Some new beers should be making their way to Eastern Iowa shelves very soon. The yearly anticipated release of Bells Hopslam, Central Waters Bourbon Barrel aged stout and possible cherry variant, Rogue releasing a spring pumpkin beer and New Belgium coming out with a porter for spring. Here we go:
**Bells Hopslam** – the annual release should be hitting our shelves in the next week or two. It will be interesting to see how the sales go as l saw last years $19.99 six packs sitting for a while in a few stores.
**Central Waters Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stout**- a highly anticipated release from 
Central Waters is now available while supplies last. I saw Johncey’s in North Liberty post that they had it but it would be gone relatively quick. If you are lucky enough to find some, snag it up, it ages well and this is an underrated brew. Going off of that, rumor has it some Iowa accounts might see the bourbon barrel-aged cherry variant of 
this brew. I cannot confirm this but have heard rumblings. This would be a most welcome beer, as I’ve longed to try it!
**Rogue Pumpkin Savior Ale** – Rogue will be releasing this witbier that uses pumpkins that had been frozen from their fall harvest for the spring of 2015. More on this beer from http://www.beerstreetjournal.com:
Created with pumpkins grown at rogue farms in
Independence, Oregon. This year we had an abundant harvest that left us with extra pumpkins after we brewer pumpkin patch ale. So rather than let our precious pumpkins rot in the field we decided to save them by freezing them whole and brewing a spring pumpkin wit.
Rogue Pumpkin Savior Ale will be available of 750ml bottles in Spring, 2015.
Style: WItbier (w/ Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Vanilla, Ginger, Cloves)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: Spring, 2015
**New Belgium Portage Porter** – this beer will be hitting the shelves soon and will be available through March. Here’s more from http://www.thefullpint.com:
With New Belgium Brewing so close to the Cache la Poudre river, there’s a lot of us at the brewery that love to kayak and paddle,” said New Belgium’s Collaboration Business Analyst, Tye Eyden. “This time of year is great because the snowmelt begins and the rivers start to rise. But, often times, that will bring precarious conditions and rapids that we might have to portage around. Portage Porter pays tribute to that awesome experience – the obstacles are part of the fun!”
**Oskar Blues PINNER Throwback IPA** – this beer will be available this month, but with the rollout of Oskar
Blues in Iowa so fresh, I’m not sure when we will see it. Dry hopped with many different hops including a new variety, this “session” IPA comes in at 4.9%. Hopefully we see it soon!
**If you see any of these beers available please drop me a line and let me know where! Cheers!**
This Saturday marks another year for Coralville BrrrFest and Reds Alehouse along with Big Grove Brewery and 30hop are providing shuttle service to and from the festival. This will be my first time I will be using the shuttle service and after receiving the following email with the tap list for Saturday at Reds, I’m picking the perfect time to use this service. It’s going to hard to find a better selection of beers on tap at one time as Reds will have 18 of Beeradvocate’s top 250 beers on tap at one lovely, wonderful, tasty time! Here’s the list courtesy of Reds Alehouse:
