This week’s episode of Cincy Brewcast was recorded live, on location at Streetside Brewing Company with Garrett Hickey. It was an exciting Monday as the brewery helped their friends at Cleveland’s Masthead Brewing celebrate their one year anniversary with a satellite party by tapping three of their beers. It’s been a little while since we’ve […]
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There’s always a ton of things going on in this city, events… releases… beer drama. It doesn’t matter which week you explore, each one is as exciting as the previous. This is what makes an episode like this fun. Due to a short notice cancellation, I had to scramble to put this show together (without
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In what was the biggest beer release that Cincinnati has ever seen (and maybe ever will see?) Braxton and Graeter’s first teamed up to create the first Black Raspberry Chip Stout back in early 2017. The event grew beyond what anybody from either company could have possibly expected, and while I think they were happy
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Woah… so if you’ve been getting antsy for new cans to hit the shelves from Christian Moerlein, this is going to wind up being a really good month for you. I’ve written about all three of these (yeah, they’re releasing three beers in cans this month) separately, but we’ve got dates on them all now,
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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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Brewery – Braxton Beer – Dead Blow With Coffee Style – Tropical Stout ABV – 7.2% IBUs – 27 For this beer, we’ve taken our Starter Coffee Blend and added it to Dead Blow Tropical Stout during the brewing process. The result is the perfect balance of bitterness and sweetness paired with the delicate roast
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From the very beginning of Braxton pouring Dead Blow in their taproom, there was a fun thing that people did… they ordered it with a little squirt of their cold brewed starter coffee in the glass. I was first introduced to this concoction as “Blown Starter” and I fell in love. Quickly soon afterwards it
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Brewery – Paradise Beer – Wrath of the Tsar Style – Russian Imperial Stout ABV – 10.5% Thank you for purchasing our first bottle release. We know you will enjoy our smooth, dark, malty classic. This is our Russian Imperial Stout, aged in locally sourced whiskey barrels for 6 months. Serve at room temperature with
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I hope you’re a Dark Charge Day veteran. If you are, you’ll remember one of the fun releases from last year’s Winter Block Party was their Claus Peppermint stout, a really fun twist on a Christmas beer. The brewery announced today that they’re not only releasing the beer in bottles this year, but that
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Brewery – Streetside Beer – The Demogorgon Style – Barrel Aged Imperial Stout ABV – 13.1% Imperial Stout aged in Heaven Hill Barrels This beer is the result of taking the brewery’s “Where’s Barb?” Imperial Stout and stashing it away in heaven hill barrels for a while. To keep rolling with the Stranger Things references,
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It seems so hard to believe, but one of this city’s favorite “newbies” is turning one this weekend. Streetside Brewery is gearing up for a big birthday bash that will honor their first year in business with exactly what makes them so awesome – Beer. I’ll give you a few reasons that you are going
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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 – Listermann/Triple Digit with Hoppin’ Frog Beer – Barrel Aged Stuff Style – Imperial Stout with Vanilla, Chocolate, Cinnamon, and Peppers ABV – 10% You may or may not remember that we did a collaboration with Hoppin’ Frog over a year ago called Stuff. The beer is an imperial stout with chocolate, vanilla beans,
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Brewery – Braxton Beer – Dead Blow Style – Tropical Stout ABV – 7.2 IBU – 27 In the Midwest, there are certain things you can count on. Like hard work, hot summers, and the love a father feels for his family. We’re serious about these things here. That’s why our dad was never too busy to
Urban Artifact announced today that their previously scheduled release for next Tuesday’s #TapTuesday return ran into some unexpected delays – and they’d have to reschedule it. This is sad news. However… as you’ve already seen in the last month, the brewery is popping bottles out like they’re going out of style, and they’ve got another
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When I wrote about Braxton’s next can, called Spotlight, the other day – I showed you the mystery image that had the white IPA featured in color, followed by two more cans and a large format bottle, all blacked out. Well, today the brewery announced their next can from the mystery image and it’s a
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It seems like new Municipal Beer is the theme of the month for Hamilton! Right on the heels of their recent release of the Duelist, their Belgian Stout (which is fantastic) Municipal Brew Works has two more beers that are dropping this week to please all of us fickle beer drinkers who are always looking for
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I have been waiting for this glorious beer ever since the first day that I met Municipal Brew Works head brewer Sean Willingham. He sat down with us on Cincy Brewcast for a quick update on how things were going on the progress of Municipal, and he brought along some of his home brew to
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Brewery- Cellar Dweller Beer- Eye Opener Style- Hazelnut Coffee Stout ABV- 7.5% IBU- 35 A stout brewed with hazelnut and coffee. I can’t find much of a commercial description of Cellar Dweller Eye Opener, but that doesn’t say anything about the beer itself. The brewery started putting this out in 22oz bombers, and it proved to
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Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Handlebar ABV- 8.2% IBU- 70 Strength, Distinction, Ingenuity, Pride. These are words that describe the innovative Machine Age of our nation’s history. They describe the men and women who made today possible; but perhaps most importantly, they describe Christian Moerlein Handlebar Double Stout, a strong and distinct stout that boasts an ingenious blend
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Brewery- MadTree Beer- Rubus Cacao ABV- 7% IBU- 12 Sweet chocolate notes lead as raspberry tartness follows in unison resembling a perfectly executed dance. The result is a blend of flavors even more spectactular together than apart. It’s love at first sip. I’m not sure if this is really a beer meant for Valentines Day…but I love
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Back in October we got our little hint at this collaboration between the east end’s Blank Slate Brewing company and the city’s Gypsy collaborators ‘Quaff Brothers” when Blank Slate Brewing company founder/brewer Scott LaFollette posted this glorious photo to twitter. Bourbon barrel peppermint RIS… Coming soon… @Quaffbros #merryxmas pic.twitter.com/WVKi1RPtxV — Blank Slate Brewing (@NotBlankSlate) October
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MadTree.. Oh MadTree. Throw the name MadTree out there and you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like what the brewery is doing. They have been tearing it up lately with not only their draft releases in the taproom, their can announcements for the coming year (that we’ve heard so far) but the
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Their first winter seasonal shakes things up a bit. There are what seems to be a million people in Cincinnati who love to drink seasonal beers as soon as they come out, but for years we were faced with a pile of beers that were all fairly similar when our winter beers started rolling out
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Brewery- Listermann Beer- Shamrock Shake Style – Irish Cream Stout ABV- 5.5% What happens when you make a liquid version of a bowl of a certain favorite children’s cereal? According to Eric’s Cereal Blog, it’s a bottle of our Shamrock Shake. Shamrock Shake’s appearances are as mystifying and magical as a leprechaun’s. From Half St.
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Brewery- Mt. Carmel Beer- Stout ABV- 6.7% IBU-38 Black in color, the Stout enters with a dark fruit aroma, atop a thick brown head, crowning a chocolate malt body, edged with coffee and balancing intense roasted grains. It’s the highest rated local stout on RateBeer for a reason. This sucker is good. Mt. Carmel has a portfolio
