Rhinegeist Brewery (Cincinnati, Ohio) - 1 February 2014

Rhinegeist Brewery  tap room

Rhinegeist Brewery brewing equipment

Rhinegeist Brewery is located in the Over the Rhine section of Cincinnati, Ohio.  The name means "ghost of the Rhine".  The tap room and brewery are located on the third floor of what was once the old Moerlein bottling plant (built in 1895).  This unique space provides plenty of options.  To the right is the tap room portion of the space, a small bar with a number of long tables where you can mingle with friends or meet new ones.




Just off the tap room is the brewery.  Rhinegeist is  a production brewery and their beers can be found on tap all around Cincinnati and occasionally in Dayton. They have recently begun to can some of their  beers. When we were there yesterday, we saw some cans at the brewery and their Facebook site shows them on sale.  We haven't seen them yet in Dayton.

I've really enjoyed the beers that I have had from Rhinegeist, especially Truth, their flagship IPA.  Gramps, their Barleywine, is also very enjoybable.  Most recently I had Panther, their American Porter.  It was much better than the highly hyped Deschutes Butte Porter that just made its way into Ohio.

The space is large enough to host corn hole and ping pong

The view to the right is open space that dominates Rhinegeist Brewery.  It's large enough for a couple of corn hole games and 4 ping pong tables (2 shown here and more in the back right hand corner), more seating, and special event space (they were seating up for a Lunar New Year party when we were there last night.  (NB - there was a $10 cover charge for the event).   I have also heard that they have started in indoor whiffle ball league. There is definitely no shortage of fun at this place.