Cincinnati Magazine February 24, 2021 Here’s the thing: Cincinnati likes its beer. And there’s a reason we’re so frequently ranked highly as a place to live (and drink) for beer lovers. With a rich history of making, selling, and imbibing brewskies (the first Cincinnati brewery is said to have opened in 1812), the Queen City has been getting its local drink on for more than 200 years. The pandemic, like Prohibition before it, may have pumped the brakes on the brewpub boom, but that’s not to say new breweries aren’t opening around the area. A couple of new places to belly up to the bar have caught our attention over the past few months.