March 30, 2009
My local watering hole. It’s been open since around early ’08. Ames is a college town, but this bar is on Main Street, on the other side of town from Iowa State University, so the bar isn’t overrun with college kids. (Don’t be surprised if you run into a few, though) The bar is located above the Corner Pocket, downtown Ames’ pool hall. The door to DG’s is easy to miss, but if you go into the Corner Pocket, you can walk up to DG’s through a stairway in the back. Every beer on tap at DG’s is a domestic beer, with a large portion of them being from breweries located around the midwest, from small Iowa breweries to staples such as Goose Island and New Belgium. There are 56 taps and even more than that in bottles here, so you’ll have a hard time finding something you don’t like. The bar holds around 200 or so people, and it can get pretty packed on weekends, when there is usually a band playing. Wednesday nights can get busy, with $1 pints of Olde Main beers, which is down the road 2 blocks.