Field Day “Featherweight” Lime Lager returns March 6th!

Courtesy of Field Day Brewing:

The wait is over — our GABF Silver Medal–winning Featherweight Lime is back on Friday, March 6, just in time for spring.

Crisp, refreshing, and finished with a bright pop of lime, this fan favorite is basically sunshine in a glass and the official kickoff to easy-drinking season at Field Day.

We’re celebrating the return with a special featured menu from our kitchen (details coming soon), so grab your crew and come be among the first to enjoy it this year.

📅 Mark your calendar
🍻 First pours start March 6
🌱 Spring starts here

Blackberry Farm, Fat Orange Cat, Phase Three, and Evil Twin coming from Abu Nawas!

PHASE THREE BREWING:

  • Phase Three The Knot 6/4/16oz CANS –  Irish Red Ale returns just in time for St. Patrick’s Day season, and we couldn’t be more excited to have this yearly favorite pouring again. Medium-bodied and malt-forward with a smooth finish and just a touch of dryness, The Knot is the kind of pint made for cask pulls, cozy hangs, and pairing with all your classic Irish eats. 5% ABV – IL
  • Phase Three Dark Czech Lager 6/4/16oz CANS – One of our favorite seasonal lagers. Czech and Bohemian-grown malts, traditional Czech lager yeast, a touch of Czech Saaz hops, and a long eight weeks spent cold conditioning in our horizontal lagering tanks provide lightly roasted herbal baker’s chocolate notes. 5.3% ABV – IL
  • Phase Three Swells 6/4/16oz CANS – American IPA with Citra, Simcoe, Centennial Hops. Crafted with a blend of Midwest-malted barley, this deep golden colored beer with a fluffy white head and a slight haze has subtle notes of caramel, punchy bitterness, and notes of orange pulp, lemon, and pine needles. A crowd-pleasing beer for the hop heads and casuals alike. 6.5% ABV – IL
  • Phase Three Curvature: Gimme Samoa 6/4/12oz CANS– The combo that started it all, and it’s back! P3 Chewy Imperial Stout base is layered with Coconut, Cacao Nibs, and a subtle dash of Cinnamon, creating a rich, dessert-leaning beer we’ve loved since the very beginning. 12.5% ABV – IL

Fat Orange Cat FOC Baby Leprechauns 6/4/16oz CANS – Session IPA Dry Hopped w/ Citra, Simcoe & Galaxy. 5.9% ABV – CT

EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EVEN MORE IRISH JESUS 6/4/16OZ CANS – Irish-Style Dry Stout. 4.7% ABV – NYC

Blackberry Farm Spring Saison 12/750ml – A yearning for better days! Made with a healthy proportion of wheat, and gently spiced. 6.2% ABV – TN
Blackberry Farm Leather Britches 6/4/16oz CANS – A Classic American Style Porter. Leather Britches is an old southern method for preserving late-summer green beans. The beans are harvested, left in their pods, and hung up to dry for use in the Spring. An homage to an American farm tradition with notes of cocoa, roasted coffee, caramel and toffee. Dark but still light in body and extremely drinkable. 6.4% ABV – TN

Clock House Brewing releasing “Bear Necessities” barrel-aged stout this Friday! (2/6)

Got the mid-week blues? We’ve got the perfect pick-me-up!

Bear Necessities is dropping this Friday! 🐻 

If you made it out to BrrrFest this past weekend, you might’ve gotten a little sneak peek of this one.

It’s an imperial stout brewed with graham cracker, cinnamon, and brown sugar, bringing cozy, dessert-like flavors with a rich, smooth finish.

Available this Friday on draft and in 12 oz bottles!

Pipeworks brews coming from Abu Nawas!

