Restaurant
Unclaimed profileBarrel House
Marion, IA · $$
Inebrious
Beverage Program Score
The editorial take
Beer is the argument at Barrel House. Each Iowa location publishes its own Untappd-powered tap page, listing drafts, bottles, and cans with ABV, IBU, brewery, and origin. Downtown Davenport runs 28 items; Dubuque lists 16 drafts with separate tabs for bottles, cans, seltzers, and non-alcoholic beer. The house-exclusive Island Time Wheat, brewed by Bent River with mango, pineapple, and milk lactose, gives the program a signature pour, while a gluten-free lager and seasonal cider widen the net. Flavored lemonades round out the nonalcoholic side at lunch.
- What should I order?
- Start with Island Time Wheat, the Barrel House exclusive brewed by Bent River Brewing Company with mango, pineapple, and milk lactose. If you want something bitter, Des Moines IPA from Confluence Brewing Company runs 6.9% ABV and 75 IBU. Guava Llama Drama Sour and Oreo Speedwagon cover fruit-forward and dark directions.
- When should I go?
- The Barrel Lunch Trio is the supported lunch occasion, and its beverage choice includes iced tea, lemonade, or flavored lemonades.
- What makes the beverage program distinctive?
- A house-exclusive beer, Island Time Wheat, brewed by Bent River Brewing Company, plus per-location tap pages that carry ABV, IBU, brewery, and origin detail and update on a rolling basis.
Beverage categories
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Beer
Per-location Untappd tap lists with drafts, bottles, and cans, updated on a rolling basis. Downtown Davenport carries 28 items; Dubuque lists 16 drafts with separate tabs for bottles, cans, seltzers, and non-alcoholic beer. Iowa craft beers, imports, light lagers, ciders, and hard seltzers all appear.
Menu strengths
- — Multiple Iowa locations publish regularly updated Untappd-powered tap lists with ABV, IBU, brewery, and origin details.
- — The Utica Ridge list includes Island Time Wheat, a Barrel House exclusive brewed by Bent River Brewing Company.
- — The Dubuque list includes a gluten-free Crispy Boy lager and a seasonal Lemon Lavender Cider.
Standout selections
- — Island Time Wheat - Barrel House Beer: a Barrel House exclusive wheat beer brewed by Bent River Brewing Company with mango, pineapple, and milk lactose.
- — Des Moines IPA: an American IPA by Confluence Brewing Company at 6.9% ABV and 75 IBU.
- — Guava Llama Drama Sour: a fruited Berliner Weisse by Field Day Brewing Company at 5.6% ABV.
- — Oreo Speedwagon: a milk stout by Lake Time Brewery at 5.6% ABV and 26 IBU.
Nonalcoholic
The Barrel Lunch Trio includes a beverage choice of iced tea, lemonade, or flavored lemonades in blueberry, lavender, peach, mango, strawberry, raspberry, or watermelon.
Menu strengths
- — Flavored lemonade options span blueberry, lavender, peach, mango, strawberry, raspberry, and watermelon.
- — Iced tea and standard lemonade are also part of the Barrel Lunch Trio beverage choice.
Standout selections
- — Flavored Lemonades: blueberry, lavender, peach, mango, strawberry, raspberry, or watermelon, included with the Barrel Lunch Trio.
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