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Raise Your Glass to These February Beer Festivals in Arizona, Ohio and Quebec

February 2, 2012 at 12:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Besides the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day—we could take or leave that last one—February doesn’t have too much going on. It’s a great month to head somewhere warm to escape the winter weather, but it seems like this season hasn’t even been that chilly or snowy. That’s why we’re suggesting the old standby—drinking—to get you through this month. Here’s three beer festivals where you can toast to February:

Cincy Winter Beerfest

They’re preparing plenty of kegs, glasses, and other beer paraphernalia in preparation for this month’s frothy festival in Cincinnati. The fun takes place on February 10 and 11, and there are still plenty of tickets available for you and your drinking buddies. This year tickets will set you back $35 in advance of the party, and that’ll get you a snazzy souvenir cup—capable of holding five ounces—that you can refill up to 25 times. Things get underway each evening around 7:30pm, and the last call is just after 10pm so be sure to pace yourself.

The drinking take place at the Duke Energy Convention Center, and this year’s festival marks the end of the inaugural edition of the city’s beer week. Expect at least 300 different craft beers from here, there, and everywhere, and organizers are hoping for at least 10,000 beer fans to be in attendance. Brewers like Dogfish Head, Elevator, and Three Floyds are just some of the attendees planning to show off their lagers and ales. Organizers even have a spreadsheet of those planning to attend, so you can even take time to prepare your plan of attack.

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Porters, Lagers and Ales On Tap This Month at Three Winter Beer Festivals

January 4, 2012 at 11:36 AM | by | Comments (0)

The holidays might be over, but that doesn’t mean that the need to warm up with an adult beverage has gone away. Sure there aren’t any holiday beers at these festivals, but there are still plenty of winter puns available and brewers are doing their best to warm you up. Here’s three winter beer festivals arriving this January on three different weekends:

· Columbus Winter Beerfest – Columbus, Ohio:
When you think of craft brews and beers you might not think of Columbus, Ohio, but organizers of the Columbus Winter Beerfest are looking to change that. This year’s festival filled with winter warmers and hoppy ales takes place on January 14. The plan is to have like 250—or more—different beers from all over the place, and they’re expecting like 6,000 beer fans to enjoy each and every one. Things take place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center beginning at 6:30pm, and they even have hotel packages available at the local Hyatt in case you enjoy one too many.

Samples include pretty much every beer brewed in Central Ohio, as well as plenty of other options from outside the Buckeye State. Tickets will set you back $30 in advance, and that’ll get you 25 tickets for plenty of different samples including sips of Elevator Dirty Dick’s Brown Ale, Fat Heads Bumbleberry Ale, and Left Hand Milk Stout. Oh, and if you have a great time at this festival, be sure to check out their next event—there’s a summer beer festival in May as well.

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What Do Candy Canes and Ohio Have in Common? Answer: Spangler Candy's Factory Tour

December 6, 2011 at 9:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Whether you like it or not the holiday season has definitely arrived, so you might as well embrace it. That’s why now's a good time to skip out on the holiday shopping—and maybe work—to see how all those candy canes get from the factory to the store.

Spangler Candy makes tons of candy canes each year, and they’ll be more than happy to show you how all the sticky and stripe-y creations come together. If peppermint isn’t your thing—don’t worry—they also make Circus Peanuts and Dum-Dums.

The factory is open each day of the week during the summer, but during the winter months the doors are open to visitors between Wednesday and Friday from 10am to 3pm. They’ve got a little store—for souvenirs of course—and museum, but they do recommend giving a call to ensure they’ve got a spot for you since it’s first come first served.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Ohio's Peanut Buttery Buckeyes

November 11, 2011 at 1:43 PM | by | Comments (2)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Buying off-brand Peanut Butter Cups is risky. Oftentimes they just aren't as yummy as Reese's and, even worse, they could come in a holiday tin with a Currier & Ives scene printed on the top. Yuck. That's why it's high time to share a secret indulgence of our own which can only be gotten in parts of Ohio.

The peanut butter and chocolate treats are Buckeyes, shaped like the actual nuts they're named for, but tasting so much better. Their existence is a school- and state-spirit thing, and you'll find them in Columbus to honor OSU, and Toledo, because that's nearest where they're made (in Perrysburg, Ohio). Both cities are usually passed through on road trips, but we advocate taking an hour to detour and find Buckeyes.

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The TSA May Be Getting Overconfident About Those 'Gingerbread Man' Scanners

August 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM | by | Comments (2)

TSA spokesman James Fotenos has emailed us a clarification about this story. Check the bottom of this post for the update, including an answer on what you can expect from TSA's Gingerbread Man scanner policies!

It's kind of a big day for Ohio travelers, as three of the state's airports got the new Gingerbread Man full-body scanners that TSA has been rolling out. Officials at CLE, TOL, and DAY have started routing flyers toward the new and very much working machines, which provide all the security of the old scanners without the backlash-inducing nudey picture overtones.

Further east, RDU is supposed to be getting the new scanners in the coming days, and of course we covered the installations in BWI and TPA in the political/technical backgrounder we did last week (you can read it here).

TSA officials are talking as if the new machines will resolve the concerns that everyone has with full-body scanners. We're not so sure.

