The taproom has since expanded into the former homebrewing production area that faces Dana Avenue. Even more small breweries opened the next year after Ohio lowered the permit fee to open a brewery in the state.ĭan Listermann installed a small bar modeled after the one he saw in photos from his grandfather Martin Listermann's saloon. Those breweries included Fifty West Brewing Co. "That really changed the whole industry," Dan Listermann said.įive craft breweries opened in Cincinnati that year.
The brewery began turning the area into a place for people to drink beer after an Ohio law took effect in 2012 that allowed craft breweries to operate taprooms in much the same way vineyards were allowed to have tasting rooms.
"A lot of people aren't aware of the transformation of this building," said Jason Brewer, general manager for Listermann Brewing.īrewer referred to the space Listermann once used for manufacturing. Listermann Reflects Law That Fueled Craft Beer Boom "If you aren't making your own beer, you're going to have to drink someone else's aren't you?" "The homebrew shop is still an important part of our business," Listermann said. The brewery though still sells home-brew kits. Listermann said he stopped manufacturing original homebrewing parts in 2008 after production became increasingly time-consuming. Dan and his wife Sue Listermann then purchased the building in Evanston where Listermann Brewing is still located in 1995. I started making my own beer and then I'd find little things that I could improve in equipment and I started the business in 1991 of manufacturing home-brew equipment."Īfter juggling two careers for two years, Listermann quit his job as a quality engineer at Senco Products to focus on making and distributing homebrewing parts full-time. That was the beginning of the end of my engineering career. "He said he wanted to try again and I said, 'Johnson don't do that.' My brother and I then went up to his house and made some beers and that was really good. "Then in 1988, my old roommate Brian Johnson called," Listermann said. Instead, he graduated and landed a full-time engineering job, which was actually fortuitous for future craft beer lovers. Listermann said he didn't attempt to make his own beer for another fifteen years. After brewing two batches of undrinkable beer, he then threw the whole kit out. Listermann recounts how he came across this small brewing kit at a local pharmacy. There are currently more than 50 craft breweries operating in and around the Queen City thanks to major changes in Ohio's beer-making laws.ĭan Listermann's first foray into homebrewing took place when he was an engineering student in 1973 at Miami University in Oxford. We hand-bottled a lot of things."Īs Listermann Brewing prepares to celebrate a decade of making beer with a three-day party this weekend, the Queen City brewing landscape looks significantly different. We had to sell it to bars in either kegs or bottles. We couldn't sell it like we do now out of our own taproom. "We had a little two-barrel system back there and we got the ball rolling on getting our license. "A woman from Hamilton offered to sell me a brewhouse, and I took her up on it," Dan Listermann said. Listermann Brewing opened about three months before the original Rivertown Brewery opened in Lockland.
opened in Union Township in 2005 and the chain restaurant and bar, Rockbottom Brewery & Restaurant on Fountain Square were making small-batch beer at the time. Listermann said he could count the number of craft breweries operating in the region on one hand when he fired up the brewery's original two-barrel brewhouse at 1621 Dana Ave. "It doesn't seem like it's been that long but we've come along way." "It's been fun," said Dan Listermann, the brewery's founder and namesake.
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CINCINNATI – When Listermann Brewing Company received its license to make beer in June 2008, craft brewing was still a bit of a novelty in Greater Cincinnati.
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