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Quite a few bits of info to pass along to the Iowa craft beer aficionado today. A few of these future releases have yet to be determined and I will try to get those dates to you folks as soon as I can. Onto the first bit of news: *Stone Ruination Double IPA 2.0 - Stone has officially retired their Ruination beer but fans of that beer can rejoic ...

Central Waters Brewing will be taking over tap lines at 2 Iowa restaurants/bars. The first is set to take place at Parlor City on April 1st followed by another takeover at El Bait Shop on April 3. Here’s more from Central Waters’ Facebook page: Alright Iowa, you’ve been asking for it. This week we’re bringing it to you! ...

The following email comes from Oakland Road Hy-Vee in Cedar Rapids as the highly anticipated KBS release hits Iowa today! Here’s the following from Oakland Road: We will be releasing Founders KBS today at 5:00 p.m. via a lottery system. We have found this to be the most fair way of doing it when you have limited quantities to go around. S ...

Following tweet from Reds: Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Founders KBS release, iabeerbaron, iowa craft beer, KBS release party, Reds Alehouse

I just received the following information from Surly Brewing. Sounds like a terrific event with lots of excellent beer and food. Full hog porchetta? Yes please! Here’s more info: WHAT: Centro is welcoming the Twin Cities’ Surly Brewing to Des Moines with an exclusive food and beer event this week. The event will showcase Surly beer ...

Within the last 2 weeks I’ve been to quite a few local restaurants and breweries. Granted, I practically live in these places but lately I continue to be blow away with what these brilliant minds are doing. Let me start with what I love…the beer. The sweet, the hoppy, the malty, the chocolatey, the coffeey?, just beer. My wife I he ...

Just received the following email from Surly Brewing: What:  Surly Brewing Co., the Twin Cities-based craft brewery has just arrived in the Quad Cities as part of its Invasion of Iowa. Now, two weeks since its launch in Iowa, the brewery is kicking off its community engagement program, Surly Gives A Damn (SGAD) in Iowa by bringing togeth ...

Two new beers will be hitting Eastern Iowa shelves soon as Boulevard has released a new spring saison and Stone is releasing their popular Enjoy By Series in 12 oz 6 picks. Also making news this week is Stone releasing a brew from their Spotlight Series that fans got to vote on; the winner: Imperial Mutt Brown Ale. Here’s more on all 3 of ...

Got to love technology! With so many apps in the marketplace I thought I would go through and list my favorite beer-related apps. Just doing a bland beer search on your iPhone app store brings up thousands of hits. Let’s sort some of these out, here are my go to beer apps: *Untappd* – the most popular app with most beer lovers. A fu ...

Some new beers will be hitting Eastern Iowa shelves soon. 2 new releases, one of which will be extremely difficult, and an old standby returns. If you know of any new beers hitting shelves feel free to drop me a line! Here we go: Wasatch Polygamy NITRO Porter – this beer will be available in 12 oz bottles and will be a new year round rele ...