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Urban Artifact Prepares Their Newest Seasonal Gose
We haven’t had a lot of changes to Urban Artifact’s line of seasonal goses, so when the news came out that the funky sour brewery would be dropping their Cherry Gose, Chariot (read more about that beer here) for 2019’s lineup – there were mixed reactions. From the folks that were angry to losing their
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Sonder’s First Sour – Mella
I don’t write about every little beer that happens to be released in Cincinnati. Come on… you know one little Gnome can’t do that. What I will try to do is highlight things here or there. As long as I feel they play a big role in the overall Greater Cincinnati beer scene, or to
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Rhinegeist’s Hazy Series
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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MadTree Brings The Funk Again For 2018
It’s getting close to time for you to help MadTree celebrate their ‘Funk Day’ again for 2018, and they’ve got a few really good reasons announced already (with more to possibly come too!). MadTree uses their celebration every year to break out some of their wildest and most interesting beers for fans of the funk
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Urban Artifact Pocket Watch – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Pocket Watch Style – Midwest Fruit Tart ABV – 8% PH – 3.3 A pocket watch was an important tool during the expansion of the US railroad network in the 19th century. Be on time; find your pocket watch. This Midwest Fruit Tart has 1,000lbs of Concord Grape, 1000lbs
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Urban Artifact Chariot – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Chariot Style – Cherry Gose ABV – 4.7% PH – 3.4 Chariots were the standard mode of transportation for much of ancient Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. Used by armies, as taxis, and to move farm equipment, they helped build civilization. Compliment your history with a
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Urban Artifact Love Letter – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Love Letter Style – Midwest Fruit Tart ABV – 7.4% ABV PH – 3.3 A romantic gesture as old as the written word, prior to the digital revolution, love letters were written with ink on paper. Let’s make sure this artifact doesn’t disappear. This Midwest Fruit Tart is brewed
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Vol 03 – Episode 15 – Streetside’s Anniversary Party
We’ve done three shows now at Streetside, ranging from a pretty standard ‘Getting To Know You’ show back in December, to a really crazy one during their first can release of ‘Suh, Brah’ – which saw us setting up a table literally in the line that morning to do a show. It seems that no
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Urban Artifact Gaslight – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban ArtifactBeer – GaslightStyle – Tart NE DIPAABV – 8.1% ABVPH – 3.7 From Cincinnati to London, gaslights lit our city streets and buildings up at night. This Fresh Hop Tart DIPA uses 100% Ohio ingredients including hops from Ohio Valley Hops and 4,000 lbs of Haus Malts grain. Ingredients play a massive
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Urban Artifact Whirligig Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Whirligig Style – Midwest Fruit Tart Ale ABV – 8% PH – 3.5 Whirligig is a Middle English term for a spinning contraption. It is typically referring to a children’s toy, but also applicable to any mechanism that rotates. This Midwest Fruit Tart is brewed with 3,000 lbs of blueberries
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Urban Artifact Flash Lamp
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Flash Lamp Style – Tart White Ale ABV – 5.5% PH – 3.2 A tart white style ale brewed with 30 lbs of Trappist Orange Marmalade, 1.17 lbs of coriander, 5oz of dried Rose Petals, malted barley, flaked oats, and torrified wheat. A refreshing twist on a classic white
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Urban Artifact’s Next Fruit Bomb, Fire Iron
I think they might have heard us loud and clear – we like Urban Artifact’s fruity sour beers. They’ve continued with the Urban Legend Series of beers with what they’re calling a ‘Midwest Fruit Tart’ called Fire Iron. This beer is 7.7% ABV and 3.3 PH, putting it squarely in line with the other Berry
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Urban Artifact Warmug
Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Warmug Style – Golden Fruited Coffee Sour ABV – 7.5% Golden Fruited Coffee Sour Ale. A collaboration with Wolf’s Ridge Brewing, Market Garden Brewery, and One Line Coffee. 1,500 lbs of peaches, 750lbs of passion fruit, 250lbs of plums, and 45lbs of whole natural washed coffee beans blended into
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Are We Looking At A Rivertown Branding Refresh?
