Tasting Notes

Streetside Suh, Brah

Brewery – Streetside Beer – Suh, Brah Style – NE IPA ABV – 6.7% Starting with an intense nose of stone fruit, grapefruit and light pineapple, the aroma is rounded out by the citrusy and piney notes from our double dry hop of Simcoe hops. The flavor leads with a soft pineapple/peach flavor, dank undertones […]

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Urban Artifact Pinwheel

Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Pinwheel Style – Kumquat Gose ABV – 4.5% IBUs – 12 PH – 3.5 Bursting with orange aromas accompanied by bready wheat malt flavors and a bright acidity. A Gose that captures the essence of Spring. I don’t think I had ever tried kumquats before Urban Artifact released Pinwheel

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Mt. Carmel Hops and Wheat

Brewery – Mt Carmel Beer – Hops and Wheat Style – Hoppy Wheat ABV – 4.8% IBUs – 34 Bright, citrusy and hoppy, this wheat ale salutes the flavor of the American hop and gives way to a smooth refreshing finish. One thing that you can count on when it comes to Mt Carmel –

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Rhinegeist Hustle

Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Hustle Style – Red Lager ABV – 4.8% IBUs – 17 Off at the crack of the bat, spikes dug in, exploding with speed – Hustle breaks the game wide open. This Red Lager digs it out with crisp malt tones and a hop balance finessed like a delicate bunt

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Braxton Haven

Brewery – Braxton Brewing Company Beer – Haven Style – Hefeweizen Recommended Serving Temperature – 45 Recommended Glassware – Weissbier Glass ABV – 5.2% IBU – 10 Like this Hefeweizen, may your Haven be unfiltered and full of life. Turn it up and enjoy the moment. Haven showcases yeast driven flavors and aromas, known for

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Braxton Revamp

Brewery – Braxton Brewing Company Beer – Revamp Style – IPA Recommended Serving Temp – 45 Recommended Glassware – IPA Glass ABV – 6.5% IBU – 60 Perfection is a combination of hard work and having the guts to change. It’s not always perfect the first time around and it takes determination to make every

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Listermann Brewer’s Delight

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Brewer’s Delight Style – NE IPA ABV – 7.1% East Coast IPA brewed with Pineapple, Galaxy, Citra & Zythos! Another fruited version of a NE IPA from Listermann, and another homerun.  This one uses pineapple to bring out all those tropical notes that are already present in the Galaxy, Citra

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Rhinegeist Mosaic

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.

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Rhinegeist Knowledge

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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Rhinegeist Bubbles

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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Listermann Biggie

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Biggie Style – Eart Coast IPA ABV – 7.6% Juicy Hop bomb that is easy to drink. Like the style that its made for, its hypnotizing hazy and mo’ hops don’t mean mo’ problems. Packed full of Mosaic, Citra and Amarillo hops. I love it when they call me big hoppy.

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Listermann Pac

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Pac Style – West Coast IPA ABV – 7% West Coast IPA brewed with Citra, Simcoe, and Centennial.  Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild, west. West Coast? East Coast?  How do you settle this new IPA debate?  You go back to the 90s when rap was having

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Blank Slate Fume

Brewery – Blank SlateBeer – FumeStyle – Smoked Brown PorterABV – 5.4%IBUs – 33 There was a time when all dark beers had a smoky flavor. Grains were traditionally roasted over an open flame. Then technology took over. Blank Slate’s Smoked Porter pays homage to those early days. Unlike many traditional smoke beers which are smoked

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Christian Moerlein Pacer

Brewery – Christian Moerlein Beer – Pacer Style – Pale Ale ABV – 5% IBUs – 40 Pacer packs an explosive punch of citrus aromatics and tropical fruit flavors backed by an easy-drinking pale body. Slight herbal notes are complemented by a burst of grapefruit and melon from an abundant dry-hopping of Citra hops, creating

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Rivertown Winter

Brewery – Rivertown Beer – Winter Ale Style – Winter Ale ABV – 7.5% Winter Ale is a big, bold, thick bodied ale brewed with molasses and cinnamon. It has a creamy head, robust hue, and rich bold flavor. No matter what has happened with Rivertown, through changes of branding, ownership shakeups, moves, etc.  one

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Urban Artifact The Gadget

Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – The Gadget Style – “Sour Berry Bomb” ABV – 6.1% IBU – 12 PH – 3.2 Designed by our taproom staff as an intricate experiment combining the explosive power of sour beer with the dangerous flavors of fresh berries.  Duck and Cover! This one got the city of Cincinnati

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Rhinegeist Hans

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

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Triple Digit Barrel Aged Stuff

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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Braxton Dead Blow

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

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Braxton Spotlight

Brewery – Braxton Beer – Spotlight Style – White IPA ABV – 6% IBU – 35 Get out of the way everyday IPA’s. We have something special for you. Take a long look at the deep straw body and cloudy head filled glass. We bet you’ll get caught staring. With high hop character and refreshing

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Urban Artifact Sliderule

Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Sliderule Style – Chocolate Raspberry Gose ABV – 4.9% PH – 3.5 Fresh raspberries intermingle with velvety chocolate in our sour and salty goes base, yielding a level of decadence usually reserved for the “bigger” beers. Preceding the digital calculator, the “slipstick” was a conceptually simple method for quickly multiplying and

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Fifty West Going Plaid

Brewery – Fifty WestBeer – Going PlaidStyle – Scotch AleABV – 8.5%IBUs – 23 Fermented at a cooler temperature to ensure a smoother brew, this GABF award winning Scotch Ale pours a dark honey color.  Expect a fruity apple and pear aroma followed by a malt-forward flavor of juicy fresh plums. You aren’t kidding that

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Mt. Carmel Wee Honey

Brewery – Quaff Brothers/ Mt. Carmel Beer – Wee Honey Style – Barrel Aged Scottish Ale With Honey ABV – 11.1% Wee Honey is a smooth 11.1% brew, a barrel aged Scottish strong ale with honey and pecans brewed at Mt. Carmel Brewing Company in collaboration with Quaff Bros. If you live in Cincinnati and

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Triple Digit Barrel Aged Chickow!

Brewery – Listermann/Triple Digit Beer – Barrel Aged Chickow Style – Bourbon Barrel Aged Hazelnut Brown Ale ABV – 10% Ale Brewed with hazelnuts with natural flavors added and aged in bourbon barrels. Leave it to Listermann/Triple Digit to take a big sweet beer like Chickow and stuff it into bourbon barrels.  And we should

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Cellar Dweller Corporal Khaos

Brewery – Cellar Dweller Beer – Corporal Khaos Style – Pale Ale ABV – 6% IBUs – 45 Corporal Khaos Pale Ale honors the memory of my life-long best friend USMC Corporal Steven L. Kohus. Steve’s life was cut short by a tragic accident on March 2, 2014, at the age of 26. Steve attended

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