks Brewing to bring you Candy Clouds XL! It is conditioned on Pink Vanilla Cotton Candy, Papaya, Dragonfruit & Passionfruit! 5%

Slushy XL Kangaroo Krack (Australia Drop)We teamed up with some friends Down Under at One Drop Brewing to bring you a Lamington Cake Slushy! Australia Drop XL is conditioned on Banana, Lemon, Mango, Marshmallow, Vanilla & Lemon Icing! 5%

Slushy XL Lunar Pies We got together with Southern Grist Brewing to bring you a creamy pie treat! Lunar Pies XL is conditioned on Banana, Graham Cracker, Marshmallow, Chocolate, Caramel, Orange & Moon Pies! 5%

Slushy XL Zombie Kush  Zombie Kush XL is back after over 3 years! It’s a collab with Beer Zombies Brewing and is conditioned on tons of Grapefruit, Orange, Passionfruit & Blood Orange! 5%

Slushy XXL Lava Monsta Collaboration with Great Notion Brewing that we’re bringing back from our 9th Anniversary release! It’s conditioned on Raspberry, Orange, Banana, Cherry, Guava & Cherry Ice Cream. 5%

Slushy XXL Out of SlushyWe teamed up with RaR Brewing to bring you OUT OF SLUSHY- BLUE PUPPIE XXL! It’s conditioned on Blueberry, Blueberry Ice Cream & Blue Raspberry! 5%

Slushy XXL SMol Lad – Berries N’ CremeWe hooked up with Drekker Brewing to bring you Smol Lad – Berries N’ Creme! It’s conditioned on Strawberry, Blueberry, Raspberry, Vanilla Cream & Vanilla Ice Cream! 5%

Free HBC586

A natural continuation of our fog fetishist tendencies. Supremely saturated with HBC 586 & HBC 586 Cryo, an as yet unnamed varietal from the Hop Breeding Company that has very swiftly become one of our figgity favorites. Fully sending it with this one in pursuit of those “lunchroom cups where the fruit is still sitting in the juice” vibes we’ve become oh-so-fond of. What’s in a name anyway? 10%

Microdosing Cashmere 
Get your daily dose of this IPA that we dosed daily (… AKA every day of primary fermentation) with one of our favorites: Juicy & Creamy Cashmere. Expand your horizons. Open your mind. Put this in your mouth. 7.2%

Local 755
Our Foggy Favorite. Azacca, Amarillo & a Gwop of Citra. Soft, Juicy & Hazy like 70’s Home Movies. 6.8%

Zoinks!
This Session IPA features a punch of citrus from mosaic and citra hops, and a slight bitterness with juicy flavors of grapefruit and a hint of pine on the finish. 4.5%

Surf Zombies
Named for Iowa’s Epic Surf Rockers, this gnarly brain devouring West Coast-inspired IPA features Simcoe, Columbus, Centennial and Cascade hops. 6.9%

“Bluesberry” Fruit Burst sour from Iowa Brewing debuting this Friday Night @Blues Night in the Park in Cedar Rapids!

A big Friday night awaits in Cedar Rapids as this Friday, May 19th, Iowa Brewing will be debuting their newest addition to their extremely popular “Fruit Burst Sour” portfolio as “Bluesberry” debuts! Making the debut even more significant is that it will be coming and pouring at Blues Night in the Park (Green Square in Cedar Rapids)!

This beer features blue raspberry, orange, and pineapple flavors that give it a sweet, juicy and slightly tart taste and it checks in at 6% ABV. This beer will only be available on draft and possibly your only chance to get a taste will be at the Blues Night event!

The event itself has a $5 cover and will feature recognized blues acts such as BF Burt, Keesha Pratt Band, Matthias Lattin, and Ken Valdez.

Local food vendors will be on hand to try their delicious items as well! Need Pizza, Willy Ray’s Q Shack, and The Hip Stir will have their wonderful food available and Chophouse Downtown will have cotton candy! Gates will open at 5 p.m. and music will go from 6-10 p.m.!

With the “Bluesberry” release Iowa Brewing will also have the following beers available:
-Iowa Eagle Light Lager
-Eagle Amber Lager
-Surf Zombies IPA
-ZOINKS! Session IPA
-Big River Cold IPA
-Untitled Art Seltzers

Don’t miss this amazing event!

Drekker, Blackstack, Iowa Brewing, Phase Three, Pontoon, Untitled Art and Weldwerks brews coming from Pequod!

