About
Urban Artifact is Ohio’s home for sour beer; located in the historic St. Patrick’s church in Cincinnati. With a special emphasis on fruit beers, they have created a niche with their signature overfruited Midwest Fruit Tart style focusing on balance, drinkability, and real fruit. Brewing a bevy of different sour beers, from the standard German style gose, to the exotic spontaneously fermented barrel aged sour with a wide variety of different fruits, there is sure to be something new and exciting to explore. We are currently on pace to use over 400,000 lbs of real fruit this year alone!
Our Northside, Cincinnati taproom is open seven days a week, with food service provided by Wildfire Pizza Kitchen. We host live music five nights a week at the Radio Artifact Live stage, and make the historic church sanctuary, The Reliquary, available for receptions and events.
Radio Artifact, the Urban Artifact hosted independent music radio, can be listened to on 91.7FM HD2 in Cincinnati or live streaming online at radioartifact.com
Our Northside, Cincinnati taproom is open seven days a week, with food service provided by Wildfire Pizza Kitchen. We host live music five nights a week at the Radio Artifact Live stage, and make the historic church sanctuary, The Reliquary, available for receptions and events.
Radio Artifact, the Urban Artifact hosted independent music radio, can be listened to on 91.7FM HD2 in Cincinnati or live streaming online at radioartifact.com
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Pours a murky purplish color with a small quickly fading head. It smells of berries, maple, and malt. The flavor is sweet with a blend of berries, maple, vanilla, and more. The high abv is thoroughly buried under everything else. This beer is good but to me seems muddled. Maybe it’s trying to do too much at once.
Tried
from Can
from
Belmont Beverage - West State
on 21 Feb 2025
at 05:32
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can a 12pack of other Pickle beers. Poured a golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was big cucumber, in fact, I was kind of surprised how much this was like cucumber juice over everything else that I expected this to be. I've had other pickle beers, and those are usually more acidic and dill like. In a way this was quite nice due to how refreshing it was, it was kind of like cucumber juice with some coriander. Maybe not the best beer to have in the middle of winter, this would probably hit really well during a hot day during the Summer.
Tried
from Can
from
Total Wine & More - Ballston
on 20 Feb 2025
at 06:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can a 12pack of other Pickle beers. Poured a golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. This was my favorite in the pack. There's sweetness, sour, and tartness. Light sweetness is coupled with some pleasant saltiness. I really liked this one, it's got dill, a variety of spices. I can see what they're talking about with the name Chicago Relish.
Tried
from Can
from
Total Wine & More - Ballston
on 20 Feb 2025
at 01:56
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can a 12pack of other Pickle beers. Poured a golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. Unlike Pickle, there was more depth to the aroma in this one, the sweetness of the bread and butter pickle comes through here. Cucumber, light sweetness, with some very light tartness comes through. Kind of liked this one.
Tried
from Can
from
Total Wine & More - Ballston
on 19 Feb 2025
at 23:56
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from the February 2025 Small Batch Society. This beer is a slightly hazy golden color with a medium thin white head that dissipates steadily to a wispy film. Sparse strings of lacing. Aroma of lemon, spice and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of mildly tart lemon, Old Bay spice, malt and yeast. The finish is fruity up front with an Old Bay spice aftertaste. Unique for sure, and decent overall.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Feb 2025
at 21:48
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can a 12pack of other Pickle beers. Poured a golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. Like Pickle, the aroma was big cucumber. There was a light pepper aroma to it, but not overly hot. I've had spicy beers and this really didn't smell all that much like a spicy beer. Cucumber juice with some coriander, dill and some very light spice. Maybe not the best beer to have in the middle of winter, this would probably hit really well during a hot day during the Summer.
Tried
from Can
from
Total Wine & More - Ballston
on 17 Feb 2025
at 14:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours chunky, murky orange with no head. Smells of tart mango. It tastes quite tart, at least moderately so. Obviously there’s mango. To me there are also citrus notes. Maybe that’s just from the tartness. It’s malty and finishes tart. Good fruity brew.
Tried
from Can
from
Belmont Beverage - West State
on 07 Feb 2025
at 05:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours hazy purple with minimal head. It says black raspberry but for some reason when I smell it I keep thinking grapes more than anything. The flavor is lightly tart. It’s sweet, malty, and very fruity. Again… grapes? I think some blackberries too. It’s alright. A bit odd.
Tried
from Can
from
Belmont Beverage - West State
on 07 Feb 2025
at 05:47
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Brewer's Tap draught, 2/2/25.
Mostly clear bronze-brass. Little/no head.
Some mildly punchy lactic acid with big papaya acidity and softer pear sugars. Clean.
Lightly juicy with strong pear flesh and less papaya in flavor. Sweet, soft, creamy almost. Bit punchy on the lactic character and a touch thin at points. A bit too sweet, too.
Mostly clear bronze-brass. Little/no head.
Some mildly punchy lactic acid with big papaya acidity and softer pear sugars. Clean.
Lightly juicy with strong pear flesh and less papaya in flavor. Sweet, soft, creamy almost. Bit punchy on the lactic character and a touch thin at points. A bit too sweet, too.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Feb 2025
at 20:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Canned 7/22/2024, drunk 1/27/2025.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, light copper-to-golden-brass. Quickly-fizzling, off-white head.
Smells like a pumpkin pie. Maybe a bit heavy handed on the spice...especially given this is 6 months old. But there's a fruity, juiciness to it that suggests there's actual pumpkin in here, as well. As with their other beers, no heavy lactic acidity. Quite aromatic, clean, inviting, albeit spice-forward.
Softer than expected in both texture and flavor. Sweet malts up front add brown sugar and a bit of caramel, as spices don't have any aggressive acidity left, at this point (if they ever did). Low lactic character and only just slightly tart, really. Malty and almost juicy with what seems like quite a bit of vanilla. Glad the cinnamon/clove/nutmeg isn't strong in flavor, allowing the malt and other characteristics to shine. Quite balanced and drinkable.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, light copper-to-golden-brass. Quickly-fizzling, off-white head.
Smells like a pumpkin pie. Maybe a bit heavy handed on the spice...especially given this is 6 months old. But there's a fruity, juiciness to it that suggests there's actual pumpkin in here, as well. As with their other beers, no heavy lactic acidity. Quite aromatic, clean, inviting, albeit spice-forward.
Softer than expected in both texture and flavor. Sweet malts up front add brown sugar and a bit of caramel, as spices don't have any aggressive acidity left, at this point (if they ever did). Low lactic character and only just slightly tart, really. Malty and almost juicy with what seems like quite a bit of vanilla. Glad the cinnamon/clove/nutmeg isn't strong in flavor, allowing the malt and other characteristics to shine. Quite balanced and drinkable.
Tried
from Can
from
Julio’s Liquors
on 27 Jan 2025
at 22:17