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    Coming Soon...Iowan Craft Beer Hall downtown DM

    You know I'm not entirely sure who the license holder is for the state fair, but either the fair as a whole area is licensed and then they have vendors come in to do the serving, or the vendors are licensed and do the serving as well and pay what amounts to "rent" to the state fair board, but...
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    Templeton Rye is a Fake

    Well the wort is all produced there. It's all fermented/conditioned on site at the individual restaurants. Kinda a novel business model.
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    Coming Soon...Iowan Craft Beer Hall downtown DM

    It's still around as of a few weeks ago. They just can't serve beer on it. They go from bar to bar on it though, so I guess that's fun. It's probably less of a city thing and more of a state thing. I've got no idea how you'd get a liquor license for that thing on a public road. Also, open...
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    Kids in a bar/Thoughts

    They basically exempted a taproom associated with a brewery from the regulations. Since the state has no restrictions on this, they can be in there basically whenever they want. We will probably be asking for something similar, maybe even with a curfew associated with it. It's not like we...
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    Kids in a bar/Thoughts

    Someone suggested selling $4 bowls of pretzels that come with a $1 beer. :biglaugh: There are lots of creative ways around it. Like changing what our "licensed facility" is and then allowing people to take beer out of it (which is totally legal in Iowa, btw) to the unlicensed part of it. At...
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    Kids in a bar/Thoughts

    Clive has sort of a passive aggressive history with a few of the bars on 86th street when they've had some real problems in the past. That's what this ordinance stems from. They banned food trucks for the same reason. They would set up outside the bar at 3 AM and a bunch of drunk folks would...
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    Kids in a bar/Thoughts

    In Des Moines, kids have to be out by 9 PM I believe. Knoxville wrote an exception into their city code for Peace Tree, who is going after pretty much the same thing we are.
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    Kids in a bar/Thoughts

    Well hey everyone! I feel somewhat uniquely suited to contribute to this discussion. First off, let's define some terminology here. Legally we have a class BB beer permit. We can sell beer and beer only in our establishment. If you want to consider that a bar, I guess that's fine, but we don't...
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    ***Official American Craft Beer Week Thread***

    Well, those are 32 oz growlers, so you're actually getting 4 full 16oz pints of beer with 2 of them. That's not much more than it would cost you in the brewery for the same beer (I think the growlers are $8 there? Can't remember), and about what you'd pay for a pint of it in the taproom. Craft...
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    Torrent Brewing Company

    Oh and I guess I make that 4 :smile:
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    ***Beer Thread***

    Bottle conditioning beer requires that there be active yeast left in the beer (which there pretty much always will be unless you've filtered it), and the bottle conditioning process will always result in yeast, and perhaps some proteins, settling out in the finished beer after the yeast have...
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    Torrent Brewing Company

    First off, congrats to clonebydesign :) You've embarked on a whole lot of work, but also a whole lot of reward. I'm one of the founders/brewers of 515 here in Des Moines (well, Clive actually), and it is so much work it's not even funny, but it's so rewarding it is awesome as well. As far as...
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    ***Beer Thread***

    I hear it's good.
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    Where to find iPad 2

    Yeah you're not going to find one unless you're willing to make it a full time job for a few days. Radio shack might be getting them in the next few days. Don't know of that has been well publicized. Aside from that, you can but one at huge markup on eBay or you can wait a month and order...
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    Worst beer you have ever had

    Well I didn't say that. It's sort of hidden by the excessive malty sweetness. I just had a few sips. It's not good, but it's not awful.
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    Worst beer you have ever had

    I didn't think it was that bad. I've had worse that cost more. It's brewed by Genesee brewing company. I'd put it on par with every other macro American light lager you'll find in a can at a grocery store.
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    Worst beer you have ever had

    There's allegedly one good year of it (97 I think?). The rest of it has been pretty universally panned. I've only had a it a couple of times, and it wasn't exactly good. An extreme beer a bit ahead of it's time.
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    Worst beer you have ever had

    I've only ever had the pale in a bottle, and then on tap at a Buc's game once. It wasn't very good either time. A notch below Boulevard's pale ale (which I'm also not a huge fan of). It could be that 10% IPAs have destroyed my palate, but I'm just not feeling it. I had some expectations for...
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    Worst beer you have ever had

    Smokey flavor belongs in a rauchbier. Just like sour belongs in a flanders red. Worst beer I've had in a LONG time was Madhouse's Iowa IPA. That is just a god awful beer, which is pretty disappointing. Their regular Pale Ale isn't very good either, but the IPA borders on undrinkable (I've...
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    Best way to dispose an old computer?

    You can take old electronics to Best Buy. They will take them for free and dispose of them. CRTs will cost you ~10-20 dollars each to get rid of there (can't remember exactly), but they will give you a gift card in that amount. Just take them into customer service and they'll take care...
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