  • Chonk: Mango Marshmallow 
  • Fangs Out: Hazy IPA w/ Centennial, Citra, Mosaic, & Galaxy 
  • Slang: Marionberry Cobbler
  • Please Accept Our Sacrifice of Fruit Pizza: Sour w/ strawberry, blueberry, kiwi, orange, cream cheese frosting, sugar cookies and NO LACTOSE. Collab w/ Brewing Projekt

BlackStack Brewing

  • Keeping it Casual: IPA w/ Citra, Loral Cryo, Ekuanot Cryo, Idaho 7, & Triumph hops 
  • Side Hustle: DDH DIPA

Iowa Brewing

  • Cookie Oja

Phase Three Brewing

  • Black Bouquet
  • TDH Triple Low Ceilings

Pontoon Brewing

  • Fluffiest Otter: Imperial Stout
  • The Schwartz
  • Double Cup: Purple Stuff- Purple Sour
  • Snozzberries Crumble- Sour with berries, vanilla, and milk sugar

Untitled Art

  • Candied Pecan Stout

WeldWerks

  • French Toast Stout
  • Juicy Fu!: Hazy IPA Collab w/ North Park Beer Co.
  • Bamm Bamm Rubble Rubble: Sour w/ fruity cereal, strawberry, milk sugar, vanilla, & marshmallow 
  • Fresh Cans of Juicy Bits!

Iowa Brewing releasing BA Imperial Oja + variants on Black Friday! 11/25!

Big news out of Cedar Rapids as Iowa Brewing Company will be coming off of their ever popular Cousin Eddie Thanksgiving Day party and on Black Friday releasing Barrel-Aged Imperial Oja and variants. Here’s a rundown of this release courtesy of Iowa Brewing’s Facebook page:

We’re releasing FOUR barrel-aged beer variations of our popular Oja Baltic Porter. Availability starting on Black Friday.

Barrel-Aged Imperial Oja – Regular

Barrel-Aged Imperial Oja – Double Vanilla

Barrel-Aged Imperial Oja – Cordial Cherry

Barrel-Aged Imperial Oja – Praline Coconut

All four variations have been aged in Cedar Ridge bourbon barrels.

GIVE AWAY TIME! Iowa Beer Advent Calendar courtesy of Glyn Mawr Winery up for grabs!

What better way to ring in December than with your very own Iowa Beer advent calendar! I was lucky enough to take part in helping pick out some amazing Iowa beers to include in this awesome calendar made by Glyn Mawr Winery in Mount Vernon, IA and now you have a chance to get one for free! Here’s what you need to do:

*Visit Glyn Mawr’s Facebook post and respond to it with your favorite Iowa brewed beer and also tag and friend and you will automatically be entered. Visit their Facebook page by clicking HERE!

*Visit Glyn Mawr’s Instagram account and respond to the post with your favorite Iowa brewed beer and also tagging a friend. Click HERE to go to their Instagram account!

*Winner will be randomly drawn and notified. Proxies are allowed for pickup, just notify myself or the winery for that!

About the calendar: We tried to include as many different Iowa breweries as possible and also tried to include as many different styles of beer as possible. There are so many great beers being brewed and I think we have a great collection included in this calendar!

GIVEAWAY TIME!! 🍺You guys have BLOWN US AWAY with pre-orders, so we have decided to have a GIVEAWAY for one of our Craft Iowa Beer Advent Calendars! ($85 value!)🎄TO QUALIFY: COMMENT below with your favorite IOWA craft beer, and TAG a friend that might want to get in on one of our calendars before they sell out! 🍺Check out the list of breweries we have included: @clockhousebrewing, @fsbtaproom, @singlespeedbrewingco, @dimensionalbeer, @gezelligbrewing, @thewbrew, @biggrovebrewery, @tgbrews, @5ivecitiesbrewing, @reunionbrewery, @exilebrewingco, @backpocketbrewing, @sutliffcider, @lionbridgebrew, @iowabrewingco, @wilsonsorchardia We will pick a winner this weekend! It will be available to pick up 11/25, 11/27, or 11/28!🍺🍷ALSO, we only have 10 CALENDARS LEFT, so get online and pre-order yours today!

Great Iowa Beer Festival Category Vote: Stouts

This category of stouts will not include imperial/barrel aged/pastry/adjunct except coffee! Those will be broken down into another category down the road! Thanks to everyone who has participated in the voting and to the brewer’s making the beer! Cheers!

Stout is a dark, top-fermented beer with a number of variations, including dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout. The first known use of the word stout for beer was in a document dated 1677 found in the Egerton Manuscripts, the sense being that a “stout beer” was a strong beer, not a dark beer.

Great Iowa Beer Festival Category Vote: Hazy/New England Sytle IPA

From BA: NEIPA is essentially an unfiltered IPA or Double IPA that’s been aggressively hopped. Appearance ranges from slightly hazy or cloudy to opaque or muddy. Dry-hopping, the use of high-protein grains (flours, flaked oats, wheat), certain yeast strains, water chemistry, CO2 levels, and other techniques may also contribute to the beer’s haze and mouthfeel. But the overall goal is typically a hazy, juicy IPA packed with fruity and floral flavors

Breweries and Beers Announced for 2020 BrrrFest!

