greatlakesbrewing.com

Great Lakes Brewing Company, located just west of downtown in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland, stands as the state’s first microbrewery. The brewpub occupies two historic buildings on Market Avenue in Ohio City. The Taproom features the Tiger Mahogany Bar—Cleveland’s oldest. Bullet holes in the bar are said to have been caused by Cleveland Safety Director, Eliot Ness, the same who would later take down Al Capone in Chicago during the prohibition era (with the help of Sean Connery). The downstairs, Rathskeller, features distressed brick walls and another wooden bar. Adjacent to the brewpub is an indoor/outdoor beer garden, the perfect setting for a sunny day. In 1988, a brewery was added to the historic six-building complex, as well as banquet facilities, and a gift shop.

History:
The Great Lakes Brewing Company started crafting beer in 1988, at the beginning of America’s fascination with microbrews. They were the first such brewery in Ohio. The Conway brothers, who still own the facility, employed a master brewer, Thaine Johnson, who had worked in the last of Cleveland’s historic breweries, thus tying the old with the new. They produced 1000 barrels that first year. Today, they produce 70,000 barrels annually.

The Beer:

Great Lakes is best known for its amber beer, Dortmunder Gold. The brewery also produces Burning River Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Eliot Ness Amber Lager, and Holy Moses White Ale. Seasonal brews, such as Moondog Ale and Christmas Ale round out the selection. Great Lakes Brewing Company distributes in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In addition to the brewpub, Great Lakes beers are available at most beer outlets in Cleveland.

  siblingrevelrybrewing.com

Sibling Revelry Brewing was founded by a family of brothers and cousins from Cleveland who wanted to share their passion for great beer with others. Noticing a lack of breweries in the west side suburbs, the relatives set out to create a unique taproom and drinking experience rooted right in their own backyards.

Sibling Revelry’s sophisticated taproom offers a full selection of craft beers including year-round brews, seasonal varieties, limited releases and taproom exclusives. Pair beers with a rotating selection of food trucks with great foods like sandwiches, burgers, and more.

  mastheadbrewingco.com

Masthead Brewing Company is located in the historic Bryant Building at 1261 Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland. Our building was originally built in 1921 as an automotive dealership and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The taproom is a completely open floorplan with high ceilings perfectly suited for our operation.

The taproom features 300 seats, a 100’ long bar, and an additional 50 seat dog friendly patio with a view of downtown Cleveland. Masthead includes a full bar and kitchen focusing on American and Belgian style beers, Neapolitan wood-fired pizza, and a barrel aged beer program, which utilizes exclusively allocated whiskey barrels from top-rated distilleries.

  saucybrewworks.com

The story starts with our Brew Master Eric Anderson and Entrepreneur Brent Zimmerman. Beer fanatics. Always up for adventure. They decided to transform the Steelman Building into the kind of place that delivers nothing less than crazy good beer and legendary good times.

Eric graduated from the Master Brewing Program at the Siebel Institute of Technology. Traveled far and wide to learn the craft. Obsessed with quality. Uses creativity and background in microbiology to deliver experimental beers and next generation hybrids.

Brent Graduated from Miami University and the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Born Entrepreneur. Beer fanatic. Known for his unbreakable commitment to Cleveland and bringing business opportunities to the community that defy the status quo.

  railroadbrewingcompany.com

Railroad Brewing Company is Lorain County’s first onsite craft brewery/distributor and taproom. They brew exceptional craft beer, have an onsite beer garden, and offer a dog friendly, family environment.

Modeled after influences from the Colorado brewery scene, they sell beer on-site in their taproom, which often features live music, and to-go in growlers and 16oz cans. When available and cost-effective, they brew using locally sourced ingredients, like Chardon maply syrup.

  facebook.com/schnitzalebrewery

When it opens in mid-late September, Schnitz Ale is slated to be Parma’s first microbrewery, and will include a tap room, full-service bar, restaurant, and outdoor seating. The creation of Igor Djurin, whose family runs the neighboring Das Schnitzel Haus restaurant, Schnitz Ale Brewery will house six fermenters brewing everything from IPAs and Kölsch to Hefeweizens and seasonal beers.

