Brewery – Taft’s Brewing CompanyBeer – Gavel BangerStyle – IPAABV – 6%IBUs – 70 Taft, our honorable Gavel Banger, hands down his decision. Juicy, hoppy justice for all! William Howard Taft was the 27th president, as well as the 10th Supreme Court Justice. He’s the only dude that’s held both offices, a feat that Taft’s […]
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It’s hard to believe that Great Crescent Brewing has been around for 9 years… and it’s hard to believe that they still manage to fly under the radar for so many craft beer drinkers here in Greater Cincinnati, but they have… and they do. The brewery is the fifth oldest in town, behind Rockbottom, Hofbrauhaus,
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Brewery – Fifty West Beer – Tangelo Fruit Stand Style – Fruited IPA ABV – 6.5% IBUs – 70 Standing alone off the side of 50 West in Nowhere, NA is a rigidity wooden stand with some of the ripest fruits you could ever image. Some say it’s a mirage caused by the insanity that
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Brewery – Mt. Carmel Brewing Beer – Take Home IPA Style – Session IPA ABV – 5.25% IBUs – 44 Introducing the newest beer in our portfolio, Take Home IPA. This sessionable IPA boasts a trifecta of Northern Pacific Hops that deliver intense tropical flavors and aromas. It used to be that you didn’t see
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Brewery – Figleaf Beer – Iso-trope Style – IPA ABV – 7.2% IBU – 68 What’s in a name? “Iso” refers to iso-alpha acids, the primary bittering compounds contributed by hops. “Trope” is a wink at the notion that some people say that American IPAs are an overplayed trope of a beer style. Designed to
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Brewery – Municipal Brew Works Beer – Anniversary Series #1 Style – Double IPA ABV – 9.5% IBUs – 100 A Double IPA Brewed for our first anniversary There isn’t much in the way of an official description of this beer from Hamilton, Ohio’s Municipal Brew Works… but that doesn’t mean that this beer doesn’t
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Brewery – Rivertown Beer – IPA Style – IPA ABV – 6.5% IBUs – 67 Crafted for the hop heads, enjoyers of IPA’s and the hop curious. This medium-bodied tropical IPA is vibrant, effervescent and bold. This beer debuted in July of 2017 bringing along with it a new, updated look for the brewery. The
Brewery – MadTree Beer – Entropic Theory Style – IPA ABV – 7.5% IBUs – 70 From Chaos Emerges Order. From Fermentation Emerges Beer. This IPA hits you with huge aromas of orange, peach, and apricot as soon as you open the can. The nose is followed by a smooth bitterness and soft mouthfeel as
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Brewery – March First Beer – Denali IPA Style – IPA ABV – 6% IBUs – 55 Pours amber with a creamy head. Citrusy, piney, and floral on the nose, while pineapple and notes of honey tantalize the palate. This India Pale Ale makes for a very sessionable beer. Every brewery needs an IPA, even
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From Chaos Emerges Order… It’s been on the tip of the tongue of MadTree fans since the strange green mystery teaser videos first started appearing online. Things took an even more interesting spin when pallet upon pallet of distant green cans were spotted across the expansive new brewery space at MadTree’s 2.0 facility. We got
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Brewery – Urban Artifact Beer – Phrenology Style – Wild IPA ABV – 7.3% IBU – 55 Phrenology is the debunked pseudoscience of determining psychological characteristics by the shape of the skull and facial features. This beer uses a big addition (22lbs) of both Mosaic and 22lbs of Chinook to kick it into a really
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Brewery – Listermann Beer – Babycat Meowface Style – NE IPA ABV – 8.1% New England Double IPA brewed with Mosaic, El Dorado, and Centennial with Sauvignon Blanc grape juice added. Listermann is not only putting out some really great NE IPAs here in Cincinnati, they also seem to love to explore every aspect of
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Brewery – Blank SlateBeer – The Lesser PathStyle – White IPAABV – 6.5%IBUs – 70 We’re continuing the “Travelling IPA” series into the spring and summer with this well balanced wheat IPA. A refreshing flavor profile containing two different wheat malts in addition to oats and honey malt meld with copious amounts of Columbus, Cascade
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Brewery – Listermann Brewing Company Beer – Sabotage Style – NE IPA ABV – 8% Listen all of y’all, it’s a sabotage! Loads of hops, oats, wheat, vanilla, and a sh*t ton of actual strawberries conspired to sabotage the standard idea of IPAs to create a substance that looks something like a milkshake, but smashed
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Brewery – Listermann Brewing Company Beer – Ms. E Style – NE IPA ABV – 7.6% East Coast IPA with Citra and Jarrylo. This member of Listermann’s Hip Hop series of NE IPA can releases sat next to ‘Yoda Potato’ for it’s release day on May 6th of 2017. The beer uses Citra and Jarrylo
Call them whatever you want to call them, North East IPA, New England IPA, Hazy IPA – they’re here to stay, clearly. On top of that, they’re sort of popular with drinkers these days. Can releases for NE IPAs in Cincinnati have become a major thing, with Listermann dominating the space (having a release every
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They’ve been pegged by a lot of people as “super traditional”, and slow to move on new beers, but we might be looking at a new era for the brewery that to many people represents the real start of this current wave of craft breweries in Cincinnati. They’re on the cusp of a big taproom
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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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Brewery – Maui Brewing Company Beer – Pog Style – Fruited IPA ABV – 7.1% IBUs – 58 IPA with passion fruit, orange, and guava added. The name for Maui’s Pog IPA doesn’t come from the game that (if you’re my age) you played as a kid – though the game came from the caps
I mentioned back in early March that Municipal was already planning for their first anniversary party on June 10th. Arguably, the centerpiece of the anniversary party is the release of their first packaged beer, a big Imperial IPA in a 22oz bomber. Well… the label for the beer has finally popped up in the ttb – and
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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
I feel like I could spend a lot of time just talking about the amazing selection of packaged beer here in Cincinnati (and some weeks I feel like I do) – This last week is one of those weeks, with some really great stuff getting announced, and a few things popping up through the TTB
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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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Brewery – Listermann Beer – No Sleep ‘Til Norwood Style – NE IPA ABV – 6.8% East Coast IPA brewed with Galaxy, Falconer’s Flight 7C’s, & Motueka! I feel like Listermann can go on for a long time using different varieties of hops, and methods for their series of NE IPAs, and for the third month
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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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If you still haven’t been out to Columbia Tusculum to see what’s up with Streetside Brewing, you’re missing out big time. This is a brewery that even before their Grand Opening party won the ‘King of Ohio’ competition with their Raspberry Beret. I mean, this brewery has a taproom that in my opinion is one
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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.
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
As record store day approaches, I think it’s only right that we go ahead and talk about the series of releases that Rhinegeist does in collaboration with Shake It Records to mark the yearly event. Before we dig into that, though – let’s talk about what Record Store Day is. What’s Record Store Day? To
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I’m going to make a blanket statement, that is easily argued…but none-the-less right in my book. When the average person thinks of craft beer (even the average craft beer drinker) an IPA pops into their mind. There is no denying that the style is popular, and that drinkers crave hops. I don’t think that when
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