Brewery- BraxonBeer- Blown GasketStyle- PorterABV- 7.5%IBU- 20 Brewed for those times when you need to blow off a little steam. Blown Gasket is a darker offering with a moderately strong malt character. Notes of toffee and chocolate. This porter is robust as a new gasket kit, black and smooth like poured oil. Delicious black oil. This […]
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Braxton is really starting to make a name for themselves with their barrel aged beers as much as they are with their finely crafted lagers. It’s exciting to see a brewery that has excitement in multiple sides of the beer spectrum. Not to mention one and that also is turning out such consistently high quality and
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I will most likely have a lot more to say about this event as it gets closer, but I wanted to let you know some of the details as soon as they have become public. If you missed it last year, I think at this point you know that you can’t do that again –
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It’s not every time that I will flat out tell you that you need to do something. I might put my opinion into things on occasion, but it’s not often that I flat out order you around. This time I’m ordering you, but in a really nice way, to back Alexandria Brewing Company. Hear me
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Brewery- Ei8ht Ball Beer- Dalton’s Style- Fruited Sour ABV- 5.5% As a satire of Zwanze Day, Against the Grain teamed up with several breweries across the country to create “Swayze Day.” Ei8ht Ball decided to brew a kettle soured kriek. This beer has tons of tart cherries for a perfect balance of sweet and sour.
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Covington Kentucky’s Braxton Brewing Company is going to make a lot of their fans happy with this one. The brewery is releasing the next beer in their seasonal can series on October 4th in their taproom. You should be able to find it very soon thereafter all across Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky, and it comes back
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It’s almost like we did two shows in one this week! How else can you cram all the local happenings into one episode otherwise? We hadn’t had a chance to sit down and chat with Ron and Eric from Darkness since they opened their doors a little over a month ago, so it was a
Brewery- BraxonBeer- Oktober FuelStyle- Oktoberfest/MarzenABV- 5.8%IBU- 20 Fall means football, tailgating, festivals, crisp air, and cool evenings. It also means good beer. Germany’s Oktoberfest begins in September and ends in early October. For years, many breweries have been making this traditional German lager to celebrate the occasion. Braxton is excited to introduce its first annual
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Brewery- Ei8ht Ball Beer- Tarnished Style- Golden Ale ABV- 6% This is our lightest beer we offer. Our Golden Ale is lightly dry hopped with Cascade hops to lend a slightly sweet and floral aroma. This beer is good for any occasion. My Thoughts On The Beer There is a time and a place where you
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Last fall, when Braxton Brewing Company released their seasonal Oktoberfest, called Oktober Fuel, I mentioned to you guys how much I loved Oktoberfest season. I also mentioned how excited I get to see these beers popping up on tap lines across our fine city. Do you know what makes me even more excited than seeing
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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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I think that the easiest way to give you a proper update on where Bircus stands today, is to start from the beginning…ish. The basics will help late out the Bircus Update better! What Is Bircus Anyhow? The idea for a Bircus migrated over to Ludlow Kentucky by way of Ghent Belgium, where a brilliant man
You might have heard a few whispers yesterday about Braxton Union, and even if you didn’t you’ll surely hear a bit about it today. As this project goes public I wanted to share a little bit about my excitement. The Slip Up? Last fall we invited Braxton head brewer, Evan Rouse to join us on
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Things are never quiet here in Cincinnati, that’s one thing that remains certain in the life of a beer blogger. Here I am in the midst of trying to keep up with Cincinnati beer week and out comes a fantastic announcement from Covington’s Braxton Brewing company – another new beer! On top of a new
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I hope that you remember about Braxton’s Block Party this weekend – it’s a great way to kick off your beer drinking marathon that we like to call Cincinnati Beer Week. It’s also a chance to get your thirsty self a few new beer releases to please thine palate. That’s right – not satisfied to
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I should have seen this one coming, after all, I have seen many photos of Braxton beer sitting next to “Big Green Eggs” from Jake Ruse over the last year… my investigative skills must be slipping lately! Braxton is teaming up with Big Green Egg to host a grilling competition that will be part of
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Braxton Brewing Company made their way down to Louisville, Kentucky this month to enter the “Derby City Brewfest” with a barrel aged version of their Lumber Scotch Ale managed to pull out a big win for Best in Show up against some really great offerings from breweries such as: Bluegrass Brewing Co, Against the Grain, Akasha, Alltech, Country
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Brewery- Braxton Beer- Trophy ABV- 5% IBU- 40 It was just a trophy. A bit of gold colored plastic set atop a small wooden base. You probably got yours as a Cub Scout or maybe in Knothole baseball. And you gave it a place of honor on a shelf, where it would be joined by others as
Look… there is a whole lot of stuff that can be said about this first year of Braxton’s existence – and it’s not an easy task to wrap all that up into a neat little package, or three bottled packages for that matter… but they’ve managed to come really close to doing just that for
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I suppose that if you bother someone enough, eventually you’ll figure out what you’re looking for in the world of beer blogging. I’ve seemingly been following the Braxton team around town for the last month with questions around their beer variants for their first anniversary party at ever opportunity I could find. Upon questioning, each
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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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Braxton made the big announcement the other day about their first anniversary party, and within that announcement they let us know that they are releasing a TON of new beers. These Braxton Releases will all be available during their party on March 26th… which I’ll talk about in a moment, first I want to explore these new
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I’ve talked about this a lot in the past, how our city has a history that a lot of other beer towns would kill for. Our story is filled with ups and downs, heartbreak and sadness that is followed by joyful brewery openings that remind us of who this city is. A Brief History of
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They haven’t been open even a year yet, and the way they are chugging along like a well oiled machine makes you think that they’ve been doing this as long as anyone in this city. Braxton Brewing Company held their first annual ‘Builder’s Town Hall’ about a week and half ago and I thought it
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Hellllooo beautiful! Word is finally out from Braxton Brewing Company as to what the second can is going to be from the Covington brewery. It’s not much of a surprise that Crank Shaft cans are going to be sitting on shelves next to their Storm Cream Ale cans, It’s hard to hide the fact that
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Brewery- Ei8ht Ball Beer- Home Alone Style- Milk Stout ABV- 7.8% Release Date – December 2015 A chocolate milk stout brewed with four types of nuts: almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts. This was a wonderful Christmas treat when it hit stores in late 2015, it’s a fantastic balance between sweet milky stout and a slightly bitter nuttiness.
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They’re throwing out yet another beer for winter drinkers down at Covington’s Braxton Brewing Company with a new beer called Lumber to be tapped this week. The beer is a Strong Scotch Ale, and becomes another part of their ever growing Garage Series, which you can read about here if you’d like. About Strong Scotch
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The holidays are hectic…but you’ve also got family in town that needs to drink! Of course being the loyal beer drinkers that you are, there’s nothing that says Christmas season more than a family trip to a local brewery or taproom, right? But local brewery christmas hours are always a little confusing, and with 25
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I’ve been waiting for this one to drop, and nearly jumped out of my pointy gnome hat when I heard the news that we were finally going to get a chance to try the long talked about Shoptalk Double IPA that Braxton crafted this summer along with Widmer Brothers. This big new addition to Braxton
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Brewery – BraxtonBeer – Dark ChargeStyle – Imperial StoutABV – 10-16%IBUs – 42 For the earliest folks living around Covington, Kentucky, the Ohio River was a crucial artery. Goods and services were made available via flatboat, connecting families and communities to the larger world. That’s how this region got its coal, for example — the
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