E-Malt.com News article: USA, OH: Fibonacci Brewing to open in Mt. Healthy in early July

The Queen City’s brewing rebirth is bubbling up yet again as a new nanobrewery is set to open in Mount Healthy, WCPO reported on June 22.

Owner Bob Bollas and his wife, Betty, said Fibonacci Brewing will open in early July. The brewery is at 1445 Compton Road, Mt. Healthy. The pair had hoped to open by the end of June but had to wait for final state and city approval.

The couple said it chose the “Fibonacci Brewing” name because of a love of nature and science. Bollas said the name ties in to his math and science background, and his wife’s love of nature and gardening.

The couple is opening the facility with a 1-barrel brewhouse and expects to make about 300-pints worth of beer per batch. Bollas joked that it could be “314” pints depending on the day and demand.

The brewery has three 2-barrel fermenters and a brite tank (a vessel used during the carbonation of beer.). They brew two batches for each beer to fill the fermenters.

Bollas hopes to brew about four barrels per week and should produce almost 100 barrels in the first six months.

“If we’re seeing that producing four barrels per week allows us to open up on Fridays we’ll do so, but initially we plan on keeping it open one day per week and judge from there,” Bollas said.

Bollas got more and more into craft beer just as a consumer before learning about home brewing in 2004.

Bollas said he talked about it with his wife for about a year and the couple trademarked Fibonacci Brewing with the state of Ohio in 2012. After that they were just waiting for the right building in Mt. Healthy to open up.

Bollas said one of the reasons that the couple chose to open in Mt. Healthy is that no other breweries are nearby.

“We feel like there is a need here that isn’t being met,” Bollas said. “It’s also the community we live in.”

The brewery is almost entirely self-funded and friends and family are completing much of the work. Bollas said they also took out a small business loan to help with cost overruns.

“We want complete control over our direction. Too often when you take investment, you end up trying to please other people instead of following your dreams,” Bollas said.


24 June, 2015