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With 40 tap handles in our Newport taproom, we like to show some love to our fellow breweries and celebrate the beer community. We have quite the treat to share with you as we welcome The Brooklyn Brewery on Saturday, September 23rd.
We will be featuring a beautiful piece of glassware, the Brooklyn Brewery Spiegelau Saison Glass, along with some of the most amazing beers from Brooklyn Brewery:
$9 Keep the Glass with $6 refills (16oz pours): Brooklyn Pils
$10 Keep the Glass with $7 refills (10oz pours): Vintage Monster (a barleywine that is no longer in production) Vintage Black Chocolate (a dark Chocolate Stout) Kiwi’s Playhouse (Kiwi sour aged in red wine barrels)
Be sure to join us to purchase and #Liftonetolife with this glassware beauty and enjoy these rare, celebrated Brooklyn beers.
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled events and specials. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. Remember to check our Events Calendar throughout the week to see events that are added after our Monday morning publication time.
Details Join us for our June Beer Dinner with Brooklyn Brewery!
Discover and indulge in a 5-course meal perfectly paired with brews from our friends at Brooklyn Brewery on June 21st! Enjoy a pint during our beer reception where you’ll be able to choose from a Brooklyn Brewery or Moerlein Lager House Beer. Then sit down and listen to the story behind the brewery and how the chefs paired each course with the selected beer.
Dinner is $60 + tax and gratuity. Seating is limited. Please make reservations in advance by registering here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-beer-dinner-with-brooklyn-brewery-tickets-34727851940?aff=ehomecard
BEER RECEPTION
FIRST COURSE Brooklyn Sorachi Ace Saison ABV: 7.2% Grapefruit Honey, Lavender, Tofu
SECOND COURSE Brooklyn East IPA ABV: 6.9% Snapper, Lemon Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Corn Sauce, Smoke Pepper Relish, Tomato Emulsion
THIRD COURSE Brooklyn Local 1 – Belgian-inspired Strong Golden Ale ABV: 9.0% Low Country Crab Dip: Chipotle, Smoked Gouda, Baby Kale, Turbinado Gastrique
FOURTH COURSE Brooklyn Local 2 – Belgian-inspired Dark Abbey Ale ABV: 9 % Lamb Dip: Lollipop Chop, Goat Cheese Cake, Risotto, Sweet Potato Puree
DESSERT Brooklyn Brown Ale ABV: 5.6% Poached Asian Pear, Coffee Molasses, Gingerbread
Menu created by Chefs Lee Moeller and Miguel Richards
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled events and specials. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. Remember to check our Events Calendar throughout the week to see events that are added after our Monday morning publication time.
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled specials on better beer. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. Most events for the weekend will be on our Friday Tastings and Tappings Report post.
Monday, Dec. 5th at 5:00 pm – Rare Keg Monday at Ei8ht Ball Brewing This week, it’s Brooklyn Black Ops. Price is $7 for a ten ounce snifter.
Tuesday, Dec. 6th at 6:00 pm – Drunken Winter Ale Tappening at Rivertown Brewing
Wednesday, Dec. 7th at 5:00 pm – Great Lakes Christmas Ale Pint Night at The Casual Pint – Oakley
Thursday, Dec. 8th from 5:00-10:00 pm – Tröegs Pint Night at Cappy’s Wines and Spirits
Thursday, Dec. 8th at 6:00-10:00 pm – Pint Night Thursdays at Cock & Bull (all three locations) The beers for this week’s Pint Night Thursdays are: Main Strasse Covington – Thirsty DOg Twelve Dogs of Christmas, Glendale – Bell’s Christmas and Hyde Park – Urban Artifact Kick Sled.
Thursday, Dec. 8th at 7:00 pm – Blank Slate Pint Night at Hebron Brew Haus
Friday, Dec. 9th at 4:00 pm – Urban Artifact CAN Release Party at Urban Artifact The initial launch will include Finn (Berliner Pale Ale) and Sliderule (Chocolate Raspberry Gose).
Friday, Dec. 9th at 4:00 pm – Final Friday Night Flights of 2016 at Party Town Featuring beers from Against the Grain, this annual event is not to be missed.
We frequently get updates for our Tastings and Tappings Report after our regular publishing time. Any edited listing will have UPDATE at the beginning of the listing. Don’t forget to check out our This Week in Beer post from Monday for other better beer events happening this weekend.
TASTINGS
• Country Fresh Farm Market and Wine Depot – Brooklyn Brewery tasting today from 4:00-7:00 pm. Beers include Summer Ale, American Ale and two more to be determined.
• Jungle Jim’s – Friday night tasting from 5:00 to 9:00 pm at both locations. Pints are usually $3. This week, they are pouring beers from Sixpoint at Fairfield and from Goodwood at Eastgate.
