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Ohio on Tap Celebrates a Decade of Small Brewery Success!

Ohio’s craft brewery count was 50-something when I started with the OCBA 10 years ago. Collaborating to create this publication was one of my first major projects to celebrate and promote our state’s small breweries. That same year, Ohio’s legislature recognized the potential of the budding craft beer industry and nurtured it by creating the A-1c manufacturing license. That new craft permit lowered costs for small breweries, allowed them to serve their own beer in on-site taprooms and let them self-distribute to bars, restaurants and retail shops. Ohio’s craft brewing industry blossomed.

2013 yielded a bumper crop of 10 breweries that are still thriving today. Millersburg Brewing Company has been pulling pints in a former grocery store in Amish country for a decade. Staas Brewing Company was the first brewery in Delaware since Prohibition and continues to turn out Belgian and English-style ales. In the Dayton region, Hairless Hare Brewery took root in a strip mall in Vandalia, then doubled their space a few years ago when they assumed the adjacent former American Legion. Toxic Brew Co. ended a five-decade beer drought in downtown Dayton when they opened in its Oregon District. Yellow Springs Brewery opened in a former cannery, creating a space celebrating art and beer. MadTree Brewing began in an industrial space in Cincinnati and would become the first Ohio craft brewery to can their suds, while Rhinegeist first inhabited one floor and then expanded to occupy all of the massive former Christian Moerlein packaging hall it calls home. In Columbus, Seventh Son Brewing converted a former garage into a brewery that would eventually develop a production facility on an adjacent vacant lot. Wolf’s Ridge started brewing in the basement of their space in downtown Columbus and now operates a production facility on the west side and a taproom in a former school. Sideswipe Brewing started in a single warehouse space and kept growing into adjacent spaces that now include its taproom and pinball arcade. Cheers to the class of 2013 and 10 years of Ohio on Tap magazine!

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Mary MacDonald, Executive Director

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