Beer Name: Super Conductor
Brewery: 8 Wired Brewing Co.
Beer Style: DIPA
ABV: 8.8%
Size: 16.9 oz. bottle
Beer Advocate: 90
RateBeer: 98
More fruits of a recent trip Bub and I took to Kentucky. This hoppy DIPA comes all the way to our tasting table from New Zealand. An interesting foray into the world of NZ beers and hops. Watch it and you will see how my dog has great comedic timing. In the words of Maxwell Smart “Missed it by that much.”
Thanks to all of you who participated! It was great to read which Ohio beers people enjoy the most. Stay tuned because this won’t be the last time we give away some exciting beers.
So finally, the winner is……Joe Wilkins! A long time friend of the blog who runs J’s Carryout in Mingo Ohio, which we assume is the only place you can buy craft beer in Mingo Ohio.
So not only do I give advice on what beer he should stock, but now I just give him my favorite beer…..great…..I don’t even like you that much Joe…..JK 
For those wondering how I drew the winning name: I kept track throughout the contest of entries and referrals on a spreadsheet. I then took the names and dumped them into the Random.org list generator. After the names were randomized and assigned numbers. I then used the random.org integer generator three times and used the first number it returned on the third randomization.
Beer Name: Sour Cherry Porter
Brewery: Rivertown Brewing Co.
Beer Style: The name says it all.
ABV: 9%
Size: 22 oz. bottle
Beer Advocate: 86
RateBeer: 87
Drinking gets you drunk… and we film ourselves drinking… it was only a matter of time until we did one of these reviews where we were a little drunk. Enjoy our review of a sour made right here in the heart of it all, Rivertown’s Old Sour Cherry Porter.
Beer Name: Total Domination
Brewery: Ninkasi Brewing
Beer Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
ABV: 6.7%
Size: 22 oz. bottle (available in 12oz too)
Beer Advocate: 84
RateBeer: 95
We at Ohio Beer like to spread our wings and fly sometimes, these flights – whether they are ours or FedEx’s – sometimes bring with them beers from distant realms like this guy from Oregon. Watch it. Also for those checking it is 65 IBU. 
You read that correctly my friends, we here at Ohio Beer know how difficult it can be to come across the rare / super limited beers so we’re taking the hassle out of it for you. Aren’t we sweethearts? The contest is going to take place over a period of two weeks starting 4/5/13 and ending at 8pm on 4/19/13. When the contest is over a winner will be randomly selected. Here’s how to obtain a entry.
Step 1:
In the comment area below this post tell us what your favorite Ohio beer is and why. This will count as a single entry. Please include your first and last name (this will ensure we don’t get spammed to death and that everyone only gets a single entry. (If you are in witness protection or this skeeves you out, post your response with your initials and email BubOhioBeer@gmail.com your first and last name and a copy of your post)
Step 2:
Spread the word! anybody that gives us a Faceboook Like or Twitter Follow (of any of the Ohio-Beer crew) that mentions you sent them gets YOU another entry.
Step 3:
Be our friend! A like AND follow to any of the contributors accounts is good for 1 entry for each. (shoot us a tweet/post on this event on our wall that you are here for the contest so that we know you are really Patrick Duffy and not a Patrick Duffy bot)
So for example if you comment your favorite Ohio beer, Like, Follow one of our accounts and get 5 referrals, your name will be entered in the contest 8 times!
(If you already Like us and follow at least one of us, let us know in your post on our webpage because your name will be entered 3 times initially.)
Extra Credit: We may tweet questions about the blog, beer, or any damn thing we like on twitter or facebook. First correct response will get your name in again.
Rules:
Best of luck to everyone!
Beer Name: Bourbon County Brand Stout 2012
Brewery: Goose Island
Beer Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
ABV: 15.0%
Size: 12 oz. bottle
Beer Advocate: 100 (Currently #8 overall)
RateBeer: 100 (currently #20 overall)
Bub and I take on a 15% beer you can’t buy in Ohio but you probably have heard of. I’ve had this beer before but it is always a treat and thanks to one of our readers Joel for hooking us up with it.
Beer Name: Iron Throne
Brewey: Ommegang (Copperstown NY)
Beer Style: Blonde Ale (House Lannister)
ABV: 6.5%
Size: 750ML Bottle
Beer Advocate: 84
RateBeer: 93 overall and for 96 style
If you guys didn’t hear, Game of Thrones premiered tonight. What better way to celebrate the premiere than by taking down a 750ml bottle of Blonde ale created by Ommegang for the show? It makes my heart tingle with joy to know that HBO went with a craft brewer rather than a mass produced piss beer that isn’t even fit for wildlings. Even though I am kissed by fire, I am 100% Team Khaleesi and I spent the whole week looking forward to drinking this beer while staring at her.
