USA, OH: Land-Grant Brewing to open in Franklinton

Brewing at Land-Grant Brewing Co. could begin next week with an official opening and its own beers on tap in early October, bizjournals.com reported on September, 10.

Land-Grant hopes to preview its 3,000-square-foot tasting room and bar, with a few beers from others on tap, at the Sept. 19-21 Independents' Day event.

The tasting room and bar seat around 99. It will have 18 taps – 12 with Land-Grant’s own beer and six from others.

The brewery takes up 9,000 square feet and has a 20-barrel brewhouse and four 45-barrel ferment tanks. Land-Grant will be adding a canning line of its own as well.

Benner said the opening lineup of beer will include a lower-alcohol session IPA, a brown ale and a kolsch made with American hops. Brewmaster is Jamie Feihel, formerly of Columbus Brewing Co.

It’s been a long journey for Benner and co-owners Walt Keys and Quintin Jessee, who have been working on the brewery since 2012. They planned to operate as Oval Brewing. An Austrian vodka company already had that name, so it became Land-Grant.

“We wanted to be in an urban setting,” Benner said. “That’s where breweries were. They were meeting places for the neighborhood.”

12 September, 2014