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Weekend Releases: Big Grove + Pulpit Rock – Sours, IPAs, Stouts, + more

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The Beer Gods continue to smile upon us even in this trying time as our wonderful brewers, brewery employees continue to get us great beer every damn week! Big Grove has been releasing 4 beers, many of them new, every week for the past how many weeks for their drive thru weekend operation and Pulpit has been pushing at least two releases every Friday! So, what do these breweries have for us this weekend?

PULPIT ROCK

JACUZZI MOVES

This beer has the moves, dancing with 600lbs of fresh strawberries and lemonade mix to give it that refreshing summer taste. Jacuzzi Moves – a strawberry and lemonade mix kettle pastry sour, $6.50/16oz. can, no limits

BLUSTERY

Blueberries, marshmallows, golden sandwich cookies oh my! Who could ask for a better combination? This blueberry sour will blow you away. Blustery is available this Friday. $6.50/16oz.can, no limits

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TAILWIND

 The official beer of RAGBRAI is back! This light and crisp golden ale rolls into town with a hot, new look and four new pals.⁣

PEACH MOSH PIT

Gose featuring peaches, apricots, and plums. Sweet, tart, and the perfect patio beer.⁣

ALL NEW EVERYTHING

Hazy double IPA delivers bright, juicy, and fruity greatness by way of the all-new experimental cryo hop blend and pilsner malt. Get ready… this one shines!⁣

BOSTON CREAM PIE

Is a pie that’s actually a cake that’s actually a beer! Chocolate, vanilla, and lactose come together for decadent dessert in a can.⁣

TROPICAL FREAK OUT

Is our latest Gusher. Highlighted by a Snowbird sour ale base, we added heaps of pineapple and tangerine to take you straight to the tropical paradise of your dreams.

If you have a release coming up and would like me to post just shoot me an email! Cheers everyone!

Drink This! Reunion DDH Dr. Dank!

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Another first time to can release (I think anyway) of a wonderful Iowa brewed IPA is double dry hopped Dr. Dank from Reunion brewery in Coralville. Reunion has been very strong in their pale ale/IPA game as their Juice Factory and Tank Puncher grace our shelves and our beer fridges regularly. Yes, it is available in cans right now but….if you go to my favorite place in the area to have a beer, Mr. Jeremy Freerks has a keg he is going to tap at Club 76 in North Libery, so you can fill a growler with this goodness…so stay tuned for that tapping! TBA!

I remember the first time I had Dr. Dank on tap and it was at Need Pizza in downtown CR and thought to myself, if they can this beer up I’d be all over it….well, here we are! Another example of our amazing Iowa breweries continuing to meet the need of the beer drinkers during this pandemic. Let’s get to the details of this beer courtesy of Reunion before we delve too deep:

It’s madness!!! He can’t be serious?!?! Sheer lunacy! He’ll destroy us all!!! Double dry hopped with Columbus, Citra and Mosaic, DDH Dr. Dank reeks of dank resiny goodness and heady, musky, tropical, juicy fruit. Oh, the humanity!!!

POUR
Clean pour, no floaties, dark yellow with some orange hue. Nice thin head and as your pouring you get the waft of the hops. Citrus and resin galore! Just what your looking for in this beer.

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TASTE
With the haze craze upon us, which I do enjoy, I love the bitterness that comes with this beer. Yes, you get the fruit and you get the dank, but the wonderful old school IPA bitterness also shines. The combo is terrific and makes 7.5% ABV beer seem like you need another…and then maybe 1 more…

OVERALL
Reunion had me sold with Tank Puncher and now Dr. Dank has me ready to head back to the store for a few more 4 packs, unless they are already sold out. If you are a hop head and like the dank stickiness that Mosaic and Citra bring and mix that with the resinous from Columbus than you need to Drink This!

Mickey’s Irish Pub in IC w/ crowler + growler sale this Saturday (5/9) featuring: Big Grove Richard the Whale Coffee!

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More great beer news as we approach this weekend. Not only will Big Grove be hosting another drive-thru with some new beers for us, but you also have a chance at landing a crowler of Richard the Whale Coffee crowler, among other beers, if you head to Mickey’s Irish Pub in downtown Iowa City! Here are the deets and beers they will have at Mickeys:

This Saturday, May 9th, we are selling some special 32 oz crowlers from our friends at Big Grove for carryout only starting at 11am.

-Big Grove Richard the Whale Coffee Variant, 1pp, $28

-Into the Woods Fruited Sour, Big Grove and Cooper Kettle colab 1pp, $16

-Pineapple Mango Main Street Wheat $12

We are also going to have growlers available of the following:
-Big Grove Iowa City Lager
-Big Grove Starcourt hazy IPA
-Big Grove Strawberry Cherry Swirl
-ReUnion Hefewizen
-ReUnion Juice Factory
-Exile Ruthie
-Single Speed Hard Won not Done
-Barn Town Cherry Limeaide

We also have a very limited amount of fresh ReUnion Dr. Dank cans for sale, $3.75 per can.

Add our famous pretzel bites with house made beer cheese, and stone ground mustard for $5 with any beer purchase.

