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Summer Hours: Streetside Brewery.

It very rare that we find ourselves over on the east side of town. But after chasing around after FC Cincinnati rally towels, that’s exactly where we found ourselves.
We decided to finally check out Streetside Brewery on Eastern Avenue over in the
East End/Columbia-Tusculum part of town for the first time. We’d tried a couple of their beers at Higher Gravity in Northside, and we were pleasantly surprised by how good they were. We were really excited to see what else Streetside had in store…

We arrived at Streetside just ahead of one of those beer tours…

Genifer has a Tea Bags and I had a Little Balls of Blue mixed with the Goseface Killah while we watched Arsenal take on Leicester City in the kick-off of the new EPL season…

Streetside offers a range of steamed sammiches as well…

In hindsight, I wish I would have tried a sammich. Genifer wishes she got a steamed soft pretzel. Oh well. Next time. Eventually, the beer tour moved on to their next location…

Awesome place. Great beers. Next time we find ourselves on the east side of town, we’re definitely stopping back into Streetside for a beer and a steamed sammich. 😀🍺🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 11, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Odd & Ends, Sports, Suburbia

Tagged 2017, August, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, Columbia-Tusculum, East End, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Streetside Brewery, Summer Hours

Posted by Thadd F. on August 11, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/08/11/summer-hours-streetside-brewery/

Summer Hours: Higher Gravity Northside.

I actually had a Summer Hours where it didn’t rain. So we walked down to check out Higher Gravity Crafthaus, the new bar/craft beer & wine store in Northside…

Higher Gravity has 14 beers on tap. And you can check out their current draft list lineup on Untappd…

Higher Gravity also has over 400 cans and bottles on-shelf and in their cooler…

Their fully stocked walk-in cooler…

I had a Keypunch from Urban Artifact and Genifer had a taster of Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales Isla Estraña Saison Farmhouse Ale…

And we shared a Short’s Exeter sour with strawberry and lemon…

And a we had a couple of tasters of Streetside Brewery Little Balls of Blue and a Sumatra Mountain Brown from Founders…

Higher Gravity is such a cool place. It’s like a having a little Party Source just down the street from us. Northside just keeps getting better and better. 😀🥃❤️

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by Thadd F. on July 21, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, July, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Summer Hours

Posted by Thadd F. on July 21, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/07/21/summer-hours-higher-gravity-northside/

Northside Rock n’ Roll Carnival.

This evening we walked down Hamilton Avenue to Jacob Hoffner Park in Northside to check out the Northside Rock n’ Roll Carnival in a celebration of all things 45223…

We got a couple of tokens for beer…

Because they had Urban Artifact’s Keypunch on tap!

The first Keypunch of the summer…

Northside’s NYPD and Bridges were serving food…

And so were Dojo Gelato and Red Sesame…

We got some delicious Red Sesame chicken tacos…

They had some pretty neat Northside Rock n’ Roll Carnival t-shirts…

And the proceeds from the t-shirts went to Happen and Bread Winner…

Django Western Taco was also serving food as well…

We had to get a jerk chicken torta with pineapple and elote corn on the cob…

There was a large collection of really diverse and interesting bands all with very unique and distinctly different sounds…

What an incredibly fun celebration of the Northside community. 😀❤️🇺🇸

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by Thadd F. on July 3, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Festival, Good evening, Hoffner Park, July, Live music, Look up in the sky, Northside, Northside Rock n' Roll Carnival, Ohio, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on July 3, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/07/03/northside-rock-n-rock-carnival/

Northside Sunday.

We went to Django Western Taco for a late brunch today. We shared the buttermilk biscuit with redeye chorizo gravy and fried eye, Chef Josh’s famous tater tot casserole and a side of bacon topped with ancho chile honey…

And it was delicious. As always. Also, Chef Josh said that Django Western Taco has some really big news coming very soon so we can’t wait for his big announcement! After we stuffed our faces at Django, we walked over to Urban Artifact for a beer or two…

We had the very last pint of the Palmistry and a couple of Finn’s…

We love Northside so much. 😀 ❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 28, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, Django Western Taco, May, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Urban Artifact, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on May 28, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/05/28/northside-sunday-3/

Brink Brewing Co.

This afternoon we rode the 17 bus up Hamilton Avenue into College Hill to check out the new Brink Brewing Company…

We got a flight and headed outside to Brink’s awesome back patio…

We tried their Debbie Jean Blonde Ale, Buona Sarah Saison, Even Flow Brink Berry Wheat, Moozie Milk Stout, Peach Cobbler Moozie Milk Stout and not pictured was the award-winning Brink English Brown Ale…

I really like Brink’s logo…

The Peach Cobbler Moozie Milk Stout was outstanding…

Piggin-N-Grinnin BBQ was serving up BBQ out on Brink’s patio as well…

I got the brisket sammich, and we shared some mac and cheese and Grippos BBQ chips…

And Genifer got a pulled pork sammich…

It was some really delicious BBQ! And some delicious beers. We really enjoyed the Even Flow Brink Berry Wheat…

GIANT SCRABBLE!

