Beer to go from the bar?

So a new gastro pub just opened up in Iowa City and low and behold they have $25 bottles of Bourbon County Bramble and Bourbon County Coffee. I stopped in briefly today at lunch just to "see it to believe it" after received word of this. I plan on stopping in after work today and enjoying one of them with my better half at the bar. My question is, what would be the best way to go about inquiring as to if they would let me take a second bottle out the door to go? Call me crazy, but I would have no qualms about paying 25$ for a bottle of either of those beers as I have yet to try either and really want to, I just am not sure how frowned upon I will be for asking to take one home and save for later. Just curious if others have had similar situations!

 

Well I do not know if it is or is not legal per se in Iowa...I don't know why it would not be, but given this place opened up less than a week ago I could see why they would want their rarest items to be enjoyed in the establishment and not taken to go by some craft nerd (myself). Furthermore, if I were in the owners situation, I would be concerned that the dude I sold the bottle to go to would turn around and try to make a profit on the bottle. Guess I will just have to ask and hope for the best!

 

So in my state of impatience I called the place to ask and got the owner....the owner laughed because he knew he would be getting that question soon enough with the supply he put together and he said he can sell them to go I just need to bring a bag to put them in as he does not have individual bags yet, still waiting for them to arrive. IDK why I thought this would be more of an issue, oh well. He also said he will give them to me at a discount from the menu price, so I am curious to see what I will actually end up paying to walk out of there with a bramble and coffee...will report later!

 

Well what a nice bunch you guys are... Who am I to ask a question about buying beer in a forum on a message board about beer...I know someone who got a rather less than nice response when he asked to buy a couple bottles of bourbon county stout to go from a bar in Chicago around March, so if not for that experience I may not have initially been skeptical.

And as for my username, there is no gender identity crisis, I assure you. I needed to come up with a user name, wasn't feeling particularly creative, and that damn "mr. sandman" commercial came on for the 10232th time while I was signing up. Also, the number 35 happens to be my favorite number as a homage to Mr. Tony Esposito of Chicago Blackhawk fame.

So shoot me.

Thank you to those of you who so obviously pointed out that I could ask. I was just looking to get a gauge as to a general responsiveness to this type of inquiry at a bar, I was not asking how I could go about getting one to bring home, I know what a mouth is as well as its intended function.

I would like to think I use sarcasm and shoot the shit with the best of them, but jesus this was simply an honest question, idk how you guys started taking digs at my username and what my personality must be like as a result.

 

Well $40 later the Andman family beer cellar has two much-anticipated new members and a new craft bar owning friend Please excuse the "dumb-phone"-quality picture