I may be crossing a Gnarly Gnome line right now, but I’m writing about coffee. If you don’t know about it yet, Braxton Brewing has been offering coffee in their taproom for a little while now. You can read a little bit about why they’re doing that over here, but today they have announced that […]
BBA Starter Coffee – It may not be beer, but I’m excited! Read More »
Braxton Brewing Company’s Garage Series Braxton Brewing company has said time and time again how much they value variety in the beer the you’ll find in their taproom down in Covington, Kentucky. They call the series of beer that salutes this variety their Garage Series. The series is where you’ll find all of the fun
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Brewery- Braxton Beer- Storm ABV- 4.8% IBU- 17 The storm rolled in, and we rushed into our garage, family and neighbors alike, chased by the coal-black clouds slinging lightening bolts like grinder sparks. Seemed like whatever the day brought, we never strayed far from that garage. It was the hub of our early lives, a haven, the
They don’t get talked about as often as they should… almost forgotten about or not even known about to a lot of people who consider themselves fans of Cincinnati…and it’s a shame. Mash Cult is doing some big things out of their tiny brewing operation, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves yet. Who Is
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It made it’s first appearance at this years Cincy Beer Fest on fountain square, and has since popped up on the new crowler bar at the Party Source. The Beautiful View Beer Project is a private label release for the Party Source, and looks like it will soon be seeing bottles as well as the
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Doing Things The Right Way We talk a lot about new breweries, and we talk a lot about how a brewery grows. I’m amazed at the speed of growth that a few of our local breweries have experienced. Whenever I sit down with a new, or even existing brewery and talk about their strategy for
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Oh Braxton… with all your social media teasing you are lucky we haven’t “stormed” the brewery and demanded you tell us what you are up to. Lest that actually happen, the brewery has luckily (for us and them alike) decided to finally let the cat out of the bag about what’s been going with all
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Dark Charge – Imperial Stout Clocking in at 10% ABV and 42 IBUs, this thick dark Imperial Stout has been in the minds of the Braxton Brewing team since they opened their doors. Finally, it’s time to let it out into the eager hands of thirsty Cincinnatian’s everywhere, the story behind the beer from the
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I’m sorry… it was a bad joke, the title. But every once in a while I just can’t resist and have to let my cheese flag fly. Is there really anyone who is a proper American who doesn’t love a grilled cheese sandwich? If you haven’t been to Tom & Chee yet, first off… go.
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We wanted to have Evan Rouse on this weeks episode of Cincy Brewcast not because he is the head brewer of Braxton Brewing Company… but because he is an incredible homebrewer. As you’ll hear when you listen to the show once it goes up today on iTunes (or as you’ll read in the show notes
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If you live under a rock you might not know about Covington Kentucky’s Braxton Brewing. If you’ve been on this website for any length of time, though, you know that I LOVE what this brewery is doing, and where they potentially could be 5 or 10 years down the road. They are always moving, always
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I try to always remind everyone… so don’t get all worked up, but just because this new label exists doesn’t mean that this beer is going to be on your shelf next week…if ever. There are many times that a brewery will push labels through the approval process just to make sure that they have
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For those of you who, like myself, are admitted lovers of Firkin beer, great news comes out of Braxton Brewing this morning. They are letting up know that the last Friday of every month will be celebrated in the taproom with Firkin Friday. So… What’s a Firkin anyways? In beer terms, a Firkin is a
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Now that the proverbial ball is rolling down at Ei8ht Ball, it should be of no surprise that we’ll start seeing labels come through the approval system for cans that they may or may not be putting out into the market. I wrote about their canning operation first back in the spring, so if you
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Brewery- Ei8ht Ball Beer- Prodigal ABV- 6.5% IBU- 45 Hopped how we like, Prodigal is malty sweet with a bunch of floral goodness. This is one fine American Pale Ale. Prodigal is made with the same mash bill but rotating hop profile. It’s hard to put forth a good review of a beer that is
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We love the interactive side of the show… from our live periscope feed and interaction via social media… it’s a blast. There are few things that are more enjoyable though, than getting into a taproom and doing a show on location with our fellow craft beer fans surrounding us. This week we do another one…
Volume 1, Episode 21 – LIVE at Braxton! Read More »
If you just woke up this morning, you might not have read it yet…but Braxton has let us in on the details of their next beer release. It was first written about this morning by Jesse Folk over at WCPO. The beer is called Trophy…we first got a little sneak peek of it when the
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This week we meet Ron Sanders and Eric Bosler, the founders up the upcoming Darkness Brewing in Bellevue, KY. Ron and Eric are hoping for an early autumn debut, but they are already in their space and preparing things! Find out why some of what you may have heard or read (brewing only dark beers,
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A Brief History Of WiedemannWiedemann was founded in 1870 in Newport, Kentucky and became a staple around town. Ask anyone from the area and they will likely be familiar with the name. They might have even known one of the 800 workers that was there in the 60’s. The company was sold and operations were
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