Cincy Brewcast

DogBerry was just a little nano-brewery when they opened their doors in 2015. Now here we are, they're filling 20 taps from their new, shiny 10bbl brewhouse, they've got cans hitting shelves this week, and yet the managed to take all the best parts of their brewery, and not change them in the process. It's a balancing act, and an amazing topic for a show. I was joined by Tony Meyer, Brent Garland, and David McKinney to talk all things DogBerry! Oh... we drank a few beers too.

It's been a while since we were at Municipal Brew Works, which means that there's a lot to talk about with them. First up is their upcoming bottle release of Long Slumber, a barrel aged Old Ale. We also wanted to get a little peek into how their place in an ever changing craft beer community has evolved as they've been open. If that's not enough, we'll also try to look into the future to see what's coming down the pike from this Hamilton, Ohio brewery!

Joined by our friends from the Have A Drink show, we worked our way through a flight of beer from Wooden Cask, we were hot off the heels of recording an episode of their show and ready to talk about all the things that make Wooden Cask so successful. Time seems frozen in a taproom that harkens back to a different time and place, and that seemed perfect for us.

I knew this was going to be a chaotic, hectic show. What else would it be when you decide to do a show during both the NKY Homebrewer’s guild’s Iron Mash contest as well as Braxton Lab’s release of their bottled Bourbon Barrel Aged Oatmeal Stout? Crazy? Yeah. Fun? A ton!

We tried to get a little bit geeky in this one... I was joined by Craft Beer Joe at the 2018 Jungle Jim’s Barrel Aged Beer Bash to talk about not just Cincinnati Beer, but barrel aged beer in general. We tried a couple things... talked about a couple things... grabbed some local voices to fill in the blanks - and had a barrel aged blast.

An impromptu studio show after a last minute cancellation means that the world is all right, with a new episode of the brewcast even during a holiday week! Garrett Hickey made sure that I wasn’t sitting alone talking to myself, and we cracked a few really great beers to make sure things didn’t get boring!

As a Christmas show, we might have come up a little short - but as a beer show... this one is pretty on point. Urban Artifact’s year has been packed full of releases, but the spontaneous fermentation project might be their most exciting to date. We talk to Scotty and Bret about the beer and what makes it so special. We also talk about the future, and where you go from here!

They don't want to be known only as "the gluten free brewery", but their business model creates quite a bit of curiosity. We sit down with Josh and Megan Laubach of Rolling Mill Brewing Company in Middletown, Ohio to see what exactly this whole thing's about! We talk not just about the whole gluten free "thing" - but also try to get a good idea of what you can expect when you step foot inside the RMBC taproom for the first time (which will hopefully be before the end of this year!)

How better to celebrate Paradise Brewing Company’s first ever bottle release (Their big Imperial Stout, called Wrath of the Tsar) than to show up in their remodeled taproom for a Brewcast? We talked all things Paradise, and even had some fun friends show up to chat too... of course, we drank a bit of the beer too.

I don't know if there is a better way to celebrate the life of Cincy Brewcast founder and dear friend Mike Cisneros. A collaboration beer between 7 local breweries, friends, family, podcasting, live music... the big guy would've loved it. It's not always easy carrying on in the footsteps of a guy like Mike, but when you go to events like this one and take a minute to remember who he was, it certainly makes things a lot easier. Mike was the epitome of what a craft beer fan should be - with him... you were family. This show, and every episode of Cincy Brewcast is for him.