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The following comes from Surly’s Facebook page and it looks like they are ready to enter the market full-time with a bang! Here’s their post: As we mentioned yesterday, the Surly invasion of Iowa begins Tuesday, March 3 in Des Moines with a very special concert by our friends Doomtree at Wooly’s. And, we are loading up a ...

Thanks to sLim for taking the time out for a review. If you’re in Des Moines you might find him slinging some suds at El Bait Shop! Always good to have sLim keep us posted with Central Iowa happenings in the beer world. A new beer from a new central Iowa brewery is Firetrucker’s Under Lager: Search and Rescue IPL. Once again, Firetr ...

The ever popular Enjoy By Series from Stone still has the 2.14.15 out and around and then they will release their 3.14.15 to celebrate PI day, after that March release it sounds like they will start releasing the Enjoy By series in 12 oz starting with their 4.20.15 release. No word on what markets will be receiving that shipment or if the ...

Just received the following info from Cedar Rapids Oakland Road Hy-Vee and by the sounds of it, they aren’t expecting Hopslam to last to long. Here it is: It’s that time of year again, we are gearing up for our annual Bell’s Hopslam release this coming Tuesday, February 3rd. Starting at 4:30 we will hand out tickets good for ...

Quite a bit a news this week, some great and some rather disappointing. Good news or bad news first? Let’s get the bad news out of the way. According NewSchoolbeer.com Stone will be discontinuing two beers from seasonal lineup and they happen to be 2 very tasty beers. Their Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA and Levitation Amber Ale will ...

Another successful Coralville Brrr Fest is in the books and it’s amazing how much better the beers and breweries are now then when this started 4? years ago. So many excellent breweries bringing their best beers and adding the Mellow Mushrooms pizza was a nice touch as well. Pizza and beer, tough to beat. I tried many outstanding beers on ...

Boulevard Brewing’s twitter handle @boulevard_beer just announced that some of their beers will start hitting the canning line in 2015. Those pictured are Pop-Up Session IPA, Radler, Heavy Lifting IPA, and their Wheat Beer. Here’s the post from their website: Boulevard Beer in Cans January 23, 2015 It’s often said that brewer ...

Beer Street Journal just posted a release stating the Brewery Ommegang will be releasing a coffee ale in May of this year. Joemmegang will be released shortly after their next Game of Thrones brew. Here’s more from www.beerstreetjournal.com: Cold-aged with a custom mixture of cocoa nibs, 1/3 espresso blend, 1/3 sumatra and 1/3 Papua New ...

This Saturday marks another year for Coralville BrrrFest and Reds Alehouse along with Big Grove Brewery and 30hop are providing shuttle service to and from the festival. This will be my first time I will be using the shuttle service and after receiving the following email with the tap list for Saturday at Reds, I’m picking the perfect tim ...

iaWell, it looks like we may be waiting a tad longer for Oskar Blues and Hopslam to hit our shelves in Eastern Iowa. I just saw a tweet from Johncy’s Liquor Store in North Liberty: Johncys Liquor Store ‏@johncysliquor 3m 3 minutes ago Hopslam February 2nd. Oscar blue January 27th If you hear of any other places with different rel ...