Jackie O’s Aims to Build Two-Story Patio Downtown

Editor’s Note: At the February 23 meeting of the Downtown Commission, the patio received strong support, but the project will have to come back next month with more detailed drawings before it can be approved. Read more about the meeting here. When Athens-based brewery Jackie O’s took over the former home of Elevator Brewing Company […]
BrewDog Heads to New Albany for Next Central Ohio Location

BrewDog is adding a fourth location in Central Ohio. The brewery will head to 97 W. Granville St. in New Albany (the corner of East Dublin Granville Road and Main Street) for its next adventure. The former New Albany Mill site will provide BrewDog with over 8,600 square feet of space – 6,900 square feet […]
The Top 10 Local Breweries in Columbus

Local breweries were hit hard by COVID in 2020, but creative pivots have ensued to help businesses weather the storm. While in-person bar foot traffic is understandably down, local breweries have switched to online orders, deliveries, curbside pickup and more grocery/retail options for drinking at home. When we surveyed our readers and editors at the […]
Jackie O’s Opens for Curbside Pickup, Taproom & Brewery to Follow in 2021

Jackie O’s is bringing a little bit of Athens to Columbus – at least in curbside spirit. The Athens-based brewery is now offering curbside pickup from its retail storefront at 171 N. Fourth St. In October, the brewery announced it had purchased the former home of Elevator Brewing Company Downtown, with plans for on-site brewing, […]
Seventh Son Issuing Beer Bonds

Buy Bonds! Support local….breweries?! Seventh Son is introducing a new kind of “bond” that’s way more fun than the buy-bonds-support-the-war-effort kind of nostalgia the word normally conjures up. Getting creative in the face of a year that has decimated the bar and restaurant industry, Seventh Son is issuing its own “bonds.” Folks can buy a […]