What Makes The Old Firehouse Special? Williamsburg is a small village East of the city that is home to about 2,500 people the last time I counted… it’s situated about 30 miles outside of downtown and isn’t really all that close to any other breweries (Mt. Carmel is it’s closest neighboring brewery at 15 miles away).
I feel like you have been hearing this a lot, but this week’s Brewcast was plagued by quite a few technical issues. That being said, with the help of the wonderful, patient, welcoming, Adam Cowan, we were able to put together a fantastic episode this week on location at Old Firehouse. The brewery is located
If you’ve never been to the Promont museum in Milford, Ohio you’re missing out. The museum is located in the historic Promont mansion, high atop a hill overlooking Milford, and is a great place to spend an afternoon. If you’re here, though… Chances are you’re a fan of beer, which is why I’m going to
Brewery- The Old Firehouse Beer- Pin Up Girl Style- Blonde Ale ABV- 5% IBU- 15 An easy drinking, slightly malty, traditional American blonde ale, with a slightly fruity clean finish. Brewed with a malt blend of 2-row, munich, aromatic, carapils, and crystal 20 along with a hop blend of warrior, goldings and willamette. Let’s try not
Brewery- The Old Firehouse Beer- Code 3 ABV- 5.2% IBU- 18 A well balanced, decidedly delicious, malt forward copper color red ale, with a dry roasted finish. Brewed with primary base malt maris otter, along with select malts crystal 120, crystal 40, munich, chocolate and roasted barley along with a hop blend of warrior, uk progress
Brewery- The Old Firehouse Beer- Flashpoint Style – IPA ABV- 6.7% IBU- 72 A Midwest style, with tropical fruit aromas and a delectable hop body producing a slightly sweet finish. Brewed with a malt blend of 2-row, crystal 40, crystal 20, aromatic, and carapils, along with a blend of warrior, belma, falconer’s flight and zythos hops. What
More label approvals to kick of a Halloween weekend! As usual, I have to throw out the standard disclaimer, which is that just because the flash point label is approved, that doesn’t mean the beer is coming soon…if ever. It just means that the brewery has received approval to release it. That being said… we
It’s often a long process for small breweries to open their doors, and as soon as they do here in Cincinnati the floodgates are open and drinkers in this city have at their beer like rabid wolves. The pack of wolves shouts the entire time about getting beer from their favorites at their local bottle
Let’s just get this out here first… there have been a lot of label approvals going through lately- That doesn’t mean the cans or bottles are coming out soon. I say this because I know we all get our hopes up. This just means that the brewery in question has received approval to be allowed to
There seems to be more and more craft beer festivals popping up around town as the popularity of our craft beer scene continues to rise. This only can mean good things, as all of the people who have wanted to attend a beer festival, but haven’t been able to for whatever reason will hopefully now
I’ve been extremely impressed with the meteoric rise of Old Firehouse in the Cincinnati beer scene. They are still short of their first Anniversary and in that time have made big waves around town, shaking things up and keeping a lot of thirsty people satisfied. People gave (and still give) them crap about opening a
Maybe I’m coming from a slightly (or not so slightly) biased point here…but I think these live shows are where it’s at. I cannot even begin to tell you how awesome it is to actually see people in the flesh who listen to the podcast on a regular basis. Our fifteenth episode saw us taking
Kings Island is known for lots of things. They are in fact a major part of what makes Cincinnati who she is, but this year they’ve taken a step to embrace another part of our cities culture that is a little closer to my heart, the beer. It used to be that there were extremely