In preparation for the Cleveland Oktoberfest Schnitz Ale Brewery and Planted Flag Brewing collaborated to produce a well-balanced German-style beer. This piece of art is malty and sweet, but still has that perfect festival drinkability. It is just plain refreshing! And they can’t wait to share our “secret” bier with everyone at the Cleveland Oktoberfest!

  bossdogbrewing.com

Boss Dog Brewing Company, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio was founded by brothers, Josh and Jason Sweet in 2016. Boss Dog prides itself on being a locally sourced full-service restaurant and 10BBL brewery with a massive dog-friendly patio.

In the brewery, their signature craft beers flow from over 10 taps, and their gastropub-style menu is complete with bar snacks, pizzas, sandwiches, & entrees to complement their beers and satisfy every palette.

  immigrantsonbrewing.com

Immigrant Son Brewery serves Lakewood and the Greater Cleveland area residents with traditional-style beers and globally-=inspired exotic beers, as well as classic and new culinary pub fare in a newly renovated space that brings old world and new world together in design, experience and taste.

Our core recipes are full of interesting and fresh flavors, but still focused on the subtleties of making great and balanced beer and distinctive foods.

Immigrant Son 2024 Competing Beers

• Hungarian Pearl Kolsch (Best German Ale)
• NEO Harvest Festbier (Best "Classic" Oktoberfest)
• ISB Pilsner (Best German Light Lager)
• Pump School (Best IPA)
• Common Ale (Open: Non-German Styles)

  plantedflag.com

Planted Flag Brewing is a 100% family and veteran owned business crafting delicious beer, cocktails, and food sourced from the best Ohio farms and Ohio businesses. We are located at 3594 Pearl Rd in Medina Township just minutes from I-71 and I-271 exits in Medina. Our 10 barrel brewery, taproom, bar and kitchen focuses on celebrating the best ingredients Ohio has to offer.

We feature rotating IPAs, Farmhouse Ales, Sours, and our specialty German style lagers all using Ohio malt. Planted Flag Brewing features a full kitchen focusing on sandwiches, soups, salads, and appetizers using chicken, beef and pork sourced from Ohio farms. We also have a great selection of spirits and all of our signature cocktails use handmade syrups and Ohio spirits. Our taproom and brewery is open and bright and our spacious outdoor seating features picnic tables, umbrellas, and scenic woodland views.

  workingclassbrewery.com

Working Class Brewery is a working class guy following a passion and dream to create great fresh local craft beer for hard working people. Richard Skains is an award winning brewer with over 10 years of experience working in professional breweries.

Working Class Brewery and taproom is located in the Kamm’s Corners area at 17448 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Working Class Brewery produces five year-round styles of beer and a variety of seasonal beers are also available throughout the year. In addition one-offs and experimental beers will be sold exclusively in our taproom. Our products are distributed in kegs to licensed retail outlets. The products of Working Class Brewery are wholesaled to premium pubs, taverns and restaurants in the city of Cleveland and its suburbs throughout Cuyahoga County and then to the broader regional market. In addition, Working Class Brewery has its own tap room where retail customers may come to view the operation of the brewery, purchase beer by the glass, beer to go, snacks, and retail items such as T-shirts, hats and glassware with our logo printed on them.

Working Class Brewing’s mission is to operate a principle-centered, environmentally respectful and socially conscious company committed to crafting fresh, flavorful, high quality beer for the enjoyment of our customers. We aspire to be a premier craft brewery in the Great Lakes region, give back to the veteran community and support organizations against drinking and driving.

  fatheads.com

Alandmark in the Pittsburgh area, Fatheads has opened a new location in the North Olmsted building that once housed Danny Boy’s Farmers Market. Matt Cole, formerly the brewmaster for Rocky River Brewing Company, is the Director of Brewing Operations for the new Fat Heads establishment.

