IPA

A New Mt. Carmel Beer?

I’ve got a message fired off for more information about this possible addition to the Mt. Carmel Brewing lineup, and I’ll update you on any more information as it comes in to me.  Keep in mind, with label approvals like this, there is no guarantee that we’re going to actually ever see it, or if […]

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Listermann Brass Monkey Junkie

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Brass Monkey Junkie Style – NE IPA ABV – 7% East Coast IPA brewed with Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin, and Mosaic, with Mangos Added. Of course Listermann had to make a variant of their first can released beer.  They wouldn’t be them if they did things differently.  Brass Monkey Junkie is

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Listermann Brass Monkey

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Brass Monkey Style – NE IPA ABV – 7% East Coast IPA brewed with Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin, and Mosaic. For the very first can release from Listermann Brewing company, they certainly made a lot of waves.  This hazy NE-style IPA is packed full of fruity flavors that will please anyone

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Golden Road Wolf Pup

Brewery – Golden Road Beer – Wolf Pup Style – Session IPA ABV – 4.5% IBUs – 50 Hoppy and refreshing, Wolf Pup is our riff on a Session IPA. Highly drinkable with a wildly aromatic tropical and citrus character, it’s the perfect companion to keep on sippin’ for those long, sunny days. I have

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Braxton Tropic Flare

Brewery – Braxton Beer – Tropic Flare Style – Imperial IPA ABV – 10% IBUs – 100 Tropic Flare is a 100 IBU, 10% ABV, delicious double IPA. Brewed with 100% Galaxy hops, it’s overflowing with notes of citrus, peach and passion fruit. It’s brewed for the hopped at heart. We’re not kidding when we

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Braxton Spotlight

Brewery – Braxton Beer – Spotlight Style – White IPA ABV – 6% IBU – 35 Get out of the way everyday IPA’s. We have something special for you. Take a long look at the deep straw body and cloudy head filled glass. We bet you’ll get caught staring. With high hop character and refreshing

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Brewing Up Something Different – A Darkness and Alexandria Collaboration

I spent the other morning down at Darkness, hanging out, drinking beer, talking beer, and just generally having a really great day with Andy Reynolds from Alexandria and Eric Bosler and Ron Sanders from Darkness Brewing.  I had been hearing a couple of rumors that the two breweries might be getting together to put something

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MadTree Blood Orange Psychopathy

Brewery- MadTree Beer- Blood Orange Psychopathy Style- Fruited IPA ABV- 6.7% IBU- 70 India Pale Ale Brewed with Blood Orange.  Blood. Sweat.  Cheers.  It’s the IPA of the tiger. This was so popular when it was first offered up on draft around town that the city demanded it return to us.  MadTree, of course, complied

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Blank Slate Fork In The Road

Brewery- Blank SlateBeer- Fork In The RoadStyle- India Style Amber AleABV- 6.8%IBU- 70 The first beer in Blank Slate’s “Traveling IPA” series. Autumn is a time of change and mother nature is at a fork in the road as the bright summer gives way to fall’s darker colors. This beer sits squarely at the fork

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Fifty West Coast To Coast

Brewery- Fifty West Beer- Coast To Coast Style- IPA ABV- 6.8% IBU- 70 Named after Route 50, which spans the US from coast to coast. This American-style IPA seeks to blend the fruity and balanced attributes of an East Coast IPA with the dank, resin characteristics of the West Coast style. This IPA is sort of named

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For The Love Of Hops!

Celebrate IPA day this Thursday with MadTree, and yes…that’s an order.  The brewery is throwing a small celebration of sorts, a salute to the flowers that make our beer…well… hoppy. What’s On Tap? They’re going to have a few of their delicous IPAs on tap to celebrate, with the “Standard” offerings being: Psychopathy Rouding Third

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The Braxton Beta Program

When I was talking to Evan about his appearance on Cincy Brewcast last week he said he’d bring us a little beer surprise, and if you know me…there isn’t a shorter way to get me excited then to surprise me with beer.  But this one is really a great one, in my opinion.  Braxton Beta

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Old Firehouse Flashpoint IPA

Brewery- The Old Firehouse Beer- Flashpoint Style – IPA ABV- 6.7% IBU- 72 A Midwest style, with tropical fruit aromas and a delectable hop body producing a slightly sweet finish. Brewed with a malt blend of 2-row, crystal 40, crystal 20, aromatic, and carapils, along with a blend of warrior, belma, falconer’s flight and zythos hops. What

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Christian Moerlein Wins at the New York International Beer Competition

The New York International Beer Competition is a “Trade Only” judged event.  This means that the beers that are entered are judged only by people who buyers from top retail stores, restaurant owners, beverage directors, distributors and importers.  They pride themselves in this fact and that their judges have actual purchasing power and the ability

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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 dominate, ranging from grapefruit, to hints of lemon, to zesty lemon. Malt flavor is simple, with a light mouthfeel that carries the hops through to the finish. The commercial description does a great job of

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MadTree Identity Crisis

Brewery- MadTree Beer- Identity Crisis ABV- 6.9% IBU- 61 Not a ray of light penetrates the soul of this beer. Combining the roasted malt backbone of a Porter with a huge amount of earthy and citrusy hops typical in many IPA’s, this unique IBA will leave you questioning its identity and maybe yours. I am certain that

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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 piece you worked on that vintage machine, long into the nights, while Marty and Joe called the game on the radio and you cussing with every busted knuckle. Then, with that first crank, she fired

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Christian Moerlein Northern Liberties

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Northern Liberties ABV- 6.3% IBU- 55 You’ve made a discovery–a well-hopped IPA inspired by the revolutionaries of Cincinnati’s Northern Liberties. North of Liberty St. and beyond the reach of municipal law, the area was known for tolerance of beliefs and behaviors, which were shunned in Cincinnati proper prior to 1849. Moerlein Northern Liberties

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Christian Moerlein Big Piney

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Big Piney ABV- 7% IBU- 65 Camping in the woods on a dark night, unsure if you heard footsteps, an animal, or the wind.  Whispers of “what was that?” as the hair stands up on the back of your neck.  Peering out from the tent, a shadowy figure fades into the pines.  In

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