Ohio Adventures: Akron Blues and Brews Festival

Spouse and I enjoy micro-brewed beer and we are so lucky to live in a city and state that really celebrates the culture around micro-brewing. Just in Columbus, we have:

• Barley's Brewing Company
• Barley's Smokehouse and Brewpub
• Columbus Brewing Company
• Elevator Brewery and Draught Haus
• Four String Brewing Company
• Hoster Brewing Company
• North High Brewing Company
• Seventh Son Brewing Company
• Zauber Brewing Company

When you widen your view to include the whole state, there are some really good, solid breweries around here. Go even farther, regionally, to Mid West breweries and WOW. Really amazing diversity of brews to fit any taste palate. 

We are also very lucky in that our state celebrates many occasions on which to drink these tasty adult beverages, in the form of beer fests. Nothing on the scale of the Great American Beer Festival, which we were lucky enough to attend in 2007, but decent fests commensurate with the size of our cities.