Tasting Notes

Christian Moerlein Shiver Chai Porter

Brewery – Christian Moerlein Beer – Shiver Style – Chai Porter ABV – 5.6% IBU – 15 IBUs A creamy body, pleasant notes of chocolate, and a dominant malt flavor is balanced by our chai spice blend, consisting of: cardamom, coriander, cinnamon, clove, black peppercorn, and fresh ginger.  The spices are steeped to make a […]

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Listermann Elusive

Brewery – Listermann Beer – Elusive Style – Double IPA ABV – 8.3% IBU – 80 You hold in your hands the equivalent of a unicorn fighting the Loch Ness Monster.  A beer with hops so hard to find, we can only brew it a couple times a year.  Elusive is our single hopped, Double

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Rhinegeist Hugh Hefeweizen

Brewery – Rhinegeist Beer – Hugh Style – Hefeweizen ABV – 5.4% IBU – 10 This traditionally brewed Bavarian style Hefeweizen serves light notes of clove and banana atop a creamy, yet dry wheat character.  Cares drift by the roadside as Hugh leans into turns on his motorbike, passing blurred golden wheat fields, his chuckles

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Mt. Carmel Harvest Ale

Brewery – Mt. Carmel Beer – Harvest Ale Style – ESB ABV – 5.8% IBUs – 55.6 Pay homage to the harvest with this smooth, full bodied, well-balanced ESB delivering a memorable dry hop finish. Pumpkin beers… I love you.  Oktoberfest lagers, you make my heart sing every fall.  There comes a point, though, that

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Braxton Blown Gasket

Brewery- BraxonBeer- Blown GasketStyle- PorterABV- 7.5%IBU- 20 Brewed for those times when you need to blow off a little steam. Blown Gasket is a darker offering with a moderately strong malt character. Notes of toffee and chocolate. This porter is robust as a new gasket kit, black and smooth like poured oil. Delicious black oil. This

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MadTree Blood Orange Psychopathy

Brewery- MadTree Beer- Blood Orange Psychopathy Style- Fruited IPA ABV- 6.7% IBU- 70 India Pale Ale Brewed with Blood Orange.  Blood. Sweat.  Cheers.  It’s the IPA of the tiger. This was so popular when it was first offered up on draft around town that the city demanded it return to us.  MadTree, of course, complied

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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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Ei8ht Ball Dalton’s

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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Blank Slate Fork In The Road

Brewery- Blank SlateBeer- Fork In The RoadStyle- India Style Amber AleABV- 6.8%IBU- 70 The first beer in Blank Slate’s “Traveling IPA” series. Autumn is a time of change and mother nature is at a fork in the road as the bright summer gives way to fall’s darker colors. This beer sits squarely at the fork

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Blank Slate Out And About

Brewery- Blank SlateBeer- Out and AboutStyle- GoseABV- 5.4%IBU- 26 In Eastern Germany there is an old, nearly forgotten style of wheat beer known as Gose (pronounced “goes-uh”). Traditionally brewed with Coriander and Salt and fermented to produce a slight sourness, this beer has a tart, refreshing finish. Our version uses German “Sauermalz” and a little

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Mt Carmel Oh My Darlin’ Saisontine

Brewery- Mt. Carmel Beer- Oh My Darlin’ Saisontine Style- Farmhouse/Saison with Clementines ABV- 7.1% Farmhouse brewery, Farmhouse ale, It had to happen eventually. Introducing our Saisontine. We started with a heavy dose of big, fruit forward American hops, combined with traditional barley, wheat and saison yeast. Then we pushed it over the top with the

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Braxton Oktober Fuel

Brewery- BraxonBeer- Oktober FuelStyle- Oktoberfest/MarzenABV- 5.8%IBU- 20 Fall means football, tailgating, festivals, crisp air, and cool evenings. It also means good beer. Germany’s Oktoberfest begins in September and ends in early October. For years, many breweries have been making this traditional German lager to celebrate the occasion. Braxton is excited to introduce its first annual

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Cellar Dweller Eye Opener

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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Christian Moerlein Das Uber Lager

Brewery- Christian MoerleinBeer- Das Uber LagerStyle- OktoberfestABV- 5.2%IBU- 20 There’s only one spot in the world that does it right outside of Germany – and it’s right here in Cincinnati.  Christian Moerlein’s new Oktoberfest Wiesn Lager is made to celebrate all things Oktoberfest.  We’re proud to hoist a stein of our delicious golden lager as we feast

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Christian Moerlein Schutzenfest Kolsch

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Schutzenfest Kolsch Style- Kolsch ABV- 5.2% IBU- 25 Introducing Moerlein Schutzenfest – a Kolsch style ale celebrating camaraderie, tradition and brew.  With its roots in the fifteenth century European legend of the marksman sacrificing an eagle to save a child’s life, the Schutzenfest became a popular German festival.  It was imported to

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Fifty West Doom Pedal

Brewery- Fifty West Beer- Doom Pedal Style- Wit ABV- 5.5% IBU- 20 Pouring a hazy, light orange color, this unfiltered Wheat Ale is brewed with coriander, orange peel, and grains of paradise. Expect a masterfully blended combination of mildly spicy notes and crisp, sweet, citrus flavors, which come together to create a full, flavorful brew with a

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Taft’s Ale House Culebra Cut

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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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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Fifty West State Lines Lager

Brewery- Fifty West Beer- State Lines Lager Style- Pale Lager ABV- 4.3% IBUs- 16 Finally, a light bodied lager that doesn’t skimp on the flavor.  This clean, refreshing take on the lager style masterfully blends noble hops with malt sweetness to create a crisp, thirst quenching brew that perfect for drinking in the hot summer sun. You

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Christian Moerlein Purity Pilsner

Brewery- Christian Moerlein Beer- Punity Style- Pilsner ABV- 5.5% IBU- 40 Reinheitsgebot! It’s the law, the German Beer Purity Law of 1516. Nothing but malt, hops, yeast, and water. Christian Moerlein was the first American beer to certifiably pass the German Purity Law known as Reinheitsgebot. Today, Moerlein Purity Pils is brewed to these standards –

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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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Triple Digit Cranium

Brewery – Triple Digit Beer – Cranium Style – Oatmeal Stout with Coffee, Vanilla and Barrel Aged ABV – 11.5% Ale fermented in Bourbon Barrels and with coffee and vanilla added The description of this beer from the brewery might be fairly straightforward and simple, but the beer is far from it.  This is brilliant fresh, or

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Triple Digit Gravitator

Brewery- Triple Digit Beer- Gravitator Style- Double Bock ABV- 10% What kind of beer do you make for the deep, water-freezing-in-your-beard winters of Cincinnati?  Something big, yet smooth.  The cold is bitter enough, so we want something malty with a touch of sweetness.  The style that we thought would fit was being brewed in Germany

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Braxton Dark Charge Beer Tasting Notes

Brewery – BraxtonBeer – Dark ChargeStyle – Imperial StoutABV – 10-16%IBUs – 42 For the earliest folks living around Covington, Kentucky, the Ohio River was a crucial artery. Goods and services were made available via flatboat, connecting families and communities to the larger world. That’s how this region got its coal, for example — the

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Listermann Shamrock Shake

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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