“The Fat Heads concept circles around a laid-back, casual atmosphere with quality beer and fun, creative and innovative food,” said Cole to a Plain Dealer reporter. “You mention Fat Heads to anyone who knows Pittsburgh and they will tell you they’ve been there.”

  marketgardenbrewery.com

Andy Tveekrem is the Brewmaster and partner in the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland, Ohio. Currently under construction, the brewery, restaurant, beer garden and distillery will be opening in early 2011. Andy has been a professional brewer for 20 years and prior to this venture has been the Brewmaster at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware (2004-2009), Frederick Brewing Company in Maryland (2000-2004), and Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland (1991-2000). He grew up in Akron, is a 1985 graduate of the College of Wooster and now lives in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife, Vickie. Many of his interests seem to involve the letter B: beer, bicycling, bowling, and barbeque, to name just a few.

  thebrewkettle.com

The BREW Kettle opened its doors in the fall of 1995 as Ohio’s First Brew-On-Premise Microbrewery.

From that first day it has been our goal to provide our customers with the guidance, equipment and the freshest ingredients to produce quality, hand-crafted beers in an environment that is professional, safe and fun.

Eight years and 15,000 batches later, we are still committed to our customers’ needs and desires.

We invite you to visit our brewery to have a “look-see”, visit with our expert brewing staff, or try brewing a batch from our “tried-and-true” recipe list. we guarantee you’ll be hooked!

At The BREW Kettle you are the Brewer. We’ll provide the recipe, ingredients and assistance while you brew and bottle your favorite style of beer. The BREW Kettle offers over 70 different recipes to choose from. Chris McKim, our Brewmaster and winner of 9 National Brew-On-Premise Medals (including 5 GOLD’S!), has created each recipe to be technically accurate as described in the style guide for America’s largest beer event, The Great American Beer Festival.

The BREW Kettle is a social gathering place where small and large groups of brewers are invited to reserve one to six kettles. Your brew session will last approximately 2 1/2 hours. While you’re brewing, relax and enjoy a beer or homemade soda from our great selection. After brewing, we’ll help you cool and transfer your brew into a fermenter and we’ll look after it during fermentation. When you return two weeks later, your beer will be chilled, filtered, carbonated and ready for you to bottle. A brew session produces 6 cases of beer(22oz bottles). Or if you prefer, we’ll keg your brew for parties or home draft systems.

The BREW Kettle offers a wide variety of label options for you to personalize your brew. Choose form over 200,000 clipart images, or provide us with your own design. From simple black & white “stock” labels to color scans from you personal photo library, our designers can meet your needs. Commemorate your next special occasion such as birthdays, weddings, baby announcements and holidays with your own unique label design.

The BREW Kettle is your source for homebrew supplies. We offer by the pound, whole grains and unhopped malt extracts and by the ounce, pellet hops.

The BREW Kettle and Ringneck Brewing Company also offer a wide variety of carry-out bottled beer and soda. And don’t forget our logo gear and gift certificates are always available. Your personalized brew can be a great gift, a unique addition to any party, or simply the best and freshest beer for enjoyment at home.

The BREW Kettle invites you to Brew with the Best. Our expert brewing staff is always ready to help you brew your own. We promise you’ll be proud to exclaim, “That’s my beer!” And every batch comes with our “complete-satisfaction-guarantee”. We look forward to serving you.

  thirstydog.com

H ere at the Thirsty Dog Brewing Company, full flavor, delicate balance, texture & aroma combine to make beer an infinitely complex experience, and one that can be thoroughly enjoyable.

Each of our beers are meticulously hand crafted in small batches using the finest ingredients. High quality malted barley is the source of the beer’s sweetness & body. Select American & European hops are used to balance the malt sweetness, and , at times, add special flavors & aromas to the beer.

Our careful selection of ingredients, along with specially designed recipes & brewing processes, give Thirsty Dog beers their unique flavor profiles that can be hard to find in today’s mass market. “one size fits all” society.

Our microbrewed beers are far more diverse in range and character then the small spectrum of mass-marketed beers offered to the American public by the large national breweries.

Welcome to Thirsty Dog Brewing Company, and welcome to great beer!

  collisionbendbrewery.com

Collision Bend Brewing Company is an artisanal brewery and full-service restaurant, featuring crisp, bright beers brewed on site, served alongside freshly prepared Southern California street food.

Located on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland’s Flats District, the brewery is housed in the newly renovated Hausheer Building on Old River Road. Built in 1863, the site first served as a chandlery, where Civil-War era-merchant ships stockpiled supplies before setting sail onto the Great Lakes.

