Father’s Day Gifts for the Craft Beer Connoisseur
What happened to June? The end of winter dragged on endlessly, April and May lasted forever…yet all of the sudden we’re staring down the barrel of July, just ten short days away. Memorial day weekend was forever ago, Flag Day has come and gone, and summer officially kicks off this Sunday. Oh, and in case […]
Field Trip | Exile on (Walnut) Street
Now that craft beer boom in full swing, the grassroots rhetoric has become commonplace. As I’ve mentioned before, you don’t have to look far to find the “started from the bottom, now we’re here” success story of low-budget home brewers turning their fledgling passion into a full-time career. Nano-breweries that began in cramped basements and […]
Thoughts from a Home Brewer
There is a significant amount of time to kill during the home brewing process, which gives the home brewer a lot of time to think. On most occasions, such thoughts usually consist of sheer panic and “Oh crap, I think I just screwed this whole thing up.” But other times, a rather interesting stream of […]
Après Bike
When translated, the alpine term Après Ski literally means “after skiing.” From clubs, to restaurants, to ski-in-ski-out mountainside condos, the present day interpretation is a grab-bag term most big resorts use for anything that doesn’t involve the main reason for your visit…which is, presumably, skiing and snowboarding. We have a lot of great things going […]
Field Trip | Firetrucker Brewery
During my formative years, field trips entailed excursions to museums, visits the local zoo, and classroom camps (Outdoor School, what?!). Here on DM Foodster, the “Field Trip” series will be a semi-regularly occurring post reviewing my latest haunts to some of Des Moines’ finest craft beer institutions. Expect real reviews from the average everyman (me!), […]
Dinner with Damo
If I were to ask you to name the largest Craft Brewer (by volume) in Minnesota, what would your guess be? Fulton? Or perhaps, considering their recent expansion, Surly? To which I would smugly reply “guess again!” (Mental Floss // Map found here.) You learn something new every day. Considering that I had no idea Summit […]
A Guide On What To Do Before You Brew
I blame my wife.* As a father of four daughters (three at the time, our fourth on the way), she felt that it would be a good idea for me to have a creative outlet…a hobby, if you will…to keep me busy, especially once the teenage years rolled around. So for my birthday a few […]
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