CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2017 – Jim Beam, the maker behind the world’s best-selling bourbon and last year’s groundbreaking Jim Beam® Apple Watch, is making history yet again, taking its knack for innovation to create the first-ever “smart decanter.” A “HomeBar” engineered with more than 200 years of bourbon know-how, “JIM” is advancing the technology of […]
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A new canned beer is always exciting (you didn’t think Braxton was done with the surprises for the year, did you?) but a new series is even better. If you were tuned in to the Big Cis Brewcast a couple of weeks ago, you might have caught a few hints at this one, and now
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I love charity events. If you know anything about me, and what is really behind this website, you’ll understand that I’ve got a deep rooted belief about what craft beer really is. Craft beer is actually about some things that are much bigger than the liquid that ends up in our glasses at the end
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Hi-Wire Brewing has a couple goodies ready to go for December release for all you fans of their Sour & Wild Ale program. This is a good one… 10W-40 Imperial Stout 8% ABV Brewed with coffee, chocolate and vanilla Available in 4 packs of 16-oz cans Limited distro, starting December 22nd With notes of dark
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Brewery – MadTree Beer – Pilgrim Style – Pale Ale ABV – 4.7% IBUs – 14 This lightly hopped fall pale ale combines a canucopia of holiday flavors. Cranberry and vanilla complement the pleasant lemon and berry flavor of Pilgrim hops. Give thanks for a bountiful harvest, good friends, and great beer. This has always
If you’re familiar with Union Kentucky you know that for a long time at the top of Braxton Drive sat a Kroger store. I can only imagine that a lot of the craft beer that the Rouse family bought over the years came from the shelves of that Kroger, which explains a lot why they
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It’s been well over a year since we’ve done a show with the incredible people at Anderson’s Paradise Brewing, and what perfect timing to find our way back to their remodeled taproom to do another show? The brewery was hosting their first ever bottle release the day we recorded, and it made for some fun
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Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Glimmer Style – Tart IPA ABV – 7.5% IBUs – 40 PH – 3.7 Glimmer Tart IPA is a tart IPA brewed with Ohio-grown and malted barley from Rustic Brew Farm. Brewed with a blend of Mosaic, Pilgrim, and Triskel at a rate of 55 lbs. per 30 BBL
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From the very beginning of Braxton pouring Dead Blow in their taproom, there was a fun thing that people did… they ordered it with a little squirt of their cold brewed starter coffee in the glass. I was first introduced to this concoction as “Blown Starter” and I fell in love. Quickly soon afterwards it
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Brewery – Paradise Beer – Wrath of the Tsar Style – Russian Imperial Stout ABV – 10.5% Thank you for purchasing our first bottle release. We know you will enjoy our smooth, dark, malty classic. This is our Russian Imperial Stout, aged in locally sourced whiskey barrels for 6 months. Serve at room temperature with
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The Big Cis Brewcast is an annual event dedicated to the memory of the late Mike Cisneros. Mike didn’t just sit next to me as the host of Cincy Brewcast, he was also a dear friend and one of the best, kindest people who I have ever met. What better way to celebrate a life
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There is a lot of shopping to be done on Black Friday. I know there are plenty of resources out there for you to watch for the best deals on tvs, and blenders, and whatever else people rush Walmart for on the holy grail of shopping days – but that’s not what I do on
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The modern Christian Moerlein Brewing company respects the food side of beer more than the average Cincinnati brewery might. I’m not sure if you’ve ever had dinner at the Lager House, and more specifically if you’ve ever been to one of their beer dinners, but it’s pretty amazing. It doesn’t surprise me to see the
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I hope you’re a Dark Charge Day veteran. If you are, you’ll remember one of the fun releases from last year’s Winter Block Party was their Claus Peppermint stout, a really fun twist on a Christmas beer. The brewery announced today that they’re not only releasing the beer in bottles this year, but that
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You’ve heard it said before – “people on the west side only drink Bud Light”. We spent this episode proving what not only is that not true, but why people on the west side now have a brewery offering up some of the best beer that has been available on that side of town in
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In a story that I fear we will be hearing more and more of in the future, Mason’s 16 Lots Brewing Company has been forced into having to rename one of their flagship beers, called War Horse. The brewery took to social media to inform their fans of the changes, stating that after receiving a
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Listermann Brewing Company has always gone big when it comes to packaging releases, in fact I’m fairly certain that they’ve blown far past anyone else in town for amount of different beers released in packaging. This year, though, has taken it to a whole new level even for them, and that means that it’s only
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MadTree’s Citra High has been a hit since it first hit the beer taps, and has been a phenomenon in the world of Cincinnati IPA lovers ever since it was first canned in 2015. Lovers of this dank, citrusy tropical IPA wait all year for the brief period that it appears in cans on their
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It’s not just a beer, this collaboration from MadTree and Heavy Seas is designed to help bring awareness (and raise funds) for clean water and conservation as well. Not only are we getting a new beer to drink, but the brewery is setting up a number of events around town, too, making sure we’ve got
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We’ve known that the rest of the core lineup for Rivertown was going to get a good refresher to match their other new changes, but it’s still fun to finally see them! Tommy Sheehan from TommyInk has been working hard with the new look to Rivertown’s lineup, and the final two core beers to get
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I love seeing new breweries open, and love it even more when they are located in areas that I feel are desperate for a place of their own. Mason is exactly one of those places. The city of Mason is a great place, with a ton of history that gets overlooked, but it feels like
Vol 03, Episode 18 – 16 Lots, Mason’s First Brewery. Read More »
There aren’t a lot of craft breweries here in Greater Cincinnati that can claim to have been chugging along for 9 years. Great Crescent is putting themselves on that list alongside Rock Bottom, Hofbrauhaus, Mt. Carmel and Listermann this month, and they’re throwing a celebration with some great beers to mark it. If you haven’t
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This post could go a lot of different ways for me, I have a lot of things to say about Big Cis. The easy post is just to tell you about the event, and the beer… and maybe a little bit on why you should go (it’s benefiting a great organization). I don’t like to
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If you’ve been watching closely as Urban Artifact releases each of their Midwest Fruit Tart Ales, you’ll have noticed that they also like to do variants of these beers each time. I mean… they like variants a lot. You might have also noticed that each of these variant bottles contains an animal on the label,
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I have to extend a bit of a spoiler alert right at the top of this post… Half of the fun of this mixed twelve pack was exploring it, trying each beer with my wife and then guessing what each flavor was supposed to be mimicking. If you managed to snag some of these beers,
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The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming!!! Don’t worry, this is good news for any of you red-blooded Americans, though. The Russians aren’t here to steal any of our secrets, or to ‘break’ our beloved Rocky Balboa, these Russians are big, bold, and delicious. They’re also wearing tiny little hats. If you haven’t figured
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If you thought packaging releases from Braxton Labs were going to be all about IPAs and big pint cans, you’ve been wrong. The brewery is rolling things right along with their ‘experimental nature’ and releasing their next beer in 500ml bottles that include a marshmallow. Sweet Potato Casserole If you’ve found yourself in the Braxton
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Brewery – FigLeaf Beer – WasteTimer Style – American Pilsner ABV – 4.8% IBUs – 33 Rich medium golden color with snow-white dense lacy head. Classic sea-breeze Saaz hop aroma with subtle underlying cucumber skin and light citrus notes supported by clean bready pilsner malt aromatics. Greets the palate with assertive but smooth noble hop
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Boulder, CO • October 30, 2017-The Brewers Association-the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers-announced an agreement today with the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to fund public hop breeding for the purpose of developing and releasing disease resistant aroma hop cultivars into the public domain, in support of
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It doesn’t matter how you pronounce it, Bircus is unique. They are brewing beer in Ludlow, with the plans to open their very own Circus/Brewery Taproom that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. We joined owner Paul Miller, Head Brewer Sean Gregor and their sort of “Jack of All Trades” Ryan Fardo to talk
Volume 03, Episode 17 – Bircus, Beercus, Burcus, It Doesn’t Matter… It’s Showtime! Read More »
