The Des Moines Brewster 47
A Foodster Christmas [2015] – Craft Beer Edition
Christmas is fast approaching. Tis the season for a click-bait craft beer gift guide last minute gift shopping and finding any excuse not to leave our sweatpants and warm blankets to wade through the mass of humanity that is the pre-Christmas local mall scene. Have a craft beer lover that still needs a few more packages under the tree come December […]
Honey Beer – Using Honey in Your Homebrew
You can make beer with (almost) anything. While some additions, such as coffee and dried fruit, are fairly common, other ingredients like habanero peppers, live lobsters, and even beard hair sound like they shouldn’t belong anywhere near a brew kettle. Even so, strange brews and experimentation are part all of what makes brewing beer at home so fun. So naturally when I […]
Black Friday 2015 – Goose Hunting in Des Moines
I never thought it would happen to me. Yet here I was, still groggy from the previous day’s overindulgence, leaving my driveway in the predawn hours (still dark to hide my shame!) to join in the lunacy of Black Friday shopping. However, my destination wasn’t Walmart, or Best Buy, or even Target. I was heading to […]
How To Buy Beer While Traveling
I love to travel. Not the TSA line/airport delay/missing luggage part so much…but the whole new experiences in new places thing really gets my juices flowing. At one point my dream job was to be a travel blogger. Or even better now? A traveling beer blogger. If only I could make a living off such […]
Plan Accordingly // 9.19.15
Is it just me, or has there been an over-abundance of bizarre, made-up holidays lately? Pancake Day. Left-Handers Day. IPA Day. Columbus Day. Well now we have one more to add to the list, but unlike a few others oddities, this one I’ll gladly partake in celebrating. You better get your drinking pants on, Des Moines, […]
Field Trip | Worth Brewing Company
There’s just something special about the hunt for craft beer. We read up on articles, taste test with friends and even drive hours and miles just to experience a great craft [beer]. I’m a pretty regular weekender in Clear Lake, Iowa. There was a lot of excitement when Lake Time Brewery opened up. It’s still […]
Nothing Compares – Pouring Brews at the Iowa Craft Beer Tent
Confession: I love everything Iowa State Fair. Although a few of my friends and life-long Iowans do not share my same passion, it is truly a guilty pleasure for this non-native. Visions of butter cows, rock bands, fried foods on a stick, and blue-ribbon livestock flood my daydreams annually as July melts away into August. It’s a […]
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