Iowa Rumors?

I'm heading to Des Moines next week to stay with the in-laws.

Hoping to get to El Bait Shop, but I'm also trying to find anything that isn't readily available here in St. Louis, MO. Seekabrew.com shows that IA has the breweries/distributors below that we can't get, but I'm only familiar with Toppling Goliath, Summit, and Millstream.

Any recommendations?

August Schell
Brau Brothers [Limited]
C.I.B.
Empyrean
Granite City (Um, no)
Great River
Hinterland
Hook & Ladder
Lost Coast
Lucky Bucket
Matt (Saranac)
Millstream
Peace Tree
Sand Creek (Lilja's)
Summit
Toppling Goliath

 

great river - hop a potamus and 483 pale are good, ive heard the redband stout is good too but i must have got a bad batch when i tried it

lost coast - 8 ball stout

millstream - iowa pale ales decent, back road stouts nice too

summit - saga and northern porter

toppling goliath - ive heard theyre all great but i know pseduosue and golden nugget for sure

also check out madhouse hopburst and templeton stout. backpocket wooden nickel as well.

 

Bigfoot finally made it to Ames. It's about time...only two months late.

 

Get a growler of a Toppling Goliath beer or two.

Maybe the Madhouse Templeton Rye Stout.

Haven't heard many good things about C.I.B.

Summit Saga is nice.

 

Any rumblings about when Founder's KBS and Doom will be hitting?

 

First of all....definitely hit up El Bait Shop if you can and if you happen to have $40 burning a hole in your pocket, get a bottle of Naughty Temple from Toppling Goliath. El Bait is the only place with any left and although that is an insane price, it would be worth if you have extra money to blow! Also, hit up The Red Monk if you like Belgians.

August Schell - I'd highly recommend their new limited release Barleywine if you see it. Part of their "Stag" series.
Brau Brothers - I like their peated scotch ale. Also, Rye Wine if great if you spot that. It's sold in 750ml bottles.
Empyrean - I like their Scotch ale as well.
Great River - as noted previously...HopAPotamus is good.
Hinterland - their Saison is OK, but haven't been impressed with anything else.
Lost Coast - I like the Indica IPA
Millstream - John's Generation White is great. All their beers are solid, but nothing that is going to blow you away.
Peace Tree - Hop Sutra and Blonde Fatale are great beers
Summit - Definitely pick up some Saga IPA
Toppling Goliath - just go to El Bait and drink their beers. Especially pseudoSue and Golden Nugget

Also...they Pleasant Hill Hy-Vee (and a few other places) has stuff from Jolly Pumpkin, Evil Twin, Stillwater, Anchorage Brewing, Pretty Things and Mikkeller...which aren't listed on Seekabrew.com. Not sure if you get those in Missouri or not?

 

Naughty Temple is still around? I'd pay $40, but the drive is so long. 

 

It's not worth the drive. Just pour a shot of rye whiskey in a mediocre ipa.

 

Yeah...as of last Thursday, El Bait Shop had 6 bottles left. Apparently they got 2 cases to begin with. Not sure if they let you carry out bottles or if you have to drink it there though?

I don't think any beer is worth $40/22oz., but I paid $25 for mine and now wish I could have gotten another at that price.

Did you even have the beer? Tastes nothing like an IPA! If they didn't even tell anybody the base beer for this, nobody would even know it was an IPA. It was closer to Central Waters Barrel Aged Barleywine for taste and aroma. Tons of toffee, vanilla and butterscotch notes. Just a slightly bitter finish from the hops.

 

I have tried it twice now. Pawned the rest of my samples off on other folks at the bar. I don't understand the hype on this beer. Yeah it is very rare. But rare and good are very different. To each their own. Given it is better than CIB beers.

 

Guess I won't feel too bad then, I've got plenty of CW BBBW. Would have been cool though.

 

I don't think that Naughty Temple lived up to the hype. I thought it was a VERY good beer though. Toppling Goliath is still better than anything else in the state.

 

Just had some Brown Sugar from TG, thats good stuff. Really impressed with TG

 

Sounds like KBS late next week or the following Monday. At least in eastern Iowa

 

How hard is it to grab? Comparable to BCBS? Hopslam?

 

First year kbs will be in Iowa. Not sure how much will be around. Parlor city is tapping a kef on April 1st

 

Toppling Goliath posted this picture on their Facebook page this morning and said they are just putting the finishing touches on their bottling line. Stoked!

 

Man, I can hardly wait to pick up some Sue and Assassin bottles. Love the Sue, never had the Assassin but I think I will like.

 

And from a tweet today....it sounds like TG just kegged 25bbls of fresh Sue today as well! Looking forward to a few of those hopefully hitting the DSM market soon (El Bait).

 

Should be on the shelf on April 2nd if you're in the Fleck area. We are getting 7 cases according to our rep.