Better Know a Brewery: Rhinegeist

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 02/03/2014 at 14:17 • Filed to: BKAB, beerlopnik

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Welcome to Better Know a Brewery, a post in which one talks about a local brewery. I would make this a series that others are encouraged to contribute to, because if there is one non-car thing that Oppo loves, it's beer.

Over the weekend I got to go and check out Rhinegiest located in Over the Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

(Full disclosure: I was somehow invited to a Chinese New Year party there on Saturday night. I only got to try two beers before I ran out of money and we left to go to a bar)

The building itself is the old Moerlein bottling plant. It is a really neat old facility that was built in 1895 when there were 38 different breweries located in OTR.

This is their picture of the inside when fully lit, it looked more like this when I was there:

The two beers I had were Ink (a Russian Imperial Stout abv: 10%) and an IPA that was either Saber Tooth Tiger or Truth (I don't know, it was handed to me by a friend of a friend and I couldn't hear what she said it was, you don't turn down free beer).

Ink was very dark and delicious, I give it 4.75 Little Brewers out of 5.

The mystery IPA was also really good, and I don't even like IPA's! It gets 4.33 Little Brewers.

I will make it back there some day when there isn't a party to drink more beers.

All pictures and non anecdotal information from their website.

Mattbob > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 14:20

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I like this idea! I will totally contribute!

That brewery looks super fun (and huge). Will have to check it out if I am ever in the area.

Gamecat235 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 14:22

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This is an awesome idea. Expect posts on all future breweries I can visit.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Mattbob 02/03/2014 at 14:22

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The street car should be up by then, this will make that really shady part of OTR a little nicer.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Gamecat235 02/03/2014 at 14:23

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I'll write one up for Mad Tree soon.

Gamecat235 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 14:26

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Well, we have quite a few micro and nano's here in Tucson. And then there are a few others in AZ that I have been to in the past.

Brewman15 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 15:06

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Great idea! I'll be sure to do a quick write-up on my favs as well.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Brewman15 02/03/2014 at 15:08

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Do it.

Brewman15 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 15:08

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what's street car? is Oppo getting more features?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Brewman15 02/03/2014 at 15:09

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The Cincinnati street car is what the construction in the first picture is.

Brewman15 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/03/2014 at 15:13

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Ha! That went totally over my head.

I was thinking streetcar was some new feature being adding to Oppo rather than the actual construction of a streetcar line in the pictures.

Oops.