• Ludlow Wines – Saturday beer tasting is from 5:00-8:00 pm. The cost to taste four beers is $6.00 per person.
• Party Source – $1 beer tastings on Saturday from 12:00-1:00 pm.
• Party Town – For Friday Night Flights this week from 5:30-7:00 pm, they’re pouring from Rhinegeist. Beers include Truth, Puma, Cidergeist, Cougar, Hustle, Fluxion, Panda, Badger, Exp IPA 004, EXP IPA 005, Mushhushshu. It’s $2.00 for the regular sample flights. Only adults age 21 or more are admitted for Friday Night Flights. Limit of one sample per person. No shopping carts in the back room please.
• Whole Foods Cincinnati – Cask & Cork: Beer and Wine every Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. For $5, you get five sips and six bites. Tickets sold until 6:30 pm.
TAPPINGS and RELEASES
• Braxton Brewing – May’s Firkin Friday tonight at 5:30 pm and it’s a Banana Split. That’s their Haven Hefeweizen with cocoa, strawberry and pineapple.
• Ei8ht Ball Brewing – Tonight is Free Bacon Night and they will be having a special Lervig Tap Takeover and Skype session with Lervig’s brewmaster Mike Murphy. Beers include Jack Daniels BA Barleywine, Belgian Saison, Pop That Cherry Lambic (collaboration w/ Mikkeller), Saured Kraut Mango and Pineapple infused Sour, Redchurch Softly Softly Oud Bruin. The Skype session starts at 5:30 pm.
• Listermann Brewing – Cincinnati Beer Week Collaboration Bottle Release tonight starting at 5:00 pm. From Facebook: “We have teamed up with Urban Artifact, MadTree Brewing and DogBerry Brewing LLC for our version of the CIncinnati Beer Week Collaboration beer, Over/Under. This beer is an amber lager brewed with Mulberry Wood. While there will be 5 Cincinnati Beer Week Beers available this year, this will be the only one in bottles. The beer will be on draft Friday Night Only and then again during beer week. 4 Packs are $9.99”
• Nashville Hot – Christian Moerlein Tap Takeover tonight starting at 7:00 pm. Buy a pint, keep the glass.
OTHER
• Old Firehouse Brewery – Pints for Pups Saturday from 4:00-8:00 pm. The brewery will be donating $1 from every pint sold during that time to Circle Tails, Inc.
Have a better beer Memorial Day weekend, everyone!
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled specials on better beer. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. As always, any edited listing will have UPDATE at the beginning of the listing.
Monday, Nov. 30th at 5:00 pm – Rare Keg Monday at Ei8ht Ball Brewing This week, it’s Founders Backstage Series: Project PAM. The cost is $8 for a ten ounce snifter.
Wednesday, Dec. 2nd at 6:00 pm – December Tapping at Rock Bottom This month, they are tapping their Wicked Elf.
Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 6:00 pm – Urban Artifact Nitro Tap Takeover at the Brass Tap U Square Beers include Hearth, Cauldron, Coffee Cauldron, Kicksled and Finn.
Thursday, Dec. 3rd from 6:00-8:00 pm – Fifty West Beer Tasting at Craft Pointe
Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 7:00 pm – Rhinegeist Dad Pint Night at Hebron Brew Haus
Friday, Dec. 4th at 4:00 pm – Schlafly Beer Tasting at Country Fresh Farm Market and Wine Depot
Friday, Dec. 4th at 4:00 pm-Saturday, Dec. 5th at 11:00 pm – Eighth Annual Hopnosis at The Comet 30 kegs of small batch beers tapped on an hourly basis over two days. Partial keg list: Brothers Drake Rising Star Coffee, Sierra Nevada Estate, Founders Backwoods Bastard, Epic Big Bad Baptist, Bell’s Roundhouse IRA, MadTree Dewhop, Deschutes Chasin Freshies, Anderson Valley Wild Turkey, Great Lakes and Fifty West Collaboration Walking Sticke, Smuttynose Big A IPA, Bell’s Hell Hath No Fury, Ballast Point Coffee Vanilla Imperial Porter, Deschutes Black Butte XXVII Birthday Reserve, Brooklyn Lord Sirachi, Maine Beer Company Peeper Ale, To Øl Black Maria, Great Lakes Kentucky Common, MadTree Pilgrim, Stone 2014 Old Guardian, Urban Artifact Kicksled, Moerlein Incline IPA, Mikkeller Say Sun, Anderson Valley Briny Melon, Bell’s L’Appel du Vide, Saskatoon Berry, Thirsty Dog 12 Dogs, Moerlein Sunnyvale, Blank Slate Vanilla Cherry Opera Cream, Taft Ale House TBA and more.