The first beer in the series is dedicated to the Lannister House and is appropriately a blonde ale. It pours easily and emits a perfect golden glow from the glass. It has a nice light head and smells of Belgian yeast and spices. At only $7.50 for a 750ml I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the first taste was very enjoyable. A very light carbonation delivers a nice combination of light spices and paradise grains. The lemon peel is also there and adds just a slight bit of tartness to bring balance. This is a very crisp and clean beer and is very well executed by Ommegang. This is a very approachable beer that should garner interest from non-craft beer drinkers and for that, I love it. The beer finishes as clean as it starts and carries a very light mouthfeel.
Ratings
Sessionability: 2 Pack, a 750ml is right around two 12oz bottles and should suffice
Overall: 5pack. A very well executed and approachable beer, just missing the WOW factor. The house of lions would gladly fill their chalices to the brim.
Best Consumed: while using your remote to engage in fake sword fights and while pondering how much you want pet dragons and pet direwolves.
Beer Name: Green Easter (Green Gold)
Brewey: Mikkeller
Beer Style: APA
ABV: 7%
Size: 12oz Bottle
Beer Advocate: 87
RateBeer: 99 overall and for style
Well, if you are one of the 5 people who reads me regularly, you have probably been wondering where I have been. If that is the case, go ahead and read this next part, if you don’t care about me and want to read about the brews, skip to the next section ( I don’t blame you) So a couple months back I had a celiac scare, the gene runs in my family and I was convinced I had it because there was about a 95% chance. I gave up gluten for a couple months and did not see any significant change; a quick blood test confirmed that I do not in fact have the gene. In essence I won the gene lottery!! Well, sort of, I am still a damn ginger. I waited a bit before getting back to writing, since this is the most popular day for resurrections, I decided to rise like the Phoenix. So here I go, out of the ashes to return to my fiery form! (Please imagine “Mars, the bringing of war” is playing because I have a flare for dramatics)
Since Mikkeller decided to do two Easter beers, I decided to drink them both. Shocking right? Green Easter pours pretty easily and comes with a nice head. The simcoe, cascade and Amarillo hop aromas come pouring out of the class and I could tell right away that me and this beer were about to have a makeout session. So when I did put this beer in my mouth I was not at all surprised that is was delicious. You get a perfect balance of the three hops on delivery. Very grassy and damn tasty as the light carbonation helps to deliver a nice bitter from start to finish. The bitter is not overwhelming, but it does finish with a nice pucker. This is a very approachable and nicely balanced with just a touch of malt on the front end. I would recommend this for someone looking to get into the IPA/APA style. Also, the bottle has a hulk hand choking a chicken with no explanation, so there is that. You may not like me when I am angry, but you won’t find me angry if I am drinking this brew!
Ratings for Green Easter
Sessionability This is a very easy 6 pack. I could drink this all day.
Overall: 5 pack leaning toward the 6 side. The only keeping it from a 6 is that it is in a class of really good IPAs, but probably not elite
Best Consumed: Not with peeps. Grill a brat and watch some baseball with this to wash it all down.
Beer Name: Hoppy Easter
Brewey: Mikkeller
Beer Style: IPA
ABV: 6.6%
Size: 12oz Bottle
Beer Advocate: 87
RateBeer: 93
The second zombie Jesus beer for today is “Hoppy Easter”. Mikkeller, really making us flex our mental muscles to understand the complex name of this beer. The beer pours easily and forms a nice little stratus cloud of foam. I put my nose up to the glass and get almost no scent, which is odd for an IPA. It smells almost like a bock or a lager. When it first hits your mouth you get just a bit of carbonation and a light hit of hops. The hops are so feint in this beer that I cannot even make a guess as to the strain they used, so I will make up one. This beer was brewed with “Soccer Hops” because BORING. This beer is a snooze fest. It almost tastes more like a standard pale or maybe a lager that is a bit hop forward or a combination of the two. This is like listening to your one aunt that talks about her strategy when it comes to extreme couponing. It’s not going to kill you, but it’s not worth paying attention to either. I am glad the Green Easter was so tasty because even with the cute little drunk bunny on the front of the bottle, I cannot say I would recommend this beer.
