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Category Archives: Ohio Beer
Kindred’s barrel-aged sours finally ready for prime time
In the crowded landscape of craft brewing some aspect of your business should differentiate you from the competition. Maybe it’s your location, or your branding, but ideally the beer itself can stand out from the crowd. With over 200 breweries … Continue reading
Working for the weekend – An inside look at 2 Tones Brewing
It’s a brisk Saturday afternoon in early March and I’m wandering through the rows of a nondescript industrial park in Whitehall, just south of the Columbus Airport. This is not the result of an out of control Friday night bender … Continue reading
The Brewing of Dysfunctionale, the Columbus Beer Week Collab Beer
How can you have a craft beer week without a collaboration beer? Admittedly it’s not against the law, but it would like the All Star Game without a home run derby, like the state fair without butter sculptures, like Lucy without a … Continue reading
Land Grant University – Yeast 101
Last night Land Grant Brewing held their first session of what they call Land Grant University, a series of educational sessions on the key ingredients in beer. The inaugural session was devoted to yeast, future sessions will focus on hops, … Continue reading
Posted in Beer 101, Ohio Beer
Tagged belgian beer, belgian yeast, french yeast, land grant
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Attending the 2017 Ohio Craft Brewer’s Conference – Part 1
Last month while attending an event at Barley’s Brewcadia, Mary MacDonald, Executive Director of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association (OCBA), asked if I would be interested in a media pass to attend the Ohio Craft Brewer’s Conference in Cincinnati. I think … Continue reading
Central Ohio Beers of the Year (2016 Edition)
For the past two years I’ve made a list of my favorite Central Ohio beers of the past year. Before this January slips away entirely it’s time for my 2016 list. To be eligible a beer should be new (or at … Continue reading
Zaftig, Actual, and Homestead celebrate the season with a trifecta of bottle release parties
I know the holidays can be a hectic, for some downright stressful, time of the year. There are parties to attend, gifts to buy, carols to sing, and stockings to stuff. While acknowledging those demands on your time, you need … Continue reading
Posted in News & Events, Ohio Beer
Tagged actual brewing, bottle release, homestead, zaftig
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Little Fish Brewing – Bringing a slice of the Ardennes to Appalachia
It’s a beautiful fall day and I’m driving southeast to visit one of Ohio’s up and coming breweries, Little Fish Brewing in Athens. Over the course of the ninety minute drive the flat landscape and urban sprawl of Ohio’s largest … Continue reading
King of Ohio Session Beers 2016 – Results and Reflections
The 2nd annual King of Ohio contest is now in the books. For those not familiar with this contest it started two years ago when a group of Ohio beer bloggers teamed up to sponsor a contest designed to pick the … Continue reading
Posted in Blind Taste Tests, Ohio Beer
Tagged clear sky daybreak, king of ohio, streetside brewing, summer sesh
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The Reinvention of North High Brewing
Soccer leagues throughout most of the world practice the concept of promotion and relegation. At the end of each season the teams that finish at the top of a given division are promoted to the next higher division, while those that … Continue reading
Creating the essential Central/SE Ohio six pack
Back in July Tom Aguero, the man behind the Brewminds blog (formerly Queen City Drinks) contacted Rick Armon, Ohio’s beer writer laureate and the man responsible for the most up-to-date and informative beer blog in the state, The Beer Blog – Ohio, and yours truly to see … Continue reading
Posted in Ohio Beer, Pick 6
Tagged bodhi, clear sky daybreak, dark apparition, grapefruit walleye, humulus nimbus, little fish brewing
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American IPAs Part 3 – Five hops that shaped your IPA
To finish my three part series on American IPAs (better late than never) we return to where it all started—to the bold, flavorful hop varieties born and bred in the USA. Within the IPA genre it’s a big tent approach … Continue reading
Columbus Craft Beer Week 2016 Preview
The 2nd Annual Columbus Craft Beer Week begins today. I’ve spent hours perusing the list of events in a vain attempt to put together the ultimate itinerary for the obsessed craft beer fanatic, but there are just too many enticing events to … Continue reading
Posted in News & Events, Ohio Beer
Tagged beer festival, Collaboration Beer, Columbus Craft Beer Week
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American IPAs Part 2 – (Hop) Timing is Everything
In the first post of this series I discussed how American IPAs went through a period where hop aroma, flavor, and bitterness levels progressively increased, culminating in double and triple IPAs that boasted triple digit IBU levels. In recent years the … Continue reading
Posted in Ohio Beer
Tagged angelo signorino, colin vent, dry hopping, first wort hopping, fred lee, hops, IPA, jamie feihel, sam hickey, tom ayers, trevor williams
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American IPAs Part 1 – Not Your Father’s IPA
Sitting in the sleek Hoof Hearted Brewpub drinking a DIPA cloudier than a German Hefeweizen, fruitier than a grapefruit/mango smoothie, it’s hard to fathom how this beer could have evolved from the English-style IPAs of my youth. In a single generation … Continue reading
Seventh Son’s foray into the fruity, funky world of all Brett Beer
Beer is made by yeast, full stop. Given its pivotal role brewers are generally pretty picky about what type of yeast they let into their fermentation tanks. Scientists have classified over 1500 different species of yeast, but the vast majority of … Continue reading
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Tagged brettanomyces, colin vent, crooked stave, Orval, seventh son
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A Deep Dive into Land Grant’s Deep Search
Last week Land Grant released the latest beer in their series of seasonal can releases, a Baltic porter entitled Jacqueline Deep Search. When news of the release reached me several questions immediately came to mind. Just how is a Baltic … Continue reading
Actual Brewing enters the IPA fray
IPAs are the poster child of the American craft beer movement, to argue otherwise is like pinning your hopes on a Martin O’Malley presidency. The American-style IPA category is the most competitive style at the GABF (336 entries in 2015). … Continue reading
