Righteous indignation is fun. There are few things more satisfying, more self-affirming than a good spleen-cleansing rant. I get that. Heck, I’ve done that. I like to think I do righteous indignation pretty well. My face turns red nicely and I have enough mass behind me to pound on a table with the best of them. On [...]
The hottest word in food, beverages and music over the last decade has easily been ‘local.’ Local is good, so the conventional wisdom goes. National is, if not bad, inferior. Forget that — like politics — all food, beverage and music is ultimately local to someone. What’s a multinational burger chain to do? If you’re [...]
A funny thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I was on my way home after a long night of auditioning chimpanzees for the title role in my new street play, “Puddin and the Primate’s Revenge: Episode One of the Organ Grinder of Darkness Saga” and realized I needed a beer to cap off [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last month or so, you probably know that this past Friday and Saturday was the two night Cincy Winter Beerfest along with the 5B conference at the Cincinnati Duke Energy Convention Center. If you didn’t make it downtown this weekend for the festivities, you missed [...]
Darn near every day my wife, friend and partner here on Hoperatives gives you a little gift. Whether it’s This Week in Beer or Growlers and Tastings or some piece of information she’s picked up from one of her many resources, it’s always important to her that we post something on Hoperatives each and every [...]
It’s funny how some ideas, some topics, can float around in the back of head like wisps of smoke, just insubstantial enough that you know there’s something on your mind, but you can’t quite get a handle on it. And then, quite by coincidence, someone goes and hits the nail square on the head – [...]
The Party Source in Bellevue, KY announced today that Mitch Dougherty, longtime brewer at Rock Bottom Cincinnati on Fountain Square, is taking on the challenge of starting Eight Ball Brewing, a new production brewery to be located in the expanded Party Source building. Mitch’s last day at Rock Bottom was Friday, January 4th and he [...]
You’ve probably heard somewhere that there’s a big football game this afternoon between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Houston Texans. I suspect that for most of our readers there isn’t any question as to where the loyalties lie. Parties are undoubtedly well underway all over the Tri-State with people dressed in orange and yelling “Who-Dey?” [...]
Depending on where on this crazy blue marble you live, we’re all about three days into the new year by now. That means the shiny of it is starting to wear off, that distinctive New Year smell isn’t so apparent anymore, and the irritation of having to remember to write "2013" instead of "2012" when [...]
Big Changes at Hebron Brew Haus
Hebron Brew Haus announced yesterday that it has served its last pizza and will be switching its dining room to a Mad Mike’s Burgers and Fries by Monday, June 3. Along with the changes to the food offerings, the barroom is getting some long-overdue attention with modifications to the bar to make it lower and [...]