Brewery – Wooden CaskBeer – There Gose CutieStyle – GoseABV – 5.1%IBUs – 18 Tangerine Gose Style Ale This beer broke the mold a bit when it was released by Wooden Cask in six packs and on draft in March of 2020. Sure, Wooden Cask has done some other stuff that might have seemed a […]
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Brewery – Wooden CaskBeer – Drunken Hog Smoked PorterStyle – Smoked PorterABV – 8%IBUs – 25 While the brewery doesn’t have a commercial description of this beer available, I can tell you that one sniff of their barbecue food partner’s food when you walk in the brewery door will tell you all you need to
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In the past, I’ve talked a few times about the struggle of bringing food into the hands of their customers for Cincinnati’s breweries. Some places are full on restaurants – operating two businesses at the same time. Other taprooms have gone the food truck route, relying on trucks to come into the taproom and serve
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I was joined this week… or a couple weeks ago depending on how you look at it by my good friend from Hunting Agnes, Bryan Booth to talk Bourbon, and to talk the Prohibition Bourbon Bar (you can listen to that episode if you haven’t already) and we were having so much darn fun that
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I’m not ready for this – the dive into Bourbon. It’s not that I don’t know about Bourbon, I freaking love the stuff. I also know plenty about it to talk about it. The massive topic of ‘America’s Spirit’ is just that, massive. So this is most definitely not a “Bourbon show”. It’s an exploration
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If you thought that the branding for the recent release of Braxton’s Cherry Turnover Berliner at Labs looked a little different, you were right. We got the final word today that things are being spruced up a little bit in the release department at Braxton’s “innovation facility”. I wanted to take a peek at the
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I know that we’re just now rolling out of the weekend, and headed back to work, but it’s never too early to start planning for the next weekend. If you’re looking for some good beer events to add to your calendar you might want to look into swinging by Braxton Labs in Newport where they’ll
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I think Braxton and Braxton labs are making it clear that they’re really into the Berliner Weisse style of beer. From Yesterday’s Headlines Volume 1 to Summertrip and now a series of fruited Berliner’s out of Braxton Labs, they’re hitting the style pretty heavily, and that’s a really good thing. The Berliner love is rolling
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Brewery – Braxton Labs Beer – Bourbon Barrel Aged Oatmeal Stout Style – Oatmeal Stout ABV – 11.7% IBUs – 35 This dark, sweet stout uses 150lbs of oats to add a smooth, creamy mouthfeel to a roasty base. After six months in New Riff bourbon barrels we added 2 lbs. per barrel of Carabello
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Distillery – New Riff Spirit – Gin ABV/Proof – 47%/90 New Riff Distilling is pleased to release another member of our Kentucky Wild Gin family. Call it the older, wiser cousin: our usual house-distilled Kentucky Wild Gin, with the same ratio of classic and foraged gin botanicals, rested in freshly dumped Bourbon barrels. Its seven
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What better way to ring in the new year when you’re a brewery, than crafting a special bottle for a toast – just for the occasion? That’s exactly what the creative minds over at Braxton Labs have dreamed up for this year’s celebration, and on December 23rd, you’ll be able to snag a bottle of
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There are a lot of roads that lead from an idea, to a brewery that is open and pouring beer for Cincinnati Beer fans. The road for Wiedemann is a unique one, and one that has gone through more twists and turns even before the doors open than are easily kept track of. They broke
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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 – Wooden Cask Beer – Corruption Style – Bourbon Barrel Aged Scottish Stout ABV – 10.2% Corruption is our Reformation Scottish Stout aged for just over 4 months in Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels. This beer is exactly what the commercial description says – it’s a Scottish stout that was aged for four months in
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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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That’s right – you read it correctly – Newport’s very own Wooden Cask Brewing company is gearing up for their next bottle, and their first barrel aged release, Corruption. I’ve been extremely excited about how they have been doing things down there, and when they invited me down to have a quick sneak peek at
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Brewery – Wooden Cask Beer – Seventh Street Runoff Style – English Brown Ale ABV – 5.2% Our Seventh Street Runoff is a Northern English style, light in body ale. This beer does a great job at representing who Wooden Cask aims to be in today’s craft beer world. The beer is sessionable while still
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Brewery – Wooden Cask Beer – The Girl Next Door Style – Blonde Ale ABV – 6% Our GND Blonde Ale is our most approachable craft beer expression. Beer doesn’t always have to slap you in the face to be delicous – and while that’s pretty much the thesis of everything that Wooden Cask does,
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I do a lot for our local beer community… lest any of you think that running a beer blog, and a local beer podcast is all about fun invites to soft openings, and drinking a ton of great beers, there is a lot of work involved. There is a lot of time that goes into
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I won’t dig into what it means to open a second location dedicated to the culture of creativity, creation, and innovation quite yet – because it deserves a lot of time dedicated to it exclusively, but I will fill you in on what’s happening with the former Ei8ht Ball space at The Party Source. The
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Wooden Cask hasn’t been around forever, but owner and head brewer Randy has quite the story about how he ended up in Newport making some of the most sessionable and flavorful beers that you’ll find in Cincinnati. We wanted to tackle the story of Randy, the story of Wooden Cask, and of course explore some
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I was telling you back in early March that we were about to see the first bottle roll out of Wooden Cask. The brewery is getting extremely close (and you’ll see them right here as soon as they hit shelves) but in the meantime, they’re giving us a major peak at what they’re going to
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It’s not all doom and gloom after Ei8ht Ball closes its doors in early April. Braxton Brewing company announced today that they’d be buying the space for what they’re calling the ‘Braxton Labs’. This new space will be all about innovation – housed in the brewery space deep inside the heart of Party Source in
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I had to do a double take early this morning, thinking that it was too good to be true. Could my drowsy eyes be deceiving my sleep deprived brain? Wooden Cask, with packaging? I did a couple double and triple takes, and was thrilled to confirm that it was in fact two labels for Wooden Cask rolling
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Let’s say it like it is… when you stop by your local beer store, sometimes you aren’t as happy with the Hofbrauhaus beer that you get as you might be if you’re drinking at the bar down at Hofbrauhaus Newport. There’s a really good reason for that, and it’s all about imported beer. While the
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I teased that this might be coming on Facebook a while back, and we finally have word that the time has come! Ei8ht Ball doesn’t release bottles of their beers very often, and when they do, it’s usually something pretty fantastic. If you want to talk about Barrel Aged K-Hole, fantastic is a very proper
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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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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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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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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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