July 8, 2011 [ Updated July 11, 2011 ]
This building has been a long time coffee house and part time art gallery. A little sprucing up and the addition of a pretty wide beer selection has added "beer bar" to the litany of places for which this building is used. It’s an awfully nice place, very well decorated, good art, & very cozy. They only have one tap (scrimshaw at the time I was in) but I know they’ve done stuff like Hopslam on it in the past. One cool thing is that it’s still a coffee house, so you can sip some espresso with your Imperial Stout if you like. They’ve got an empty bottle display with stuff like Mikkeller and De Molen bottles that they sold on limited run, so I guess they’re trying to get more adventurous... but slowly this is Dubuque mind you. Also they do live music in the basement and have a record store upstairs (you can take your beer with you to both). Kind of a new Isabella’s... kind of not.