Tales of ales from the heart of Ohio to the ends of the Earth
Not only have nonalcoholic (NA) beers have become increasingly common in recent years, the variety on offer has expanded dramatically. So much so that today you can find more than 50 different NA beers in Columbus market. With the excesses of the holiday season in the near past, many are trying to adopt healthier lifestyles... Continue Reading →
Last week Powell-based Ill Mannered Brewing announced they would be opening a second location in Marysville in late 2023. The taproom will be located at 117 S. Main Street, next door to the Avalon Theatre in historic Uptown Marysville. The new Ill Mannered outpost will feature a 2000 square foot taproom with a large glass... Continue Reading →
Ten years ago today, North High Brewing opened to the public on the corner of North High Street and Sixth Avenue. Today is the last chance you’ll have to enjoy a beer in their handsome taproom. It's an opportunity to look back at the past decade in Columbus brewing.
Arguably no beer substyle is more closely associated with Ohio than the spiced Christmas Ale. While Anchor Christmas Ale is the oldest surviving example of the style, dating to 1975, I think it’s fair to say that the Christmas Ale tradition is a bigger phenomenon in Ohio than it is in California, and Great Lakes... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite beer events of the year, Barley’s Christmas Ale tapping, will take place at 7:30 pm this coming Friday (Nov 11, 2022). This year’s celebration is particularly sweet as it will mark 30 years of brewing at the iconic High Street brewpub. To the best of my knowledge Great Lakes Brewing and... Continue Reading →
The results of the 2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition were announced yesterday. A total of 9904 beers were entered, up slightly from the 9680 beers entered in 2021. (With an entry fee of $165 per beer (for BA members) that's nearly $1.6 million in entry fees alone.) A total of 300 medals were... Continue Reading →
Fall is the air and that means it's time for beers made with freshly picked whole cone hops and no brewery in Ohio embraces fresh (wet) hop beers like Columbus Brewing Company. In this episode Tony Corder tells us how CBC approaches the brewing and logistics of working with fresh hops. We sample five of... Continue Reading →
I’ve traveled the world looking for good beer and interesting places. I’ve written about locales from Bend to Boston, from Burlington to Santa Barbara, and many points in between. I’ve journeyed to faraway places exploring the origins of beer styles such as gose (Liepzig), sahti (Helsinki), Berliner Weisse (Berlin), and pilsner (Pilsen). My travels have... Continue Reading →
After 3+ months as a one-brewery neighborhood Clintonville will be back to two breweries this Saturday (Aug 13, 2022) when Combustion will opens their second location in the space formerly occupied by Lineage Brewing (2971 N High St, Columbus, OH 43202). Doors open at 11:00 am with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11:30 am. While... Continue Reading →
Ever wonder what attributes define a perfect Pilsner beer? Do you prefer the complex malt character of a Czech Pilsner, or the hoppy bite and crisp finish of a German Pils? Maybe more recent iterations like the New Zealand Pilsner an Italian Pilsner are more to your liking. In this episode we explore the nuances... Continue Reading →
There was a time when the appearance of a new hop variety was a big deal. I can remember how excited I was to try a beer with exotic Nelson Sauvin hops, and such beers were not easy to track down in Central Ohio. A sighting of Three Floyd’s Zombie Dust, one of the earliest... Continue Reading →
Held every two years in conjunction with the Craft Brewers Conference, the World Beer Cup is arguably the most prestigious and competitive beer competition on the planet. In 2022, breweries from the Buckeye state took home a total of 14 medals, up four from their medal count in 2018. In this episode we drink and... Continue Reading →
Brown ales are a style near and dear to our hearts, but one whose popularity has been waning in recent decades. In this episode we are joined by homebrewer, Jim Sudduth, whose English Brown Ale won the 2019 Barley's Homebrewing Competition, for a in depth look at this underappreciated style. Join us for a voyage... Continue Reading →
The invention and rise of the American IPA is one of those rare moments in the history of brewing that forever changes the rules of making beer. In this episode we turn our attention to this ubiquitous and hugely influential style by sampling six year-round American IPAs from our home base here in Columbus. We... Continue Reading →
With St. Patrick’s Day upon us the popularity of Irish stouts reaches a zenith. An estimated 13,000,000 pints of Guinness are sold worldwide every St. Patty’s Day. Anyone reading a beer blog will be very familiar with Ireland's most popular export, but what you may not know is that Guinness Draught, the beer that is... Continue Reading →
In celebration of St. Patrick's Day we welcome special guest Madeleine Bogard for an exploration of stouts from the Emerald Isle. Irish stouts are synonymous with Guinness Draught, so we start our journey with this iconic beer. We explore it's evolution through the past two centuries, and see how it stacks up against it's Cork-based... Continue Reading →
Living as we do in the time of pastry stouts and milkshake IPAs the notion of adding food to beer seems like a 21st Century construct, but adding food to your beer goes back (at least) to 19th century Britain. In a bid to make stouts even more nourishing brewers added ingredients ranging from milk... Continue Reading →
Dark days call for dark beers, and in that spirit we kick off a series of three podcasts on stouts with an episode on Imperial Stouts. We start by reaching out to our friend Nick Smith, co-founder and head brewer at Steam Machine Brewing in the UK, for a fascinating discussion on the historical origins... Continue Reading →
Just in time for the holidays we offer up a conversation with Jason McKibben of North High Brewing. Central Ohio listeners know Jason as the brewmaster and co-owner of North High Brewing, a position he’s held since 2014, but his career in the brewing industry also includes stops at Anchor Brewing, the San Francisco brewery... Continue Reading →
There’s a certain satisfaction that comes with making a beer that incorporates homegrown ingredients. Growing or foraging adjunct ingredients like fruits, peppers, herbs, nuts, various tree parts, and the like is one thing, but incorporating homegrown versions of one or more of the base ingredients takes more planning (water excluded). For most of us growing... Continue Reading →
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