Wow!! We can’t believe it’s been almost 6 years since we opened our doors. Come celebrate with us on November 23rd! -Tony Schmitt and Robbie Bahr are playing 2-5pm Here is a sneak peek at 2 big beers we will be releasing: 2024 ANNY is a decadent 14.4% ABV imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels then infused with roasted pecans, toasted and raw coconut, and chocolate cake! – Public online sale for ANNY will be on Sunday, November 17th at 7PM on the OZNR app. – Bottle pick up will start on November 23rd at 11am. -2024 ANNY will be sold in 500 ml bottles with a limit of one bottle per transaction (meaning you can buy additional bottles after you buy your first bottle as long as they are available.). -Proxies are allowed for bottle pick-ups. -Proxies MUST be assigned on the OZNR app to retrieve bottles. -Anny bottles can be picked up during normal business hours. -Bottles of 2024 ANNY must be picked up by you or your proxy by 7pm on Sunday, December 8th, so please only buy bottles if you or a proxy can pick them up.
Gladius is a 14.6% ABV Imperial Stout aged in Heaven Hill and Blaum Brothers bourbon barrels for 21-26 months. Gladius will be released in person on 11/23 at 11am. Limits determined on turnout.
– We will also have some old favorites and new releases available to-go. – We will open up our garage area early (around 9am), so come down, share some beers and laughs with us before we open the doors to the taproom at 11! We would like to thank everyone who has supported us the last 6 years! You have helped us live out our dream of making killer beers and giving back to our amazing community. We can’t wait to see you!
We have two more releases for you this Saturday during our 7 Year Anniversary Party!
Ground Cover: An American Brett beer fermented in French Oak with a rare strain of Brettanomyces. Lightly dry-hopped with Citra and El Dorado. Slightly tart with notes of hay, and citrus. Naturally carbonated in 750 ML bottles. Bottle only release. Bottles can be consumed in the taproom. $12 per bottle
7th Anniversary Stout: Long-Boiled Imperial Stout aged in Cedar Ridge Bourbon Barrels for 17 months then rested on Toasted Coconut, Ecuador Cacao Nibs, and Madagascar Vanilla Beans. Available on draft and in 500ML bottles. $28 per bottle
A busy month for Lion Bridge as they celebrate their 9 year anniversary this Sunday, March 5th starting when the doors open at 11!
Along with their anniversary they are releasing a whole bunch of tasty brews as well. Here’s what is coming from Lion Bridge this month!
TAG Tangerine (Tangerine Wheat Beer, 4.2%) Inspired by German “Radlers” that combine soda and beer to produce a light and refreshing beverage. Tag is a juicy and hazy wheat beer with the zesty citrus bite of tangerine. Enjoy a Tag! Enjoy the Day!”
Giving Crew Brew (Blonde Ale w/Comet Hops, 5.2%) – Brewed in Collaboration with the Iowa Giving Crew to support their fundraising initiatives.
Wolf Shirt XXL (Imperial IPA w/Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, 8.5%) – More hops, more ABV, robot wolves fighting intergalactic space battles in front of an epic moon. What’s not to love? RELEASE DATE : 3/5
Anniversary Imperial (Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout w/Ghanaian Cacao Nibs, 12%) – A whopping 17lbs of cacao nibs per barrel of beer. Brewed for our 9th Anniversary! Cheers! RELEASE DATE : 3/5
Živá Voda (Czech-style Pilsner, 4.8%) – Named for the “living water” of Czech fairy tales that heals infirmities and counteracts spells. RELEASE DATE : 3/15
House Project #1 (West Coast IPA, 7.1%) – This R&D IPA utilizes Simcoe and Citra. RELEASE DATE 3/15
Peachy Keen (Kettle Sour with Peach Ring Gummies, 6.7%) – Everything’s peachy, peachy keen.
Braaaaaaains Zombie We loaded this Braaaaaaaains up with Lemon, Lime, Cherry, Pineapple, & Passionfruit and then hit it with our double secret smoothie treatment of sea salt, lactose, and vanilla. It’s got us thinking that this must be what Braaaaaaaains taste like to a zombie. Because it’s dang delicious and it’s got us wanting more and more and now all we think about is Braaaaaaaains. So you know, zombies, we get it
Slang du Jour – Strawberry Shortcake This Sour à la Mode is loaded up with the dynamite combination of Strawberry and Rhubarb plus granola, brown sugar, cinnamon, lactose, and vanilla beans for that slangy, cobblery, right out of Grandma’s oven flavor.