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

 

Your Iowa Beer Guide to Black Friday!

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If you are out and about this coming Black Friday there are quite a few options from the beer community to take advantage of. Can releases, bottle releases, and speciality tappings a plenty!
*If you know of an event that I didn’t post up please drop me a line and I’ll add it to the list! 

**Lion Bridge Brewery – Oakonut Delight release. 1 case per customer per purchase starting at 11 a.m., but if you get back in line you can get more! Imperial stout aged in whiskey barrels with coconut, chocolate, and caramel!  

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**Confluence Brewing – If you are in the Des Moines area Confluence has a stellar Black Friday lineup.
-Letter of Marque Rum Barrel Aged DIPA W/ Coconut
-Kiano’s Cut Rye Barrel Aged Rye DIPA
-Conifer Ginelly Gin Barrel Aged Saison W/ Cranberries & Spruce
Tips
-Ghostly Presents Tequila Barrel Aged W/ Agave & Peppers
Doors open at 11 AM. No bottle limits. Enjoy $2 off pours of everything in our taproom until noon!

 

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**Bricks Bar and Grill – Bourbon County and Black Friday go hand in hand and what better way to take a break from the early morning shopping and stop by Bricks for a 2020 BCS or variant. Here’s what Bricks will have on the lines:

Featuring Five BCBS beers on draft ~ 2018 BCBS Original ~ 2018 BCBS Bramble Rye ~ 2019 BCBS Original ~ 2019 BCBS Cafe De Olla ~ 2019 BCBS Mon Cheri
Blind Auction for 2 2015 BCBS Rare Bottles ~ 4 2012 BCBS Coffee Bottles

~Breakfast Taco Bar~

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**Iowa Brewing Company – a big day of bottles for Iowa Brewing Company as they are set to release Barrel-aged OREOja Baltic Porter that is finished in Templeton Rye whiskey barrels with “America’s Favorite Cookie.” This and the Hurricane Season will be available Friday the 29th @ 11AM only at the Iowa Brewing taproom.

thew**Thew Brewing Company – Thew will be continuing their “Dark Beer” week on Friday with a whole bunch of tappings. Here’s what they have going:

On tap Friday:
– Darkest Corners (barrel-aged imperial stout)
– Double Tappa (imperial brown ale)
– Old Man Strength (barrel-aged old ale)
– Black IPA
– Imperial stout
– Belgian strong

Bottle release deets courtesy of Thew:

We’ve had an old ale aging in a Weller barrel from Buffalo Trace and we’re anxious to share it with you. Old Man Strength will be packaged in 22 oz. bomber bottles and wax sealed.

Thew Crew members will have two bottles each reserved. You may pick your bottles up beginning Wednesday. Member bottles will be held until Friday, December 6th.

For the general public, release will start at noon on Friday. $20/bottle, 4 bottle per person limit.

In addition to Old Man Strength, we’ll have:
– Firkin of Double Tappa with Coconut
– Randall with Helianthus (sunflower saison) infused with fresh cranberries

 

**Quarter Barrel – Darkest Peru Russian Imperial Stout aged 9 months in Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels with Peruvian Coffee, Peruvian Cacao, and Huacatay (Peruvian Black Mint) will be sold in 4-packs @ The Quarter Barrel Arcade & Brewery! 

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**Big Grove Brewery and Bootleggin’ Barzini’s have teamed up for an exclusive barrel-aged barleywine release only available at Barzinis on Black Friday. This barley wine is aged in Cedar Ridge single malt whiskey barrels and will come in a 375 mL bottle. Barzinis will also have their Bourbon County release.

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**Marto Brewing Company – Marto will be releasing All the Bean Things which is their
first in house collaboration that was brewed with  Barn Town Brewing!
A  13.1% imperial stout brewed with Ugandan vanilla beans, Caturra Coffee Roasting Co. – A Subsidiary of Coffee King, Inc Mexico Altura coffee beans, & Ghana ABOCFA cacao beans roasted by Just the Nib in Lincoln, NE.
Available on tap & limited crowlers to go. $18 per crowler.

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**Clockhouse Brewing – From Clockhouse:

They say, “We all need a little more fruit in our diet.” So we loaded our kettle sour with Raspberries, Blueberries, and Blackberries. The perfect trifecta for starting your post thanksgiving diet.

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**Need Pizza – Need tapping some heavy hitters on Black Friday!

2018 Bourbon County Bramble Rye
2019 Madhouse El Jefe
Pours and crowlers available while they last!