Stop by in person, or call us at 319-338-6860

SingleSpeed Brewing Presents: Virtual Happy Hour w/ Dan Gable! 5/20 @ 5 pm!

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SingleSpeed brewing company is hosting a virtual happy hour with legendary Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable on May 20th starting @ 5 p.m! Here are the deets on this exciting event courtesy of SingleSpeed’s website:

What is Dan going to talk about? 
All kinds of stuff.  Wrestling.  Beer.  The Olympics.  Community.  Toughness.

Can I ask Dan a question? 
You sure can.  There are two ways to do this.

OPTION ONE: Fire your question our way via email.  Rachel will select the best of the best to present to Dan.  rachel@singlespeedbrewing.com

OPTION TWO: Join the live chat on 5/20 and ask your question in real time.  We will be monitoring the chat and will try to get as many questions to Dan as time permits.

I’m not on Facebook, is there another way to watch?
You bet.  We don’t know exactly what this will be, but we promise to figure it out before 5.20 and we will share that information here.

 

4 more Big Grove brews! Preorder starts this Wednesday! (5/6) Survival Kit, Summer Summer Jam Jam, Boston Cream Pie Stout, and Pride of Iowa

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Four more Big Grove beers will be making their way to our lips this coming weekend and preorder starts this Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Preorder available here. The 4 beers that they are releasing are:

*Pride of Iowa – pale ale using all Iowa ingredients
*Boston Cream Pie – dessert stout
*Survival Kit Vol. 2. – hazy IPA
* Summer Summer Jam Jam – gusher

Stay tuned for more details on these 4 beers and don’t forget to click the link above to preorder starting on Wednesday! Cheers!

Big Grove releasing 4 more brews this weekend! Another Gusher cometh!

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Big Grove keeps at it, bringing us new and tasty beers every week to go along with their already solid portfolio. This weekend will be no different, and preordering can start as early as tomorrow to get your hands on these 3 plus more!

*All Together: Hazy IPA -part of worldwide brew collaboration with $5 from every 4pk sold being donated to @IowaRestaurant Associates Employee Relief Fund

*Strawberry Rhubarb Gose: – the perfect combination of sweet, tart, and salty is the latest release in their Solon Summer Series!

*Queserita: you like margaritas? Us too. ⁣

*Tang-o-Rang Gusher: –  all that tangerine goodness that would even make Rufio proud!

Backpocket Brewing releasing 3 new beers this month!

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Backpocket Brewing in Coralville is busy brewing and they have 3 news beers that they are rolling out this month to prove it! The rollout starts today and continues with 2 more brews next week. Stay tuned for Rob Exotic coming in May and a double dry hopped version of Raygun with strata and galaxy hops. More on those later! Here we go!

4.17: Pink Denim: Kettle Sour
We have partnered up with the amazing women in the Iowa Pink Boots Society to make a tropical kettle sour! Dry-hopped with the special pink boots hop blend. This sour will be available in 16oz/4pack cans.
— The Pink Boots Society was created to assist, inspire and encourage women beer industry professionals to advance their careers through education.

4.23: Saturday Morning: Smoothie Sour
Remember the good ‘ole days of waking up early on Saturday to laze away the morning watching cartoons? Our Saturday Morning Smoothie Series takes you back to those days of iconic flavors. Our first in line is a Concord grape and Blueberry Sour. This sour has Concord grapes, blueberries, vanilla, lactose and ube for an ultra vibrate purple color! This sour will be available in 16oz/4pack cans in the Coralville Taproom.

4.23: Antidote: BA Blonde Stout
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Drawing for our love of mixology and well as extreme brewing, we have created our own cocktail inspired barrel-aged blonde stout. Let us tease you with the Antidote! We started with a rich but deceptively light colored blonde stout base, aged in Woodford reserve bourbon whiskey barrels on a bed of Cocoa Nibs, then infused orange peel, cherry puree and spices to complete our cocktail creation. We think you’ll agree, it’s just the thing you need to survive this modern jungle. Available in 16oz/4pack cans.

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Big Grove Saturday “Drive Thru” continues this weekend (4/18)! Colorado Smuggler and Summer Jam make their returns! + Blackberry Lime Gusher debuts!

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Another weekend of social distancing approaches and thankfully another weekend of Big Grove’s drive thru comes with it! This week’s online sale for the drive thru is up and active and two new beers to the menu will be Summer Jam and Colorado Smuggler! Adding to those is Blackberry Lime Gusher! Here’s more on these two delicious brews:

Summer Jam – 4.2%
Berliner Weisse inspired beer, Sidehill Sour, all jammed up with raspberries, blackberries, and cherries just in time for summer.

Colorado Smuggler – 7.2% – hazy IPA
Passionfruit, berry, lemon, citrus, and drifting cannabis notes are the result of some Strata hops we smuggled into the state of Iowa and brewed with our pals from Odell Brewing.

New to the list is Blackberry Lime Gusher, an experimental sour!

These three brews will join a long list of beers available, along with burgers and fries, that you can order right now through Big Grove’s website and pick up on Saturday between 11-2 at either BG location. The link is below, give it a click, order some suds and burger and have yourself a wondrous weekend!

Big Grove Drive Thru Order Form!