Coming to Shelves: New Belgium, Boulevard, Founders

boulevardHave some beers that are going to be making their way to Eastern Iowa shelves soon. Some are new and some are seasonals that we’ve seen before. From beerpulse.com.

Coming from Boulevard for the Tasting Room pack:
*ESB
*Ginger-Lemon Radler

Here’s more from the brewery:

Brewmaster Steven Pauwels encourages our brewers to brew whatever they’d like and then the best beers are given the opportunity to leave the brewery to be shared with a wider drinking audience. The two Year-Round beers featured in our upcoming package will be Unfiltered Wheat Beer and Single-Wide IPA. Rotating in from the Tasting Room series will be an ESB (Extra Special Bitter) and Ginger-Lemon Radler.

foundersFrom the Founders:
Rubaeus
Old Curmudgeon

From the brewery:

Be on the lookout for Rubaeus, our summer seasonal. It will be available in May–or earlier in some of our markets. It’s brewed with fresh raspberries added during multiple stages of fermentation.

Curmudgeon Old Ale, an old ale brewed with molasses and an insane focus on the malt bill, then oak-aged, has already started hitting shelves and draft lines. It’s our April-June specialty release.

New Belgium is releasing a familiar brew but also has a collab in the works with 3 Floyds.

From New Belgium:
Skinny Dip
FOCOllaboration w/Odell Brewing (American Pale Ale)
Gratzer Ale w/3 Floyds

gratzerGratzer is a Polish beer style composed primarily of oak-smoked wheat. More from the brewery:

NEXT WEEK:

Skinny Dip makes a comeback this summer as the Revival Beer in bottle Folly Packs. This full-bodied, highly drinkable beer made its mark as a summer seasonal.

JUNE 1ST:

We teamed up with our hometown hop heroes at Odell to brew a FOrt COllins collaboration. Our proximity allowed sharing of ingredients to create this unique Pale Ale. If only we could employ prairie dogs that in habit the space between us to courier the Fawcett malt, an Odell standard, we used to complement our favored Centennial, Cascade and Citra hops.

In the heart of the Midwest is a very small brewery with a very big reputation. In spite of their super limited distribution, Munster, Indiana’s 3 Floyds is known far and wide for beers like Alpha King, Dark Lord and Dreadnaught. We got together and brewed a gratzer with them and in June we’ll release it as part of the Lips of Faith series.

Left Hand to Iowa in Late Summer

left handI just received word from a very credible source that Left Hand Brewing will be hitting the shelves in late Summer being distributed by Johnson Brothers. Visit lefthandbrewing.com or look below for info on their year round lineup.

*400 LB Monkey – English Style IPA
*Black Jack Porter
*Milk Stout Nitro
*Milk Stout
*Polestar Pilsner
*Sawtooth Ale – Amber Ale
*Sawtooth Nitro
*Stranger Pale Ale
*Wake Up the Dead Imperial Stout

Oskar Blues Heading to Iowa?

oskar bluesJust received the following picture from a friend on twitter. If you read carefully the bottom of the first paragraph that is posted you will see the following, “Oskar Blues will also add distribution in Missouri, West Virginia and IOWA in 2014.”

oskar

Some great news here if it holds up, let’s hope it does, especially since we got the big N-O from Odell for distribution. Here is a quick list of beers available from Oskar Blues:

YEAR ROUND BREW
*Dales Pale Ale
*Mama’s Little Yella Pils
*Old Chub – Scottish Strong Ale
*Deviant Dales –  IPA
*G’Night – imperial red
*Gubna- Imperial IPA
*Ten Fidy – Imperial Stout

Deschutes Upcoming Releases Update

Fresh SqeezedI just read the following news from beerpulse.com. More Deschutes brews on their way to shelves with 3 special releases coming as well. Here’s the latest from Deschutes:

Fresh Squeezed IPA 
6.4% ABV | 60 IBUs
Perfectly named, Fresh Squeezed IPA tastes like freshly juiced hops with a hint of malt to provide the perfect balance of flavors and aromas. Citra and Mosaic hops give the beer its tangerine and citrus-like flavors and are a perfect combination to create a “fresh hop” flavor without actually using fresh hops. Enjoy a pint of this magnificent IPA on your back porch, with friends, or with your favorite home cooked meal and be sure to squeeze every last drop from your bottle…
Bond Street Series
Available year-round in 6-packs and on draft where Deschutes beer is sold beginning March 3rd

Mirror Mirror
~11% ABV | ~30 IBUs
Once again we bring you this complex barley wine with layers of flavors that will coat your tongue and please your taste buds. Mirror Mirror was born as a double batch of Mirror Pond Pale Ale aged in wine barrels and had only been released twice before in 2005 and 2009. We are very excited to bring this beer to our fans once again so everyone can enjoy this latest version with every sip. Be sure to grab a bottle for now and one to age as flavors will evolve and mature over time.
Reserve Series
Limited availability in 22 ounce bottles and on draft beginning March 6th

WE’RE PUTTING THESE THREE FAVORITES IN 22 OZ BOTTLES FOR YOU THIS YEAR BEGINNING IN MARCH…

Armory XPA
Craft beer fans have spoken and we listened. We are finally putting this experimental pale ale (first beer brewed at our Portland Pub) into a bottle for you to take home and share with all of your friends. Armory XPA gets its bitter twist from Nugget and Northern Brewer hops, then delivers a pronounced citrus kick from Cascade, Centennial and Citra hops. Consider this your next hop obsession.
Mainline
5.9% ABV | 58 IBUs

Cinder Cone Red 
Fans of Cinder Cone Red UNITE! We’re bringing this malty, rich, and beautifully colored beer back in bottles for you to enjoy once again. Savor the caramel and toffee flavors balanced against Amarillo and Tettnang hops to give you a subtle bite that will have you wanting another.
Mainline
5.3% ABV | 55 IBUs

Pine Mountain Pilsner
Looking for a true German-style Pilsner with a smooth malt taste and a crisp hop finish? Then look no further. In Pine Mountain Pilsner we’ve used the finest Pilsner malts, Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops and German lager yeast to bring you this tasty beverage that is as crisp as a cool, clear night on Pine Mountain.
Mainline
5.2% ABV | 40 IBUs

Central Waters Brewing Coming to Iowa!

indexA few correspondences this morning and a nice confirmation by @JasonBGP along with a beer releasing at Reds have confirmed that Central Waters Brewing is coming to Iowa. Here’s the info I received:

rolling out last week of this month via Johnson Brothers

From Reds Alehouse: Central Waters Brewing Company is coming! Be here on Feb. 26th to drink it in!

More about the brewery:

History

In 1996, two friends, Mike McElwain and Jerome Ebel, bought an old brick building on Highway 10 in Junction City, Wisconsin. The building, built around 1920, was originally a Model-A Ford dealership. Subsequently, the building housed a barbershop, followed by a liquidator of second-hand goods, before being vacated in 1988. Mike and Jerome purchased the building in 1996, and spent the next two years thoroughly cleaning and restoring it. When the facility was ready for its first beer production, the friends put together the funds to purchase some used dairy equipment. This equipment was retrofitted to ultimately become the brewery’s first brew house. Months later, Central Waters Brewery came to be…