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Field Trip | Court Avenue Brewing Company
In 1996 I was middle –school aged kid refusing to do homework and jamming to Odelay by Beck on my new stereo CD-player. In 1996, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won 72 games on route to the first championship of their famed second three-peat. In 1996, the most common term for any beer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!), […]
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