Breweries to visit in Columbus, OH

BrewDog goes hand in hand with avarice and prioritizing extreme, rapid growth.

Edit: only I don't think BrewDog will sell. They'll be the ones buying soon enough.

 

That is true. I guess because I first hand got to enjoy Platform before they lost their good people and the beer quality dropped like a rock as they started to grow the way they did. I mean, selling fruited sours and demanding you refrigerate it because they will explode. F you Platform! That is unacceptable no matter what way you cut it.

If they made great beer, it's one thing. But I just dislike how they operate these days. I can deal with BrewDog, for whatever reason.

So while yes, you are correct but there are other things that influence if I care to visit a place or not.

 

Thing with the Columbus stout is scene is a lot of the best stouts in the area tend to not be downtown. Combustion out in Pickerington brews the best breakfast stout in central Ohio IMO, but I doubt you're going to want to drive out there to see if they have it on tap. CBC Steel Dawn is an outstanding BA stout, but CBC doesn't have a tap room, so you need to find a bar that carries it on draft.

Jackie O's brews some of the best stouts in the country, but they are in Athens, not technically Columbus, so you could certainly go hunt for bottles in the shops or see if any of it is on draft.

Wolf's Ridge has a stout game I'll put up against anyone's, but they could have just one Dire Wolf/variant on, or they could have like 3-4. Coffee Cherry Vanilla Dire Wolf was outstanding this weekend when I had it.

So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold yourself to only visiting breweries, you might wanna check the draft lists of some of the beer bars, and you might get a chance to see a more expansive selection of stouts on draft.

 

Go to Pies and Pints in Easton. Great pizza and tap list. You won't be disappointed.

 

Wolf, Hoof, and Pretenuous all sell bottles to go.

If you do a bottle shop run you can hit Weiland’s, and both savors (market and growl) in close proximity. While there you could do the crest for a nice dinner/beer selection and or hit up studio 45 for an independent cinema experience that serves good beer.

We have two options for skiing, snow trails or mad river. I haven’t been to either in a long time so I’ll let someone else chime in on which is better. They are in different directions but probably about the same distance from downtown?

 

Mad River is probably a touch closer. Not sure what you are used to skiing, but don't have high hopes for either if you are used to skiing real mountains.

There is a Top Golf in Polaris, if you are into that sort of thing.

 

Not to muddy the waters, but if you do go to Snow Trails, and it craps out, you're not all that far from Wooster, OH and JAFB, who consistently turns out the best IPA's in Ohio, IMO.

 

Non beery options:
Blue jackets hockey game
Short North gallery hop (art)
North market (international foods, hot chicken takeover, kajohns hot sauce stand - local hot sauce favorite get the firehouse)

Man I’m struggling here, Columbus isn’t great to begin with but in the winter it is especially brutal.

 

Take a detour to Marengo and hit Hoof Hearted before JAFB too. Controversial, I know.

 

What about "Florida Man" though?

 

Hey...the New York Times doesn't go around listing just any old city as #47 on their "52 Places to Go in 2019" list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ml?place=columbus&smid=fb-nyttravel&smtyp=cur

 

I’m going to be in Columbus tomorrow for the day for work. Work ends at 5:00 in Dublin, I have a flight out at 9:00 & will have a rental car. Looking for a spot that has good recommended food & beer, preferably local that I can’t get in Chicago. It doesn’t have to be a brewery could be a craft beer focused bar/restaurant. Flying solo, so don’t need to accommodate any non BA’s.

Looking at this thread I only saw Wolfs Ridge and Pies & Pints mentioned as having food. Any other recs? Will getting to & parking at Wolfs Ridge be a PITA that time of day?