PIPEWORKS King Cake 6/4/16oz CANS – King Cake Inspired Ale with Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Lactose and Lemon. YUM Factor 8 out of 5 Stars!  8.1% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Chipotle Smoked Porter 6/4/16oz CANS – Chipotle Peppers in a Smoked Porter? It’s certainly something Special.  7.2% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS $ell Ray Sour – 6/4/16oz CANS – Surprisingly delicious Celery and Celery Seed Sour Ale. Refreshingly tart gose style ale brewed with celery seed, celery juice and salt. Sounds weird but it all works! 4.5% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Order From Chaos 6/4/16oz CANS – Amber Ale with Cloves and Allspice. Smooth amber style brewed with baking spices that imbue a pleasant warming character. Perfect for Sub Zero Temps! 4.9% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Hot Wheels 6/4/16oz CANS – Hazy Pale Ale with Nelson Sauvin Hops. 5.9% – IL
PIPEWORKS Equal Magnitudes 6/4/16oz CANS – Double Dry Hopped Oat India Pale Ale with Amarillo and Cryo Amarillo hops. Bold, juicy profile that’s both citrusy and resinous. The soft oat body delivers a plush mouthfeel while the double dry hop keeps bright tropical and orange-citrus aromas front and center. 7% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Cryo Citra 6/4/16oz CANS – Double India Pale Ale with Cryo Citra Hops. This single hop focused series takes a fresh focus on the Cryo Citra hop. If you’re not familiar, “cryo” hops are hops that are never treated with heat from vine to brewery – so all those beautiful aromatic hop oils remain unaltered and true. This DIPA is so bright, with incredible expressions of a freshly popped orange peel, Sunny D, grapefruit juice and some excellent cannabis. 9.3% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Excellent Expedition 6/4/16oz CANS – Hazy India Pale Ale with Azacca, Cryo Amarillo, and Cryo Simcoe Hops. 7.5% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Flying Objects 6/4/16oz CANS – Hazy Double IPA Double Dry Hopped with Azacca, Idaho 7 and Mosaic Hops. 8.4% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Unicorn Vs. The Haze 6/4/16oz CANS – Tremendous Hazy Double India Pale Ale. 8% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS BEER 6/4/16oz CANS – It is BEER Say no more. An American Lager like the GODS intended! Simple in presentation and taste yet extremely refreshing and crisp lager brewed with slight corn sweetness. Well balanced and super crushable. 4.4% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Blood of the Unicorn 6/4/16oz CANS – Hoppy Red Ale. Tastes of Hoppy, Berry, Citrus, Touch of malt sweetness. In this epic battle, the Blood of the Unicorn has been shed by the sword of the deadly assassin of the east. One sip of this aggressively hopped red ale clearly reveals what drives these, the greatest of, hop heads of lore. Is this the end of the mythical horned horse? Or will he rise like the phoenix to fight another day? 6.5% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Lizard King 6/4/16oz CANS – Mosaic Hopped Pale Ale. Light, crisp and refreshing. Mosaic hops make for one tropical, citrusy, and piney pale that gets our mojo risin’ 6% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Ninja vs Unicorn 6/4/16oz CANS – Double India Pale Ale. Hoppy Dry classic west coast style IPA with a light IBU bitterness and a strong citrus and dank hoppiness. Brewed with over five pounds of hops per barrel, this unfiltered double IPA is sure to please the most discerning hop lover. Whether you’re rooting for the mythical horned horse or the deadly assassin of the east, we hope you’ll enjoy Ninja Vs. Unicorn. 8% ABV – IL
PIPEWORKS Premium Pilsner 6/4/16oz CANS – Pilsner Style Lager. Floral, clean lager profile with gentle bitterness, 100% German Malt. 4.9% ABV – IL

Dimensional releasing “Wizzle” English barleywine + “S’meeses” imperial stout on 2/21!

Courtesy of Dimensional Brewing:

Coming February 21st 🍻🔥

🥃 Wizzle — an English Barleywine aged 18 months in a single 1792 Sweet Wheat Bourbon barrel.

🥜 2026 S’meeses — an Imperial Stout aged 24 months in Willett Rye and Old Elk Wheated Bourbon barrels, then rested on honey roasted peanuts, peanut butter, marshmallow, chocolate, and graham crackers.

The public online OZNR release of 2026 S’MEESES is on Sunday, February 15th at 7pm CST and the in person, taproom release of WIZZLE is at 11am on February 21st. The garage space opens at 9AM on the 21st for our usual line up and bottle share. Bottle pick up for both will begin at 11am on February 21st and go until Sunday, March 8th at 7PM (No exceptions). Proxies are welcome to pick up but MUST be indicated on OZNR.

