Toppling Goliath Mornin' Delight

I had it on tap last Friday and it was friggin awesome!! The staff told me the barrels they are using to age it but for the life of me, I can't remember. It's bourbon barrel aged for one year. When TG opens its new facility, Mornin Delight will be more of a regular. It's never been bottled but it will be. Right now it's tap only and there is no frequency. It's there when it's there, luck of the tap.

 

Thank you for trying our Mornin' Delight everyone! Here is the scooby on that beer. It begins it's journey as Norseman's Wrath, which is our giant Imperial Stout made specifically to serve AND to be sent on a journey to become our Assassin by barrel aging for one year. We set aside a good amount of Norseman's Wrath to top off the barrels through out the year as the angels devilishly take more than their share. Once we know we have enough saved to get the barrels through to the annual Assassin bottling, we take the extra, non-barrel aged Norseman's Wrath and torture it into behavior and you get Morning Delight. We do this a couple times a year. We currently have some Mornin' D in our taproom and will look forward to the day when we can produce enough of it to bottle it for you. Our final trick is taking the some left over Assassin after bottling, and sending it on the same path as Mornin' D, then it becomes our Kentucky Brunch, which in my opinion is worth trying!

Hope this helps! And thank you for trying our little breweries giant beers! Prost!

Clark

 

Hey guys,
This is Mike, head brewer at TG. Mornin' Delight will definitely return (it's on at our taproom right now) and it will eventually be bottled. This beer is not barrel aged, but our Kentucky Brunch is essentially Barrel Aged Mornin' Delight. Assassin is our BA Imperial Stout and spends over a year in barrels before blending. Last years Assassin was all Templeton Rye barrels but the upcoming version is also being aged in 12 and 20 year bourbon barrels and Old Fitzgerald barrels. Hope that helps!

 

This was one of my few disappointments at the Great Taste...as Mornin' Delight was gone by the time I arrived at the TG booth. Oh well. Provides me with an excuse to visit the great state of Iowa!

 

Yes, we will be at Dexters as long as they will have us. When we bottle we will send that out as well! We really appreciate all feedback and opinions. As a small brewery we hope to continue to make some exceptional creations small in batch size, huge in flavor!

Mike and our team are such great people to work with. We all love barrel aging and creating! Our Imperial Stout program was created by Mike, as was the Mornin' D recipe with Bob and Ed close by. Cheers to him, Bob, Ed, Nick and Chad - overworked brewers with heart!

 

I think I might FINALLY come down tomorrow to visit you guys @TG. Hope it's still there.

 

Yup, all of our beer is draft only for now. We bottled a few times in extremely small quantities, but bottling won't really begin until the beginning of next year when our bottler arrives. We're pretty excited about the bottler, it's the same one Russian River, AleSmith, and Marble use (among many other great breweries). It's hard to say how often Mornin' Delight will be around, but it will definitely be recurring.

Cheers!

 

If you come down and it is gone, tweet me and I'll grab a bottle of Assassin out of my cellar and head over. -Clark

 

Yes, we currently are in Madison and LaCrosse.

 

Don't forget about your northern neighbors! As a former Iowegian, I'd love to get some exposure to some TG...

You guys going to be at ABR, by any chance?

 

We will be heading north! We love MN and spend a lot of time appreciating the cultures of the cities and the recreation of the state! See you soon!

 

you're doing good work, gentlemen.

 

I slipped into this forum, but any chance for Chicago love?

 

I'm all for growing but hopefully the cedar rapids area stays stocked when you bottle!

 

One good thing about Rochester, you're only a little over an hour from me And I love your beer!

 

I have to be perfectly honest, I am starting to get a tad alienated that other states are getting TG, and here in the Quad Cities we are still dry. I have talked up TG at every chance I get and believe in what they are doing and am proud that I finally have a brewery in Iowa of this quality, but it is a bit disheartening to hear about the beer going to Milwaukee and Madison and Minnesota.

I do not blame the brewery, I know that beer distribution is its own monster. Nonetheless, I still yearn for the day that I can order an Iowa beer at a local restaurant that I really enjoy.