It’s that time of year! For the 2nd year in a row I’ve teamed up with Gly-Mawr The Local in Mt. Vernon, IA to put together an Iowa-only beer advent calendar! We tried to include as many Iowa breweries as possible and also to include different options than we had last year! With that being said, I’ll be giving one calendar away to one lucky winner! Here’s how you can win!
Comment on any of my Facebook pages where this link is posted by telling me your absolute favorite Iowa brewed beer, Iowa brewery and tag one of your friends!
Comment on my Instagram account by doing the same. Tell me your favorite Iowa brewed beer, Iowa brewery and tag a friend!
-Deadline: Last time to comment to enter the drawing will be Sunday, November 14th @ 8:00 p.m. I will be randomly drawing a name and will contact the winner. Pick up times for the calendar are as follows:
Wednesday, Nov 24th, 10-4 Friday, Nov 26th, 12-8 Saturday, Nov 27th, 8-8
Please spread the word! There are a few calendars left for purchase as well and they make wonderful gifts! Cheers and good luck! For more info on the calendar please click HERE!
Thew Brewing Company in Cedar Rapids will be paying homage to their “Old and in the Way” IPA with the release of “Older and in the Wayer” Triple IPA this Friday! Here’s more on this release courtesy of Thew:
Celebrate with us on Friday – Old and in the Way is turning another year older. Do you know what that means?We’ve got a special release for you – Older and in the Wayer – triple IPA – made just for you to celebrate Old and in the Way!Join us in the taproom on Friday – we’ll have popcorn and a few additional surprises us our sleeve.
Two beers coming back to the Lion Bridge rotation getting re-released today! Majestic Beast and Fun Size are now available in the taproom and at select beer retailers! Here’s more on these two delicious brews:
Majestic Beast (Hazy IPA, 6.8%) – We dry-hopped our Majestic Beast with Galaxy and Motueka hops and dumped in a healthy addition of Comet at the end of boil to add even more beauty to this magnificent creature.
Fun Size (Oatmeal Porter w/Chocolate and Sea Salt, 6.0%) – Brewed with Sea Salt and then rested on toasted cacao nibs. The result is an adult treat for Halloween. No tricks needed!
Pixie Mix Cherry Crusher This Cherry Crusher Pixie Mix is taking us back to 1995 and will have you listening to Nirvana, playing Mario and reminiscing the good ol’ days when life was simple, the days were long and a big pitcher of cherry kool aid solved all the world’s problems.
BA Exhausted Parent Imperial Stout – Chocolate Shoppe Series Barrel aged imperial stout with espresso beans, cacao nibs and mik sugar. Based off of the ice cream flavor Exhausted Parent which is bourbon-spiked espresso ice cream swirled with bittersweet chocolate chunks.
Double Blueberry Sour This is THE BEST beer to come out of Untitled Art in months. Truly a 10/10, pouring a perfect blue & purple color. The amount of true blueberry, body, and carbonation is spot on.
Bride of Dankenstein IPA You know what they say, the best things come in pairs. This Classic west coast single IPA is the significant other, or bride so to speak, to our Danknestein’s monster. We sewed together a bouquet of Citra, Idaho 7, Cascade, Cashmere, Strata, and Amarillo to create a beer that is lighter and more fruit forward than her more monstrous other half, although sure to still ELECTRIFY
Dankenstein’s Monster DIPA IT’S ALIVE!!! IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEEEE!!! Just in time for the spooky season, this monstrous unfiltered double IPA packed is packed to the brim with classic and dank hops. We pieced together this monster with Cascade, CTZ, Chinook, Centennial, and Simcoe giving you big citrus. big pine, and all the dankness you could ask for.
Brothers of the Freemason IPA The only password you need to get into this masonic lodge is the word “Citra”. Created in collaboration with our Bros (Pun definitely intended) at Booze Brother’s Brewing out of Vista CA, this beer contains nothing but Citra. But don’t take that as it being boring by any means. We tracked down every different variation of the Citra hop we could find to create this citrus bomb. Containing Cryo Citra, Incognito Citra, and regular T90 Citra hop pellets, this beer is much more complex than your standard single hop beer. All you need to do is know the password and the handshake
Cash Stout Imperial Coffee Stout Collaboration with Mostra Coffee. Notes of Dark Chocolate, Espresso and Rich Malt
Galaxy Revengeance DIPA – Beer Zombies Collab What do you get when Mason Ale Works and Beer Zombies put their head together for a collaboration? You can a hazy bursting with the Citrus, Peach, and Passionfruit that Galaxy is known for. This single hopped hazy double IPA is as dangerously crushable as it is delicious
Willy Time Belgian Style White Ale: Brewed with Orange, Grapefruit Peel, and Coriander, and for a crisp and refreshing brew.
Mason Ale Works + Horus Aged Ales = Ferrous Falcon Brewing
Kyle Harrop (Horus Aged Ales) teams with Mason Ale Works’ Grant Tondro on new brewing project! These beers are amazing, you’re really going to want to try these. Read about it here.
Cutthroat Committee DIPA – Collaboration with Outer Range Brewing Double Dry Hopped Double IPA with Motueka, Riwaka, and Sabro Hops. Collaboration with Outer Range Brewing Co.
Mosaic Moose DDH IPA – Collaboration with Foam Brewers Double Dry Hopped IPA with Flex, Mosaic, and Mosaic Cryo Hops
Life in the Clouds NEIPA Fall into the rich embrace of this New England style IPA. Simcoe and Mosaic hops balance each other to make this juicy IPA explosively fruit forward in both taste and aroma while curbing any unbearable sweetness to make an extremely drinkable beer. The huge mouth feel ensures all of your tastebuds are enveloped in a blanket of tropical bliss, paradise in a can.
Rainbow Sherbet Sour This Rainbow Sherbet Sour is our take on a classic warm-weather treat but can be enjoyed anytime throughout the year. Packed full of key lime, pineapple, orange and raspberry, it strikes the perfect balance between fruity sweetness and sour tartness.
Big Grove Brewery has announced the release details for the one of the best, if not the best, beer releases in the state of Iowa as Richard the Whale will be coming back to us on December 4th! Pre Order starts this Wednesday (10/13), check out the information below courtesy of Big Grove for more details! Click HERE for Wednesday’s presale!
Richard the Whale, our bourbon barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout, resurfaces Saturday, December 4. To get your fins on this big, beautiful four-pack, you can snag it beginning Wednesday at 10AM online at biggrove.com. Additionally, we’ll once again host the Friday night Omakase Dinner at the Iowa City Taproom, featuring the very best in food and beverage from our chefs and brewers—prepared right in front of your table. Saturday, December 4, Richard the Whale returns with brunch for all alongside…HDTV | Imperial Hazy IPA Double Dry Hopped with Galaxy | We took inspiration from our Color TV, which is brewed with a whole lot of Galaxy hops and brewed a truly out-of-this-world beer: HDTV. This one is hitting the airwaves at a whopping 9.2% ABV. Project Hop Fisch | Big Grove collab with Lua Brewing + Toppling Goliath | This second round of the Hop Fisch IPA collab heads into the tanks later this week… and you can count on something special from this trio of Iowa brewmasters. This release is available from our Iowa City Brewery & Taproom and Solon Brewpub.Iowa City 7am-10am: in-house pick-up with brunch menu availableSolon 7am-10am: in-house pick-up with regular menu and breakfast options available No limits. Proxies are allowed with the buyer’s order number and a digital copy of ID. The pick-up for this release is in-house pick-up only and will not include a drive-thru.
Eastern Seaboard DDH DIPA A double dry hopped New England style IPA brewed with American barley, Canadian oats, Germany spelt malt, and a dash of lactose sugar. Hopped in the whirlpool and hop back before being dry hopped twice with 5 lbs per gallon of Lupulin saturated Mosaic, Citra & Galaxy.
New Territories IPA Abundantly tropical, saturated, and easy to drink… this high-tech IPA collab with Mikkeller Brewing San Diego uses a genetically modified yeast that directly produces massive tropical fruit aromas, active fermentation dry hopping with a fancy new blend of cryo hops that emphasizes mango aromatics, and Talus, everyone’s favorite new hop.
Union Lager Inspired by the Dortmunder Union brewery and their crispy golden lagers, Union Lager is somewhere between a Pilsner and a Helles in terms of hop expression and malt heft. Union Lager is our take on a Westphalian pale lager. It’s crisp, moderately malty, easy to drink but with a pronounced hop profile, and best of all, this beer is a celebration of our newfound status as a Union-operated brewery.
Hop Coastal DIPA Hop Coastal is your sea voyage from northern pine banks to southern tropical beaches. Bursting with a boatload of Simcoe and Citra hops, you’ll encounter the full depths of juniper, grapefruit, peach and melon. This double IPA, at 7.5% ABV, has enough umph to get you there and back again.
Orange Ripple Sorbet IPA Here is your favorite creamsicle NEIPA but without the lactose. The sweet creaminess comes from puréed oranges and vanilla which are both added after fermentation.
Batisserie S’mores Stout This S’mores beer is full-bodied, with a silky mouthfeel and layered with notes of milk chocolate, graham cracker and roasted marshmallow. Contains milk sugar. 10% ABV.
Bistro Spiced Apple Donut If you haven’t been able to visit the apple orchard this year, just reach for a can of Bistro Spiced Apple Donuts. It’s the fall experience in a can! Breathe in the bready donut aroma, watch the spice flecks descend like falling leaves and feel the thick body of apple pulp wash over your taste buds. Just like the classic fall donut, this heavily fruited Berliner Weisse delivers on not being too sweet while offering a comforting yet sophisticated flavor experience. 6.5% ABV
Dormitory Daze Hazy IPA Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado blend together for an overripe tropical juicy hop bomb. This hazie is a collab with our friends from Freehand Goods in Orlando. Pineapple, fresh orange peel, and dank mango fill out the nose and palate and finish out to a smooth mouthfeel.
Lemon Cheesecake Shakeeee Sharp, bright lemon and sweet lactose meet beautiful cheesecake flavors in this Berliner. Light and rich flavors from a favorite dessert all rolled into a fun and unique beer.
Cosmic Fudge Imperial Stout Imperial Milk Stout with Walnuts, Marshmallow, and Cocoa Nibs Rich chocolate brownies, deep fudge, whipped marshmallow, and roasted walnuts meld into this dessert stout. Sweet and flavorful!
Are You There God? It’s me Strawberry We’ve got some more goop for you. Our Mixed-Culture Foeder-Fermented Berliner-Base conditioned on unconscionable quantities of juicy Strawberries & Tahitian Vanilla Bean Caviar with a dash of Milk Sugar for good measure.
Building Blocks Mosaic & Wheat DIPA The brews in this series are meant to showcase some of our favorite raw materials. This version highlights Pilsner Malt from Wisconsin, Flaked & Malted Wheat from Canada, Our Hand Selected 2020 lot of Mosaic & Mosaic Cryo from the amazing folks at Loftus Ranches in Yakima Valley & Our Beloved London Ale 3.
Local 755 NEIPA Our All-Time Ale. Countless tweaks & nudges in the right direction over three and a half years in pursuit of our own turbid utopia. Citra, Azacca & Amarillo love from our house to yours.
Fugazi Italian-style Pilsner We’ve been brewing our little keisters off trying to keep our beloved Unfiltered Italian-Pilsner around full time, but we haven’t quite gotten there yet folks… One Day We do have a fresh batch in cans for you as we speak though Weyermann Pils Malt lagered for 7 weeks, Spunded for natural carbonation & kissed with Czech Kazbek. It’s the Rill Dilly
S’mores Stout – 8.0% ABV Pasty stout with vanilla extract, dark chocolate flavor, milk sugar, toasted marshmallow & pie crust flavor.
Tropical Smoothie Seltzer Version 2 – Omnipollo Collab – 5.0% ABV Smoothie Seltzer with Pineapple, Mango, Guava, and Apple
Another wonderful brewery will be gracing the shelves here in Iowa in the near future as news of Maine Beer Company coming to Iowa via Johnson Brothers has been confirmed! An eclectic portfolio that has a vast array of styles including the ever popular and delicious Lunch, Mean Old Tom, Peeper, and many more! It will be interesting to see what we get in Iowa, but I’m really looking forward to trying more of Maine’s offerings! Click HERE to visit their website to check out their brews! Cheers!
Juicy IPA – Version 11 – 7% ABV Untitled Art’s Juicy IPA Series is back! This version is made with Nelson Sauvin, citra & mosaic hops.
Pineapple Papaya Lime Sour – 6% ABVBerliner Weiss Style Ale with Pineapple Puree, Red Papaya and Lime Juice
Raspberry Double Marbles Milkshake IPA – 8% ABV Raspberry Marbles is making it’s way back into orbit…and this time it totally doubled! This tubular Milkshake-Style DIPA contains a cosmic amount of fresh Raspberries, Mosaic hops, sweet Vanilla, and creamy Milk Sugar for the ultimate raspberry milkshake profile. A hefty payload of straight raspberry juice orbits around a subtle acidic piquancy thats all contained within a nebulously plump body of haze. Cut the hyperspeed engines and shower your tastebuds in this intergalactic storm of flavor
DDH 755 Nelson – 6.8% ABV Our favorite fog dog gets some flashy new threads in the form of a third dry hop full up with a deliciously fruity lot of New Zealand Nelson Sauvin after the first two of our hand selected Azacca, Amarillo & Citra. Saturated salutations from our house to yours.
Non-Fungible TIPA – 10.1% ABV Just like those nifty tokens everyone’s been so stoked about that certify a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. For fear of sounding, well, sentimental, we can’t ever get this exact bushel of hops in again. This grain was grown in a specific region that experienced unique weather during the growing season. You get the idea. It may be next to imperceptible on a shorter timeline, but this beer will never be the same as it is at this very moment. This is a fleeting expression of impermanent joy in the form of beer in a can. F*ck%*# science, amirite?
Local 755 – 6.8% ABV Our Foggy Favorite. Azacca, Amarillo & a Gwop of Citra. Soft, Juicy & Hazy like 70’s Home Movies.
Thew Brewing in Cedar Rapids is tapping a couple of new beers today! Thew Askew Strawberry Rhubarb Sour and Pashmina Pale ale will be hitting the tap lines at the brewery today! Here’s more from Thew:
On tap today: Thew Askew #14, strawberry rhubarb. On tap only, limited quantities coming in at 6% ABV.
Pashmina Pale. Hazy pale brewed with Cashmere hops.
Weyermann Pils Malt lagered for 7 weeks, Spunded for natural carbonation & kissed with Czech Kazbek. It’s the Rill Dilly