Evil Twin and Fat Orange Cat coming from Abu Nawas!

EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – BARREL-AGED EVEN MORE JESUS 12/2/16oz CANS – Bourbon Barrel-Aged version of Even More Jesus, packed with even more of your favorite flavors and a higher ABV! A few times in the history of craft beer it has happened that a highly praised beer rises beyond mortal stardom into a higher godly league. Usually, the recipe to make such heavenly drops is thick fudge-like body, pitch black color, amazingly overwhelming aromas of chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and muscovado sugar, obviously only made in limited amounts and most crucial of all – it must be Bourbon Barrel-aged to make it taste even more rare! 13% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – IMPERIAL DOUGHNUT BREAK 24/16oz CANS – Imperial Stout brewed with Doughnuts, Coffee, Almonds, Chocolate, & Vanilla. 11.5% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EVEN MORE PULP 24/16oz CANS – Double Dry-Hopped with Mosaic. Notes of whipped OJ, Blueberries & Dank Evergreen. Civil Society Brewing Collab. 8% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EVEN MORE FRESH LOBSTER 6/4/16oz CANS – Aurora Brewing Co. Collab. – Triple IPA, Double dry-hopped with Galaxy & Citra. Notes of punchy hops, velvety smooth oj, ’n fresh lobstah. *This beer was not made with lobster!* 10% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EVEN MORE JESUS 24/16oz CANS – Evil Twin OG Imperial Stout – 12% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EVEN MORE IRISH JESUS 6/4/16OZ CANS – Irish-Style Dry Stout. 4.7% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – IMPERIAL BISCOTTI BREAK 6/4/16oz CANS – Imperial Stout with Almonds, Espresso, Vanilla – 11.5% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – OUR MOST POPULAR IPA 6/4/16oz CANS – Flagship Hazy IPA brewed and Double Dry-Hopped with all Citra hops. 6% ABV – NYC 
Description EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – OUR SECOND MOST POPULAR IPA 6/4/16oz CANS – Flagship West Coast IPA! Brewed with Columbus, Simcoe, & Citra hops. 6.5% ABV – NYC 
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – MOLOTOV COCKTAIL 6/4/12oz CANS – Evil Twin Legendary Triple IPA. A tour de force in hoppiness and by far one of the craziest beer ever made by the crazy Danish Dude. 12% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – ULTRA EVIL 6/4/16oz CANS – American Light Lager. The perfect prescription of a Hot Day. 4.22% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – THE ANTI-IPA IS HAVING A MOMENT 6/4/16oz CANS – Rauchbier Smoked Lager. A light and easy-drinking lager with subtle accents of smoke. 5% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – HOW TO TRAIN YOUR MARSHMALLOW, PASSION FRUIT, AND SO MANY OTHER FRUITS, BERRIES, AND GRAPES 4/6/12oz CANS – Sour Ale brewed with milk sugar, passion fruit, key lime, sour cherry, pineapple, Malbec grapes, Sauvignon Blanc grapes, & marshmallow. Tropical smoothie meets sangria. 5.1% ABV – NY
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – GREENHOUSE GERMAN PILSNER CONDITIONED ON AMERICAN OAK FOUDRE 6/4/16oz CANS – German Pilsner Brewed with Calista hops and conditioned on American oak. Crispy, clean, crushable. 5% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – TO THE MILKY WAY & BACK II 6/4/16oz CANS – RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRY, BLACKBERRY, VANILLA Milkshake IPA. Huge flavors of stone fruit smoothies, whipped cream, & tart blackberry. Contains milk sugar. 7.5% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – EMPEROR MARLON 6/4/16oz CANS – Quadruple IPA. Double dry-hopped with Cashmere, Citra, & Mosaic. 12% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – BLUE RASPBERRY 6/4/16oz CANS – Sour IPA with Raspberry. You Asked for Green Beer, ET Delivers. 6% ABV – NYC
EVIL TWIN BREWING NYC – PINK PINEAPPLE 4/6/12oz CANS – Pink Sour IPA. Made with copious amounts of pineapple. Tasting notes of lemon and ripe pineapple. Medium bodied. Tart. 7.0% ABV – NYC

FAT ORANGE CAT:

