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.

Aslin, Blackstack, Modist, Untitled Art, and Lil’ Beaver brews coming from Pequod!

Old Town Lager

Corvette Steve – Fruited Sour

Double Blasticity – DBL IPA

HNBC Peanut Butter Porter

  • Red Velvet Cake Stout
  • Mochi Mango Cream GF Sour Collab w/ Great Notion (Gluten Free)
  • DDH Local 755: EXP. 17701 6.8% DDH New England IPA
  • Small Caps 6.3% New England IPA
  • For The Birds 6.4% Tiki Sour
  • Fugazi 4.8% Italian Style Pilsner
  • DREAMYARD NE IPA
  • Pretty Metal Oak Aged Dark Lager
  • Punkin Pi 
  • Wainbows IPA
  • Dad Jokes VI

Backpocket releasing “This is Fire” double dry hopped IPA and “Iowa Nightmare” pumpkin stout this week!

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!

More Drekker brews coming from Pequod!

Braaaaaaains Blackberry Cherry Plum
A new Braaaaaaaains! We stuffed this one with Blackberry, Cherries and Plum and then hit it with our double secret smoothie treatment of sea salt, lactose, and vanilla!⠀

NEW – Two Right Eyes – Hazy DBL IPA 

For this banger we set out to laser focus our vision, flip our perspective and get weird with our hopping scheme. To kick it off we chose our lovely and hand-selected Citra & Mosaic. It’s all very nerdy and scientific but basically we reimagined a totally new dry hop schedule and used our evil robot centrifuge to create a total juice unit. It simply explodes with notes of apricot, pineapple, kiwi, melon and that sticky icky dankness we just can’t get enough of. ⠀

Prrt – So Good 
You know you’re in for a good time when you see people walking around with cotton candy, and this one’s definitely a good time. PRRRT So Good is loaded it up with Strawberry & Blueberry and then hit it with cotton candy floss for that real melt in your mouth, sticky fingers at the fair cotton candy flavor.⠀Contains no lactose.

Chonk – Birthday Cake 
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!

Weldwerks, Untitled Art, Blackstack, Phase Three, and Southern Grist coming from Pequod!

El Dorado Extra Extra Juicy Bits DIPA – 8.6% ABV Hazy Double IPA brewed with 14+ lbs per bbl of Citra, Mosaic + El Dorado hops and Double Dry Hopped with Extra Extra El Dorado.

Guava Lime Gose – 4.4% ABV Sour Ale w/ Guava, Salt, Coriander and Lime Juice, Colorado

Punch Out Vodka Smoothie Laguna Blend 6.0% ABV Vodka with Peach, Mango and Apricot fruit and natural flavors.

Microdosing Strata IPA – A 7.2% Single hop, Microdosed  New England IPA. This is the fifth in the series that uses a single hop (Strata) added every day during primary fermentation – Microdosing. The previous four have been very well received for single, single New England IPAs, making us very excited for this release. Microdosing: Mosaic is 4.24 and Microdosing: Citra 4.15 on Untapped.

I Am The Manager DIPA An 8.4% Double New England IPA. It features Strata, Equanot Cryo, Loral Cryo, Mosaic and Experimental 586 hops.

Perpetual Sounds DIPA – 7.7% ABV.  Double IPA brewed with mosaic and amarillo hops. Ripe peach, earl grey, lemon, blueberry, pine.

Tonal Range DIPA – 8.0% ABV. Tonal Range we experimented with dialing back that residual sweetness but made sure to not lose the creamy body that’s so important to us in our hazies. This batch showcases Idaho 7, Ekuanot and El Dorado hops, imparting some dank flavors while still showcasing a dialed-in, slightly dryer malt bill.

A Bushel of Apples – Collab with Affy Tapple. 6.0% ABV. Peanut Caramel Apple Ale with apple juice and natural flavors.

Strawberry Biscuit Ale – Collab with Hardee’s 5.2% ABV. The Strawberry Biscuit Ale is a full-bodied, cream ale that incorporates delicious hints of strawberry jam and buttermilk.

Big Grove “Richard the Whale” tickets go on sale Oct. 19th! Plus 2 beers returning benefiting Iowa’s Waterways!

Richard the Whale 2022

Wednesday, October 19 at 10am — Richard the Whale will go on sale for pre-order… then you can sip and sit back with our favorite barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout when he resurfaces on December 3 in our Iowa City, Solon, and Des Moines taprooms. 

But it does beg the question… which variant styles should we pull from the oceans of options?? Chocolate Coconut Cake, Well Baked, and Coffee were reallllly tasty in 2021.

Wade Wisely and Greener State of Mind Returning

Wade Wisely and Greener State of Mind each return on Friday, September 30 with a mission to improve the quality of Iowa’s waterways!

Raise a glass of our annual Oatmeal Coffee Stout project with coffee from JBC Coffee Roasters and you’re benefiting The Driftless Flyathlon. And when you pick up our citrus-forward pale ale in collaboration with GreenState Credit Union, proceeds support the mission of Wings2Water

And after they hit the shelves of our breweries, they’ll both find their way across Iowa to your favorite beer coolers in the first week of October.

The Veil Brewing, Untitled Art, Blackstack, and MORE brews coming from Pequod!

