This weekend we are going on a Iowa/Minnesota road trip.
Day 1 (today): Barn Town in West Des Moines
Day 2: Lua Brewing, Exile, Confluence
Day 3: Forager (Rochester, MN), Pulpit Rock and Toppling Goliath (Decorah, IA)
Day 2 is pretty flexible but I definitely want to hit up Lua.
Very jelly about Toppling Goliath. Plz report back.
Decorah is way the f out there. I was kind of disappointed in the tap room as they didn't have much there that I couldn't get locally, but it was still cool to see. Very large place - bigger than anywhere in KC other than Boulevard. Pulpit Rock, I wasn't hugely impressed with their hops. I've heard they are inconsistent from a couple different people. :shrug:
Confluence/Exile were pretty meh.
Lua and Barn Town were fantastic if you are in to the pastry stout/smoothie style fruited sours.
Rochester - saisons and farmhouse ales. Also had a few of the aforementioned pastry stout/smoothie style fruited sours. Great food too. Overall a really good trip.