Fat Orange Cat Remove The Beer From The Bottom Of The Ocean 6/4/16oz CANS – Hazy IPA with EUREKA and MOSAIC hops. The combo creates a complex cornucopia of stone fruit and berry flavors but also very earthy and dank. 7.5% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Walkabout Scorpion Bowl 6/4/16oz CANS – Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Orange, Cherry & Passionfruit. 5.3% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Walkabout Passionfruit Orange Guava 6/4/16oz CANS – Fruited Sour Ale with Passionfruit, Orange and Guava. 5.3% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Walkabout PINEAPPLE 6/4/16oz CANS – Sour Ale w/ PINEAPPLE. 5.3% ABV – CT 
Fat Orange Cat FOC Skipping My 1st Marriage 6/4/16oz CANS – American Amber Ale. 5.2% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC All Cats Are Grey in the Dark 6/4/16oz CANS – FOC Legendary White Stout – 7.2% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Crispy Cat 6/4/16oz CANS – Crisp American Craft Lager. 5.2% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Baby Kittens 6/4/16oz CANS – Lovely Hazy New England IPA. with a tiny hint of sweetness on the nose. Up front we find a relaxed medley of fresh citrus, mangos, and pineapple. It finishes with a hint of pine and invigorating grapefruit with just enough bitterness to cleanse your palette and invite you back for another sip. 6.5% ABV – CT 
Fat Orange Cat Baby Kittens MOTUEKA 6/4/16oz CANS – Baby Kittens with MOTUEKA Hops. Hazy New England IPA. 6.5% ABV – CT 
Fat Orange Cat FOC Super Yellow Haze Teenage Kittens 6/4/16oz CANS – A Dank, Hazy IPA. Super Yellow Haze Edition! 7.1% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Stay At Home Dad With No Kids 6/4/12oz CANS – New England IPA with Citra, Galaxy and Enigma. 5.9% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat Chonky Cat 6/4/16oz CANS – Double New England Style IPA w/ Citra & Mosaic. 8% ABV – CT
Fat Orange Cat FOC Someone In My Head MOSAIC 6/4/16oz CANS – DIPA Double Dry-Hopped with Mosaic. 8.75% ABV – CT

Clock House and BIT collab “Smoke Shack” returns Friday! (1/16)

We’ve got our eyes on the weekend, and for good reason.

Smoke Shack is back this Friday, and we’re excited to release this collaboration with our friends at Bit Brewery!

What began as a “what if?” turned into one of our favorite brewing memories. Early one September morning, we gathered around the smoke shack while our house Munich and Pilsner malt slowly absorbed smoke from oak, hickory, cherry, and applewood over several hours.

A few days later, that custom smoked malt became Smoke Shack! It’s a sweet, approachable rauchbier inspired by the smoked beer traditions of Bamberg, Germany. It’s balanced, smoky, and full of character.

Big thanks to the team at Bit Brewery for this fun collaboration and a special thank you to Scott S. for letting us use his smoker! This beer is a tribute to the process, the people, and the memories made along the way.

Smoke Shack releases Friday! It’s available on draft and in 4-packs.

Abomination beers coming from Abu Nawas!

