Cincy Brewcast

Cincy Brewcast is a local craft-beer chronicle centered on Cincinnati's breweries, beer events, seasonal releases, and the social world around them. The show is led on mic by the Gnarly Gnome, whose style is informal, opinionated, and visibly invested in the city. It is not polished into generic beverage media. That is part of the point. Episodes often feel like sitting at the table while someone who knows the scene catches up with brewery people, talks through what has changed, and opens something worth discussing. The focus stays mostly on Cincinnati beer, but the frame can widen into drinking culture more broadly, including Cincy Drinks magazine, cocktails, spirits, coffee, soda, tea, and whatever else might belong in that local beverage conversation. Recent episodes cover Bacchus Brewfest, Higher Gravity's Beervent Calendar, Alexandria Brewing Company's move toward West Chester, Streetside conversations after major beer competitions, and Braxton's Factory 52 space. The show also has a strong streak of annual ritual. The Oktoberfest Quest turns packaged Cincinnati Oktoberfest beers into a bracket-style seasonal obsession, with logistics, eliminations, and repeat tastings treated as part of the fun. Cincy Brewcast likes the community side of beer as much as the beer itself. Event hangouts, music, designated-driver tickets, grab bags, neighborhood bars, and odd recording locations all matter here. So do bigger questions about brewery identity, growth, and what happens when customers want restaurants and light beer while breweries still want discovery and excitement. The show is useful for local drinkers tracking openings and events, but it also works as a record of how one city's craft-beer scene talks to itself. It can be rambling. It can be funny. It can be very specific. That specificity is the appeal.