Heart State Brewing Returns Home
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by Bill Babbitt
1y ago
After pouring beer at the old Kindred Brewing taproom for the past 11 months, Heart State Brewing is returning on Sunday to their production facility at 750 Cross Point in Gahanna. The short hiatus allowed Heart State to recreate their taproom and bring in some fun new touches. The most apparent change is the new arcade space immediately adjacent to the taproom itself. There are currently a half dozen new Tilt pinball machines, a pool table, a pair of dart boards, and some very cool vintage games including a 1981 Ms. Pacman machine. The décor in the game room is an eclectic mix of wall art ca ..read more
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Fattey’s Beer Company Opens
Drink Up Columbus
by Bill Babbitt
1y ago
Westerville, Ohio, the former Dry Capital of the World, just got wetter! Fattey’s Beer Company opens this weekend in Uptown Westerville. The Buffalo NY based taproom/bottle shop will celebrate its Grand Opening Saturday morning at 10:30 AM. Fattey’s will be serving draft, canned, and bottled beer, wine by the glass or bottle, cider, mead, seltzers, sodas, and frozen cocktails. The latter will include frozen Margarita’s, a frozen Orange Crush with Smirnoff Vodka, and a PBR Freeze Hard Coffee. The beer line-up will include 8 taps with the opening line-up including drafts from Three Floyds, Jack ..read more
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Combustion Opens in Clintonville
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by Bill Babbitt
1y ago
It was a sad day in April when Mike and Jessica Byrne announced that their time with Lineage Brewing had come to an end. The brewery would be closing. A silver lining appeared on that dark cloud with the announcement that Pickerington’s favorite brewery, Combustion, would take over the brewpub. Now, some three months later, it has come to fruition. This Saturday morning, August 13th at 11 Combustion in Clintonville will celebrate their Grand Opening. The décor has been freshened to promote the Combustion brand, but the folks in Clintonville will settle back into their favorite stool and feel ..read more
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Buzzsaw Brewing Quietly Opens Taproom
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by Bill Babbitt
1y ago
Buzzsaw owners Andrew Watkins and Quinn Bartlett opened their small brewery in Whitehall in February 2021. Without a taproom, and in the middle of the pandemic, all their sales were cans to retail and kegs to commercial accounts. Twelve months later, February of this year, they quietly opened a small taproom and began limited on-site sales. The taproom space is currently very limited as they await all the necessary permitting to open the full space. Ideally, by September they will announce their Grand Opening with seating for approximately 50; considerably larger than the current 15 or so. Th ..read more
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Summer at SIP Beerfest
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by Bill Babbitt
1y ago
On July 30th, the Somewhere in Particular Brewery will host their own beer festival. Their “Summer at SIP Beerfest” will feature a dozen breweries, one distillery, a pair of food trucks, and a live band. The breweries include Wolf’s Ridge, Dankhouse, Heart State, Parsons North, Crooked Can, Derive, Random Precision, Olentangy River, Nocterra, Edison, Somewhere in Particular, and Nowhere in Particular Cabinet of Curiosities. Highbanks Distillery will be there, and the music will be provided by the non-profit band, NACHO. Tickets are $50 and include 12 tickets and a 5 oz mug. $5 of each ticket ..read more
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Ohio Hits 400 Craft Breweries!
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by Bill Babbitt
2y ago
On May 17th 2019, at the kickoff event for Columbus Craft Beer Week, the Ohio Craft Brewers Association shared a cake with the attendees celebrating the opening of Ohio’s 300th craft brewery. Now, just three years later, during the 2022 Columbus Craft Beer Week, the OCBA announced the opening of Ohio’s 400th craft brewery. When Mary McDonald, the OCBA Executive Director, started her tenure in 2013, there were only 58 craft breweries in all of Ohio. Central-Ohio alone has that many now. And while the rate of growth may be slowing, the upward trend continues for Ohio craft brewing. MacDonald re ..read more
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Central Ohio’s iconic brewers unite for panel
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by Bill Babbitt
2y ago
One of the premier events of this year’s Columbus Craft Beer Week will be a reprise of an event from the 2016 version. On May 17, 2016, four iconic brewers held a panel discussion on the early years of the craft beer revolution in Columbus. At that time, the panel was comprised of Scott Francis (Temperance Row), Angelo Signorino (Barley’s), Victor Ecimovich (Hoster) and Lenny Kolada (Smokehouse), moderated by Cheryl Harrison (formerly of Drink Up Columbus). This year’s reprise will again include Francis, Signorino, Ecimovich, joined by Eric Bean (Columbus). The graybeards will have a fresh fa ..read more
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Land Grant Science Tour
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by Bill Babbitt
2y ago
Is brewing beer a science, an art, or a bit of both? I would argue that for the macro-brewers it is essentially confined to science. If you are brewing millions of barrels of the same beer year after year, you are relying on automation and high-tech laboratory instrumentation for the requisite consistency in taste and quality. There is, of course, a human element with the tasting panels that evaluate the uniformity of the beer each day, but otherwise it is essentially purely science and technology. When I toured the Columbus Anheuser-Busch brewery several years ago, the plant manager and the ..read more
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Brew Brothers earns accolades for ales
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by Bill Babbitt
2y ago
One local brewery has been quietly racking up some impressive wins of late: Brew Brothers, led by Head Brewer Ryan Torres for the last six years. Most recently, Brew Brothers was announced as the winner of the 2021 Alpha King Challenge. This award, which dates back to 1999, was founded by Yakima Chief Hops and 3 Floyds Brewing. The contest crowns “the most well-balanced and drinkable beer with 60 IBU’s or more – the top IPAs and DIPAs on the market.” All entries are from commercial brewers, with a limit of one entry per brewery, and a maximum of 150 total entries. The event is held in Denver ..read more
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Combustion coming to Clintonville, celebrating anniversary
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by Bill Babbitt
2y ago
This Saturday, Picktown’s Combustion Brewing will celebrate their Fifth Anniversary with a blow-out gala. But the bigger, unexpected news was their expansion plans into Clintonville. Over the past few months, Combustion owners Keith and Sarah Jackson have discussed taking their very successful business to the next level. For many craft brewers, that might well mean expanding into the retail space. And while Combustion does have a canning line, they will continue to sell those four-packs onsite, not on grocery shelfs. For the Jackson’s, the choice was to open a second taproom. They love the co ..read more
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