Sandy Reda runs the annual Big Tap In beer festival, which bills itself as the largest craft beer festival between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The event is Saturday at the Covelli Centre in downtown Youngstown. Reda also helps run Vintage Estate Wine and…

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Columbus Underground has a story about yet another brewery planning to open in Columbus. The Actual Brewing Co. wants to be making beer this summer and also has plans to launch a brewpub downtown.
Actual joins an ever-growing list of breweries tha…

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Drink Up Columbus, the great website about imbibing in the state capital, has a write-up and review on the new Buckeye Lake Brewery in Buckeye Lake.
Buckeye Lake is located along Interstate 70 about halfway between Columbus and Zanesville. This is…

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The Hudson Library & Historical Society will hold its annual Ohio Author Day and Book Fair on Saturday. The event includes a children’s book writing and publishing panel discussion from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
More than 30 Ohio authors will be there from …

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The Casey Malone Show, which is broadcast on WFMJ and WBCB in Youngstown, recently stopped by the Cellar Rats Brewery and Debonne Vineyards in Madison for a segment. Phill Reda, co-owner of Vintage Estate Wine & Beer, accompanied Mal…

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The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a pretty lengthy story on the Spillway project in Chagrin Falls. The effort, which has been talked about for years, will include a brewery and restaurant.
The newspaper story focuses on the history of the former pape…

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Budweiser will donate $5,000 for every walk-off win during the Major League Baseball regular season this year to the Folds of Honor Foundation as part of the "Walk off a Hero" program.
The foundation provides post-secondary educatio…

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The Ohio Craft Brewers Association is behind the times when it comes to promoting craft beer and its members here. Groups in other states have dedicated websites and brewery travel maps.
Here’s another example of the progressive mar…

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American craft beer is making inroads outside the U.S. The Brewers Association, the Boulder, Colo.-based trade group, reported that exports rose 86 percent by volume last year and now have increased for the ninth consecutive year.
American craft…

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Samuel Adams is releasing a new session beer for summer: Belgian Session.
It clocks in at a low 4.3 percent alcohol. The brewery describes the beer as "a crisp, bright version of a traditional Belgian beer with fruity, slightly spicy flavors from …

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The BottleHouse Brewery, a new brew-on-premise operation in Cleveland Heights, will hold its grand opening May 1.
“Barring a tree falling on the building or something, we’re opening,” co-owner Brian Benchek joked.
That’s the good…

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Think starting your own brewery would be loads of fun? Well, it can be. But, there are plenty of headaches along the way, too.
Just ask Scott LaFollette. He’s the owner and brewer at the soon-to-open Blank Slate Brewing Co., a small production bre…

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Speakeasy, an online magazine run by students at Ohio University, has profiled Jackie O’s Pub & Brewery brewer Brad Clark, who just so happens to be an OU graduate with a degree in creative writing.
He also is one of the most creative and prolific …

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Andy Tveekrem is the co-owner and brewer at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The brewpub – which also is a micro-distillery – is across the street from the highly regarded Bier Markt and around the corn…

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About two weeks ago, I wrote a story for the Akron Beacon Journal questioning why there isn’t a television program devoted to beer. For that story (click here to revisit it), I reached out to Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales to get his t…

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