Toppling Goliath

Out of Decorah, IA. Just wondering if anyone has heard of it or tried the beers.

One of my favorite breweries. Can't wait to until they start bottling. I live in the Iowa City area and various places put on tap takeovers every couple months or so. I'm looking for a recipe similar to their Dorothy's right now!

The Intergalactic IPA is the most amazing beer I've had this year. Galaxy/warrior combo.

Their beers are FANTASTIC and staff PHENOMENAL! I highly recommend all their IPAs and Stouts. Murphy's Irish Red is really, really good. If you are lucky enough to catch Naughty Temple when you are in the tap room, have a few. I can't say enough how lucky we are to have TG here in Decorah.

PseudoSue
Intergalactic Warrior
Millennium Falcon

All some of the best IPA's I've tasted! If you get the chance, try their beers! You won't be disappointed!

We are lucky enough to have a few bars locally that get kegs in frequently, but I can't wait until they get their new brewhouse online and start bottling and distributing.

Bottles will be glorious indeed.

How is the brewery tour at TG?

They don't have tours yet. They are in the middle of brewery expansion...adding a 30bbl house adjacent to their current 10bbl house. They are hoping to have it operational around the first of the year. When it is complete, I believe they are going to have tours and a tasting room. Also with expansion comes a bottling line! Excellent for those who can't make it to our neck of the woods.

I walked all over downtown Iowa city looking for the intergalactic warrior. No luck, but did see a good number of TG taps.

I made a warrior/glacier/galaxy ipa that is only two weeks in the bottle and pretty great. It's filling the void until I can find more intergalactic warrior!

If you're ever in CR, check Parlor City or Bricks. They've had it quite a bit lately.

Toppling Goliath is my favorite brewery hands down (I'm an IPA guy). They have so many great IPA's. I'm from Iowa City and got a chance to go to the tap room when I was in Decorah for a wedding and got to try a lot of their beers. I think the Pseudo Sue is still my favorite but the Intergalactic Warrior was a hop heavy great beer. The beers are very well balanced. I am always trying to get people to try their beers because they say they don't like hoppy beer. When they try a Golden Nugget it's fun to watch the eyes open up. TG made me love craft beer and start brewing my own.

Anybody know what yeast they use?

The Irish red was delicious!! Has anyone tried to replicate their recipes ?

Bump for clones

I would LOVE to figure out a Zeelander clone.

A Suedo Sue clone would make me happy. Probably my favorite Iowa beer and brewery.

30Bones said:

A Suedo Sue clone would make me happy. Probably my favorite Iowa beer and brewery.

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FYI, I started a pseudoSue clone thread yesterday. Feel free to contribute! I emailed the brewery, but haven't heard back, and I have no knowledge of their grain bill or house yeast. Still fun to try, though! Here's the thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/toppling-goliath-pseudosue-can-you-clone-443295/

Adaman05 said:

FYI, I started a pseudoSue clone thread yesterday. Feel free to contribute! I emailed the brewery, but haven't heard back, and I have no knowledge of their grain bill or house yeast. Still fun to try, though! Here's the thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/toppling-goliath-pseudosue-can-you-clone-443295/

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Thank you sir! I will look into it and give it a shot sometime over the winter. :rockin:

Possibly my favorite brewery around. I am working on a twisted galaxy clone. More to come on that...

Id love to get my hands on a king sue and a Pompei... but alas... not in ohio

DublinOhioBrewer said:

Id love to get my hands on a king sue and a Pompei... but alas... not in ohio

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I'll keep an eye out for ya. Only nabbed the king twice here but I've seen/had Pompeii a few times.

Is the Pompeii any good?

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Is the Pompeii any good?

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Everything from them has been delicious

I was afraid you were going to say that... lol

I may just need to drive to Iowa lol

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I may just need to drive to Iowa lol

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Well... at least the beer would be worth it. Okay, the scenic view is good to if you're into that. Not as many corn fields.

Hahahaha... ive been to Iowa. Nice little state. Quiet and quaint unless youre in ames with the college kids. Lol

Agreed. Went to college there a couple decades ago

I drove through there a couple decades ago lol

TG just started canning Pompeii so it might be more widely available now, at least in Iowa. I haven't seen it in distro yet, but probably in the next week or two. Hopefully they start canning King Sue on the regular.

Love king Sue. I'd be happier if bombers were more available

I'd be happy if I could get my hands on any of their beers right now LOL

Someone go tell those fools to get their stuff to Ohio LOL

We're going to Decorah tomorrow - it's a 45 minute drive for us! Some business to attend to, then a stop at Toppling Goliath to start the evening's festivities. Then off for dinner at Rubaiyat (a very nice local restaurant, there are several in that town worth going to.) Also if you're ever there, check out Pulpit Rock just a few blocks away from TG - they are a smaller brewery with some very nice selections.

Looks like (according to the Find Our Beer feature on their website) it's as close as the Chicago area to you

Hahaha... Chicago is a good 6 hours from me i think... you lucky dog. Let me know how the Pompeii is

And if you feel generous and kind to a fellow Brewer feel free to grab a Pompeii for me and maybe one of their double pale ales and I'll pay you through PayPal if you want to ship it to me LOL

DublinOhioBrewer said:

And if you feel generous and kind to a fellow Brewer feel free to grab a Pompeii for me and maybe one of their double pale ales and I'll pay you through PayPal if you want to ship it to me LOL

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Pompeii is AAALLLL Mosaic, and it's nice if you like that much Mosaic! We tend to like the Pseudo Sue (all Citra) a bit better.

I'd send you some, but Immafraid they wouldn't get that far....but if you're ever coming to Iowa PM me. It's really pretty up this neck of the woods (look up "Driftless Region".)

Citra hops work too... I don't think I've ever had a beer that's just mosaic hops. That's why I'm so curious about it LOL

I may just have to run to Illinois one weekend and see what I can find

I don't know if Illinois gets the Decorah-brewed TG, at least in cans. Up until a few months ago, all cans were brewed in FL. TG has since started making pseudoSue cans in Decorah and now is doing Pompeii. Any other cans right now are still brewed in FL, and I think only Iowa is getting the Decorah-brewed cans, at least for now. If you see cans, they will say "Brewed in Decorah" or "Brewed in Lakeland, FL" or something like that., so you will know where they were brewed.

Any bottle you see is from Decorah.

Their website says all the places you can buy their beer and I looked it up by my nephews zip code and there's a whole bunch of places in his town that carry it. So I'm just assuming that he'll be able to find it there but I guess I'll find out when he starts looking around

the problem is my nephew is only 16 so it's not like he can go get it for me. LOL

Is your cousin in Iowa? TG is fairly common throughout the state in cans. Bottles can be hit or miss depending on the beer.