I love bottle shops. I especially love a bottle shop that bucks the trend and helps create a new category of what that means the way that places like Higher Gravity has – and much like I say way to often anymore (that might mean something about how much fun stuff is happening in Cincinnati) […]
Volume 5, Episode 47 – Higher Gravity – Who, What, Where, Why? This Place Rocks. Read More »
They might be small, but Off Track has a few things going for them that I’m absolutely in love with. Number one? Their beer is delicious. Number two? The freaking Dunlap Cafe serves as their “unofficial” taproom since they are a production only brewery right now. We talk all things Off Track to get to
Volume 5, Episode 46 – Off Track Brewing Company From The Dunlap Cafe Read More »
We caught up this week with the folks from the upcoming Firehouse Grill and Brewery in Blue Ash to get a picture of who they are and what they’re all about. Firehouse Grill has been a staple of Cincinnati’s craft beer scene for years now, and the next step to open up their own brewery
Volume 5, Episode 45 – Firehouse Grill And Brewery, I’m Excited! Read More »
I was on vacation with the family down in Gatlinburg, but that wasn’t going to stop me from doing a little “Gnome-Work” while we were away. I stopped into Sugarlands Distilling to chat with Reede Copeland about the unique culture of Gatlinburg, and the reasons that moonshine has caught on so heavily in the area
Episode 12 – Drinking At Sugarlands Distillery – The Culture Of Gatlinburg Booze Read More »
I have been trying to get this one planned and scheduled for a long time now, and was thrilled to finally get the chance to sit down and explore Humble Monk Brewing with you this week! Humble Monk is located in Northside and while they lean heavily on Belgian style beer, you’ll quickly figure out
Volume 5, Episode 44 – Humble Monk, Belgian Inspired Cincinnati Beer Read More »
It’s an exciting time down at Christian Moerlein, and I’m not just talking about it almost being Bockfest time again… no, they’ve got plenty of other stuff going on, besides that. I sat down with Greg Hardman and the new ownership team to talk about everything that’s been happening. The team discusses what it takes
The construction on CincyBrewcast studios continues… and the progress inspired me to schedule another ‘In Studio’ show, this time a couple of great beer friends, Josh Engel (Raging Hop, who’s with March First… I guess he’s not really Raging Hop anymore) and Danny Herold from Sonder Brewing in Mason. It was a bit random, and
Volume 5, Episode 42 – MadTree's Thundersnow Goes Vertical… In Studio! Read More »
This is always a special week for Cincy Brewcast each year. A celebration of Mike Cisneros, and a celebration of the craft beer community and all that it means. Big Cis is a big deal, and is always a blast to take part in. You can (and should) read more about the event and the
Volume 5, Episode 41 – Big Cis 2019 From Alexandria Brewing Company Read More »
I love the first chance that the show gets to sit down with a new brewery. It’s that first conversation where we get to dive into the story of place, or a person or an idea that turns into a new piece of Cincinnati’s brewing culture. Dead Low opened up for business in October of
Volume 5, Episode 39 – Dead Low Brewing With Greg Snow Read More »
Chef Tony from Brew City Sausage is not just a lifesaver for coming in at the buzzer for me this week, he also makes one of my favorite products that I’ve ever found, Brew City Sausage. This week’s episode we’ll explore his latest infusion – Utopias Infused Sausage) We drank a ton of beer and
Volume 5, Episode 38 – Utopias Sausage With Chef Tony Read More »
It’s been another crazy week in the world of craft beer, and that means that I want to take a quick little journey outside of Cincinnati this week. I was joined by Justin and Danny from Sonder Brewing Company, but while at the start of the show we did dive into the cellar to drink
Volume 5, Episode 37 – Cellared Beer And New Belgium Sells Out From Sonder Studios. Read More »
I love Cincinnati beer, that should be pretty obvious by the fact that I have a blog and podcast that are dedicated to showcasing it. There’s another side to craft beer, though… and it’s a pretty big one. It’s everything else. There is a TON of great beer being brewed up outside of our hometown,
Wrapping up a three part series from Karrikin we take a dive into what’s coming down the pipeline for this distillery. To help guide us through the conversation we pour a little bit of their ‘Emerge’ gin and take a quick tour through how they make it, and what pushed them to launch with two
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Cellar Dweller has been slowly upping their game, and putting out some new stuff for a while now, and hot off the heals of an Oktoberfest that I fell in love with, they just released their big (and hyped up) stout with peanut butter and chocolate, called Puzzle Pieces. Sounds like a great opportunity to
Volume 5, Episode 34 – Puzzle Pieces And Governor Morrow With Marco Penilla Read More »
Self Serve taps might one of the biggest things that you’ve heard about Anderson’s Big Ash Brewing… but this former Collaborative Brewing CO-OP has a lot more going for it than that. We settled into a seat on their warm sunny patio this week to dive into a couple of their great beers and to
Volume 5, Episode 32 – Big Ash Brewing Read More »
