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It’s a hard world to navigate, this modern one where craft breweries, brewpubs, bars, and restaurants must constantly figure out what those terms mean. What can you keep giving your customers that not only keeps them interested, but stays true to your personality at the same time? Dead Low Brewing has been through a lot in the almost five years that they’ve been open, and through it all they keep proving that they are a little more than just one thing.

Dead Low Brewing has been through a lot in their short life here in the Cincinnati Craft Beer Community – and with the chaos that the last year has brought, they’re definitely looking forward to what the future has in store for them. I sat down this week with their head brewer, Grant Thompson, who came on board just as Covid hit the industry in 2020.

With how… “weird”, the last year has been, I know that a lot of folks haven’t had the chance to sit down and get to know him, and what he’s all about – so this episode spends a lot just diving into what makes him tick. We talk about how he got into the industry, how he ended up here in Cincinnati, and what he likes to brew. Of course… we drank a couple of beers along the way, too!

For more information about Dead Low Brewing, you can of course explore a bit here on my website, but make sure that you head over to their site for a great breakdown of what you can expect when you stop in. Speaking of stopping in… you should 100% do that, too. They’re in a great spot, right off the highway by Coney Island and Riverbend – get out there and check them out!

I love the first chance that the show gets to sit down with a new brewery. It’s that first conversation where we get to dive into the story of place, or a person or an idea that turns into a new piece of Cincinnati’s brewing culture. Dead Low opened up for business in October of this year, and have already gained a good group of fans of not just the beer their brewing, or the great food that they’re cooking up – but of a taproom that is absolutely stunning as well.

In this episode, we dive into it all and try to dissect exactly what makes these folks who they are. We try a few beers and try to peek into the future to see where they’re going long term, and what makes a brewery successful in a city that’s getting as “beer-busy” as Cincinnati is these days.