Abomination Brewing Juice Monster 6/4/16oz CANS – A crushable 6.8% IPA with Nelson & Citra at an amazing price point.⁠ A juicy, hazy, behemoth IPA, perfect for smashing the type of thirst only a monster can handle. 6.8% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing F#ck Dry January (Censored) 6/4/16oz CANS – Triple Dry-Hopped Triple IPA. 9.7% ABV – CT
Abomination Fog Juice (Key Lime) 6/4/16oz CANS – Double dry-hopped hazy IPA w/ Key Limes. 8% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Love Letters From Hell 6/4/16oz CANS – Milkshake Style Triple IPA with candy hearts, sprinkles, marshmallows, milk sugar, vanilla bean, strawberry & ice cream. 9.6% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Wandering into the Fog Moonlit Dark Berry 6/4/16oz CANS – Moonlit Dark Berry Euphoric Hop Liquid Double Dry Hopped DIPA. Here’s to expanding the HOPPY Horizons! 8.6% ABV – CT
ABOMINATION X TOX Brewing Mochasomniac 6/4/16oz CANS – Mocha Latte themed treat. Imperial Stout brewed with Chocolate, Vanilla, & Coffee. A whipped up a thick Imperial Milk Stout base with layers of dark malt complexity and hit with a huge load of Cacao, Vanilla, and capped it off with a Blend Coffees. Flavors of roasty chocolate syrup give way to caffè mocha latte and nutty pour over coffee with a berry fruit acidity, especially as it warms. 11% ABV – CT
ABOMINATION X TWO VILLAINS Brewing CRAWLING OUT OF THE FOG 6/4/16oz CANS – NE DIPA Whirlpooled Heavily with Citra before being Double Dry Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, LUPOMAX, Nelson & Simcoe Cryo. Big notes of grapefruit zest and papaya run through with a big mouthfeel and firm bitterness and a finish consisting of kushy citrus. 8.5% ABV – NJ
Abomination Lil’ Foggy 6/4/12oz CANS – Double Dry Hopped IPA with Mosaic, Citra, Pacific Jade, Summit & Nelson Hops. 4.5% ABV – CT
Abomination Wandering Into The Snow 6/4/16oz CANS – Double Dry-Hopped Marshmallow Double IPA. 9.1% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Wandering Into The Fog Ambrosia 6/4/16oz CANS – Double Dry-Hopped Double IPA w/ Pineapple, Orange, Cherry, Coconut & Marshmallow. Ambrosia if you will! 9% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Wandering Into The Fog TDH KRUSH 6/4/16oz CANS – DIPA Triple Dry Hopped with Krush Hops. 8.6% ABV – CT
Abomination Tea Time Terror (Mango) 6/4/16oz CANS – Hard Iced w/ MANGO. 9% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Make Sure It’s Dead 6/4/16oz CANS – Smoothie Style – Sour Ale With Soursop, Curuba And Pink Guava. 7.4% ABV – ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Midnight Snack Tiramisu 6/4/16oz CANS – Double Pastry Stout Brewed with Mascarpone, Lady Fingers, Whipped Cream, Coffee & Cacao Nibs  14% AVC – CT
Abomination Brewing Midsomer’s Night Snack 6/4/16oz CANS – Stout Brewed w/ Chocolate, Marshmallow, Graham Cracker & Milk Sugar. 7% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Winter Harvester 6/4/16oz CANS – Sour Ale in the Seasonal Abomination’s Harvester Rotating series, exploring how various fruit combinations play off each other. This winter version is heavily fruited with Pomegranate, Plum, and Papaya. 6% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Dark Places 6/4/16oz CANS – Imperial Stout brewed with Chocolate, Vanilla Beans, & Ancho Chilis. 13% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Drippy Popsicle Rocket Pop 6/4/16oz CANS – Fruited Smoothie Sour With Cherry, Blueberry & Raspberry. Tastes Just Like the Half Melted Rocket Pops We All Remember. POPSICLE AT HOME! 1. STICK CAN IN FREEZER 2. WAIT AN HOUR 3. OPEN, POUR AND SERVE! 5.5% ABV – CT
Abomination Brewing Drippy Popsicle Mango Sorbet 6/4/16oz CANS – Fruited Smoothie Sour Ale With Mango and Vanilla. POPSICLE AT HOME! 1. STICK CAN IN FREEZER 2. WAIT AN HOUR 3. OPEN, POUR AND SERVE! 5.5% ABV – CT
Abomination Everyday Fog STRATA 6/4/16oz CANS – Double Dry Hopped Double IPA w/ STRATA. 7.1% ABV – CT

Iowa’s Ten Best Beers of 2025!

The Top 10 is here! Once again blown away by the amazing beers that our Iowa brewers and their staff have made for us this year! Huge thank you to all service industry workers! Cheers to you! Onto the TOP 10!
LIST CRITERIA
*Beer must have been brewed in Iowa
*Beer must have been released in 2025

Like every list, I know opinions will differ, and I’m looking forward to reading what your top 10 list was for this year! Once again, so many beers, so little time, and I know I wasn’t able to even scratch the surface as to the beers I wanted to try and thankfully I’ve had the help of The Duke of Drinking and Sherlock Foams to help compile this list of greatness! HERE WE GO!

