Days of the Beer, October 7

The beer for today is Front Street Brewery Raging River Ale.

On October 7, 1993, the Great Flood of 1993 ended at St. Louis Missouri, as the Mississippi River finally fell below flood stage. The flood lasted 103 days, starting in April. The flood caused $15 billion in damages and was one of the most costly to occur in the U.S. The flood covered more than 30,000 square miles, and was the worst disaster to the area since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

The flood affected Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa.


About the beer:

A bronze colored beer made with the highest quality of malts and specially chosen hops to give this beer that extra hop bitterness with a delightful hop bouquet. A true English ale.

This beer was named for the Great Flood of 1993. Front Street Brewery is located on 208 River Drive, Davenport, Iowa. From the entrance, you can see the Mississippi River. I was at Front Street on July 5 this year, but they didn't have Raging River. Shortly before we got there, they had just recovered from the Mississippi flood of 2008, and were out of most of their beer.