Ratings for Hoppy Easter
Sessionability: 1 pack? You could easily plow through 6 of them, but why? Maybe you would if you are that asshole who thinks a plain bagel with nothing on it is tasty.
Overall: 2 pack, it’s not offensive, just not a well executed IPA in the opinion of this hop lover.
Best Consumed: Watching soccer, knitting, napping.
So BubOhioBeer had this idea. Usually we ignore his ideas because, well… frankly, he is drunk a lot. But this time we felt like he might be on to something. He said to me, “Ya know -hic- you guys know what, what, what we should do? What we should do is get drunk… I know, I know, I know, I know ‘we get drunk all tha time’ but what I mean ‘s we should get drunk with people, like, all the time, like reg-u-laraly. Like make it like a thing, you know, I know yoooou know. Like on Mondays. Ha, yeah like we should do some drinkin’ on Mondays, drinkin’ on Monday’s with people.” And Monday Night Drinking Club was born!
So here is the deal, one of any number of the Ohio-beer.com crew will be at a bar with a great craft beer selection each Monday. Come out and share a beer with us. Chat beer with us. Chat non-beer things with us. Meet people who [hopefully] won’t order flavorless lagers when there are better things to be consumed. And most importantly have a good time after dealing with work on a Monday.
The inaugural meeting of Monday Night Drinking Club is this Monday, April 1st, at World of Beer Brewery District, and we have laid out a plan for the rest of April as well, see below:
April 1- WOB Brewery Dist.
April 8 The Daily Growler
April15 Hal & Al’s
April 22 The Pint Room
Apri 29 Bob’s Bar
So come out and there might be a gift or two in it for you (hint we have 50 snap bracelets to give out). And to keep your self updated with the latest Ohio-beer events check out our facebook page.
Beer Name: Oompa Loompa
Brewey: Fat Head’s
Beer Style: Chocolate Cream Stout
ABV: 6.5%
Size: 12oz Bottle
Beer Advocate: 82
RateBeer: 80
Well, hi there! Long time no see. I have been M.I.A. for awhile and for that I would like to apologize. I’ve missed all of you very much, and I will try my best to not be gone for so long again. Also I would like to say welcome our newest contributor Mr. Samuel Lewis: I’ve enjoyed your first two posts and am looking forward to the ones to follow!
Today was very solid: I got to sleep in and go beer shopping with fellow Ohio-Beer blogger BubOhioBeer (also he shared one of his KBS with me!). Bub and I hit up one of my new fave beer stores, Ale Wine and Spirits in Powell. Now, I’m a Twitter nerd and follow many Ohio breweries, so when I saw that Fat Head’s was releasing their chocolate cream stout Oompa Loompa, I immediately went on a hunt to find it. At last, today while perusing the beer selection at A.W.S., I finally found my golden ticket – so to speak – and picked up a sixer of the stout.
My excitement for this beer was really unbridled; I guess I just figured that my love for Fat Head’s and stouts would be a match made in heaven. I even rewrote the lyrics of the Oompa Loompa song on the way home. (Sidenote: If you’re not familiar with the song, click here first.) It went: “Oom-pa, loom-pa, chocolate cream stout. Open this bot-tle and pour it in my mouth.” Catchy, right? But, like most things in life, the beer didn’t quite fulfill the hype I had built it up with.
As you can see in the picture, the beer was poured in a tulip glass and produced a bubbly, khaki-colored head which left very little lacing during drinking. The aroma was mainly sweet dark chocolate with faint hints of vanilla, but nothing too overpowering. The taste was very similar, with notes of the chocolate up front with a roasted malt and mineral taste coming in at the end. I really didn’t pick up the vanilla, and the thinness of the beer was kind of disappointing. Usually with a cream stout the texture is more…well…creamy, but Oompa Loompa felt more like a thin porter.
If you couldn’t tell, I felt a little let down by Fat Head’s, but they’re still one of my favorites and I’m looking forward to whatever they bring out next!
Ratings
Sessionability: Oompa Loompa didn’t pack that big of a punch in the form A.B.V. or taste, but I could drink several of these and be fine. 4-pack.
Overall: This beer just let me down; I was expecting so much, and in my opinion it failed on most fronts. 2-pack.
Best Consumed: I’m not really sure. I guess on a sort of cold day, maybe with some dessert.
You be the judge. The first two people not related to the site to retweet this review, I’ll send a bottle to you. No joke.