I feel like I’ve heard people saying that lagers are going to be the next big thing in craft beer for a long time now. When you dive into the tap lineup at West Side Brewing in Westwood you definitely catch that vibe… I’ll tell you that! On this week’s episode we look deep into
Volume 5, Episode 31 – West Side Brewing And The Lager Revolution Read More »
It’s still Oktoberfest season in Cincinnati, and as long as the Marzens are flowing, I’m gonna be drinking them! This week we join Andy Reynolds at Alexandria Brewing Company for their ‘Alexandriafest’ where they were tapping this year’s Oktoberfest alongside some other great beers. Andy has become my goto “style and beer science” nerd, so
Volume 5, Episode 30 – Alexandriafest With Andy Reynolds Read More »
The title of this week’s episode isn’t really all that fair. While yes… the show was at the 2019 Mason Oktoberfest, which was hosted by Sonder Brewing company, the reason that I fell in love with the event in the first place was because it’s so ‘All encompassing’. Somewhere around 18 different local breweries all
Volume 5, Episode 29 – Mason Oktoberfest With Sonder Brewing Read More »
I just wrote last night about Streetside’s upcoming anniversary (make sure you know about that) but this week’s episode of the brewcast is about a lot more than just them celebrating another year. The brewery is in the middle of a phase in their life where they are getting to settle in, and really figure
Volume 5, Episode 28 – Streetside, Barrels, Anniversaries and Why You Make Craft Beer Read More »
It’s been more than a year since we last sat down with Mark and Amy at Mason’s Common Beer Company, and in that time the brewery has been rolling along and finding their place in the ever-growing Cincinnati beer community. This week we dive into how their role has changed, evolved and defined itself from
Volume 5, Episode 27 – The Common Beer Company, Growing Into Year Two Read More »
I have a deep, deep love for Cincinnati Craft… and that means a lot of different things. In this week’s episode of the brewcast we take a peek at not just Cincinnati Craft Beer, But Cincinnati’s Craft Distributor, too. I wanted to get a peek at what makes a relationship like the one between Cellar
Volume 5, Episode 26 – Cellar Dweller And Adena Read More »
It’s a never ending evolution… this thing that we call craft beer. On every side of things from the creators all the way down to us drinkers, but a side that has long intrigued me is that of the retailer. We were joined this week by Ben Capodagli who owns and runs Cappy’s, a store
Volume 5, Episode 25 – Cappy’s, And Growing With Craft Beer In Cincinnati Read More »
Let’s start with the disclaimer – I didn’t have all the local Oktoberfest beers for this “showdown”, or is it even fair to compare some of these with each other. We talk about it a bit during the episode, but Oktoberfest as a style has two distinct ends to it… Marzen and Festbier, and those
Volume 5, Episode 24 – The Ultimate Cincinnati Oktoberfest Showdown Read More »
Kenwood needed this. It’s not a bar, it’s not another chain restaurant… it isn’t only about beer – it’s something new and refreshing. Hoppin’ Vines is a combination of a lot of different things than when combined create a space that will please anyone in your group of drinking buddies (or your non-drinking friends alike).
Things have been crazy lately. I just got back into Cincy from being on vacation with the family down in Gatlinburg… and the city didn’t slow down for me while I was away. We’re headed into the fall, and there are a ton of events that I wanted to make sure you were caught up
Volume 5, Episode 23 – Here’s What’s Up in Cincy Beer. Read More »
I’ve told you before how great this beer festival is… and I couldn’t help but set up shop at this year’s hops in the hangar to do a show. Luckily for me, with an event like this, there is always plenty of great friends around willing to grab a microphone for a few minutes, which
Volume 5, Episode 22 – Hops In The Hangar, Hanging With Friends Read More »
Braxton has been on fire this year, and not just because they’re making some great beer. They’ve made some huge moves by announcing their rooftop at their main location, announced their third taproom and barrel aging facility, kicked off one of their extremely popular hard seltzer line… and it’s all part of this drive to
I love, love, LOVE the Punch Out at Fifty West. It’s one of those events that brings the community together. People smile, laugh, drink a few beers and watch each other punch each other’s faces into the warm night. It’s exactly how most of my family reunions go. It’s not a surprise then that show
Volume 5, Episode 18 – Family Reunion… Punch Out Style Read More »
It’s been a long effort trying to figure out how to get a show booked at Grainworks in West Chester, and in my never ending effort I finally decided that we could just sort of… show up. That’s exactly what Andy Foltz and I did for this week’s episode, we just showed up and did
Volume 5, Episode 17 – Going Guerrilla At Grainworks Read More »
We live in a crazy world right now. Craft beer is booming, growing up, there’s people who love to talk about doom and gloom in the industry, and a lot of newcomers to it at the same time. We’ve never experienced anything like this before, and it begs the question – what does it all
Volume 5, Episode 16 – Listermann, Cincinnati Beer and where it goes from here. Read More »
