Aren’t you just loving this weather?! Ok, not this weather, but the weather before Monday. And *hopefully* this weekend. I DEFINITELY am. For me, gorgeous weather = biking. I put my bike away for the winter the first week of December and had it back out my the first week of March. That’s a long enough hiatus. If you’re a biker, you know the excitement of a new bike jersey. It’s another way for us to express ourselves within our bike cult. So it should come as no surprise that my first jersey was one from a brewery: Exile Brewing in Des Moines. We stopped in for dinner one night and saw them on display and just had to have them. This year, the Easter Bunny left a pretty new one from SingleSpeed in my Easter basket. Good bunny. Continue reading
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It is finally time to pay homage to the first brewery I ever visited: Exile Brewing Company in downtown Des Moines. My other half took me there for our first Valentine’s Day a couple years ago. Clearly this was the way to my heart. And I have loved the place since!
On my most recent trip, I had just come off a long, hectic Friday. I had travelled from Cedar Falls, to Ankeny, to the Des Moines airprot, then West Des Moines, followed by Perry, Woodward, Perry again, Ames, and back to Des Moines. By 5 pm. I was MORE than ready to a beverage to decompress. I joined the rest of the Friday After Work Crowd who was pouring in the door. As usual, Exile didn’t disappoint. My first beer that night was the Praha Dark Czech lager. This beer is almost inky black in color but soooo insanely smooth. I absolutely loved it. With dinner I ordered a Night Fall Porter. The description promised vanilla and velvety chocolate, and “the perfect pairing for the final stretch of winter.” It was also good, but not as good as the Czech.
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