It was a bunch of fun hanging out at Brink. And it was so easy just to hop on the bus and we were there in no time. We’ll definitely be back very soon! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 29, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, April, Brink Brewing Co., Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, College Hill, Ohio, Piggin-N-Grinnin BBQ, Shaken not stirred, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on April 29, 2017

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Northside nubs.

We hung out in Northside this afternoon. First, we walked to Boswell’s Alley for a great lunch while we watched some of the Reds-Cubs game before heading down the street to Urban Artifact’s second-anniversary party…

We had a really great time. There were soooo many good beers. Afterwards, we walked over to Second Place so my parents could taste a little sample their bourbon and Arnold Palmer slushies. It was a fun afternoon in Northside before we Grabbed an Uber to over to Nippert Stadium to watch FC Cincinnati take on Louisville City FC. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 22, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, April, Boswell's Alley, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, Northside, Northside nubs, Ohio, Second Place, Shaken not stirred, Urban Artifact

Posted by Thadd F. on April 22, 2017

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Urban Artifact’s Squeezebox.

I met Genifer at Northside’s Hoffner Park this evening so we could walk over to Urban Artifact to try their latest creation, Squeezebox Strawberry Sour Bomb…

We hadn’t been to Urban Artifact in a minute so we got a flight to try some of the new stuff they had on tap today…

From left to right, we tried Squeezebox Strawberry Sour Bomb, Letterbox Dark Tropical Ale, Peanut Butter Sliderule Chocolate Raspberry Gose and Skep Honey Nut Muffin Ale. Here is everything Urban Artifact had on tap this evening…

All of them were really amazing but Squeezebox was the clear standout. It was like sucking on one of those little strawberry hard candies…

Urban Artifact also created four Squeezebox variants in 500ml bomber bottles…

There’s a Chocolate Strawberry Squeezebox, Spicy Margarita Squeezebox, Strawberry Margarita Squeezebox and Lemon Basil Sorbet Squeezebox. Walking home, the door to their production facility was open and we could see all the stacks and stacks of cans…

It was a very pretty evening walking home…

And now our refrigerator has some new friends…

But not for too long. We sat out on our back patio when we got home and shared the lemon basil sorbet Squeezebox. And it was just outstanding! Sooo good. I hope our whole #SPRINGinCINCY can taste like Strawberry Squeezebox…

Have we ever mentioned we love living in Northside? 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 4, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, April, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, Happiest hours, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Squeezebox Strawberry Sour Bomb, Urban Artifact

Posted by Thadd F. on April 4, 2017

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We found it!

This afternoon we walked down Hamilton Avenue to Django Western Taco for lunch…

After putting away another chicken biscuit with some more amazing Django chips and salsa, we walked down Blue Rock Road to Northside Yacht Club…

We heard that NSYC had the rather difficult-to-find Braxton Brewing Co. x Graeter’s Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip Milk Stout collaboration that has Cincinnati all abuzz right now…

And there it is…

It was really very good. I was hoping it would be a little more on the raspberry side. It was very chocolatey with a little raspberry on the back end. But it was still very good. Before we left, we also tried a NSYC concoction tequila and peanut butter…

And that was surprisingly delicious as well. So smooth and peanut buttery. It went down almost a little too smooth. Like you’d go to stand up after a few of them, and wouldn’t be able to feel your legs. Afterward, we walked over to Urban Artifact see if we could find their Caramel Sliderule…

But sadly, they were all out. So we had to settle for just a regular Sliderule. And it’s funny, I actually like it better than the much ballyhooed Braxton x Graeter’s collab…

It was a really fun and tasty afternoon. Do we live in a great neighborhood or what? 🙂

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by Thadd F. on February 11, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside

Tagged 2017, Braxton Brewing Co., Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Django Western Taco, February, Northside, Northside Yacht Club, Ohio, Shaken not stirred, Urban Artifact, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on February 11, 2017

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Ciderfest.

This afternoon we hopped on the Metro 17 bus to head down in Over-the-Rhine to visit the Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom. Christian Moerlein Brewing Company and Over-The-Rhine Cider Company teamed up to put together a hard cider sampling event today called as Ciderfest. And you know, we love our ciders. OtR Cider Company has two hard ciders, Original and Crisp. They collaborated with neighborhood bars and restaurants to create fourteen one-of-a-kind limited release ciders infused with various ingredients to be sampled this afternoon…

Our favorite out of all of the different flavors was the probably the Strappleberry. But there were a lot of really good ones.

After sampling all the infused ciders, we had a Moerlein Helles and a giant Bavarian pretzel with brown mustard and beer cheese…

It was a really fun event at a place we don’t really get to all that often. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on January 21, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Over-the-Rhine

Tagged 2017, Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom, Ciderfest, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Cincinnati Breweries, January, Ohio, Over-the-Rhine, Over-The-Rhine Cider Company, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on January 21, 2017

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New Year’s Day.

This afternoon we walked down to Boswell’s Alley to have some lunch, and watch the second half of the last Bengals game of the season. Have I mentioned Boswell’s wings are pretty dang awesome?

Afterward, we stopped to have some beers at Urban Artifact. We stuck around for an extra beer to see the start of a Drinks and Dragons event that was going on tonight at Urban Artifact. Our interest was piqued when we saw carry in this huge 20-sided dice…