By a large margin, Topping Goliath has won the 2012 BEERacketology title as a 12 seed. This is the lowest seed to ever win this prestigious tournament. TGBrews used social media and kickass beer to take down bigger breweries throughout the tournament. Here’s a look at the votes: Not. Even. Close. We hope to [...]
Bells, Toppling Goliath, Russian River, and Surly made the Final Pour, it’s up to you to decide who makes it to the championship of BEERacketology. Four breweries are left standing just weeks months after the start of our inaugural BEERacketology…thing… And here they are: THE FAVORITE: #1 seed Bells Brewery out of The Krakken region. THE [...]
Here we are, down to just EIGHT BREWERIES vying for the right to be named the 2012 Brewmaniacs BEERacketology Champion. This round, we’ve done yet again something different, we hit up a podcast. Morehouse, MetsFanVI, Flenker, and I (Spank) sat down Sunday night to talk a bit about the brackets and the beers. We talk [...]
Back in July I had the opportunity to attend a beer dinner at my favorite local bar, Red’s Alehouse, feature my favorite Iowa brewery, Toppling Goliath. You can read about that event right here on our little corner of the interwebs. So, imagine how happy I was to hear Red’s and Toppling Goliath were going [...]
Yeah we are big timing it now. We did a podcast. It’s probably the best podcast you will ever listen to, ever. Ever. Except the opposite. But please don’t turn it off after 3 minutes… get to at least 5 minutes in to make us feel better. [...]
On Sunday, September 4, Millstream Brewing in Amana, IA hosted the 7th Annual Festival of Iowa Beers. Thanks to Friend of the Brewmaniacs Tim Hynds, I was able to attend. First, a word about Tim. He is a photographer at the Sioux City Journal. But, more importantly, he also runs a beer blog for the [...]
New label released. Pretty sweet looking label… plus it’s the size for a bomber. Awesome. Yum.
So the beginning of August rolled around and it was time for me to go on a road trip; a beercation, if you will. A trip that would take me from Minnesota, meander throughout Iowa, into Missouri, pausing in Kansas, and then traveling back home. Why? Why not. I hadn’t seen Flenker since last year [...]
Earlier this week, Morehouse, Sparky and myself attended a beer dinner at my favorite local watering hole, Red’s Ale House in North Liberty, IA. The dinner was featuring beers from one of Iowa’s newest breweries, Toppling Goliath Brewing Company, located in scenic Decorah, IA. Toppling Goliath was founded in 2009 by Clark Lewey when he [...]
