Iowa Brewery top 10 2017
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Beatnik is awesome. They made a really solid IPA recently too.
I agree that Exile’s core beers aren’t very appealing if you’re into pale ales and IPA’s like I am but in the past year they’ve had at least three that I thought were pretty solid. Zoltan, Moon Taxi and Mosaic Crown. I think Zoltan is the only one they added to their regular line up. They also have a BA rye stout right now that sounds pretty interesting.
They make really good NE IPAs, which is the RAGE style these days.
The style's getting over done, but they do it very well.
I'm not sure I would call it over done. It's what the craft community as a whole is into right now. It's allowing younger breweries to get into the game quicker and forcing older breweries to change/expand. It caters to way more people than the bitter WC IPA's.
Seconded. I'm not a huge fan of Great River, Front Street is ok and Bent River in Moline is pretty good. There's a couple in the works in Bettendorf that I'm hoping will elevate things in the QC. Plus they're going to be a lot closer to me than any of the existing ones!
I'm just getting old and crummudgeony and tend to roll my eyes at the newest and latest craze in anything.
In general, a lot of them are really good and I understand why people like it. I just personally want a little more variety.
That could be. I used to love IPAs, but I got burnt out on them. I generally stick to dark beers anymore, and I don't feel they do great with those. They just seemed watered down...not much body to them. Being that it's about 2 miles from my house I just with I enjoyed their beers more. At least the food is good.
I wouldn't expect many newer breweries to spend much time on "dark beers" these days, outside of giant imperial barrel aged ones. They just don't have much pull in the fanatic circle.
This is what beer geeks want:
NE IPAs
BA Stouts/porters with lots of adjuncts or variants
Sours
If a brewery isn't doing one (or multiple) of these things well, they're in a precarious spot.
This is what beer geeks want:
NE IPAs
BA Stouts/porters with lots of adjuncts or variants
Sours
If a brewery isn't doing one (or multiple) of these things well, they're in a precarious spot.
Don't get me wrong, I still love a well done traditional IPA, but after tasting the NE style for the first time I was blown away by the mouthfeel and lack of bitterness. In my heart I am still a Red/Amber guy and I will try any of those, minus flanders style. Same goes for Porters/Stouts.
Eventually it will come back to that.
My favorite thing these days is a really clean IPA with a little more bitterness than an NE. Maybe it's just being inundated with them, but I've actually gone back to relishing the harder mouth feel and the bitter bite. Pearl Street Brewing in La Crosse made a beer called Linalool IPA this fall that was right up this alley and it was my go-to beer for awhile.
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For all you neipa lovers. Get yourself to barn town and get some sticky juice. Cheers!
Have two crowlers coming my way along with a couple bottles of Hop Skewer!! Absolutely love what these guys are doing.
I don’t know if this is the best thread, but I was at Torrent last night and pleasantly surprised.
I went last fall and was underwhelmed, but they had a killer Mosaic IPA, Berlinner Weisse, and coffee blonde.
I didn’t think it was bad the first time, but they’ve turned a corner.
I went last fall and was underwhelmed, but they had a killer Mosaic IPA, Berlinner Weisse, and coffee blonde.
I didn’t think it was bad the first time, but they’ve turned a corner.
I hope they do OK. Now that Olde Main is “for sale” hey have the downtown if they can make quality beer. I went a few times for the first year they were open and wasn’t ever impressed.
Alluvial, on the other hand, still kicks ass.
