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Boston Beer to expand West End brewery

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By Jon Newberry

Post staff reporter

 

Boston Beer Co.'s plans for an expansion of its Samuel Adams Brewery in the West End has gotten the green light from company founder and Cincinnati native Jim Koch.

 

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www.enquirer.com

Good news!! I hope they add tours and a tasting room.

I wish  Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co was still there :(

Good news!! I hope they add tours and a tasting room.

 

Indeed!

 

And I hope to see Christian Moerlein brewing beer back here soon.

Mmmmm.... Christian Moerlein.....

yay! i drink sam adams sometimes, partly because it's the cheapest ohio beer i've seen....yeah yeah, it isn't really an ohio beer, but i count it as such.

 

 

and i second that mmmmmm on the christian moerlein

Ohio beer.....Miller and Budweiser have big plants here too....I accidentally ran across the Miller, I think, brewrey...located between Middletown and Hamilton..saw this big factory, wondered "what the heck is that..its huge!"...drove to it and it was a brewrey.

Miller is the worst beer ever.  It is fustrating that they are the only beer available at Party in the Park.  Hopefully the people pushing Christian Moerlein will get involved with sponsoring it this summer.

^ If you think Miller is the worst beer ever, you should spend some time at my old fraternity house...

at least sam adams says cincinnati on the bottle, miller and budweiser make no such mention...besides, weren't we talking about beer? :-D

Yes Sam Adams does and I thank them by drinking Sam Adams when Christian Moerlein or Harp isn't available.

The Miller plant is in Trenton and yes, it is between Hamilton and Middletown.  They make mostly MGD I believe.  The interesting thing about that plant was it was built and then sat empty for nearly a decade. Finally it started production . . .

 

Budweiser's Columbus plant has a tour similar to St. Louis although clearly not as historic.

I agree that this expansion is probably good news...I just wish the city didn't have to PAY $80,000 to demolish an old building that likely has some historic value

 

As for Christian Moerlein, I wish they would hurry up and move into one of our old breweries!

I'm really weird about my beer consumption, I really like christian moerlein, Hudy, Wiedemann, my first beer I ever had was a little king..hehehe the little green grenade. Guiness is my fave european brew. I don't like the name Sam adams Boston lager..maybe if they changed it to Sam adams Cincinnati lager..i would drink it.. :|

Can you still get Hudy and Burger?  If so, where?

No and No as far as I have searched.  I even went to the so called IGA in Clifton looking for it as some previous member mentioned.

The comet has hudy, burger has dissapeared:(

cool, I'll try the comet...what about little kings?

Another article from today.....

 

 

Sam Adams will brew more of his beer here

 

By John Eckberg

www.Enquirer.com staff writer

 

 

Mayor Charlie Luken (left) and brewery founder Jim Koch toast the expansion of the Sam Adams brewery on Central Parkway. Another 200,000 barrels of beer will be made there each year.

 

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The party source has little kings, wiedemann. the best thing to do would be contact the distributor directly, they are in saylor park I believe.they deal with all the old cincinnati brews that are now made elsewhere.. :cry:

I have looked for them at the Party Source and could never find them except for the "Wu Dey" mini kegs they sold there.

The party source has little kings, wiedemann. the best thing to do would be contact the distributor directly, they are in saylor park I believe.they deal with all the old cincinnati brews that are now made elsewhere.. :cry:

Pessler Distributing.

Here's the image from the 1/7/05 Enquirer story that the Cincinnati Kid posted:

 

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Mayor Charlie Luken (left) and brewery founder Jim Koch toast the expansion of the Sam Adams brewery on Central Parkway. Another 200,000 barrels of beer will be made there each year.  The Enquirer/Tony Jones

 

  • 6 months later...

And some photos of the area surrounding the brewery:

 

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Welding process piping for the beer:

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back alley of brewery

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beer tanks:

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Party Source almost always has Little King's.  Unfortunately I've found the taste to be inconsistent.  The better batches are sweeter and sort of carbonated, almost as if Sprite were beer.  The four cases I took back last time are bitter and I've been going through them a lot slower than usual.  Haven't seen a Little King's 40oz in years.  And more Little King's jargon -- "King Me!".  I got Hudy in bottles at Party Source back in April but they didn't have it there a few weeks ago.  They tasted awesome -- way better than I remembered.  They had Wiedeman in 6-pak cans in April too.  Last time I had Burger was probably last summer at a bar called The Leaf which is right next to LaSalle High School.  It was reformulated and had a spiffier can -- I remember getting real bunk buzzes off it back around 1999.  Back then I fooled around with a really foul girl one time thanks to Burger's evil powers.  They used to sell it in these absolutely plain brown boxes with dull red lettering at the Kroger next to Bogart's for around $6 for a 24 case.  They were selling Wiedeman real cheap there too at the time.

 

People seem to remember Burger more than Top Hat.  They were still making Top Hat up until at least 1993.  I know that because my dad kept a large stash of various beers in the garage at all times and I snuck a few Top Hat's in my bean bag chair took it to band camp that summer.  Not enough to get messed up on though and they were consumed uneventfully.     

 

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Little King's is 5.5%, which is kind of high for a regular beer but only average for a 40.  40's are all about getting belligerant, and if I feel like getting mean this always does the trick:

 

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I worked at Thriftway while I was in college and I remember them carrying Top Hat up until maybe 1993 or 1994.  (I used to stock the beer case.)

 

  • 3 weeks later...

From the 8/5/05 Cincinnati Post:

 

 

Sam Adams invests in West End brewery

By Jon Newberry

Post staff reporter

 

After a $6.5 million expansion of the Samuel Adams Brewery is finished, the West End brewery, former home of Hudepohl-Schoenling, will make more than two-thirds of parent Boston Beer's annual output.

 

For more info, click link

www.cincypost.com

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050805/BIZ/508050340/1001/RSS04

 

  • 2 months later...

Though this was supposed to be done by now, the brewery is getting ready to add a 2,400 square foot addition.  I have no idea what this is, exactly.  Most of the heavy work was being done in May.  You can see the 24 aging tanks in the photos Jimmy Skinner provided.

  • 4 weeks later...

From the 11/19/05 Cincinnati Post:

 

 

Roll out the barrels

By Jon Newberry

 

Boston Beer Co. founder Jim Koch unveiled a new brewhouse at the company's Samuel Adams Brewery in the West End on Friday, calling its just-completed $6.5 million expansion a sign of its commitment to the city.

 

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BOSTON BEER'S LINKS TO CINCINNATI

Owner: Boston Beer Co.

Products: Sam Adams Boston Lager, Sam Adams Light and more than a dozen other varieties.

Annual capacity: 800,000 31-gallon barrels, or 44 million six-packs.

Founded: 1934 as the Schoenling Brewing Co.

Merged: 1987 to form Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co.

Acquired: 1996 by Boston Beer Co.

 

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051119/BIZ/511190314/1001/RSS04

 

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