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Welcome to Brewdood’s Blog! Please allow me to introduce myself. I’m Brewdood, also known as Lenny Kolada, the founder of Barley’s Brewing Company and Barley’s Smokehouse & Brewpub in Columbus,...
View ArticleMini Real Ale Fest is May 4!
Our tenth annual Mini Real Ale Fest is on the calendar for May 4. We will be filling in details as we go, but we can tell you that we already have commitments. Four beers are already for-sure: –Bell’s...
View ArticleAdvice If You’re in a Beer Rut
My mother always told me not to give advice when it’s not asked for. But she died before I had a blog, so I’d like to share some advice with you. When you’ve been drinking craft beer as long as I...
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Prequel to Oysters & Stout
We’re hosting another Oysters & Stout this Thursday, February 28, and we’ll have a raft of porters and stouts along with fresh oysters on the half shell; smoked with garlic butter; and crisp fried....
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Ingredients Matter
This weekend, I learned again that ingredients matter. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to make some gravlax. For those of you who don’t know what gravlax is, it is salmon cured at a minimum, with salt...
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Behind the Curtains of the Mini Real Ale Fest
Update April 26, 2013 All our firkins have been identified and we are set to go! The last three to unveil themselves are pretty exciting. First, Four Strings Brewing Company here in town let us know...
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THE BIRTH OF AN ANCIENT TRIBUTE BEER: KA AMUNET
(Our First Beer You Won’t Be Able to Experience at our Brewpub) It started with a simple inquiry this past March. Linda Pansing, Curator of Archeology at the Ohio Historical Center, sent me an email in...
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Crafty Beers are not Craft Beers
It’s sort of bugged me for years now that a local restaurant has gotten a free ride on the tails of craft beer. There’s nothing wrong with the restaurant. In fact, I’ve had some great times there....
View ArticleRethinking Your Beer
This is perhaps the wrong time of year to write about rethinking your beer, what with all the holiday beers, with their myriad flavors, but I got to thinking about beer yesterday when I read that...
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Shitstorm
Ed note: Allegedly, Savor Growl, a local carryout, purchased all of the supply of Bell’s Hopslam from competitor Giant Eagle, with the intent of creating a shortage and reselling it. This post is not...
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My Woody Hayes Story
Tomorrow, we serve a firkin of Woody Haze 101 for our weekly Firkin Friday. I’m sitting here doing computer work, and I got to thinking about Ohio State’s greatest coach (in my mind.) I attended OSU...
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Ch-ch-ch-Changes
We’ve been working really hard the last three months. Really hard. Today, we debut a new menu. That’s the source for most of our planning effort this year, but we also did one more thing. We changed...
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Anatomy of a New Menu
We went live with a new menu yesterday. It’s one we’re really proud of, and it was three months in the planning. We hope you agree that we came up with exciting new items that you end up loving. We...
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Please Allow Us to Introduce Himself
Changes are brewing at Smokehouse Brewing Company. The start of 2015 finds us with a new Head Brewer. Sam Hickey is a Columbus native who left ten years ago to pursue culinary training in Cincinnati....
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Long Time, No Post
My apologies. It’s been a year since my last post. We’ve been busy at the Smokehouse, and otherwise. No excuse, though. Consider this a pre-post. I will make my first official post of 2016 on Tuesday,...
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Letting Go To The Deep End
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw First, an apology. You will read a mix of “we” and “I” in this post. It’s because what you are about to read...
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Birth of a Beer: The Backstory
Happy New Year! I find it hard to believe I don’t blog as much as I should. Real life gets in the way. In any case, I’m overdue. You may want to crack open a beer before you read this. It goes on for a...
View ArticleEt Tu?
Roman Polansky. Bill Cosby. Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein C. K. Lewis. Fred Lee? I am still in shock. You’ve probably heard the accusations by now. (If you haven’t, go here.) My thoughts are all...
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