Magic of a Different Color Double IPA Magic of a Different Color is a Phantasmically delicious DIPA brewed with a bunch of oats for a super soft body and then hopped with Centiennial, Citra, Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin, and Phantasm for some super fruity & juicy notes, and then we fermented it with Helio Gazer yeast to bring out even more notes of viognier grapes, lychee, peach, pear, and tropical fruit! 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!
Garbage People Double IPA Don’t know about you guys, but we were always a little more Garbage Pail Kids than Cabbage Patch Kids. We grew up (technically, but not really) and we aren’t kids anymore so we’re just Garbage People. This new Double IPA is hopped with Mosaic, Galaxy, Citra, and Vic Secret with some serious dank, orange zest, bubble gum, & apricot flavor and aroma.⠀ ⠀ So crack one of these and decide which Garbage Pail Kid you feel like? Oozy Suzy? Maybe a little more like Jay Decay? Let us know, we’ve got a feeling you’re Garbage People too.⠀
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!
Pretzel Stout – Chocolate stout that was infused with pretzels with a splash of peanut butter.
Oatmeal Stout – Experimental oatmeal stout that has a touch of vanilla (draft only/taproom release)
Cereal Killer – Hazy IPA with loaded with lactose, marshmallow and mosaic, azacca and equinox hops then infused with hundreds of pounds of fruity cereal.
Saturday Morning Raspberry/Feijoa – One of our favorites in the Saturday Morning smoothie sour series with the return of Raspberry and Feijoa which is a mix of strawberry, guava and pineapple fruit flavors.
Big Grove will be releasing one of their more anticipated beers on August 27th as “Velvet” comes back to their taprooms! About Velvet:
VANILLA BARREL-AGED IMPERIAL STOUT ABV: 13.3%
This special brew is an Extended Boil, Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout that we aged in freshly emptied Kentucky Bourbon barrels. The beer was aged for a year and then finished on Grade A Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans. You can expect a viscous mouthfeel, notes of roasted malt, marshmallow, dark chocolate, and an explosion of vanilla—highlighted by a smoothness that only comes from age and using the finest ingredients.
Along with “Velvet”, Big Grove will be releasing “Tropical Jam Fruit Sour” and “Double Norwegian Demon”. To pre-order your Velvet please click HERE! Below is more info on release day:
Release Day:
• Pick up period is 10:00am to 10:00pm on Saturday, August 27, 2022
• All three Big Grove Brewery locations will open at 10:00am for beer pick-up
• Breakfast food specials will be available from our chefs from 10:00am – noon
For the first time, we’ve crafted 100 bottles of a variant aged in a rum barrel sourced from the Virgin Islands with a nose of fresh cut sugarcane and light banana. This one-time release will only be available in bottles to the first 50 guests in Iowa City, 35 guests in Des Moines, and 15 guests in Solon.
Price: $50 per Barrel Aged Velvet bottle (500mL), limit of 6 per guest, available in Des Moines, Iowa City, and Solon. It will also be available in very limited draft at our breweries.
Variant: $50 per Barrel Aged Velvet Rum Variant bottle (500mL), limit 1 per guest in order of arrival. Available in Iowa City, (50 bottles), Des Moines (35 bottles), and Solon (15 bottles). It will also be served in very limited draft at our breweries.
New Brews Joining the Party: Tropical Jam Fruited Sour Ale (draft and 4-pack), Double Norwegian Demon Hazy Double IPA (brewery-only, draft-only).
Remember to bring your order number and a valid ID.
On Saturday, come on in and a Big Grove employee will greet you, check your ID, and retrieve your order. Please have the order number from your receipt available.
You’re invited to pick up the goods (proxy) on behalf of a friend, so long as you have their order number and a copy of their ID.
Pending availability, you’re welcome to purchase any of our remaining beer inventory at that time.
Clock House is kicking out a big boy this coming Thursday as they prepare for a bomber release of a barrel aged stout! Here’s more:
FORBIDDEN The cellar doors have opened. This Monster Imperial Stout was aged for over a year in Cedar Ridge Rye-Bourbon Blended Barrels then Rested on a touch of Cacao Nibs and Vanilla Beans. Bombers of Forbidden will be available at noon on Thursday, December 23rd until supplies last. These will be sold exclusively inside our taproom. Pre-sales will not be offered. Available on draft. $22 per bottle.
