Craft Beer 34
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 […]
Summit Brewery Beer Dinner at Eatery A
Not too often do you get to have a sit down meal with a head brewer – in this case the head brewer from Summit Brewery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was a cold, wet and quiet night in Des Moines but the atmosphere in the event room of Eatery A was loud, warm and alive. […]
10 Photos From Torrent Brewing Company
Half empty or half full. Doesn’t matter. Everyone in #ames is enjoying Torrent. #craftbeer brewery. A photo posted by Nick Lucs (@nicklucs) on Feb 19, 2015 at 4:19pm PST Torrent Brewing Co’s Milk Stout comes in at ABV 7.8% and IBU 24. Other beers that they brew are the Blonde Ale (ABV 5.8%), Brown […]
Draft, Craft, Domestic and Imported Beer
Let’s be honest, we’ve all had the experience when we’re either buying our first drink at a bar or you just forget and you have to ask, what a domestic, imported or craft beer is. Here’s the difference between the three: First things first when you order a beer you’re either going to get it from […]
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