Saturday, Dec. 5th – Happy Sixth Anniversary to Marty’s Hops & Vines They will be tapping Marty’s Hamilton Ave. IPA from Fibonacci Brewing and by the bottle for in-house and to take home a special brewed variation of Brew Kettle’s 4 C’s just for Marty’s Sixth Anniversary.
Saturday, Dec. 5th – Braxton Block Party Release of their first bottled beer, Dark Charge in four variations: Dark Charge Imperial Stout, Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel-Aged, Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel-Aged with Vanilla and Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel-Aged with Starter Coffee. In addition, special tappings throughout the day: Available All Day – Storm, Sparky, Crank Shaft, Dead Blow, Trophy: Galaxy, Shop Talk, Garage Series, Nitro Series; Tapped at Noon – Braxton Brewing Co. Dark Charge, Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. 11/162, New Belgium Brewing Barrel Aged Blackberry Barleywine, Upland Brewing Company Dantalion; Tapped at 2pm: Braxton Brewing Co. Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel Aged, Rhinegeist Double Barrel-Aged Gramps Barleywine, Ei8ht Ball Brewing Reintarnation Barrel Aged Golden Ale, Widmer Brothers Brewing Angel’s Reign Imperial Rye Stout, Central State Brewing Totes McOaks Brett IPA; Tapped at 4pm – Braxton Brewing Co. Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel Aged with Vanilla, Blank Slate Brewing Company Barrel Aged Shroominous, Quaff Bros 2014 Flying Pig Pumpkin Ale, Rivertown Brewery and Barrel House Triumvirate; Tapped at 6pm – Braxton Brewing Co. Dark Charge Bourbon Barrel Aged with Starter Coffee, MadTree Brewing Axis Mundi with Coffee and Vanilla, Jackie O’s Pub & Brewery Brick Kiln Barleywine and West Sixth Brewing Slap Happy Barrel Aged Brown Ale. Food trucks and live music too.
Saturday, Dec. 5th at 6:00-10:00 pm – Happy First Birthday to The Growler House They will be celebrating with with a wide range of beers, including some special, hard-to-find seasonals, purchase VIP party pass for $35 to get 25 bencher tickets to sample all our taps have to offer plus a free pint glass to take home, $11.11 growler fills all day.
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled specials on better beer. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. As always, any edited listing will have UPDATE at the beginning of the listing.
Monday, Sept. 21st at 5:00 pm – Rare Keg Monday at Ei8ht Ball Brewing This week, it’s MadTree Galaxy High. The cost is $5 for a ten ounce snifter.
Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 6:00 pm – Hops and Nosh at Marty’s Hops & Vines Featuring Urban Artifact, the cost is $30.00 per person (plus gratuity and tax) for three 10 oz pours of beer and a tasting portion of each course. Courses: Finn, a Berliner style pale ale paired with Apricot salad with a citrus vinaigrette; Clothesline, a wild farmhouse rye paired with Spinach & pea Crostini; and Hearth, a wild dark ale paired with BBQ pork sliders. Reservations are encouraged. RSVP to Marty’s Hops & Vines at 513-681-4222 or by email to Jane@Martys-hopsandvines.com.
Thursday, Sept. 24th at 6:00-10:00 pm – Pint Night Thursdays at Cock & Bull (all three locations) The beers for this week’s Pint Night Thursdays are: Main Strasse Covington – TBA, Glendale – TBA and Hyde Park – TBA.
Thursday, Sept. 24th at 7:00 pm – Rhinegeist Beer Dinner at Bistro Grace Menu – First Course: Zen paired with Littleneck Clams with a Microgreen and Frisee Salad; Second Course: Franz paired with Sausage Platter including house made sausage and beer cheese; Third Course: Fiction paired with Shrimp Boil; Fourth Course: Squirly paired with Wild Boar Manwich; and Fifth Course: Chester paired with Cherry Pie with Chester Ice Cream. Tickets are $55 per person, not including tax or gratuity. To make a reservation, send a message via their contact page with your name, party size and a phone number that they can reach you at.
Thursday, Sept. 24th at 7:00 pm – Brooklyn Brewery Pint Night at Hebron Brew Haus
Friday, Sept. 25th – September Firkin Friday at Braxton Brewing
Friday, Sept. 25th at 4:00 pm – Stone Beer Tasting at Country Fresh Farm Market and Wine Depot
Saturday, Sept. 26th at 4:00 pm – Clifton Beer Fest at Fries Café It’s back! One of our favorite low key beer events. They are planning on over 100 beers to sample. The Warsaw Falcons play at 8:00 pm.
Check out our Better Beer Happy Hours, Etc. page for regularly scheduled specials on better beer. We are only list events here that are unique for this coming week in beer. As always, any edited listing will have UPDATE at the beginning of the listing.
