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
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can from explosivedog: pours pinkish orange with a small head. Aroma is loads of guava... not sure if I can get much banana. Taste is lightly sour, with loads of guava. Sole beer backbone but this is a real fruit bomb.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Nov 2019
at 05:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at Beer Grotto A2. Pours a clear purple with a near white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma is full of rich berries with a nice tartness and a light funk. Flavor is full of dark berries with a light yogurt and a hint of funk.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2019
at 00:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cloudy gold-bronze color with a medium thin white head that diminishes steadily to a film. Strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of apricot, vanilla, orange and malt. Medium body with flavors of apricot, vanilla, spiced orange and biscuit malt. The finish is sweet vanilla and apricot/orange. Good beer overall.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2019
at 16:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a cloudy dark golden color with a medium thin bone white head that recedes steadily to a film. Partial rings of lace. Apricot, vanilla, spice and malt in the nose. Medium body with flavors of cinnamony apricot jam, vanilla, mildly funky yeast and doughy malt. The finish is fruity with a tangy apricot aftertaste. Good beer overall.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2019
at 16:25
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This beer pours a cloudy rusted gold color with a medium white head that dissipates steadily to a film. Stringy lace. Apricot, lemon, yeast and spice in the nose. Medium body with flavors of tart lemon, apricot, basil, vanilla and slightly funky yeast. The finish is fruity with a lemon and apricot aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2019
at 15:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This beer pours a very cloudy dark orange-bronze color with a thin off-white head that dissipates steadily to a film. Fruity and nutty aroma with vanilla and malt in the background. Medium body with flavors of apricot, almond, vanilla and malt. The finish is spiced nuts and apricots. Good beer all around.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2019
at 21:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz. Aroma has notes of banana, a mango-esque note that I guess is mangosteen, Brett, kiwi, guava, wet stone. Pours murky yellowish-orange with an immediately collapsing off white head. Looks a bit like a banana orange smoothie. Taste is moderately sour (3/5) with tropical fruit flavors, alcohol noticeable but it’s not boozy. Tasty beer that looks like crap.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2019
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
hazy. Nose and taste of sour banana, lychee, milk sugar, tart tropical fruit - medium bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2019
at 04:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz can from Tavour, 11/9/19. Purple-reddish, beige head. Sweet, fruity aroma. Blackberry more prominent then the vanilla for me. Somehow it is reminiscent of a Dr. Brown's Black Cherry. Wasn't expecting that from a beer. A little too sweet, but pretty tasty. Unique. 8/4/7/4/15
Tried
from Can
on 10 Nov 2019
at 03:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can. Pours hazy orange. Passionfruit, huge guava, little banana, touch of pepper, good tartness, super fruity, still some cereal beer taste too. Nice prickly carbonation. I continue to be impressed by these Urban Artifact sours. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2019
at 02:59