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Our 10 Favorite Breweries in Cincinnati

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Rebel Mettle Brewery

The brewers focus on making lagers, and most of them are bottom fermented. The crew does good as keeping a well-rounded lineup on tap so that anyone who enters will find something to enjoy.

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Braxton Labs

Braxton Brewing Company started in a garage and has become a well-known brand since then. The team doesn’t cut corners, which shows in its barrel-aged beers and lagers.

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This brewery only uses pure, locally grown and sourced ingredients. The crew believes that craft beer should be elegant like fine wine, and the master brewer has spent many years honing his skills.

Esoteric Brewing Co.

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Bircus Brewing Company is genuinely unique. It’s already in the name, which is a combination of beer and circus, and you can see why as soon as you walk in. The space that hosts circus acts, live music, and other entertainment.

Bircus Brewing Company

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With Belgian influence, Humble Monk makes a decent variety of delicious beer. It has eight or so taps in the taproom, which has an inviting and warm environment.

Humble Monk Brewing Co.

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Along with being located in a small town, the brewery is a small 5-bbl producer that creates everything from New England IPAs to German beers to traditional lagers to barrel-aged stouts.

Alexandria Brewing Company

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The MPH taproom is a large space with the bar to one side, which serves MPH and Left Hand brews. Because of that, there’s a wide variety of craft beers on tap.

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With 50 years of combined brewing experience, 13 Below Brewery was opened in the Pendleton neighborhood by three passionate cousins and one friend.

13 Below Brewery

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The first craft brewery to open in Mason, 16 Lots Brewing Company has a 2,000-square-foot taproom and a wide selection of brews.  There are always 16 on tap.

16 Lots Brewing Company

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Big Ash Brewing features self-serve beer, wine and cider. In the Skytop Pavilion, it has 28 taps and charges by the ounce.

Big Ash Brewing