Peace Tree Brewing

Last night we traveled down to Knoxville, Iowa to visit our favorite brewery and one of our favorite date night destinations.  Peace Tree Brewing will be celebrating their 2 year anniversary on St. Patrick's Day in March. On this visit, were able to visit with Brewmeister Joe (who still happened to be in the tap room) about the specialty brews he is making for the St. Patrick's Day anniversary celebration. He said they were unveiling a dopplebock as well as a rye porter that's been aging in a Templeton Rye whiskey barrel for about 10 months.

Hop Wrangler and Templeton Imperial Stout

Blonde Fatale and Rye Porter

We celebrated this fantastic news with a Blonde Fatale for the lady and the last glass (literally) of Templeton Imperial Stout for me. Since Peace Tree's taproom doesn't serve food, they provide a book of local restaurant menus and  encourage patrons to order; almost all of the restaurants in town deliver to the tap room.  We have had sandwiches from Swamp Fox (love the fried green beans!) and pizza from Wacko's and Tasso's in the past but decided to go with Deng's Garden for some extra-spicy Chinese food. We washed it down with a couple Hop Wranglers. The wonderfully hoppy beer cut through the heat of the chili peppers and complimented the meal perfectly. As we were leaving, we set our calendars for our next visit to Peace Tree next month, probably for St. Patrick's day, so we have about three weeks to practice speaking Blarney!

 

Our new beer of the week was a Pride and Joy Mild Ale from our favorite Indiana brewery Three Floyd's in Munster. It was delightful but I only had one bottle, so we finished off the last Zombie Dust Pale Ale from the same brewery and a Farmhouse Ale from Brewery Vivant in Grand Rapids, Michigan (more on Vivant later...as a former funeral home converted into a brewery, it deserves its very own blog).