Dirt Nap 3
8.8% ABV. Dirt Nap³ is a triple dry-hopped DIPA with Mosaic, Citra, Nelson, and Galaxy. Incredible depth of flavor showcasing the best hops from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Concentrated notes of Melon, grapes, passion fruit, and pineapple.

Master Shredder
5.5% ABV. Master Shredder is our house IPA that’s heavy on the Mosaic with juicy notes of cantaloupe, blueberry, orange, and grapefruit.

Weekend at Broznies
9.0% ABV. Citra DIPA with a bunch of pineapple puree added.

Sunshine Sorbet Tastee
5.5% ABV. Sunshine Sorbet Tastee returns! This Smoothie-style Sour Ale is brewed with milk sugar and conditioned with peach, pineapple, and passion fruit. Tastes like a summer cocktail slushy, tropicana fruit juice, and sunshine in a glass.

Lil Supernatural Freak
6% ABV. Lil’ Supernatural Freak is a mash-up of Supernatural Creature and Mega Beast Freak, but in IPA form instead of DIPA. Hopped with Citra, Enigma, Galaxy, Motueka, Nelson, Waimea, Amarillo, BRU-1, El Dorado, Nelson! On top of all of that we added in some Simcoe and Mosaic Cryo. Very complex hop character of ripened tropical fruit.
CRUCIAL TAUNT
8% ABV. Crucial Taunt is our house Double IPA. Citra-forward with lots of saturated candied orange, pineapple, slight pine impressions.

Wake UP
8% ABV. Wake Up is our all Nelson Sauvin-hopped Double India Pale Ale. Intensely hoppy with drippy notes of over ripe pear, drippy guava, and a white wine minerality.

Tefnut Apricot Raspberry Margarita Crush
10% ABV. Tefnut Apricot Raspberry Margarita Crush is a brand new cosmic Imperial Gose in collaboration with Omnipollo, triple-fruited with incredible amounts of apricot, raspberry, lime, agave, and lime salt. For each version of Tefnut, we put our heads together with the folks at Omnipollo to reimagine what a fruit beer can be, via new processes and volumes. Notes of jolly ranchers, sour warhead candies, and tasty, watermelon margaritas.

whitemiata3
6% ABV. whitemiata³ is our luxurious IPA that is triple dry-hopped with the freshest Galaxy and Citra hops. Explosive flavors of oversaturated white grape, orange-rind, pleasant hay, soft mango, and pineapple.

This World is Not Real
8% ABV. This World Is Not Real is a double IPA with Citra, Mosaic, Nelson, and Enigma. A well-blended flavor combo of musky cantaloupe, wine grapes, and papaya.

Soft Soft Style Style
8% ABV. Soft Soft Style Style is a double dry-hopped Double IPA with Citra, Nelson, Simcoe, and Mosaic hops and a touch of Simcoe cryo. Juicy, soft vibes of fruit salad, peaches, melon, and tangerine.

Never Calm
4.9% ABV. Our Gose brewed with plenty of wheat, a touch of pink sea salt for salinity and fruited with passion fruit and pineapple. Tart, refreshing, and tropical.

Doom Volume
6% ABV. IPA brewed with Citra, Strata, Galaxy, and Citra Incognito. Exceptionally soft and full flavored vibes of strawberry, creamsicle and concentrated tropical hops.

Malted Milk Ball – Pastry Stout 
In it’s glorious return, Malted milk ball stout comes back with a fresh look on the recipe. Still a Milkstout brewed with Cacao Nibs and milk sugar giving a full body and that extra kick of malted milk ball goodness. 

Lemon Sherbet – Fruited our 
Berliner Weiss Style ale w/ lactose, lemon puree, lemon flavor and vanilla flavor

Stacks in the Park Triple IPA 
A 9.7% TDH Triple New England IPA brewed in collaboration with North Park Beer Co. from San Diego. Originally brewed at North Park, a 4.33 on Untappd, we liked it so much we decided to brew it ourselves. It features Citra, Strata, Cashmere, Talus Cryo and HBC 586 Cryo hops.

Read the Room – Foeder Sour
A 5.3% foeder sour refreshingly blended with Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Mango & Raspberry.

DDH Double Space Boots

Double Dry Hopped Double IPA brewed with loads of Citra & Galaxy hops.

Shadows West Coast IPA

Inspired by the early days of the midwestern emo music scene, this classic West Coast IPA has a dynamic blend of Citra, Columbus, and Simcoe that really showcases a bold and electric hop profile. Pensive woody resin has subtle jolt of citrus pulp quickly fades into an herbaceous ensemble that’s incredibly snappy and clean. Bold and ambitious, this IPA is a solid addition in a long lineage of stellar West-Coasts.

Clock House releasing “Pineapple Witch Slap” and “Kickin’ Kangaroo” imperial IPA tomorrow! (7/15)

Just in time for the weekend are two releases coming from the fine folks at Clock House! Pineapple Witch Slap, which has been released before, and a new imperial IPA, Kickin’ Kangaroo, will be available when the taproom opens on Friday, July 15th! Here’s more on these releases from Clock House’s Facebook page:

Kickin’ Kangaroo: We brewed up a bitter Imperial IPA and dry-hopped it with Australian hops. The result is a dank and grassy melon DIPA that finishes with just enough kick!

Pineapple Witch Slap: Our beloved flagship NEIPA infused with real pineapple. Get some while you can this won’t last long!