**Clock House Brewing** – Surround by Nuts – 13% ABV – “A decadent long-boil imperial stout aged in Koenig Maple Bourbon barrels and finished on cacao nibs, Madagascar Vanilla, dry-roasted peanuts, and Nutter Butters. Perfect for those moments when your relatives are a little…nutty.
A surprise release during the Cousin Eddie party on Thanksgiving morning, Surrounded by Nuts was the perfect accompaniment to a post Thanksgiving feast for dessert or for some folks the perfect way to start their Thanksgiving morning. Either way, Clock House once again delivers at top brew.

**Dimensional Brewing** KICKS – 15.6% ABV – “Non-adjunct imperial stout that is a blend of some of our finest tasting whiskey barrels from our friends at Blaum Brothers Distilling Co. and Starks Sport Shop.”
Rich, boozy, and decadent, with whiskey barrel notes. It’s a sipper kind of beer, but so good that you may just keep on sipping. Another fantastic offering from Dimensional!

**Pulpit Rock** – Malaka – 8.1% ABV – “Double IPA with Nectaron, Riwaka, and Citra hops. Brewed in collaboration with Seven Islands Brewing from Greece.”
One of the more aromatic doubles I’ve had in quite some time, and luckily Need Pizza had this baby on tap so I got to dabble more than once. Wonderful done double IPA!

**Ten Wasp** – Cake Eater – 14% ABV – A German Chocolate stout with pecans, coconut, cocoa nibs, and vanilla beans. I was able to have a glass of this at the Iowa Craft Beer Bash held at Millstream Brewing in the Amanas. I love what Ten Wasp does, and the people behind it are even better. Hoping and looking forward to more of their offerings in the Cedar Rapids area this year!

**Twin Span Brewing** Lemon Pound Cake – 12.5% ABV – “33 hours boil stout with loads of white wedding cake, lemon puree, and a touch of cinnamon! OH MY!” Had this at the Craft Beer Bash as well and thought it was absolutely delicious. I need to spend more time at the breweries in the Quad Cities, not only does Twin Span make good beer, their food always looks amazing!

**Big Grove Brewing** Richard the Whale Golden Ticket – 11.5% ABV – “Inspired by German chocolate cake, we blended this Extra Special batch of Richard the Whale infused with toasted coconut, pecans, and Grade A vanilla beans.” Another very limited release, but if you played your cards right you were at least able to get a pour at one of Big Grove’s locations across the state. This beer is the definition of balance and once again is a beer of the year nominee.

**Lua Brewing/Dimensional Brewing**Aibohphobia – 14.8% ABV – “Imperial Stout aged 32 months in Willett Bourbon barrels, then rested on toasted and raw coconut, honey roasted peanuts and peanut butter. Brewed in collaboration with Lua Brewing.” Another big stout on the list for this year. This beer is intensely rich and unctuous and is a perfect beer to share with other big stout loving friends!

**Field Day** Perilous – 14.6% ABV – “Perilous 2025 rested in bourbon barrels for over 18 months and then was blended with coconut, vanilla, and chocolate.” Field Day releases are always a guarantee of something truly delicious. A good reason why they quickly became one of Iowa’s best breweries.

**Ten Wasp Brewing** Wendy’s a Lifeguard – 7.4% ABV – “Simcoe, Vic Secret, Mosaic and Citra Hops- lots of mango & passionfruit.” Although 7.4% may catch up to you, I remember my first thought after a few sips of this brew was, “I could drink this all day!” Maybe not all day, but I feel like at least a few more wouldn’t hurt. Hoping to see this juicy IPA down the road again!

**Dimensional Brewing**Well Placed Smile – 8.3% ABV – “Hazy Double IPA with Citra, Citra Cryo, Citra Hyperboost, and Citra Quantum.” Another from Dimensional as the fellas in Dubuque continue to push out truly remarkable beers. A wonderful year for them and some amazing accolades given to them as well. This hazy double is juicy and delicious. I’d like to see them make this more often, but I also love all the new brews Dimensional brings out!

There you have it! Our best beers of 2025! Let us know what you think and what your list would look like! 2025 should be outstanding for Iowa Beer! Cheers! Join the Iowa Beer Facebook group by clicking HERE: