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Urban Artifact coming to Iowa via Pequod! Plus Kinship, Fair State, MORE, Hoosier, Humble Forager, Untitled Art, Blackstack, and Octopi!

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Spyglass Sour 
A lemon & lime golden sour ale, Spyglass is tart and refreshing with a lower calorie count.

Paperweight Midwest Fruit Tart
Apricot Midwest Fruit Tart. 3,000lbs of apricots per 30bbl batch.

Bushel Gose
A gose with heritage cider apples and baking spices. Tart, salty, and delicious

Sour Mixed Variety Pack
The mixed twelve packs will feature three cans each of four different beers, two of which are going to be exclusive to the mixed packs. Harrow, Keypunch, Spyglass & Pinery

The Tumi
The Tumi is brewed with 3,000 lbs of Yellow Mombin per 30 bbl batch. Yellow Mombins, also known as caja or hog plums, originate in the rainforests of Central and South America. The taste is vaguely tropical with hints of mango, banana, papaya, and pineapple. 

The Gadget Midwest Fruit Tart 
A Midwest Fruit Tart brewed with 1,200 lbs of blackberries, 1,200 lbs of raspberries, and 30g of vanilla beans per 30 bbl batch

Xmas Pickle Gose
Naughty or Nice, our beloved Pickle Gose is ready to be unwrapped and enjoyed this holiday season. The light and refreshing taste of cucumber and dill make the perfect pairing for all the heavy, holiday feasts to be had. 

Astronaut Food
This otherworldly brew is made with freeze-dried blueberries, and has more fruit than any other beer we’ve made. With a 15% ABV and a dizzying amount of blueberries, this beer is out of this world.

Dear Annie Hazy IPA
Deliciously juicy and hazy love note of lemon peel and orange pith with medium hoppy notes and light bitterness. 

Off the Leash Pils
Modern Iowa Corn Pilsner – Our approach to a refreshing corn lager. Clean, crisp, and off-the-charts crushable.

Kobes Unleashed Kölsch
Light, refreshing, and clean. With a mild bitterness, this traditional brew is super crushable.

Spirit Foul DDH Hazy IPA
Brewed in collaboration with San Diego’s Modern Times Beer, Spirit Foul was Fair State’s first hazy IPA. Brewed with the freshest Strata hops and plenty of Citra and Mosaic for its passion fruit aroma. Pilsner malt, pale wheat, flaked oats, and flaked barley give this beer its soft body and signature haze. Super juicy, tropical, and dank.

Luxury of Restraint IPA
IPA you can see through? Yes, you read that right. The Luxury of Restraint is a collaboration with Shared Brewing (St. Louis, MO), hopped liberally with hand-selected Strata, Simcoe, and Nelson Sauvin. Assertive but polite bitterness, crispy malt character, and notes of stonefruit, gooseberries, nebulous tropicalia, and a waft of dankness. Can- and keg-conditioned for extra intangibles.

Double Hi-Five DIPA  – Collab W/ Ology
This Triple Dry-Hopped Double IPA brewed with our good friends at Ology Brewing is just bursting with tropical notes from 3 massive dry hops of Citra, Galaxy, Idaho 7, and Mosaic. 


Huntley Helles  – Kegs Only
Named to honor the home of our Huntley facility, this German-style lager is brewed with our soft water and some of our favorite German malts and hops, then lagered in our horizontal tank. An extremely soft mouthfeel with a pleasant malt profile and hints of noble hops, then ends in an ever so smooth finish.

Fruit Fusion Blueberry/Mango Yogurt
Fruit Fusion is all about pushing the limits. This brew is no exception as we have paired two amazing fruits (BLUEBERRY & MANGO) with tons of real vanilla yogurt and a touch of granola. This is a thicc boy, and absolutely smooth and delicious.
 

Chubby Bunny Kiwi Mallowmellon
 Marshmallow and real Kiwi puree.. what more can you ask for!?! Sweet/tart/and absolutely delicious all the way down the hatch. This is the first time that HBC has used Kiwi and we must ask ourselves… why have we waited this long?
 

Haze Head Seven Candles
Celebrating our seventh year in style with Seven Candles. This one has stupid amounts of hops. Like all of our NEIPAs– they are balanced with a strong backbone of chewy malts, but we pushed hard to give this one an edge as we incorporated seven of our favorite hops! This beer is absolute heaven to the hazy and IPA lovers. This may be the silkiest NEIPA we have offered thus far!


Spin 2 Win Pit Boss
Blueberry, Pomegranate, Black Currant: Three fruits perfectly matched by cupid himself. This brew features ungodly amounts of pure fruit. It is tart, rich, and features a wonderful mouthfeel.

Swingin’ Sticks Imperial Sweet Stout – Collab w/ Angry Chair
Austin teamed up with our friends at Angry Chair Brewing out of Tampa Bay Florida to bring you an Imperial Sweet Stout with coconut from Sri Lanka, pistachios from California, and cocoa nibs from Bolivia. This decadent brew should remind you of a rich chocolatey pistachio ice cream with the perfect amount of coconut and caramel swirl!

Hiking With Pulpit Rock
This newly developed pastry seltzer showcases Pulpit Rock Brewing Company’s innate talents for creating outstanding pastry sours while blending Austin’s style and love for new creations; like his previous Forager Brewery “Seltzer Pops”. The two styles come together for an epic Dole whip meets a citrus gin and tonic one-of-a-kind refreshing summertime beverage that begs you to wonder— just how did they do it?

Haizer Triple IPA Version 4
This triple IPA is brewed with motueka, nelson, citra & hort 4337. Coming in at 9.8%, this beer is incredibly smooth and easy drinking. One of their best TIPA’s to date!


Blackberry Cobbler A La Mode
This berliner weisse style ale with blackberry, pie crust & cinnamon tastes dangerous close to an actual blackberry cobbler. This one will seriously WOW you!

Can I Speak To Your Manager? NEIPA
A lil’ liquid shout out to all of our service industry compatriots. Strata, Mosaic, Ekuanot Cryo & HBC 568 in condescending quantities. Sometimes it’s just one of those nights.


Now Presenting Passionfruit/Plum/Grapefruit Sour
Our Foeder-Fermented Mixed Culture Berliner Base conditioned on gobs of Plum, Grapefruit & Passionfruit with a bit of Milk Sugar to round things out. 

Double Maple Imperial Morning Stout
Brewed with loads of coffee beans and a multiple of maple, this 11% brew goes down smooth. The first notes of maple sweetness are balanced out by the flavors of deep roasted coffee 

Backpocket set to release “Wake the F Up” Barrel-aged Coffee Imperial Stout on 12/4!

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Stout weather is upon us and stout releases are on the horizon! Backpocket is releasing their popular “Wake the F Up!” barrel-aged coffee imperial stout on December 4th! Here’s more from Backpocket on this release:

𝚂𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙴‼️
Wake The F Up Iowa 2021: Barrel Aged Imperial Coffee Stout release party will be December 4th. This BA Stout was aged in Mississippi River Distilling Barrels for boozy flavors that blend perfectly with the locally roasted coffee from Wake Up Iowa. If you love coffee and barrel aged beers, you gotta get some of this!
Stay tuned for more details on the release party!

Drink This! Lion Bridge Silvia

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In the day and age where hazy IPAs, fruited sours, and pastry stouts are the craze and dominate the release landscape of craft beer, Lion Bridge brewery in Cedar Rapids release a style of beer that my taste buds have been craving….a farmhouse ale! YES! REJOICE! As much as I love every style of beer I was ready for this one to hit my lips! Brett, barnyard funk, and wonderful hop aroma, exactly what I needed!

*STYLE – Farmhouse Ale
*ABV – 5%
*AVAILABILITY – On tap and in bottles

We hand-selected a blend of Brettanomyces and wild beer from our wood program and then dry-hopped it with Vic Secret hops and naturally carbonated kegs and bottles.

The nose is superb. Vic secret hops pair perfectly with the brett to give it that wet hay/barnyard smell that makes farmhouse ales so spectacular. First sip was exactly what I was hoping for, hops up front with the funk on the back of the tongue, wonderful dry finish and slightly tart – just right and just what I was looking for in this beer!

If you’re a funk head, love brett, and are looking to go back in time a bit in the craft world, this beer is a must try! It’s on tap now or you can stock up your cellar as it’s available in bottles too! Get out there and DRINK THIS beer!

GIVE AWAY TIME!!! Win an Iowa Beer Advent Calendar!!

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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!

  1. 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!
  2. 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!

Untitled Art, Mason Ale Works, Ferrous Falcon, and Collective Arts coming from Pequod!

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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.

Lion Bridge bringing back “Spice Must Flow” and “Zombie Awakening” just in time for Fall!

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Lion Bridge Brewing is bringing back two fall favorites of mine as Spice Must Flow and Zombie Awakening will be available in cans and on draft starting today (9/15)! Here’s more on each of these fall favorites:

SPICE MUST FLOW – 7% ABV
A melange of Maple and Saigon Cinnamon meld with a robust black ale to form this luxurious treat.
He (or she, or they) who controls the Spice, controls the universe!

ZOMBIE AWAKENING – 7% ABV
Black as the inside of a buried coffin, with enough Dash dark roast coffee to put a pep in the step of even the most lumbering undead walker

Reds Alehouse hosting “Battle of the Strata Combata” between Big Grove and Odell Brewing on 9/24!

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Leading up to the University of Iowa football game against Colorado State, Reds Alehouse in North Liberty is hosting a “brew-off” between Big Grove and Odell Brewing. Both breweries have brewed their version of strata hopped beer, called “Strata Combata”, and you get to judge which you like best! Here’s more from Reds:

Join us for some speciality tappings of Strata Combata! Our friends at Big Grove and Odell Brewing have been hard at work to bring you a new hazy IPA, Strata Combata, for the Iowa vs CSU game! We’ll have prizes for both Big Grove and Odell for you to win!Both Breweries made a batch of this and its up to you to decide who’s is who!Also Tapping this day will be
Colorado Lager
Sippin Tropical
Hazer Tag

Backpocket releasing “That’s Tight! Vol. 5” this Friday (9/17)!

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Backpocket keeps their “That’s Tight” hazy IPA lineup going with the release of Volume #5 this Friday! This version will be double dry hopped with Loral and Zappa hops! It will be ready for you on draft and in 16 oz packs Friday! Here’s more from Backpocket on this brew:

We used our same hazy malt base from our other That’s Tight Series but we’ve changed  up the hops! Vol. 5 has been double dry hopped with Loral & Zappa hops for a nice balance of fruity and floral notes.

Available on draft and in 16oz/4pks Friday, September 17th!