The Pho King Cook-Off
During the Des Moines Food Truck Throwdown, we really got to see how much fellow Des Moines residents LOVE their food events. It was shoulder to shoulder to enjoy food from local food trucks. Now, you can expect the same kind of excitement at the next food event that is being held at the Des […]
Flix Brewhouse – Dining Experience
Lights, camera…. order! Flix Brewhouse in Des Moines, Iowa is one of the three cinema breweries located in the United States. The other locations are in Round Rock, Texas and Caramel, Indiana. Flix is where three of America’s great loves really come together – craft beer, food and the movies! Based on the turnout, this statement holds […]
The Best Des Moines Breweries
The amount of local breweries that are popping up in the Des Moines area is seemingly overflowing the local pint glass. With over 200 different types of local beers being brewed, it’s tough to decide on which Des Moines brewery to visit. We’ve rounded-up the data based on Untappd monthly check-ins to give you the […]
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 […]
A Foodster Christmas [2015]
The holidays are here and in full swing. Although, it almost felt like Thanksgiving didn’t even happen. I ate several plates of food and then woke up from an afternoon nap to find that it is already December! With that, Christmas shopping is here! Over the year, though, I have been given a lot of amazing […]
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 […]
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