Beer Musings

Lots Of Cincinnati Medals at the 2016 Alltech Commonwealth Cup

Lots Of Cincinnati Medals at the 2016 Alltech Commonwealth Cup

I'm so happy to see the sheer number of medals from Cincinnati breweries from the 2016 Alltech Commonwealth Cup.  It's ...
Volume 02, Episode 8 - American Craft Beer Week, From The Gnarly Gnome Tavern!

Volume 02, Episode 8 – American Craft Beer Week, From The Gnarly Gnome Tavern!

The gang has left the Gnarly Gnome alone, deep inside the Gnarly Gnome tavern to run the show by himself ...
UPDATED: The Biggest Small Beer Ever - American Craft Beer Week Comes to Cincinnati

UPDATED: The Biggest Small Beer Ever – American Craft Beer Week Comes to Cincinnati

If you are from Cincinnati, or if you've spent any deal of time around here, you've heard it before. People ...
Volume 2, Episode 6 - A Pils For What Ales You - Cincy Brewcast's Pilsner-Palooza

Volume 2, Episode 6 – A Pils For What Ales You – Cincy Brewcast’s Pilsner-Palooza

Not feeling well? Have the "blahs"? The Craft Beer doctors at Cincy Brewcast prescribe "Pils For What Ales You" and ...
Volume 02, Episode 5 - Issues And Answers

Volume 02, Episode 5 – Issues And Answers

In a show that hearkens back to some of our earliest days, yet utilizes some new and generally untested technology ...
Happy Reineheitsgebot Day!

Happy Reineheitsgebot Day!

If you haven't heard, today's a big day for one of the biggest things to happen to German beer, the ...
Tweet Tweet, Chug Chug, When Cincy Beer Got Tweetified On Twitter

Tweet Tweet, Chug Chug, When Cincy Beer Got Tweetified On Twitter

Social media can't really be denied anymore...it's part of our daily lives. This fact isn't more important than if you're ...
Vol 02 - Episode 4 - Nano And Proud Of It, LIVE! At Fibonacci Brewing

Vol 02 – Episode 4 – Nano And Proud Of It, LIVE! At Fibonacci Brewing

Cincy Brewcast joins Mt Healthy's own Nano Brewery, Fibonacci Brewing to explore why owners Bob and Betty Bollas are so ...
Volume 2 - Episode 3 - "Gettin' Quizzy With It" - Jonathan Klein Of Cincy Beer Quiz

Volume 2 – Episode 3 – “Gettin’ Quizzy With It” – Jonathan Klein Of Cincy Beer Quiz

Tonight we have a really cool show--the Cincy Brewcast crew matches wits with Jonathan Klein, the quiz-master from the all-new ...
Volume 1, Episode 47 - 3 Guys, Ei8ht Ball-LIVE!

Volume 1, Episode 47 – 3 Guys, Ei8ht Ball-LIVE!

Join us as the Cincy Brewcast crew invades Ei8ht Ball Brewing, at The Party Source in Newport/Bellevue, Kentucky. We are ...
Volume 1, Episode 46 - The Godfather Of Cincy Craft - Mike Dewey From Mt. Carmel Brewing

Volume 1, Episode 46 – The Godfather Of Cincy Craft – Mike Dewey From Mt. Carmel Brewing

We are joined this week by "The Godfather" of Cincy Craft, Mike Dewey from Mt. Carmel Brewing Co. Over the ...
Volume 1, Episode 45 - "They Might be Nine Giant" With Mike Albarella And Brandon Hughes

Volume 1, Episode 45 – "They Might be Nine Giant" With Mike Albarella And Brandon Hughes

In this edition of Cincy Brewcast we meet Mike Albarella and Brandon Hughes, the brother-in-law team behind emerging brewery Nine ...
Volume 1 - Episode 44 - Live At The Moerlein Lager House With: Greg Hardman, Eric Baumann And GCCBS

Volume 1 – Episode 44 – Live At The Moerlein Lager House With: Greg Hardman, Eric Baumann And GCCBS

From the beautiful Moerlein Lager House in Smale Riverfront Park in Downtown Cincinnati, it's a very special Live edition of ...
Volume 1, Episode 42 - The Craft Beer Resolution

Volume 1, Episode 42 – The Craft Beer Resolution

As we return to the "friendly confines" of the Cincy Brewcast Studios, high atop Mt. Carmel for our first show ...
How Can You Achieve Your Cincinnati Beer Resolutions?

How Can You Achieve Your Cincinnati Beer Resolutions?

I try not to write too many stereotypical posts... though it's hard not to do sometimes.  As the new year ...
Volume 1, Episode 41 - The Gnome Game At The Gnarly Gnome Tavern

Volume 1, Episode 41 – The Gnome Game At The Gnarly Gnome Tavern

Mike invades "The Gnarly Gnome Tavern" for a "Gnome Game" with the "Man Who Is Synonymous With Anonymous". The big ...
Nowhere in Particular ...a brewery that doesn't exist.

Nowhere in Particular …a brewery that doesn’t exist.

Meeting The Invisible Man Charlie Navillus doesn't exist, but yet I found myself sitting across from him the other night ...
Hudepohl's Triumphant Return

Hudepohl’s Triumphant Return

The story of today's Hudepohl Beer is one that picks up after the completion of a different story.  A much ...
Taste Design - An Intro To Sahm Glassware

Taste Design – An Intro To Sahm Glassware

It takes a lot of different people to breathe life into the beers that we take for granted, and I ...
Cincy Brew Bus - From The Jungle To The Taproom

Cincy Brew Bus – From The Jungle To The Taproom

I am just now realizing how little time I have devoted to our city's beer tours.  We have quite a ...
A Jungle Jim's Beer? Sure! I'll take it!

A Jungle Jim’s Beer? Sure! I’ll take it!

It's hard to argue the powerhouse that Jungle Jim's International Market has become. There are few stores that can rival ...
Why Haven't You Been To Quarter Barrel Brewing Company?

Why Haven’t You Been To Quarter Barrel Brewing Company?

This is not the place for me to explain what defines a brewery as a "local Cincinnati" brewery....if you are ...
Municipal Brew Works

The Cincinnati Brewing Heritage Trail Taking Shape

There are few cities in this country that can take as much pride as Cincinnati in their brewing heritage.  We ...
Superbowl Beer Picks

5 Beers For Your Superbowl Party, Local Of Course!

Although it's not the biggest drinking holiday of the bunch (I think it "officially" comes in 10th place) there is ...
New look for the Gnome!

New look for the Gnome!

Unless you are blind, you can see that things look a little different around here.  I have been working hard ...
5 More Beer Myths, Busted! (Part 2)

5 More Beer Myths, Busted! (Part 2)

Part two... Myths about beer that you can't always believe. If you haven't read part one, there is a link ...
State of the Gnome - 2014

State of the Gnome – 2014

I think it's important to take a moment at the end of every year and review what you have accomplished, ...
Rivertown's "New Look"

Rivertown’s “New Look”

I am a sucker for beer art, and I've been patiently waiting for their new artwork for their bottles to ...
5 Beer Myths...Busted (Part 1)

5 Beer Myths…Busted (Part 1)

It's a fine line we have to tread as drinkers... we want to help people out when we hear things ...
Beer Glassware - The How And The Why

Beer Glassware – The How And The Why

I have written a lot about glassware, and you'll see that on social media too I'm often a pretty big ...