It’s been a big year for the veteran Rivertown Brewing Company. They finally opened their doors to a facility that in my eyes finally starts to complete the vision of what Rivertown was supposed to look like from the beginning, back in 2009. If you haven’t been up to Monroe to see the new facility,
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Sam Adams Longshot Wild Child
Brewery – Sam Adams (Boston Beer) Beer – Wild Child Style – American Wild Ale ABV – 5.7% This mixed fermentation wild ale leads with an aroma of stone fruits. It’s slightly sour with hints of clove, apricots impart a dry fruity flavor and the brew finishes with a pleasant, lingering tartness. This winner was
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MadTree Is Getting Funky Again This Year
4.I think you remember that day last year in April, when MadTree kicked their game into a whole new realm with what they called ‘Funk Day’. They’d been hinting at their barrel aged sour program for a LONG time at that point, and we knew that bottles would be coming. What we didn’t know was
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Urban Artifact Squeezebox – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Urban ArtifactBeer – SqueezeboxStyle – Midwest Fruit Tart AleABV – 8.5%PH – 3.35 Bellows-driven free-reed chordal instruments have developed around the globe as part of traditional music. This Midwest Fruit Tart has 3,000lbs of strawberries, and 60g of vanilla beans per 30bbl batch. This beer uses a house culture of Lactobacillus along with
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Urban Artifact Rocks The Squeezebox With Some New Releases
If you think that you’re able to keep caught up with all the packaging news that this city has to offer easily – you’re crazy. There is so much going on lately that even a guy like me, a “professional”, has a tough time keeping it all straight. Urban Artifact hasn’t made it easy for
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Jackie O’s Gose
Jackie O’s – Gose – Stainless conditioned, mixed culture beer brewed with salt and coriander. No kettles were soured in the making of this beer.
Rivertown Ville De Rivere Geuze
Brewery- Rivertown Beer- Ville De Rivere Geuze Style- Lambic/Geuze ABV- 6.4% IBU- 5 Ville De Rivere Geuze is a wonderful blend of one year old and three year old sour lambic beer. Following the blend the beer is allowed to mature in the bottle for up to six months. The result is a beautifully well
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Fifty West Brett Is My Co-Pilot – Beer Tasting Notes
Brewery – Fifty West Beer – Brett Is My Co-Pilot Style – American Wild Ale ABV – 4.6% IBU – 15 This tart blonde ale was brewed with our wild friend Brett riding shotgun. The longer you let him ride, the more horsepower this brew gets. So when you’re ready for a spontaneous adventure, scoot
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Rivertown Nice Melons
Brewery- Rivertown Beer- Nice Melons Style- Berliner Style Ale ABV- 3.8% IBUs- 10 Smooth. Succulent. Satisfying. Soured. Nice Melons was crafted to bring pleasure to the mouths of the drinkers looking for that puckering pop on a sultry day. Pouring brilliant citrine with an unmistakable candied watermelon nose, this Berliner Style blends sweet and tart into one
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Rivertown Soulless
Brewery- Rivertown Beer- Soulless Style- Scarlet Sour Ale ABV- 5.4% IBU- 20 A sultry, voluptuous, scarlet hued ale brewed to seduce with velvety, sweet notes of toffee and caramel paired with a provocative lactic finish all wrapped up in a racy, estery bow. Soulless will tease the senses with unexpected and unique flavors celebrating the life lesson
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Has It Really Been A Year Already? It’s time for an Urban Artifact Anniversary!
It’s hard to believe that it’s time to start celebrating an Urban Artifact Anniversary already. A year flys by faster than you think it’s going to when you’re enjoying some of the most unique beer that’s come out of Cincinnati’s already exciting beer scene. If my notes are correct, though, (and they usually are) on
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MadTree’s Funk Series – Bottles From The “Can Guys”
Get ready for MadTree’s Funk Series. They’re famous for their cans… after all, they were the first craft brewery in Ohio to put their beer into the superior format of cans vs bottles. But in a fun twist of events MadTree Brewing Company made a lot of craft beer geeks happy with their bottles as well.
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Rivertown Divergent
Brewery- Rivertown Beer- Divergent ABV- 3.8% IBU- 10 Flappers have always been a symbol of change and rebellion, harkening to a time where challenging the norm was all the rage. This beer embraces and celebrates that vibrant, relentless spirit. Representing the rebirth of a brewery and the reclamation of a dream, this beer is a completely contradictory
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