Urban Artifact
Microbrewery
in
Cincinnati,
Ohio,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Urban Artifact Brewing
Established in 2015
Contact
Description
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
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz can. grapefruit gose - mild zest, good salt. nice light sipper. pretty good
Tried
from Can
on 29 Dec 2019
at 19:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$2 can from vintage estate. Clean crisp and refreshing, no as much pickle as I thought there would be. Tasty, refreshing. Fun, yes a pretty nice gose, much better than expected. Decent brew, thanks UA!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2019
at 20:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours deep ruby-tinged purple into a snifter. Purple head with little retention recedes to nothing. Sweet raspberry aromas. Soft with sweet raspberry and blackberry front to back. Dusty crushed raspberry skin finish.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2019
at 22:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Pours red. Raspberry, banana, strong berry, blackcurrant, not much sour. Good body. Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2019
at 02:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Pours deep red purple. Blackberry, jelly, slight tartness, slight bitter earthiness, blackberry finish. Medium body. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2019
at 01:26
9/10
Super funky
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2019
at 20:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from explosivedog: pours bright purple with a large punk head. Aroma is blackberry and vanilla. Taste is loads of blackberry, but the vanilla gives this a veritable pastry hint, which does more than just add vanilla flavoring in my opinion. Slightly boozy if you chug too fast. Nice Medium body. Quite nice.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2019
at 03:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Slightly hazy amber-gold color with a medium off-white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Aroma of dill pickle, malt and fruit. Light-bodied with a salty pickled cucumber character and notes of wheat, coriander and malt. The finish is fresh cucumber and salty citrus. Pretty good overall.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2019
at 19:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Grapefruit juice from calif? WTF? I no want juice from calif. Give me grapefruit juice from sinzy. From $2 can at vintage. Smells like slightly rotting grapefruit. Cloudy with lots of sediment. Taste is more tart than sweet and I like that. Lots of sour friction here against the palate. Yes, quite stimulating. When I saw it was graperfruti, I wasn't sure but it is mildly tart without any hop bitterness what so ever, thanks. Yes, decent brew and I thought it wasn't going to be as quite as exciting as it was.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Dec 2019
at 22:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 10/9/2019. Pours hazy very dark ruby red/pink/purple color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big juicy/sour/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, orange, peach, plum, pear, raisin, apricot, red/green apple, currant, red grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, and white bread dough; lighter notes of vanilla, peppercorn, musty/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of blackberries, fruity/acidic yeast, and pale/wheat malt notes; with big strength. Taste of huge juicy/sour/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, orange, peach, plum, pear, raisin, apricot, red/green apple, currant, red grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, and white bread dough; lighter notes of vanilla, peppercorn, musty/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, fruit tang, and yeast/tannic spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of sour/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, orange, peach, plum, pear, raisin, apricot, red/green apple, currant, red grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, vanilla, peppercorn, musty/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of blackberries, fruity/acidic yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with a fantastic malt/tart/sourness and tangy fruit balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering sour/tart/tangy and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and acidic/tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is fantastic. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.9%. Overall this is a fantastic fruited kettle sour. All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of blackberries, fruity/acidic yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish. Nicely soft and not overly lactic/tannic. Fantastic balance of super juicy/jammy berries and lacto complexity; with a nice sized wheat/malt backbone against acidity. Mild residual sweetness with crisp acidic/tangy/tannic dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and outstanding style example as expected. Love the whole Midwest fruit tart series.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2019
at 05:25