Southridge Brewing's Beer

Southridge Stout, our flagship American stout, pours a smooth black color with an off-white head. The aroma is a clean, classical American stout mix of roasted barley, chocolate, and coffee. A light to medium mouthfeel ushers in an initial mild dark chocolate flavor quickly followed by the classic bitter and roastiness of the roasted barley and chocolate malt. The sip finishes clean with a lingering chocolate and roastiness that subtly dries out the palate and leaves you reaching for the next sip. Southridge Stout clocks in at an easy drinking 5.2%, so it is a great year-round stout for enjoying a few pints while hanging with friends and neighbors.

Grandpa pours a deep brown with subtle red highlights with a tan head. The aroma is complex with roasted malt sweetness, caramel, pecan, chocolate, toasted white bread crust, and woody notes. The sweet malt-forward flavors of toasty caramel and chocolate are balanced by a medium to high woody and floral hop profile to round out a smooth easy drinking beer coming in at 4.3%. This beer is perfect for sitting at the bar and enjoying a pint or two. Or to enjoy after you send the grandkids back to their parent's house.

Ridge Line pours a beautiful amber color. The aroma is classic American pale ale drawing from the cascade, chinook, and simcoe dry hop. The aroma is candied citrus rind with notes of wet pine wood and just a hint of dank. The light mouthfeel ushers a simple malt flavor carrying loads of classic cascade pale ale flavor highlighted by sweet grapefruit and tangerine with subtle woody pine. The sip finishes light with just a bit of floral and resinous flavor hanging on the tongue. Definitely an easy drinker.

​Obec Pivo (pronounce o-betz pee-voh) pours a dark copper approaching black with garnet highlights with a thick off-white head. The aroma is clean with hints of roast, toffee, dried dark fruits, and bread crust. The flavor is deep and complex with discernable flavors of caramel, toffee, mild roast, mild coffee, plum, almond, and more. A moderately low noble hop profile balances the malt with a subtle floral earthiness and spice. 5%

Rhine Düsselzeit, named for the region of origin and the German word for time, pours a beautiful deep copper with a white head. The aroma is lead by a strong earthy and floral presence from the German noble hops and highlights of minerality from a water profile mimicking the Rhine region and subtle malt sweetness. An initial malt sweetness is balanced by a moderate bitterness with a smooth, medium mouthfeel. Notes of rich biscuit and caramel flavors give way to a lingering pleasant bitterness with an almost nutty flavor.

Linton's, named in honor of the historical Linton Dairy in Wilmington, Ohio, pours a beautiful golden-straw color with a white head. The aroma is clean and sweet with hints of grain, lactose, and mild fruitiness. The initial sip is sweet and clean with with a creamy foundation upon which mild citrus, melon, and apricot flavors follow. The aftertaste is simple and lingers with notes of apricot. Measuring just 4.1% ABV, Linton's provides a full-flavored low-ABV beer that is sure to hit the spot all summer long on the patio or hanging with friends around the fireplace.

Midwest Hop Summit Pours a hazy deep straw color with a full white head. The aroma is a deep mix of mango, melon, grapefruit, citrus, and fresh grass with hints of wood, resin, and pine. The medium-full body carries initial waves of subtle malt sweetness quickly followed by fresh and light characteristics of the AlphAroma (Rakau) and Vista hops. As the sip fades the Vista hop shines with its tropical fruit, melon, and green tea flavors giving way to a subtle floral nature from the Chinook balanced by lingering sweetness before finally drying the palate.

Meet Southridge Brewing's Chestnut Gathering.

Chestnut trees have a long and storied history throughout the world. In many cultures, the chestnut tree lived, figuratively and literally, at the middle of the community. As a perennial staple food crop, building material, habitat, and gathering place the chestnut tree flourished as a community center in many cultures. There is even a long history of making fermented beverages with chestnuts.

Our brewer has spent years working in the sustainable food arena. As a part of that work, he has spent time planting chestnut farms with Southern Ohio Chestnut Company and Route 9 Cooperative. During one of those plantings, a conversation around the history of fermented chestnut beverages sparked a research partnership that has resulted in several iterations of chestnut based beverages. Brewed in partnership with Route 9 Cooperative, Chestnut Gathering adds the next step in the series of experiments.

Thousands of years later chestnut trees are still bringing communities together to start conversations. Grab a pint of Chestnut Gathering and start a conversation.

Chestnut Gathering pours into the glass with a beautiful golden color with a white head. The aroma is sweet, woody, floral, and caramel. This 4% ABV, light-bodied golden ale at first sip is clean and malt forward. Quickly, as the beer coats the palate, a salted caramel like flavor appears. The aftertaste is dry and unmistakably roasted chestnut. Chestnut Gathering is almost like a blondie dessert bar in a glass.

It is February 1874.

A temperance movement has spread across Southern Ohio. Most notably to our story is the temperance movement known as the Women's Crusade. The Women's Crusade turns their attention to New Vienna saloonkeeper John Calvin Van Pelt. What ensues becomes a moment known as the New Vienna Whiskey War; an entertaining and wild story in Clinton County history. Complete with a twist ending.

The name of Van Pelt's saloon? Dead Fall.

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Dead Fall pours a rich reddish-amber with a white head. The hop forward aroma is led by herbal, woody, and resinous notes with lingering citrus and pine. A warm alcohol aroma can be found on the tail end of the sniff. This full bodied double IPA is unapologetically hoppy from start to finish. It reminds the drinker of the beers popular during the IBU wars of several decades back. The flavor bounces between woody, herbal, citrus, resin, and pine all on a semi-sweet malt base. The lingering flavor coating the tongue is a brite herbal, pine flavor. Clocking in at 8.6% ABV and 100+IBU the aggressive nature of Dead Fall is a fitting host to the moniker preserved through time by an interesting moment in Clinton County history.

Kava Redeye Stout is an aggressively coffee forward stout brewed in collaboration with our local coffee shop, Kava Haus. Redeye pours a deep brown bordering on black with a tan-white head. The aroma is smooth and fully coffee with hints of chocolate, blackberry, currants, leather, and black tea. The flavor is bright and acidic featuring blends of the Tanzanian coffee flavors of kiwi, chocolate, blackberry, tobacco, lemon, and black tea.

When you need a cold brew in beer form, Kava Redeye has you covered.