BINARY CODE Bourbon- Maple Barrel aged for over one year. This Imperial Stout is as smooth as it gets. Notes of molasses and maple rounded off with sweetness on the back end. Bottles of Binary Code will be available at noon on Thursday, December 23rd until supplies last. These will be sold exclusively inside our taproom. Pre-sales will not be offered. Available on draft. $20 per 500 ML bottle
More beers on their way from Pequod Distribution in the coming weeks! Here’s what should be making their way to our shelves!
Equilibrium
18 Decillion We started off with a big base of oats and wheat before a LUPOMAX Idaho7 whirlpool and a tremendous Strata and Galaxy dry hop. 18 Decillion pours murky yellow with aromas of grove stand OJ being enjoyed in a forest made of Starburst (please add to your bucket list if you haven’t experienced this).
Astrophysics Astrophysics pours a vibrant milky yellow with heavy aromas of starfruit, passionfruit, tangerine Pez, and dank hops. Flavors of sweet orange flesh, passionfruit juice, cantaloupe, and gummy peach rings transition to notes of berry and yuzu before a Big Bang of our #EQjuice rainbow melon finish. This beer is very soft, round, and full the pallet.
Fluctuation DDH DIPA Our team’s favorite rotational makes its return today. Fluctuation has bright tropical notes of passion fruit, mango, pineapple, and lychee with an undercurrent of sorbet and cream await!
Fractal Citra/Sultana Fractal Citra/Sultana pours glowing yellow with big aromatic notes and flavors of Valencia orange, pineapple slices, and lime spritz in a balanced finish with touch of bitterness. Tropical in flavor with a manageable ABV, this crusher is the perfect companion for the warmer days and outdoor activities.
Half Full batch 2 – Dbl IPA (8.0 % DIPA) a collaboration with District 96 Beer Factory.Named to serve an important message: Stay Positive. Optimism creates opportunity and pessimism kills it. Expecting good things helps formulate actions to produce good things. We are all in this together and we want you to remember to always see your glass as Half Full. If you have an empty glass, crack one of these cans, make it 100% full, then half full, enjoy and reflect on positive thoughts during this virtual tropical vacation.
Lupo Lab Linear Combination 2 (8.0 % DIPA) Pouring a vibrant yellow color, Linear Combination 2 offers notes of dank glasses of champagne with tangerine and mango wedges in fresh hop fields. Intense and saturated flavors of juicy citrus, ripe mango, and notes of a melon await with heavy earth and a touch of pine. This beer is aggressive and soft at the same time with an escalating juiciness builds into a #EQjuice finish.
MC2 (squared) DIPAMC² is Photon’s big brother. We literally took Photon’s hopping rate and squared it. This DIPA is our tribute to the amazing relationship that energy and mass are balanced, proportional to the speed of a photon squared. It pours a hazy tangerine color, releasing bright tropical notes of mango, pineapple, and apricot. MC² tastes like succulent mango juice loaded with chewy hop resins. It’s very drinkable for 8.0%; be careful, this one can sneak up on you.
Mmmmm…..Osa Mmm…Osa is our beloved Photon American Pale Ale conditioned on freshly zested oranges at a rate of 6 oranges per barrel. It’s everything photon is, with a dominant orange presence; this citric delight is our preferred way to start the afternoon.
Super Fractal Julia Set The Julia Set is named after the French mathematician Gaston Julia. This complex set exists as a by-product of the Mandelbrot set and was devised while studying complex dynamics during the early 20th century. This set of complex numbers can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated functions. We scaled up from Fractal using a super simple grain bill of 2-Row and our specific fractal fermentation profile before intensely hoping it with a Mosaic and El Dorado whirlpool and a dry hop of Citra, Mosaic, Strata and El Dorado.
HUMBLE FORAGER
Coastal Sunrise Ver.4 – Mango Lassi This Lassi inspired breakfast sour is packed with 3 ingredients from India, Alphonso Mango, planifolia vanilla beans and cardamom swirl with creamy indonesian coconut. It’s a mango bomb with a hint of vanilla and spice – just incredible!
