Ghost Baby 1314 Republic Street, OTRWebsite – Facebook – Instagram513-381-5333 Ghost Baby is (on paper) a concept that’s been done before. A small cocktail bar, with a unique music program, great wine, and beer lists… it’s nothing crazy. The commonality of the idea goes out the window completely when you hear that the bar is […]
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No need to fear, Cincinnati – Arnold’s isn’t changing. Let’s get off our chest right from the get-go. While Arnold’s ownership is changing – technically – it’s all ok. As of January 1st, 2020 the bar will be leaving the hands of current owner Ronda Breeden as she retires and officially passes it down to
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If you haven’t had the chance to see how much the little pocket next to OTR that is called Pendleton has changed in the last couple of years – you should pay attention to this. The neighborhood’s brewery, Three Points is celebrating their first anniversary in on June 8th from 11am until 2am with a
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Brewery – RhinegeistBeer – Nitro CobbstopperStyle – GoseABV – 4.4% Musing on our bright and frisky Peach Dodo, this nitro nocturne is suffused with a healthy dose of vanilla and lactose. The result is a tart and silky reverie revealing notes of luscious peach cobbler, vanilla cream and soft spice. Dream on. This limited release
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It’s the giant beast that has lurked on Central Parkway for years, barely getting a mention in craft beer geek circles not because they didn’t make good beer, but because they were big. It’s easy to turn a blind eye to the brewery that has always been there, in every beer cooler and on every
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It’s time for another label approval from the big guys down in OTR. As they gear up for their big Rare Beer Festival this month, they are also taking a little bit of time to keep cranking out releases (or at least label approvals). Since there is a segment of Cincinnati’s beer community that loves
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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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While kettle or quick sour beers can be pretty freaking refreshing and tasty when they’re done right – there Are few beers that I enjoy more than a well done barrel aged sour beer… and Rhinegeist is absolutely killing it in the barrel aged sour game. When they first let us know that they had
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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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Stout fans will be pretty happy to see this label approval. Especially as the weather keeps pounding us with relentless wintery cold. It’s stout season, folks! I guess I should start this out with my standard disclaimer – this is a label approval. You know how this works by now. It doesn’t mean that it
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I get tired of writing it, and I’m sure you get tired of reading it, but the standard disclaimer has to be thrown into this from the very beginning – Just because a brewery has federal label approval, it doesn’t in turn mean that the stars will align and the brewery will release this. All
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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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Brewery – Taft’s Ale House Beer – 27 Lager Style – Dortmunder/Export ABV – 5.3% IBUs – 22 Steadfast and steeped in tradition, 27 Lager finds beauty in simplicity. Crisp, golden and noble. Taft’s toyed with a few recipes for a while, trying to find a lager that would fill the place in their lineup
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It’s really hard being a Cincinnati craft beer fan and to look back at what that meant 10 years ago. I was but a wee gnome, early in my drinking life… learning the ins and outs of what craft beer was. We were all living in a city that had a rich history with beer,
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Brewery – RhinegeistBeer – MosaicStyle – Single Hop Pale AleABV – 5.6%IBUs – 45 This single hopped Pale Ale detonates upon the palate with a brilliant array of dank, tropical fruit, grapefruit blossom, mandarin orange and blueberries. Golden Promise malt provides a clean base — a kaleidoscope of flavor delivered with the simplest of recipes.
Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Knowledge Style – Imperial IPA ABV – 8.5% IBUs – 98 Intense & refined, Knowledge delivers notes of resinous pine, dank sap, pithy grapefruit, & ripe pineapple. Chewy hops, a zesty punch; this erudite Imperial India Pale Ale sharpens perceptive depths in the studious night. Rhinegeist got a lot of
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Brewery – RhinegeistBeer – BubblesStyle – Fruited AleABV – 6.2% A bright, dry, and lithe Rosé Ale with apple, peach, and cranberry for tartness and blush. Bubbles erupts with effervescence and evanescence. The first addition to the can lineup of Rhinegeist’s cider program after it launched in the summer of 2014. The cider was such
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Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Hans Style – Vienna Lager ABV – 4.8% IBUs – 25 This Vienna style Lager shines with soft and clean toasted bread notes. Light filters into a tree-lined courtyard, somewhere in the distance classical music can be heard. Quietly, Hans types his scribbled notes into a manuscript, pausing to adjust
If you haven’t had a shot at any of the sours that have been put out by Taft’s Ale House, you’ve been missing out on something pretty delicious. The brewery started it all with their first, lovingly called ‘Louisa, The Stave Mother’, back in June of 2015. Since this is where it starts, I suppose that
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I know, I know – we have to start this with the standard, boring old “this doesn’t mean that they will do this, or is in any way representative of when they’ll do it.” But It’s certainly a good sign for anyone out there who is a fan of this beer. Label approval for their
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Fans of Moerlein’s ‘FC Cincinnati Blood Orange IPA’ will be really happy to wake up to this news this morning. The brewery is teaming up again with FCC to release a beefed up version of this summer’s popular fruited IPA in 22oz bombers. They’re of course going to throw a release party to go along
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It was starting to seem like Rhinegeist was comfortable with their can lineup for a while. Bottles seemed to be all we were getting front the brewery as far as new releases go. Then almost as soon as that thought entered my brain, sort of like they were listening ot my thoughts – Rhinegeist starts
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Brewery- Rhinegeist Beer- Crash Style- Pale Ale ABV- 5.4% IBU- 44 An explosively hoppy pale ale, Crash combines potent aromatics of Azacca, Equinox and Cascade hops to combust with tropicality, citrus, peach, tangelo & papaya – a kinetic and delicious hop explosion. It drive me absolutely crazy when people rag on Rhinegeist for making “so
Let me start by trying to explain how much I love Brettanomyces. If you aren’t familiar with this “wild” yeast, you’d be doing yourself a favor as a beer geek to start to get to know it. It’s present in a lot of beer that I would call “funky” versus being “sour”… it lends a
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Brewery- Taft’s Ale House Beer- Culebra Cut Coconut Brown Ale Style- Brown Ale with Toasted Coconut ABV- 6.1% IBU- 12 American brown ale infused with toasted coconut. A taste of the tropics. This was such a big hit when it was on tap when Taft’s Ale House opened their doors that they not only brought
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There are few things that get me more excited than news about a new beer, and Rhinegeist has done just that this month. I caught a new label sliding through the TTB, quickly followed up by a little hint of some upcoming stuff tucked away in some tasting notes. What do I do with such
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Brewery- Rhinegeist Beer- Streaker Style – Rye IPA ABV- 6% IBUs – 60 A crowdsourced Rye IPA dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic hops that race across your palate in a lively, yet intimate and wildly exposed jaunt — flaunting tropical fruit, dank, pineapple, and mango aromatic acrobatics. My Thoughts on Rhinegeist Streaker This beer hits
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Happy Birthday, Rhinegeist! As one of the fastest growing breweries in Cincinnati, it’s hard to believe that within all the brewery openings and increased awareness that craft beer is demanding here in town, that our Rhinegeist is only three years old. The brewery is celebrating the event on June 25th, and using the opportunity to
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If the name “Over the Rhine Cider Company” doesn’t ring a bell to you, it shouldn’t be a surprise… This much rumored and LONG tested division of Christian Moerlein Brewing Company just finally made it’s debut at this year’s Taste of Cincinnati, after somewhere around a year of testing to get it right. The cidery
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I love catching new label approvals, as they clue us in on some of the stuff that we (might) be seeing in the near future from our local breweries. This week brings a couple new additions to Rhinegeist’s Rarity Series that look to make this summer a tasty one! Of course… as always, keep in
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