Ya Barntown food is killer. The owner let's his cooks design the specials and you can tell they care.
Peace Tree is for sale
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Barntown has incredible bacon/pork belly.
Wife loves the beer cheese soup.
Wife loves the beer cheese soup.
I can't even imagine how much that Big Grove patio cost! You are quite a few years before that place is turning a profit.
It sounds like the owners of Dangerous Man were also at a decision point in terms of renewal on their lease of the building (did not own the tap room) and just saw it as an opportune time to get out of the increasingly pricey and competitive Nordeast market
Was pretty busy when it opened years ago. Hurt by lots of new competition and not having much for food options. You'd really only go if you were good with beer only. And obviously not a place to bring the family.
Crushing Happy Joe's taco pizza alongside some craft beer sounds delightful.
Yes. I thought it was an awesome facility but didn't like the beer that much. They were really new at the time though, so I'll try it again. Lots of places get better over time in my experience.
Blonde Fatale is amazing. Everything else is whatever to me. I would be perfectly fine if they only brewed Blonde Fatale.
Barntown's Brunch is very good. I'd almost rather go threre for that, and that's no slight at the other food menus!
I've only been to Barntown once (don't live in the metro), but I thought the food was really good and the beer was really good too. Kind of a tricky thing in the city...taphouses are kind of just bars. Torrent can get away with it because it's Ames. But in DSM, if you're going to have a taphouse with just snacks like flatbread pizzas and big pretzels, good luck. I guess it can work if you have a big open patio, but people go out and want to eat, not just snack. And now, people expect breweries to have great food, not pub grub.
I don't know about Peace Tree. If I were them, I would quit the bottling business and focus on Knoxville. You can still send kegs out to local bars, but I feel like they have fallen behind at the grocery store. Of course, maybe a bigger brewery will buy it and move in there.
Ya I was going every weekend but they aren't cheap and I've cut myself off.
So...are we putting together a Cyclone Fanatics investor group to buy Peace Tree or not? If so I'm in. I have 15 years of brewing experience and more than 18 years of drinking experience.
Maybe not a popular opinion, but as a guy who transitioned to life as an eastern Iowan after not being an eastern Iowan for 20-some odd years, I have never understood why people think Happy Joes is good pizza. And not just that it's good, but is like a cult-favorite in just about any eastern Iowa town that has a franchise.
Barntown has the best food by far of the metro breweries. Not to big of a fan of their beers however, They are always just *fine* tasting.
I like their traditional stuff but they don't make them as much. They have too small a brewery to keep up with demand.