95… That’s the number of calories in the newest full-flavored IPA from Dogfish Head. SLIGHT in cals and carbs with MIGHTY hop flavor, Slightly Mighty – a crisp, new lo-cal IPA – starts shipping next week. This true indie craft beer has all the aroma and flavor of a world class IPA but with only […]
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I hinted that it was coming – sort of. While I might have let you know that there have been a couple beers in the works from Rhinegeist, the idea of a continuing series surprised me more than it probably should have. Rhinegeist has been experimenting with the idea of hazy, or NE IPAs for
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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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Brewery – Taft’s Brewing CompanyBeer – Gavel BangerStyle – IPAABV – 6%IBUs – 70 Taft, our honorable Gavel Banger, hands down his decision. Juicy, hoppy justice for all! William Howard Taft was the 27th president, as well as the 10th Supreme Court Justice. He’s the only dude that’s held both offices, a feat that Taft’s
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Brewery – Fort George Beer – Suicide Squeeze Style – IPA ABV – 7.2% Artfully cut like a 7” vinyl, *Special Edition pops with Mosaic, Amarillo, and Citra hops. Front loaded with organic 2-row barley and layered with deep cuts of specialty malt, Suicide Squeeze IPA presents the craft audience a balanced, full sensory experience.
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It’s hard to believe that Great Crescent Brewing has been around for 9 years… and it’s hard to believe that they still manage to fly under the radar for so many craft beer drinkers here in Greater Cincinnati, but they have… and they do. The brewery is the fifth oldest in town, behind Rockbottom, Hofbrauhaus,
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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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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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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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Braxton Labs is all about experimentation. It’s the entire purpose of the brewery – to innovate, play around and be creative. That doesn’t mean, however, that the brewery doesn’t listen to their loyal fans about what they like and want when it comes to packaging and even new beers that are going to come out.
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Brewery – Rivertown Beer – IPA Style – IPA ABV – 6.5% IBUs – 67 Crafted for the hop heads, enjoyers of IPA’s and the hop curious. This medium-bodied tropical IPA is vibrant, effervescent and bold. This beer debuted in July of 2017 bringing along with it a new, updated look for the brewery. The
Brewery – MadTree Beer – Entropic Theory Style – IPA ABV – 7.5% IBUs – 70 From Chaos Emerges Order. From Fermentation Emerges Beer. This IPA hits you with huge aromas of orange, peach, and apricot as soon as you open the can. The nose is followed by a smooth bitterness and soft mouthfeel as
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Brewery – March First Beer – Denali IPA Style – IPA ABV – 6% IBUs – 55 Pours amber with a creamy head. Citrusy, piney, and floral on the nose, while pineapple and notes of honey tantalize the palate. This India Pale Ale makes for a very sessionable beer. Every brewery needs an IPA, even
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Brewery – Rogue Beer – 6 Hop IPA Style – IPA ABV – 6.66% IBUs – 87 Dedicated to Farmers & Fermenters – In a bold collaboration with Mother Nature, we grow our own varieties of aroma hops at Rogue Farms in Independence, OR. We also string, stake, train, test, trim, separate, sort, kiln and
From Chaos Emerges Order… It’s been on the tip of the tongue of MadTree fans since the strange green mystery teaser videos first started appearing online. Things took an even more interesting spin when pallet upon pallet of distant green cans were spotted across the expansive new brewery space at MadTree’s 2.0 facility. We got
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It all makes a little more sense now – that little laugh that Jonathan and Evan both shared during the recent episode of Cincy Brewcast that was from the newly opened Braxton Labs. I had asked them about the possibility of packaging coming out of the brewery, and I suppose that they knew that the
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Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Phrenology Style – Wild IPA ABV – 7.3% IBU – 55 Phrenology is the debunked pseudoscience of determining psychological characteristics by the shape of the skull and facial features. This beer uses a big addition (22lbs) of both Mosaic and 22lbs of Chinook to kick it into a really
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – Yoda Potato Style – NE DIPA ABV – 8.4% East coast DIPA with Citra, Lemondrop and El Dorado Released side by side with their ‘Ms. E’ NE IPA on May 6th 2017, this was the first NE IIPA from the team at Listermann. They loaded the beer up with 5
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Brewery – Listermann Brewing Company Beer – Sabotage Style – NE IPA ABV – 8% Listen all of y’all, it’s a sabotage! Loads of hops, oats, wheat, vanilla, and a sh*t ton of actual strawberries conspired to sabotage the standard idea of IPAs to create a substance that looks something like a milkshake, but smashed
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Brewery – Listermann Brewing Company Beer – Ms. E Style – NE IPA ABV – 7.6% East Coast IPA with Citra and Jarrylo. This member of Listermann’s Hip Hop series of NE IPA can releases sat next to ‘Yoda Potato’ for it’s release day on May 6th of 2017. The beer uses Citra and Jarrylo
Call them whatever you want to call them, North East IPA, New England IPA, Hazy IPA – they’re here to stay, clearly. On top of that, they’re sort of popular with drinkers these days. Can releases for NE IPAs in Cincinnati have become a major thing, with Listermann dominating the space (having a release every
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I have such a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Streetside Brewing Company has only been around for six months, and are kicking as much ass as they are. To celebrate their first ever packaged release (16oz cans of their NE IPA called Suh, Brah) I thought we should do it in
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I mentioned back in early March that Municipal was already planning for their first anniversary party on June 10th. Arguably, the centerpiece of the anniversary party is the release of their first packaged beer, a big Imperial IPA in a 22oz bomber. Well… the label for the beer has finally popped up in the ttb – and
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – 99 Problems, But A Beer Ain’t One Style – NE IPA ABV – 7.6% IBUs – 65 East Coast IPA brewed with Citra and Wakatu. The brewery rolls on with their series of hip hop themed NE IPA releases in their 16oz pint cans with this one. When it was
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – Tricky Style – NE IPA ABV – 6.7% East Coast IPA brewed with Galaxy and Mosaic. This New England Style IPA was paired up with Listermann’s ’99 Problems, But A Beer Ain’t One’ for a can release on April 1st, 2017. The 16oz pint cans are part of Listermann’s series
Brewery – Braxton Brewing Company Beer – Revamp Style – IPA Recommended Serving Temp – 45 Recommended Glassware – IPA Glass ABV – 6.5% IBU – 60 Perfection is a combination of hard work and having the guts to change. It’s not always perfect the first time around and it takes determination to make every
I feel like I could spend a lot of time just talking about the amazing selection of packaged beer here in Cincinnati (and some weeks I feel like I do) – This last week is one of those weeks, with some really great stuff getting announced, and a few things popping up through the TTB
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Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Knowledge Style – Imperial IPA ABV – 8.5% IBUs – 98 Intense & refined, Knowledge delivers notes of resinous pine, dank sap, pithy grapefruit, & ripe pineapple. Chewy hops, a zesty punch; this erudite Imperial India Pale Ale sharpens perceptive depths in the studious night. Rhinegeist got a lot of
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If you still haven’t been out to Columbia Tusculum to see what’s up with Streetside Brewing, you’re missing out big time. This is a brewery that even before their Grand Opening party won the ‘King of Ohio’ competition with their Raspberry Beret. I mean, this brewery has a taproom that in my opinion is one
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