Saturday Night Food Truck Series 2023

Announcement time!

We keep asking what you folks want and lately you've been saying FOOD TRUCKS, so for the foreseeable future we have a standing Saturday night plan for you: FHB patio + food truck + live music.

July 8 - The Chrome Grille

July 15 - Big Foot's BBQ

July 22 - Smokin' Mana's

July 29 - A Shred Above

Aug 5 - Cedar Valley Ex-Press

Aug 12 - Mama Dee’s

Aug 19 - Avion Express - Food truck by Avion Azul

Aug 26 - Titanium Lunchbox 1

Sept 2 - T and T foods

Sept 16 - Avion Express - Food truck by Avion Azul

Sept 23 - All About Cheesesteaks

More dates will be added further into the fall as well. The trucks will be parked across the street from FHB. Most trucks will serve from 5 pm - 8 pm and our live music is at 7 pm.

Hands down the most fun summer we've ever had. Hope you are all enjoying it as well!

Spirit of Tourism Award

We were very surprised at the Visit Mason City Annual Meeting last night to be the recipients of the Spirit of Tourism Award! Thank you to Visit Mason City for this fun honor. Although our locals will always be the brewery’s first love, it’s been a real joy to welcome out-of-towners and show off what our community has to offer. We love trying to attract visitors from far and wide so those folks can go home and spread the word about Mason City!

Halloween 2022

Welcome, RAGBRAI!

Hey, RAGBRAI / RAGBRAI Mason City, it's ONE WEEK AWAY and we just wanted to let everyone know we are READY for you! Downtown-wide beer garden, food trucks all day, live music on three different stages (including two major headliners, Don Felder / Sugar Ray), and the best people-watching ever...it will be a huge day for us and our community in general.

This will be the Fat Hill set up on Wednesday, July 27:

- open 11 am to 11 pm

- service inside

- service outside (tap trailer) + outdoor seating

- beer/cider/root beer sold in bio degradable 16 oz pints, as well as a limited amount of 32 oz crowlers and 16 oz cans (please use the recycle bins)

Bikers, please note that we have:

- phone charging stations

- a water bottle filling station

- cool bike jerseys for sale

- shade/AC/nice bathrooms

- a perfect location downtown in the middle of all the action

- an army of staff and volunteers ("Team Fat Hill" in the navy blue shirts)

A portion of proceeds from the big day will go towards North Iowa Human Powered Trails, a local organization here that is building hiking/biking trails around Mason City.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to profoundly thank Visit Mason City Iowa, Main Street Mason City, City of Mason City, Mason City Police Department, and all the other organizations, sponsors, and volunteers who have dedicated SO much time and energy to facilitating RAGBRAI's visit. It is a gigantic undertaking and a small business like ours really appreciates the opportunity. We've been preparing for months and are really going to swing for the fence. CAN'T WAIT!!!

Price change

This, friends, is our menu. It will look a little different starting this week, on your first visit to Fat Hill of 2022. Due to the rising cost of everything from grain to aluminum to shipping, after 5 years in business we have made the difficult but necessary decision to raise the price of our beers. (We also wanted to give our staff a much-deserved pay bump due to the rising cost of life in general.) Your favorite pint will cost you $1 more now. Thanks for understanding! We appreciate you all supporting us in doing what we love every day. Cheers!

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays from all of us at Fat Hill! We hope you all have a safe and happy couple days off work. The FHB crew is ready to relax with a crowler or two and our families!

Hours this week
Tuesday, 4 PM - 11 PM
Wednesday, 4 PM - 11 PM
Thursday, 4 PM - 11 PM
Friday CLOSED
Saturday CLOSED

Merch for sale
We have so many fun gifts for the beer lover in your life. Hats, signs, glasses, candles, socks, gift cards -- most are one-size-fits-all items so you can't go wrong. Bartender Tim's festive little honey bears are our current favorite super-local good-for-everyone gift.

Crowlers/bottles for your holiday crowd
Come in any time we're open this week to get your take-home beer! If you have an order so gigantic that you think it might will scare the staff, feel free to pre-pay here online so we have time to get it ready before you come in to pick up.

Check your recent bottle purchases

Just a heads up, please keep our BA Demon cold! We recently had a bottle fracture when left at room temp due to the expansion of co2 that the beer is carbonated with. We’ve been running some tests and found that the issue is very rare, and the beer is still very, very delicious, but wanted to be on the safe side and post this announcement just in case. If you’ve already bought a bottle and have had any issues, please email us (contact@fathillbrewing.com) and we will make things right for you.

We love pie

No one asked for this, but we love doing it every year. Here are our 2021 pie pairing recommendations for all you great people. Happy Thanksgiving! We hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday. (We are closed Thanksgiving but open regular hours the rest of the week.)


Pecan pie + Robust Porter

Pumpkin pie + Autumn Bock

Lemon meringue pie + Strata Zappa Doodad Session IPA

Apple pie + American Wheat

Berry pie + Sortatalian Pils

Chocolate pie + Oatmeal Milk Stout

Sweet Potato Pie + Scottish Ale

Key Lime Pie + Rongo NEIPA


Pre-pay for your crowlers at www.fathillbrewing.com or just walk in during business hours to order. We anticipate Wednesday being quite busy so Tuesday might be a great day to pick up your beer, especially if you need a lot!

Local brewing history video

On the last Saturday in September, Elmwood - St. Joseph Cemetery - Mason City hosted over 200 people at their annual history walk. The walk this year also featured short videos on a variety of local history subjects, one of which was the brewing industry in Mason City. Thanks to FHB’s own Jon Bedickson, the cemetery folks, and D. Barrett Studios who all worked very hard on this video!

Humane Society + Fat Hill news

Here's our new FHB sponsorship animal at Humane Society of North Iowa! Stout the shelter kitty was adopted a few weeks ago so now we're on to the next adorable fur ball. Everyone, meet Cashmere! You may be familiar with cashmere as the name of a kind of fancy cloth, but did you also know that there's also a popular hop by the same name? This hop has a fruity, tropical vibe. Cashmere the cat is similarly sweet! This pretty calico female (age unknown) entered the Humane Society in August and can't wait to find her forever home. For more info: http://www.hsni.org/?p=60493

Aronia farm visit

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The FHB crew of Jake, Molly, and Jen had a great time learning about where we get our aronia berries at Berry Hill Orchard by Fertile yesterday! (Thanks to Healthy Harvest of North Iowa for organizing the event.) Coincidentally, our Friday crowd drank the last of our aronia saison earlier in the weekend. It will be back next spring!

New Fat Hill sponsorship pup at Humane Society

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Everyone, meet Zeus! You may be familiar with Zeus as the name of a Greek god, but did you also know that there's also a popular hop by the same name? This hop has a spicy, black pepper kick that brewers love. Zeus is similarly energetic and memorable! This one-year-old lab mix entered the Humane Society in July and can't wait to find his forever home. For more info, click here.

Iowa Beer Pass now up and running

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We are excited to be included by Travel Iowa in the new Iowa Beer Pass! No more paper maps to lose or spill stuff on -- this passport/map is all on your phone. Keep track of all the breweries you visit, score discounts and freebies, and maybe even win a prize or two. Flashing the pass around our great state gets you goodies like a free flight at Gezellig, half priced first beers at House Divided, Iowa Brewing Co., and others, free donuts at Wilson's Orchard, and a pizza discount at our neighbors up at Limestone Brewers. (Just to name a few!) Show your pass at Fat Hill for $5 off any t-shirt. Click here for more info and to sign up.

Adopt a Fat Hill animal

New thing we absolutely love: Fat Hill is sponsoring a pet eligible for adoption at the Humane Society of North Iowa each month! For June, they gave us a five-pack -- a whole litter of brand new kittens ready for their forever homes.

They are, in random order of cuteness…

Stout (mischievous, likes to hide in shadows)
Saison (petite and sassy)
Pilsner (not flashy but awesome)
Doppelbock (stronger than you think)
Lager (a sturdy, old soul)

These lil fuzz balls will be ready for adoption in early July after they gain some weight and get to the vet to be spayed/neutered. For more individual pictures and info on adoption, visit this page: https://www.hsni.org/?s=Fat+Hill

Welcome to the world, kittens! We hope you find families soon!

Taproom is open again!

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We are VERY excited to report that we are ready to open for regular business!

As of this week we are resuming normal hours, which are:

Wednesday 4 PM - 11 PM

Thursday 4 PM - 11 PM

Friday 4 PM - 11 PM

Saturday Noon - 11 PM

Masks at Fat Hill are welcome but not required. For our safety and yours, all our staff has been 100% vaccinated. In effort to respect those of you who are still trying to social distance, we've removed about 15% of our tables/chairs and won't be packing people in like pre-pandemic days. We'll keep a large area of the bar unpopulated so nobody feels smushed when they come up to order. (Please help us with that by not moving too many chairs around, thanks!) Always clean freaks, we'll be doing our best to keep the taproom as germ free as possible. Also, those weird spaceship-looking things in the corners now are air filters that are supposed to help with microscopic airborne party crashers.

Many of our improvement projects and deep clean days have been behind the scenes so the taproom will look much like it always did, but the floors, bar tops, and wall menu are restored, refinished, and new, respectively. We so appreciated the time we had to improve the public part of our building as well as to do projects you'll never see but really do make FHB a stronger business and better place to work.

Not quite ready for in-person beers yet? No problem! Our online store (www.fathillbrewing.com/store) is still live and you can pre-pay so we have your order ready when you get here and pick-up is quick.

A huge thank you goes out to anybody who bought pandemic crowlers or just sent good vibes our way in the past year or so. We appreciate you! Thank you also to our amazing staff, all of whom have returned. We couldn't imagine a better team to ride these weird waves with than you folks.

WE LOVE YOU, MASON CITY! WE ARE BACK!

 

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