Monday, Sept. 14th at 5:00 pm – Rare Keg Monday at Ei8ht Ball Brewing This week, it’s Founders Backstage Series #13 ReDANKulous. The cost is $6 for a ten ounce snifter.
Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 5:00 pm – Braxton Tapping at The Lackman Beers include Storm Golden Cream Ale, Sparky Hoppy Wheat Ale, Crank Shaft India Pale Ale and Dead Blow Stout infused with coffee.
Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 6:00 pm – William Howard Taft / Cincy Red Bike Dual Birthday Bash at Taft’s Ale House They will be tapping their Red Bike Beer, a low alcohol Zwickel beer. Order a Red Bike Beer and get the special glass with your first one (while supplies last).
Wednesday, Sept. 16th at 5:30 pm – Braxton Launch Party at the Growler House
Wednesday, Sept. 16th from 6:00-9:00 pm – Tieton Cider Tasting at Marty’s Hops & Vines They will be pouring Rambling Route, Cherry, Apricot, Dry-hopped, and Smoked pumpkin ciders.
Thursday, Sept. 17th at 4:00 pm – Imperial Thursday at KungFood Chu’s AmerAsia Six imperial IPAs on draft including Dogfish Head IPA and Rhinegeist Saber tooth Tiger.
Thursday, Sept. 17th at 5:00-8:00 pm – Brooklyn Brewery Tap Takeover at Market Wines They will have Black Chocolate Stout, Wild Horse Porter and Red Sumac Wit on Draft and bombers of Intensified Barrel-Aged Coffee Porter.
Thursday, Sept. 17th at 6:00 pm – West Sixth Pint Night at Hebron Brew Haus Featuring West Sixth IPA, Wild PItch and Oktoberfest.
Thursday, Sept. 17th at 6:00-10:00 pm – Pint Night Thursdays at Cock & Bull (all three locations) The beers for this week’s Pint Night Thursdays are: Main Strasse Covington – TBA, Glendale – TBA and Hyde Park – TBA.
Friday, Sept. 18th-Sunday, Sept. 20th – Überdrome at the Moerlein Lager House More information on their Facebook event page.
Friday, Sept. 18th at 4:00 pm – Swayze Dayze 2015 at Ei8ht Ball Too complicated to explain in a few sentences. Go to their Facebook event page for more information.
Saturday, Sept. 19th from 12:00 noon-12:00 midnight – Fifty Fest 2015 at Fifty West More information available on their web site.
Saturday, Sept. 19th at 12:00 noon – 3rd Annual Franztoberfest at Rhinegeist
Sunday, Sept. 20th at 10:00 am – Braxton Brunch and Beermosas at Halfcut For every Sparky Beermosa that is sold, they’ll donate $1 to OTR Community Housing. For every Beermosa pitcher, they’ll donate $5.
We frequently get updates for our Tastings and Tappings Report after our regular publishing time. Any edited listing will have UPDATE at the beginning of the listing. Don’t forget to check out our This Week in Beer post from Monday for other better beer events happening this weekend.
TASTINGS
● Country Fresh Farm Market and Wine Depot – Tröegs Beer Tasting from 4:00-7:00 pm.
● Everything’s d’ Vine – Tasting is at 5:30 pm each week and costs $10 for beer and wine tastings. You can get just beer or just wine for $5.00. The beers for this week’s tasting (9/11) are Rhinegeist Franz, Boulevard Funky Pumpkin, Revolution Eugene Porter and Oskar Blues IPA.
● Jungle Jim’s – Friday night tasting from 5:00 to 9:00 pm at both locations. Pints are usually $3. This week, they are pouring beers from Christian Moerlein in Fairfield and Fat Head’s in Eastgate.
● Ludlow Wines – Saturday beer tasting is from 5:00-8:00 pm. The cost to taste four beers is $6.00 per person.
● Party Town – For Friday Night Flights this week (9/11) from 5:30-7:00 pm, it’s beers from Crooked Line, Upright Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Christian Moerlein and more. The Draft by the glass pour will Mash Cult’s Dat Juice for $3.00. The cost for the flight is $2.00 per person. Only adults age 21 or more are admitted for Friday Night Flights.
● Whole Foods Cincinnati – Cask & Cork: Beer and Wine every Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. For $5, you get five sips and six bites. Tickets sold until 6:30 pm.
TAPPINGS
● Ei8ht Ball Brewing – Tonight (9/11) is Free Bacon Night AND they will be tapping Brooklyn Black Ops. The cost is $10 for a ten ounce snifter.
● Old Firehouse Brewing – 7:00 pm tonight (9/11) tapping Maltese Cross – a blood orange blonde ale.
