Now in its fourth year, Fat Head's Celebration of the Hop IPA Festival is one event you may regret missing out on so make sure mark your calendar now. Brewer Matt Cole's follow-up to the brewery's other ode to hoppy brews, the Heavyweight Brewers Brawl, this India pale ale fest is a chance to feed your hop fix this October. While 2010's fest saw a handful of west coast beers unavailable in Ohio (including brews from Bear Republic, Port Brewing and Coronado) make rare appearances, last year's event brought the focus back to Ohio with the likes of Columbus Brewing, Buckeye, Willoughby,...
John Lane and his golden creation Winking Lizard has been a staple of the craft beer scene in Northeast Ohio for more than 25 years. Already known for their array of beers — more than 100 in bottles — and rotating taps of more than a dozen each month on draft, the inevitable next step was a retail store. In early 2011, Lizardville came to be. Housed in the original location of the first Winking Lizard in Bedford Heights and featuring over 600 rare and unique beers and another eight on draft, it became a mecca for beer aficionados. The Lizardville beer store and whiskey bar allows drinke...
Fat Head’s Hosts Second Heavyweight Brewer’s Brawl While the past few months have brought Northeast Ohioians such beer bashes as The Big Tap In and The International Beer Fest, there really hasn’t been a battle for best beer. Until now. The fine folks at Fat Head’s Brewery and Saloon are set to unleash the second annual Heavyweight Brewer’s Brawl. Last year’s festivities drew over 1,500 beer enthusiasts, with Cleveland’s own Great Lakes Brewing Company walking away with the title belt thanks to brewmaster Luke Purcell’s Lake Erie Monster IPA. North Olmsted’s Fat H...
So do you remember hearing about a Northeast Ohio beer collaboration from last October's Cleveland Beer Week festivities that was set to be a wet dream for beer enthusiasts? If not let me give you a refresher course. Twelve breweries from the area including Great Lakes, Fathead's and Hoppin' Frog teamed up to create six unique brews for purchase in one neatly packaged 12 pack beer sampler. Orginally it was set for release in October, then Thanksgiving and then Christmas. But nothing came of it. The reason for the delay was well needed government approvals and the complicated decision of...
