This week’s show features the latest from Taft’s Brewing Company, Double Gavel Banger, an amazing Double IPA that takes all you love about their flagship IPA and kicks it up a couple notches. Big thanks to the brewery for sending me a free six-pack to try!!
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Brewery – RhinegeistBeer – Cloud Harvest 01: Moku NuiStyle – Unfiltered Juicy IPAABV – 6.5% Volcanoes dormant for now, vines hang like leafy leis across blue skies while slack key guitar and ukelele riffs bend dreamily through ad hoc coconut radios. Aloha’aina, hoparinos. Moku Nui (named after a Hawaiian islet) was first released on 2/21/20
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I’ve written a few times about how MadTree is focusing their marketing and their branding efforts into showcasing their love for the outdoors, and the latest can release is designed around that idea. Ramble on will be a lot of things, but the maybe the biggest, and most newsworthy part of it’s story is that
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Low-calorie anything might stir up a certain image in your head… It doesn’t always mean “good”, and Braxton understands this. They are looking to break through some of those barriers with their latest release, Hop Fit. I talked a little bit earlier in the year about low-calorie beers as a trend that we would see
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Rhinegeist announced in early 2020 that the year would bring a few new packaged beers with it – including this, the Cloud Harvest Series. The series is three different ‘Unfiltered, Juicy IPAs’ led by the released of Moku Nui in February. The brewery spoke in a press release a little bit about what they were
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It’s not that I dislike Hard Seltzer… please, don’t get me wrong. If that’s what you’re wanting, drink away. My stance is simple, though… if you’re drinking hard seltzer as a beer drinker just because you want something a little lower calorie, or better for you, or really for any reason other than Seltzer is
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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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These label releases have been “out in the wild” for a little while now, but I haven’t seen anyone mention something that I thought was worth noting a little bit. It’s a design rebrand. It’s interesting for the beer nerd, and the design geek inside of me to watch as brands grow and spend a
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Brewery – Taft’sBeer – NebulosityStyle – Hazy IPAABV – 7%IBUs – 42 Large quantities of malted oats and kettle additions of Mosaic and Simcoe hops get this cloudy beauty rolling, followed by an El Dorado double dry-hop. Tropical fruit notes are complemented by a hint of dankness. Nebulosity made it’s first debut (if my impeccable
MadTree’s latest can is coming – and it’s a new member of their awesome ‘High Series’. Meet Dorado High before it enters your beer fridge soon. 9.5% and packed full of tropical and stone fruit flavors (I assume…) I can’t wait to try this one for myself!
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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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It’s another month in the ever-busy craft beer town of Cincinnati, which means I have another roundup of all the beer releases that you need to pay attention to! I keep track of every brewery and their packaging releases so that you know what is set to hit not just the shelves at your local
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I love label approvals. I assume you’ve figured that out if you regularly browse this website, as you’ll see them pop up from time to time followed by a post full of exclamation points. This one fits right into that really excited category, because I think that Taft’s is one of the most underrated breweries
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It’s not always enough to plan an anniversary party to take place on one day, sometimes you need to set aside a whole weekend to get all the festivities in – and for Municipal Brew Works – their second anniversary is gearing up to be the “whole weekend party” sort of event. They’ll be closing
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Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Saber Tooth Tiger Style – Imperial IPA ABV – 8.9% IBUs – 95 Prehistorically hopped Imperial India Pale Ale that attacks the senses with potent notes of Papaya, Mango and Peach yet it finishes it’s prey (your palate) with a crisp clean citrus bitterness. This beer has been ravaging the
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It got a few Rhinegeist fans (and Castle Island fans) pretty excited when the Cincinnati powerhouse teamed up to brew a beer with the young, Boston-based Castle Island. The excitement only continued to build momentum when we heard that the collaboration was going to be a 8.5%, 50 IBU juice bomb of a NE IPA
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DETROIT, May 3, 2018 — Stroh Brewery Co. is releasing a new beer called “Perseverance” that is brewed in the style of a Detroit Session IPA. It’s the first product launch for the company since reintroducing the iconic Stroh’s Bohemian-Style Pilsner in 2016. Perseverance IPA will be sold exclusively in Michigan, and a symbolic first pour will
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Every year Rhinegeist releases a new beer to celebrate their anniversary – these beers are themed to not just how old they are, but to the party that goes along with their anniversary. It’s what makes taking a little sneak peek at the label for their anniversary release so much fun – it gives us
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You’ve heard people complain about getting beer off the shelf of their favorite local shop before, only to get home without checking the date to find out that it’s been sitting there for a little too long. If freshness is important to you, you won’t be able to do much complaining with Fifty West’s latest
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The teasing and hints about what this taproom only series of MadTree might be are finally letting up and we’re getting a glimpse at how MadTree is going to turn the idea of a dual beer release on its head. The brewery doesn’t like to just do things for the sake of doing things, and
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Our little DogBerry. I can’t believe how much you’ve grown, and you’ve managed to change so much while staying exactly the same. If you don’t know the West Chester, Ohio brewery that I’m talking about this story will just be the same old “Brewery begins canning” story. I promise you that it’s so much more,
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I know you, craft beer drinker. Say what you will when you’re sitting with your buddies drinking your barrel aged sours, you still love your IPAs. You still really love those Imperial IPAs too, don’t you? Stryker is a really good one if I’m onto what you like to drink with this statement… and the
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I hope that you caught these label approvals in this week’s ‘Fresh Label Friday’ from Queen City Fresh. Aside from the obvious addition, I also hope you were a little curious about why we were making a big deal out of a few label approvals for beers that we’ve already seen released. The big news
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It looks like Rhinegeist might have a new hustle coming to Cincinnati, and I’m not talking about Weed growing operations, or gondolas that stretch across the expanse of OTR to shuttle drinkers to a park. I’m talking about my favorite Hustle that they’ve ever tried – a certain Rye Pale Ale that turned into a
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You know the beer… you’ve had it plenty of times, I hope. I can assume you’ve never had it this way, though. It only makes sense to me that Saber Tooth Tiger would be getting canned (instead of? In addition to bottled?) because cans are clearly the better vessel for storing and transporting beer. The
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You might notice a few new Rhinegeist goodies popping up on the shelves (and tap handles) of your favorite beer stores this month, I wanted to give you a heads up so you could be on the lookout… I’m hearing some good things about them! Experimental J-Hole You might have not only heard about this
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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2017 – Jameson® Irish Whiskey introduces Jameson Caskmates IPA Edition, combining the smooth taste of Jameson and hoppy notes from IPA craft beer, together in one whiskey. Nearly two years after Dave Quinn, Head of Whiskey Science at Jameson, and Shane Long, head brewer at a local Irish brewery, created the
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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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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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If there’s anything that shows just how powerful ‘IPA’ is as a style, it’s the number of beer styles that have sprung up “off of” the traditional IPA style. The latest in the trend seems to clearly be NE IPAs. Love them or hate them, they’re hear to stay. The style is also clearly here
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