Brewery – Fifty West Beer – Tangelo Fruit Stand Style – Fruited IPA ABV – 6.5% IBUs – 70 Standing alone off the side of 50 West in Nowhere, NA is a rigidity wooden stand with some of the ripest fruits you could ever image. Some say it’s a mirage caused by the insanity that […]
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Things are heating up in the Cincinnati Brewing Community – and depending on how you count it by the end of this week we will have 42 breweries all doing their thing in every corner of the Greater Cincinnati area. It’s truly a wonderful time to be a craft beer fan in this city. You’ve
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Are you looking for something to do this weekend that might get you away from the hustle and bustle of all the happenings “in town”? You might want to grab the family and head out to Williamsburg then to help The Old Firehouse celebrate their third anniversary – and do your part in doing a
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There aren’t a lot of beers here in Cincinnati that have developed the devoted following the way that Listermann’s Chickow! has. The beer has spawned a fan club of sorts in addition to it’s very own holiday that the celebration of which needed to be spread out to an entire week this year. I think
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Brewery – Mt. Carmel Brewing Beer – Take Home IPA Style – Session IPA ABV – 5.25% IBUs – 44 Introducing the newest beer in our portfolio, Take Home IPA. This sessionable IPA boasts a trifecta of Northern Pacific Hops that deliver intense tropical flavors and aromas. It used to be that you didn’t see
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Brewery – Rhinegeist with Pipeworks Beer – Astro Dwarf Style – Hazy IPA ABV – 6% IBUs – 60 Astro Dwarf, our astronomically awesome Hazy IPA collab with Pipeworks, layers tropical and citrus notes upon an oat and wheat base. Dank with a delightfully soft mouthfeel, this brew may take you to a distant realm…
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There have been some fun things pop up in the TTB from MadTree in the last few months. I mean – you guys were screaming so freaking loudly that they put Dreamsicle into cans for crying out loud. In addition the rumors are flying that Pilgrim is going to be released this year (I’ll get
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Brewery – Figleaf Beer – Iso-trope Style – IPA ABV – 7.2% IBU – 68 What’s in a name? “Iso” refers to iso-alpha acids, the primary bittering compounds contributed by hops. “Trope” is a wink at the notion that some people say that American IPAs are an overplayed trope of a beer style. Designed to
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There are a lot of roads that lead from an idea, to a brewery that is open and pouring beer for Cincinnati Beer fans. The road for Wiedemann is a unique one, and one that has gone through more twists and turns even before the doors open than are easily kept track of. They broke
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They’ve only been open a short time, but it’s been made pretty clear that Blue Ash’s March First Brewing Company has an extremely strong desire to tie themselves in with the homebrewing community in Cincinnati – offering up brew day contests and now a fantastic program to help bridge the gap between homebrewers and professional
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It seems like this is a story that is always being written, or definitely being written more and more as our community starts to grow. As new breweries open, or as others start to grow we see brewers leaving places to move into others. The first instinct when you hear that someone who you have
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I’m not sure if you’ve seen this floating around online yet, but I’m in love with the idea of this project, and ever since the creator, Kyle Meiser, first reached out to me during her research phase – I’ve been following along closely to see it come to life. I was curious about the story
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There are press releases that I read, and skip right over, and then there are press releases that end up with my wife having to deal with CNN style news briefs in our living room. This one? It’s a good news day in the Gnome-household. I guess we have to throw in a little back
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If you’re a fan of Asheville, NC’s Hi-Wire Brewing you’ll be happy to hear the latest news that dropped into my inbox today. The brewery has released some information about their next three seasonal specialty releases, and they sound like they’re gonna be pretty tasty. Two of the beers are from their Sour & Wild
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You might remember the first time that Covington’s Braxton Brewing Company teamed up with Cincinnati’s favorite Ice Cream, Graeter’s. You can of course read about the beer if you’re confused – but I suspect you remember what I’m talking about, after all… the beer release might have been the biggest beer release that this city
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It’s the April Fools Day prank that took on a life of it’s own. MadTree has done this in the past… thrown out a crazy, off the wall can idea just to play with our fragile minds in April. Remember the wax dipped cans of Axis Mundi? I certainly do. They don’t mean any harm,
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Everyone keeps talking about what the brewery landscape here in Cincinnati is going to look like in the coming years, and I think that everyone can agree that ‘Local’ is going to become more and more important as our brewery count climbs higher and higher.This is definitely the case for Mason’s upcoming ‘16 Lots Brewing’
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It’s hard to believe that it’s that time of year already, but alas, here we find ourselves winding down summer, and prepping for the winter season, which although brings forth depression about the approaching cold (at least with me…) it also brings forth one of my favorite things – an onslaught of seasonal beers! For
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Brewery – Braxton Beer – Short Fuse Style – Grapefruit Pale Ale ABV – 5% IBUs – 50 Grab a can, sit back and enjoy the show. This classic American Pale Ale is hopped with Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe hops for floral and citrus notes. Brewed with grapefruit for a truly authentic summer experience. It’s
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I’ve been telling anyone who cares to listen (especially the people who claim that our craft beer “bubble” is bursting) that this year, especially the last half, is going to be unlike anything that this city has seen yet for brewery openings. We’ve already seen 8 breweries open their taprooms this year, and we’re set
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I have a love for Jungle Jim’s, both from the Brewcast’s perspective (we’ve been there a few times for live shows now) and from a beer drinker’s perspective. It’s a store that is unlike any other – especially if you’re looking for somewhere to buy some beer. In addition to them being a fantastic, world
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Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Whirligig Style – Midwest Fruit Tart Ale ABV – 8% PH – 3.5 Whirligig is a Middle English term for a spinning contraption. It is typically referring to a children’s toy, but also applicable to any mechanism that rotates. This Midwest Fruit Tart is brewed with 3,000 lbs of blueberries
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Brewery – Urban ArtifactBeer – Xmas PickleStyle – GoseABV – 4.3% A Gose brewed with 1,000 lbs. of cucumbers, 2 lbs. of fresh dill, 9 lbs. of sea salt, and 125 lbs. of coriander per 30 BBL batch. – While humans have been pickling food for millennia, the American PICKLE is a cucumber. A perfect complement
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It sounds like a tiki party of an anniversary to me! Our Woodburn brewery is growing up too fast, and is turning 1 this month with a party that is looking like it’s going to be a blast (and get fans of the NE IPA style all pumped up). They’re not only going to be
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Brewery – Urban ArtifactBeer – KeypunchABV – 4.3%PH – 3.4 A Gose infused with the juice and zest of fresh key limes. Light, crisp, key lime pie flavors are the perfect companion for the hot days of summer. If you have yet to drink a few of these beers sitting next to the pool, or
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It’s always fun to write good, happy beer news – and this is great news for anyone living in the state of Ohio. It’s about to get a lot easier to get your thirsty face onto some FigLeaf beer as they have announced their partnership with Cavalier Distributing to get their beer across the whole
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We’ve talked before about Bad Tom Smith – actually, I love talking about them. (You can read some of the posts I’ve written about the brewery to get a better idea why). They personify the story of redemption that their namesake Bad Tom had at the end of his life. From a brewery that was
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They’re hot off the heels of yet another fantastic release of one of their now famous Midwest Fruit Tart Ales, called Faraday Cage (made with plums) and Urban Artifact is not set to quit blowing minds and getting beer geeks all worked up quite yet. Whirligig For starters, they posted an update to social media
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – Lil Jimmy Style – NE DIPA ABV – 8.1% NE Double IPA with Citra lupulin powder, Mandarina Bavaria, and Cascade. I think it’s safe to say that Listermann is owning the NE IPA game here in town. They seem to be trying every hop combination, style variation, or fruited addition
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – Bring The Hops Style – NE IPA ABV – 6.6% NE IPA with Zythos, Citra, Galaxy, and Lemondrop. This beer was released on 8/5/17 as part of Listermann Brewing Company’s ‘Hip Hop Series” – released alongside ‘Lil Jimmy”, part of their “Pet Series”. Much like all their can releases tend
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