Today, beer is handcrafted by one of Cleveland’s preeminent brew masters, Luke Purcell, who helped launch the Great Lakes Brewing Company into national fame. Luke, and his team of brewers, carefully pair a variety of beers with an eclectic menu of food prepared from scratch that includes small plates to share and pizza from a wood-fired oven.

Many of the brewing and food ingredients are locally sourced. A menu of fresh, natural food was designed specifically to compliment the unique flavors of beer and will continue to change as Luke releases new batches.

Across an expansive, waterfront patio, diners can watch iron-ore freighters carefully inch themselves around the infamous Collision Bend – a U-shaped turn in the Cuyahoga that has tested ship captains for more than a century and sparked citywide debates about redirecting the river.

Exclusive parking and private dock space for boats make Collision Bend Brewing Company the most accessible destination in the flats.

Collision Bend Brewing Company is setting new standards in modern microbreweries. With an unrivaled fresh, natural menu and beers destine for national awards, the brewery is quickly becoming a Cleveland landmark on the Cuyahoga River.

  hopbrothersbrewing.com

Relying on decades of experience in craft brewing and restaurant ownership, our team bonded over their love of beer-making – and a shared desire to create a new North Ridgeville destination to eat, drink and make great memories.

David Wittschen, Founder & Managing Partner, is a customer experience fanatic. He blends decades of business and restaurant ownership experience with a relentless pursuit of service excellence to ensure every patron has a great time here.

Gavin Rousek, Head of Brewery Operations, is an Olmsted Falls graduate who has been involved in the art of brewing since childhood, helping out with homebrewing. He has worked in every aspect of the craft and refined his technique at the prestigious Siebel Institute. Since the start of his career, he has been a part of the team that won five medals at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup - Two of which were gold. His goal is to create beers with a notably distinct flavor profile and beers that are true to the style.

  nanobrewcleveland.com

Nano Brew Cleveland is a friendly neighborhood brewpub with 24 beers on draft both at the inside bar and at the lively outdoor Beer Garden Bar. Enjoy a freshly brewed beer from our 1 barrel brewhouse or any of the other local craft breweries we feature on draft. Brewmaster Andy Tveekrem brings over two decades of award-winning brewing experience to this small but mighty brewhouse to turn out adventurous and at times experimental brews. From one of a kind brews to recipes that might make it to full scale production at our Market Garden Brewery & Distillery just down the block, the lineup of beers will change daily.

  gooseisland.com

When the first Goose Island Brewpub opened its doors in 1988, domestic, mass-produced beer was deeply ingrained in Midwestern culture. The craft beer industry was still in its infancy, with only a handful of brewpubs in existence in the Midwest. In his travels across Europe, beer-lover John Hall had enjoyed a distinctive local brew in each region he visited. Hall was convinced that Midwesterners could produce beers as good or better than those he’d tasted in his travels. Living on the shore of the largest system of fresh water on the planet Earth, in a city with rapidly evolving tastes – John decided that his hometown, Chicago, would be the ideal place to do just that.

The key to building interest in craft beer, Hall decided, was to allow consumers to watch the brewing process – while providing them with the then-novel experience of enjoying a wide variety of distinctive beers that had been produced on-site. Hall wanted to not only cater to his customers’ tastes, but to challenge them as well. Goose Island’s brewers set to work crafting a diverse selection of unique beers – and on Friday, May 13, 1988 the Goose Island Brewpub was born.

It turned out that John was right; Chicagoans palates evolved rapidly once Goose Island’s Brewpub opened its doors and introduced the city to distinctive craft beer. By 1995, the brewpub had become so popular that John Hall and his son Greg, who had by then become Goose Island’s brewmaster, decided to open a larger brewery and bottling plant to keep up with demand. Finding still more room for growth, in 1999 the father-son team opened a second Goose Island Brewpub just a stone’s throw away from historic Wrigley Field.

Today, Goose Island continues to brew an innovative selection of over 50 craft beers at the brewpub, the best of which are then bottled at our Fulton Street brewery. Goose Island also produces a small selection of craft sodas. The company currently ships its beers to 15 states and the U.K.