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Three Summer Solstice Celebrations to Welcome the Season

June 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM | by | Comments (0)

Today is going to be a long day—literally—as the sun does its thing in the northern hemisphere longer than any other day this year. All that sunshine brings out the crazy and fun in people across the country, and there are plenty of festivals and gatherings to celebrate the season. Here’s just three of the best that you can attend this week and this weekend:

· Skandia Folkdance Society's Midsommarfest:
Citizens of the Seattle area are ready to celebrate the summer solstice this weekend along with their Swedish heritage at this year’s Midsommarfest. The area’s Skandia Folkdance Society is responsible for the seasonal celebration this weekend, as visitors and locals are invited to welcome the arrival of summer at St. Edward State Park in Kenmore, Washington.

The fun begins around 11am local time on Sunday, June 26 with plenty of music, folk dancing, flower crowns, and food; however, the main event happens at about 2:30 in the afternoon. That’s when the grand parade is in full swing and everyone gathers around to witness the raising of the majstång—that’s the garlanded midsommar pole and not something from IKEA. Admission to the event is free, as is parking, so if you’re in the area and want to celebrate a little summer and a little Scandinavia this is probably a must see.

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Run with the Pigs at Next Month's Marathon in Cincinnati

April 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you missed the Boston Marathon earlier this week—don’t worry—there’s still plenty of marathons where you can risk injury to gain access to a gold medal. The Boston Marathon doesn’t really have a theme or anything clever going for it, so that’s why we’re glad we skipped it to focus on the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon.

The main even takes places on Sunday, May 1 where runners from across the nation and the globe will make their way through the city and to the Finish Swine—their words not ours—as quickly as possible. We’re not experts when it comes to road races, but this has got to be one of the few marathons that actually takes runners across a state line—here they even run into Kentucky.

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How to See the Cincinnati Zoo's New Baby Giraffe

April 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

You might not think of Cincinnati as a hotbed of animal and botanical conservation, but it turns out that the city has one of the best zoo and conservation programs in America. Though the park is relatively small, it's the second-oldest zoo in the country and its Reptile House is the single oldest zoo building in the United States. That plus a bunch of other stuff was enough to earn it a National Historic Landmark designation, and today the grounds are a mix of old buildings and heavily renovated modern displays.

There are over 500 species spread across the park, and the zoo's breeding program focuses heavily on larger mammals like cheetahs, tigers, rhinos, and gorillas. The big news this week, though, is that their giraffe Tessa gave birth to the park's first baby giraffe in 26 years.

We obviously recommend flying in for the weekend to see the still unnamed little girl—viewing details are here—but in the meantime there are photos aplenty plus the video of the birth we've embedded at the bottom (the video starts off kind of messy so this is your official content warning).

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George Clooney Returns to His Cincinnati Roots for 'Ides Of March'

January 17, 2011 at 2:15 PM | by | Comments (0)

George Clooney may have spent New Year's on a beach in Cabo, but he'll soon be turning in the sunshine of Mexico for the Midwestern snow and cold.

Clooney is set to begin shooting Ides of March in his hometown of Cincinnati and northern Kentucky next month. George is a graduate of Augusta, Kentucky High School, which is about an hour outside of Cincinnati. His dad Nick, who still lives in the area, also worked at several Cincinnati television stations throughout the 1960s and 70s and has written columns for the local newspaper too.

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Why Does Toledo Express Airport Need a Full-Body Scanner?

December 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM | by | Comments (2)

Yesterday, it was announced that the latest airport to receive a Full-Body Scanner was Toledo Express Airport, in Toledo, Ohio. Our first thought: "umm, why?" Toledo Express isn't exactly known for being a high-traffic airport with a variety of passengers passing through; in fact, it's barely known at all, seeing as how it serves a whopping average of five flights a day to such exotic locales as Chicago and Minneapolis, and—if they're lucky—Detroit, only 45 minutes north by car.

Now we're not blindly hating on TOL; we've got family in the area and we've flown into and out of this airport more times than we care to admit. It's just that Toledo Express Airport has no reason to have a full-body scanner, other than the vague cry of "terrorism." All the potential knife-wielding gang members flying out already hustle up to Detroit to catch flights anyway. Toledo can't even call itself "Toledo International" because it only offers regional flights. But wait, now let's talk about the current security at TOL and why it's enough...

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This Saturday, The Football Hall of Fame Does Its Best to Celebrate the Season

October 15, 2010 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

If for some reason you feel compelled to combine football and Halloween then there’s only one place to go this weekend. Head to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio to trick-or-treat among the bronze busts of football’s finest.

This Saturday is HALLoween Family Fun Day—clever, right?—so if you’re stuck with the kiddos you can easily disguise a little begging for candy along with you love for the pigskin. There will be 20 different places to do you trick-or-treat thing—they’re even promising Hershey branded candies so skip breakfast. Make sure to help out the little ones as best you can, because if they do well in the scavenger hunt you can help yourself to their $50 prize to the hall of fame’s gift shop.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Gotta Get Some Goetta in Cincinnati

August 13, 2010 at 2:41 PM | by | Comment (1)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Mmm...breakfast meats. We know that Cincinnati, Ohio may exactly be the most exotic of locales for finding this week's featured "foreign" grocery, but it's such a special and region-specific item that it's totally worthy of the limelight.

What we're talking about is Goetta, patties made of ground meat (typically pork) and pinhead oats, a peasant foodstuff devised during the earliest days of Cincinnati. According to good old Wikipedia, "the dish originated with German settlers from the northwestern regions of Oldenburg, Hannover, and Westphalia who emigrated to the Cincinnati area in the 19th century." It's origins are older than Skyline chili and it's far harder to find, but when in southern Ohio, you gotta get some Goetta.

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