UNTITLED ART
Dry Hopped Watermelon/Lime Gose – 1840 Brewing Collaboration We teamed up with @1840brewing out of Milwaukee, WI (the BEST state!) to give you that refreshing picnic summer drink. This Kettle Soured Berliner Weiss is coming in at 6.6% ABV brewed with real watermelon , key limes, sea salt and lightly dry Link
Watermelon Gose – Non Alch beer (0.5% abv or less)The world of Non Alcohol beer is exploding and “healthy drinking” in in-style. Untitled art has a line of Non-Alch beers including Florida weisse, Juicy IPA and Chocolate milk stout. Today we are introducing Watermelon Gose and it’s fantastic! It’s made with Watermelon juice, Lime juice and sea salt.
Florida Seltzer reloads and kegs Blackberry/Agave Pineapple/Mango Prickly pear /Guava
BLACKSTACK
Are you there God? it’s me Guava – Fruit sour Triple Guava Smoothie-Style Sour (6.4%) Our MIxed-Culture Foeder-Fermented Berliner-Base conditioned on questionable quantities of Pink Guava & Tahitian Vanilla Bean Caviar with a dash of Milk Sugar for good measure. This is our first foray putting our series of existential smoothie brews in these more slender beer tubes & we are very excited to share this stunning specimen of ostentatious over-fruiting with you.
Red Bottoms Dbl IPA – 8.8% ABV Our friends @ Track Brewing co in Manchester, UK did a thing using Mosaic, Strata, Riwaka from New zealand to make a smooth beautiful IPA.
Sponsored Content 5% ABV We saved a bunch of money on this beer by keeping the malt bill simple, phoning it in on the label & not doubling or tripling anything in the dry hop with our hand selected Mosaic, Centennial & Columbus Cryo. Instead of passing the savings onto you, the consumer, we decided to spend the fat stacks we saved on super effective & totally organic paid advertising. Cheers!
STRAIGHT FYRE
– DDH DIPA (8.8%) In addition to their podcast, our buds at Private Sector Provisions have been cranking out some of the most crave worthy smash burgs on either side of the Mississippi. We figured we better blow it out for this one, so we used flaming portions of our hand selected Citra, Citra Cryo & Australian Galaxy & hired a bunch of instagram models and influencers to accurately illustrate how lit this experience is certain to be.
MODIST
Sippin’ & Forgettin’ – Coconut & Lemon Berliner wiesse Berliner Weisse brewed with malted wheat, barley malt and milk sugar then conditioned on Meyer Lemon, Madagascar Vanilla Beans and toasted coconut.
Fruitropolis Ver 2 The ALL NEW FRUITROPOLIS, Double Fruited Imperial Smoothie Sour w/ milk sugar, double blueberry, double blackberry & double black currant
Double Local Dream Mirror – Blackstack & Fairstate brewing Collab When we team up with our friends Fair State & BlackStack to do the whole “slam-o blam-o let’s take our flagships and kabam-o” the result is none other than DOUBLE LOCAL DREAM MIRROR. DLDM is a New England Double IPA hopped & double dry hopped w/ Citra, Mosaic, Sultana, Azacca, Amarillo, Citra Cryo, & El Dorado Cryo
Tasting sounding brew coming from the folks at Clock House this Thursday as they are set to release an Imperial IPA that is both west and east coast inspired! Holland Oats IPA will be released at 3:00 p.m. and will be available in cans!
An Imperial IPA inspired by West Coast bitterness and East Coast haze. Brewed with Galaxy, Vic’s Secret, and Citra hops. This beer has intense floral and melon notes with a nice clean bitter finish.
Cans will be available to purchase on Thursday, August 27th. Orders can be made using the link below!
Ground Cover: An American Brett beer fermented in French Oak with a rare strain of Brettanomyces. Lightly dry-hopped with Citra and El Dorado. Slightly tart with notes of hay, and citrus. Naturally carbonated in 750 ML bottles. Bottle only release. Bottles can be consumed in the taproom. $12 per bottle
7th Anniversary Stout: Long-Boiled Imperial Stout aged in Cedar Ridge Bourbon Barrels for 17 months then rested on Toasted Coconut, Ecuador Cacao Nibs, and Madagascar Vanilla Beans. Available on draft and in 500ML bottles. $28 per bottle
Friday 10/7 THIS IS FIRE! This double dry hopped IPA was brewed with our friends at 
Saturday 10/8 Iowa Nightmare! This pumpkin stout was barrel aged in 
summer drink. This Kettle Soured Berliner Weiss is coming in at 6.6% ABV brewed with real watermelon 
, key limes, sea salt
and lightly dry 
