Mount Vernon Road in Hy-Vee has an impressive lineup of events celebrating Cedar Rapids craft beer week. That stout breakfast sounds pretty damn promising!
Hopefully you can get yourself out and make it to a few of these events! Cheers!
Here are the events we are hosting the rest of the week:
Wednesday 5/11 5-7pm Meet Big Grove
We will be hosting Big Grove Brewery in our Tasting Room. They will be available to chat and answer questions about the brewery and brewing process. We will be pouring their new IIPA and they will have samples of some of their other brews. Free Event!Thursday 5/12 5-7pm Beer 101 with Chad Atherton from Founders Brewing
Come chat and have a beer with Chad as he gives us some of the basics of beer. We will be pouring Founders Curmudgeon and maybe a bonus Founders brew! Free Event!Friday the 13th 4:30-7pm Tasting Event
We will have 13 vendors pouring a variety of things to try, food from our Chefs and a DJ spinning the tunes! Free Event!Saturday 5/14 8-11am Stout Breakfast
Our Market Grille will host a Stout Breakfast featuring a Breakfast Buffet and 4 Four ounce pours of beer. The buffet will feature two special Chef prepared items, Chicken Fried Brisket with and stout and coffee gravy and Pork Belly Hash amongst other b fast favorites. The beers are Tall Grass Barrel Aged Vanilla Buffalo Sweat, MadHouse Carpe Diem, Central Waters Rye Barrel Porter( although not a stout I couldn’t pass it up) and finally Barrel Aged Yeti! Cost for the buffet and flight is $25
The news is spreading quickly that Big Grove is expanding to a production facility in Iowa City. Excellent news for all of us and even better news for the community as not only are we getting more beer but more jobs as well. Also, Big Grove going green? It sure sounds like it! I was able to talk with Chad Young, sales/marketing manager of Big Grove, and he gave me a bit more insight as to what to expect from the brewery:
This Friday night at Bricks Bar and Grill in Cedar Rapids is the SHOWDOWN OF THE CENTURY!!! Well, maybe not the showdown of the century but there will be some amazing beers on hand as two of Iowa’s finest, Big Grove out of Solon and Exile out of Des Moines square off in a “Sour Showdown”! I was able to try some of both breweries beers this weekend at Benz Beerfest and if that is any indication of what’s to come then this showdown will not disappoint!
One day away! Very excited about Big Grove’s new double IPA being tapped tomorrow as well as their Que Sera pin. To add to that, Jim Johnston, brewer at 3rd Base Brewery in Cedar Rapids will be bringing some new beers as well as Shame! If you haven’t been to 3rd Base, you need to get there to try Shame on tap (if it’s still there). It’s been one of my favorites of the year so far and I can’t wait to drink some more tomorrow.
Lion Bridge Brewery in Cedar Rapids will once again be tapping some mushroom beers during Houby Days. Houby Days is a yearly 3 day festival celebrating the wonderful fungus! Two “mushroom” beers will be tapped that day along with more events during this fun weekend. Here’s more from Lion Bridge’s newsletter:
If you’re a member of the 99 Bottle Beer Club, Mt. Vernon Rd. Hy-Vee in Cedar Rapids is hosting a beer and food tasting event. Bryan and Nate are doing great things at this Hy-Vee and Lion Bridge will have some of their beers on tap. Here’s more on this event courtesy of Hy-Vee email:
This comes from 7G and Backpocket Brewing:
What better way to pay respects to someone than to make a beer in their honor? Lion Bridge Brewery will be doing just that as they release Purple Rain Hibiscus Kolsch this Wednesday (4/27). Here are the specs on this fantastic looking brew:
Another new release coming from Big Grove brewery today as they have released De Facto Pale Ale. Here’s the description from Big Grove: