Cincinnati Brewery News

Fifty West Brings Home a Gold Medal!

Fifty West Brings Home a Gold Medal!

I have a post in the pipeline that just got pushed aside with really big news out of Fifty West ...
A Couple New Additions to Rhinegeist's Rarity Series...

A Couple New Additions to Rhinegeist’s Rarity Series…

I love catching new label approvals, as they clue us in on some of the stuff that we (might) be ...
This Should Be A National Holiday: Chickow! Day 2016

This Should Be A National Holiday: Chickow! Day 2016

It's grown exponentially... I think my first Chickow! Day saw something like 4 variants on tap. I suppose you can ...
Taft's Ale House/Macaron Bar Collaboration Beer

Taft’s Ale House/Macaron Bar Collaboration Beer

They're calling them Over-The-Rhine's leading flavor artisans, and I'm not sure that I could argue that description if I wanted ...
Has It Really Been A Year Already?  It's time for an Urban Artifact Anniversary!

Has It Really Been A Year Already? It’s time for an Urban Artifact Anniversary!

It's hard to believe that it's time to start celebrating an Urban Artifact Anniversary already. A year flys by faster ...
A Moerlein Reinheitsgebot Celebration

A Moerlein Reinheitsgebot Celebration

500 years is a really, really long time.  That's how long it's been since the very first version of what ...
Braxton Trophy

Braxton Trophy

Brewery- Braxton Beer- Trophy ABV- 5% IBU- 40 It was just a trophy. A bit of gold colored plastic set atop a ...
Rhinegeist Peach DoDo

Rhinegeist Peach DoDo

Brewery- Rhinegeist Beer- Peach DoDo Style – Gose with Peaches ABV- 4.4% IBUs - 12 This German Gose is bright and frisky, tart ...
Christian Moerlein Barbarossa

Christian Moerlein Barbarossa

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Barbarossa ABV- 5.2% You've made a discovery - a Dark Lager honoring Frederick I, Emperor of Germany, known ...
Christian Moerlein Plum Street Wheat

Christian Moerlein Plum Street Wheat

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Plum Street Wheat ABV- 4.5% IBU- 10 Plum St. Wheat is a crisp, tart ale, made with real ...
Christian Moerlein Handlebar

Christian Moerlein Handlebar Double Stout

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Handlebar ABV- 8.2% IBU- 70 Strength, Distinction, Ingenuity, Pride. These are words that describe the innovative Machine Age ...
Beautiful View Beer Project IPA

Beautiful View Beer Project IPA

Brewery- Beautiful View Beer Project Beer- IPA ABV- 6.5% IBU- 65 Straw to copper in color, with a pillowy-white head. Citrus qualities ...
Triple Digit Cranium

Triple Digit Cranium

Brewery - Triple Digit Beer - Cranium Style - Oatmeal Stout with Coffee, Vanilla and Barrel Aged ABV - 11.5% Ale fermented ...
Blank Slate Can Designs... Finally!

Blank Slate Can Designs… Finally!

I know that the rumors have been flying around for a long time about the fact that Blank Slate is ...
Win The Ultimate Blind Date... With Strawberry Pig!

Win The Ultimate Blind Date… With Strawberry Pig!

I'm a very happily married Gnome...but I can only assume that some of you are more on the single side ...
MadTree Hortense

MadTree Hortense

Here comes another bottle for you to add to your MadTree collection!  MadTree has teamed up with the Cincinnati Flower ...
Taft's Ale House Anniversary - New Beer Alert!

Taft’s Ale House Anniversary – New Beer Alert!

First and foremost, my big pointy Gnome-hat goes off to Taft's Ale House...it's hard to believe that this new crop ...
Triple Digit Gravitator

Triple Digit Gravitator

Brewery- Triple Digit Beer- Gravitator Style- Double Bock ABV- 10% What kind of beer do you make for the deep, ...
Bottling An Entire Year: Braxton Bottles Themselves

Bottling An Entire Year: Braxton Bottles Themselves

Look... there is a whole lot of stuff that can be said about this first year of Braxton's existence - ...
Urban Artifact Otso

Urban Artifact Otso

I hope you know the drill by now... every Tuesday, Urban Artifact releases a new beer to their thirsty fans, ...
Moer Moerlein Packaging Updates

Moer Moerlein Packaging Updates

I know, I know... You've probably been bombarded by Moerlein news lately on social media, but hang in there with ...
Braxton's Anniversary Variants Revealed

Braxton’s Anniversary Variants Revealed

I suppose that if you bother someone enough, eventually you'll figure out what you're looking for in the world of ...
Braxton Crank Shaft

Braxton Crank Shaft

Brewery- Braxton Beer- Crank Shaft ABV- 6% IBU- 75 You remember the year you put that old Ford back together? Piece by ...
How About A TON of Braxton Releases?

How About A TON of Braxton Releases?

Braxton made the big announcement the other day about their first anniversary party, and within that announcement they let us know that ...
Christian Moerlein Anniversary Party: Twelve163

Christian Moerlein Anniversary Party: Twelve163

Every year, Moerlein does something really delicious when they release their anniversary beer.  The barrel aged deliciousness took on an even better ...
Christian Moerlein Coffee Emancipator?

Christian Moerlein Coffee Emancipator?

If you're already planning out your Bockfest weekend festivities, you might want to leave Sunday Morning open on your calendar ...
Wiedemann Needs You!

Wiedemann Needs You!

I've talked about this a lot in the past, how our city has a history that a lot of other ...
Urban Artifact Pinwheel Makes It's Debut

Urban Artifact Pinwheel Makes It’s Debut

Spring is approaching... The bock beers will soon be flooding the streets of Cincinnati... Urban Artifact may not be releasing ...
Deeper Into Moerlein's New Look

Deeper Into Moerlein’s New Look

When I first stumbled across the three new labels for Christian Moerlein's new cans...I was thrilled to see the change ...
Tap & Screw Opening Second Location

Tap & Screw Opening Second Location

In fantastic surprise news, I'm just finding out this morning that one of the areas craft breweries is expanding in ...