Cincinnati, Ohio, was once a city well-known for its beer. With a large German immigrant population, the city boasted over thirty breweries by 1860. However, Prohibition in the early-1900s led to several breweries closing. The explosion of craft beer in the United States since 2000 has led to the city boasting more breweries now. Rhinegeist Brewery was not the first craft brewery in town, but may be one of the city’s best known brands with its easily recognizable ghost skeleton logo. Brewery’s history The short version of Rhinegeist’s history is that the brewery opened in a former Christian Moerlein Brewing Company building in 2013. However, the tale is much longer…
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Five great places for beers & bites in Cincinnati’s OTR
There is a lot to say about the Queen City and its beer and culinary scene. However, instead of trying to cover everything available across the city, let’s focus on the one area at a time. The hippest, hottest part of Cincinnati is the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) District. So here are five great places for beers and bites in OTR. A brief history of OTR The district earned its name because of the large German population that walked over the Miami and Erie Canal (now Central Parkway) to work in downtown in the mid-1800s. The canal was jokingly called “the Rhine” in reference to the important river in Germany. Today, the…
