Summertrip hits home with fans of Braxton each year as the weather starts to warm. It’s a sign of things to come, the warmth of spring and summer, but it’s also a really freaking delicious beer. Imagine the joyous glee then from these Berliner fans as they recently learned that the Covington brewery is using […]
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Brewery – Braxton Brewing Company Beer – Rum Barrel Aged Snow Shovel Style – Winter Warmer ABV – 11.4% IBUs – 36 You’re holding a snow shovel. A weather worn snow shovel. It’s felt the frigid bite of winter and has seen it’s fair share of wear on 27 West 7th. This aged winter warmer
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MUMBAI, December 14, 2017 — What does a chilled fizzy cocktail have in common with an ice-cold candy cane concoction or a zesty take on a Martinez? All three made the cut for this year’s best Xmas cocktails across the world. The list, which includes creations such as Champagne Cosmopolitan and Candy Cane Cocktail, has
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Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Owler Style – Tart Vanilla Brown Ale ABV – 6% PH – 3.7 A blend of roasted malts fermented with 2lbs of vanilla beans per 30 bbl batch. The coveted wood of 1600’s England inspired the practice of owling. Owlers smuggled sheep on boats to Europe for chic clothing
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I hate the winter. The cold, the frosted car windows, slippery sidewalks, the death of outdoor drinking… just writing about it makes me shiver. The winter brings with it, though, some of my favorite seasonal happenings. I love the Christmas season, I love looking at snow outside of the window, Christmas decorations, I love being
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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
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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Christmastime in Cincinnati means that it’s time to drink up all those pumpkin beers, knock back the last few Oktoberfests that are still lingering in our beer fridges and start making way for all the winter beers that are already gracing the shelves and tap handles at our local breweries. But… what’s a drinker to
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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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Covington Kentucky’s Braxton Brewing Company is going to make a lot of their fans happy with this one. The brewery is releasing the next beer in their seasonal can series on October 4th in their taproom. You should be able to find it very soon thereafter all across Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky, and it comes back
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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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Every week you’ll find something new and exciting at Urban Artifact’s Tap Tuesday beer tapping. They put out some really fantastic different beers last year, and the train seems to be on track to roll through 2016 with some equally great things. I made the trip down to the taproom this weekend, and got a
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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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Brewery – MadTreeBeer – ThundersnowStyle – Spiced Scottish AleABV- 8.5%IBU- 18 The conditions have to be just right for the formation of Thundersnow. Ginger, nutmeg, vanilla, hints of cinnamon and bready malt sweetness are the secret. When you find this rare occurrence, savor it as long as you can. Not just satisfied to brew a typical winter
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Brewery- Taft’s Ale House Beer- Liquid Advent ABV- 5% IBU- 23 Chocolate brown porter brewed with cinnamon, chiles, cacao nibs, and roasted cacao husks from our friends at Maverick Chocolate. This is how you do a Christmas beer if you’re Taft’s Ale House’s head brewer Kevin Moreland. This is a fantastic menagerie of Chocolate and cinnamon, with
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Don’t worry thirsty beer fiends of Cincinnati… there will be plenty of new tappings to keep your palate pleased this holiday season down in Northside’s Urban Artifact Brewing. They are kicking off their 12 beers of Christmas on Monday, December 7th with the first set of 12 different beers to be released. These are some new
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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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Liquid Advent Taft’s is unleashing their first ever winter seasonal next week for the city to go crazy over, and they’re doing it in big fashion. Cans…big cans. They’ll be packaging their new ‘Liquid Advent’ in 16oz “full pint” cans in four packs on November 17th for us to enjoy. If you have had a chance
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