Once I found a seltzer I actually liked, I started drinking them more.
My wife got diagnosed with Celiac this summer too, so we’ve really moved away from craft beer
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My wife got diagnosed with Celiac this summer too, so we’ve really moved away from craft beer
You aren't wrong. About any of this.
I used to really enjoy IPAs, and still might have one on occasion, but I think I'm burnt out, and unfortunately it seems like it's about all these local brewers are interested in making/creating.
Anymore, I'd much rather drink a lager, pilsner, or even something darker like a stout or porter.
And the dessert/pastry beers have just never really been my thing. Unless, again, it's like a peanut butter porter, or stout with notes of chocolate etc. Sours I am pretty meh on. I'll drink one in a sitting, but not usually 2 or 3, and I'm never buying a 6-pack of it to keep at home.
I enjoy Firetrucker for the location and atmosphere. My wife doesn't like beer, but they have good ginger beer options with their Cat Dragon/Copper Cat that she is content.
One thing we loved about Firetrucker was food trucks, which we can get at Uptown as well. Our favorite food truck is 515 Pi (Pizza) They used to go to firetrucker about 2x a month, but they stopped going to Ankeny all together and really have corned stopped going to many breweries at all anymore as they get more business with private events. I asked them why they don't go to Firetrucker anymore and thy said the permits to do a food truck in Ankeny are stupid and they will never go back to Ankeny.
This alone may hurt some of these places, because often our decision to go out to a brewery might be if a good food truck was going to be there.
No way 1717 brewing lasts very much longer that place makes some bad beers
They've got a good location though, which may be enough. Seems like they always have a decent crowd when i go by there on a weekend
I think I might know, based off an experience I had with said brewery that opened this year. Located in a town off highway 218.
Nope. Highway 52. The brewery I think you’re speaking of I actually like, but only had one beer from them.
You must be talking a college town near Waterloo that isn’t CF?
The Big Grove patio is a destination all on it's own, even if not drinking. I have to admit they did that right.
Yes, you are correct. Highway 52 though, I am stumped. Only ones that really come to mind are in a town about 30 miles west of Dubuque. Or in the Toppling Goliath territory.
Edit: Scratch that about TG terrirtory. Can't think of any breweries that would have opened in 2022. I can think of one in Dyersville, but it is merely a taproom for the larger brewery in Dubuque as far as I know
I love the layout and location. I'm not a big fan of dogs being there with allergies and such, but wasn't a deal breaker by any means. The bad beer, or maybe just bland beer, is the major issue.
I went in there on a Sunday evening this summer and was literally the only one in there, other than the bartender. And he wasn't all that excited to see me.
It kinda reminded me of those big cities in China they build with no one to live in them.
This is making me think of not a brewery but a bar called Zora (corner of Ingersoll and MLK).
Had to cost a fortune and I know they had a bad food inspection review lately that couldn't help.
We hit up Eatery A a lot on nice patio days, and it was a perfect Friday afternoon at about 4, and Zora had all the windows open, etc and there wasn't a single customer in there or on the patio and all the Ingersoll places had already started to fill in.
I think I'm with you. I haven't been there. But I think it's in Clayton County if I'm following
pretty solid list tbh, might swap gezellig for alluvial, but depends what you're drinking I suppose.
Too bad about Mistress, although I'm not surprised. Nothing they had ever impressed me all that much. It's interesting that businesses seem to struggle in that location. I use to like Fletchers but 2 iterations of that have failed in that building as well. Hopefully they can get something to stick there.
Your story reminds me of a cold fall night (just this past September) me and a couple friends stopped into Franklin Street Brewing in Manchester. We were camping at Backbone but it was unseasonably cold this particular night, so we ventured into town to wet our whistles. Found Franklin Street and I was familiar but had never been. We were the only ones there on a Friday night. Home football game, we were told. Bartender extremely pleasant and did not act like we were a burden to her at all, even though had we not ventured in at 8:30 and stayed til damn near 10, she probably could have been home by 9. She poured our drinks and entertained us in conversation the whole time and reassured us convincingly we weren't a bother to her. Highly recommend the place to anyone travelling on this side of the state.
Agreed! Try Odell's Rupture IPA - hoppy and clean, similiar to what I remember Sue tasting like.
