SHEREE: IF
YOU'VE WORKED AROUND
TOWN TAPS ARE KNOWING AS THE
CRAFT BEER
BUSINESS BOOMS.
MIKE: ONE CRAFT BREWER HAS BEEN
HERE LONGER THAN ALL THE
OTHERS.
AT ERIC ZARNITZ JOINS US IT IS
CELEBRATING ITS 10th
ANNIVERSARY THIS
WEEKEND.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY WERE
JUST BEFORE THEIR TIME.
I THINK IT WAS
TIMING.
REPORTER: NOW THERE ARE 21
ESTABLISHED BREWERIES IN THE
CINCINNATI AREA.
AND EIGHT MORE PLANNED BY
THE
END OF THIS YEAR.
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT JUST
16 YEARS AGO BREWERIES
HERE WERE
CLOSING NOT OPENING.
IT STARTED OFF AS A
HOBBY.
AND WE WERE HAVING A LOT OF FUN
WITNESS.
MIKE WAS HAVING A LOT OF FUN
WITH
IT.
AND IT REALLY JUST KIND OF HAD A
MIND OF ITS OWN.
REPORTER: THIS
COUPLE IN UNION
TOWNSHIP CHANGED ALL THAT
STARTING THE LONGEST RUNNING
CRAFT BREWER
IN THE AREA.
THE MOUNT CARMEL BREWING COMPANY
NOW TEN YEARS OLD.
AFTER 13
MONTHS WE WERE
BUILDING OUR NEW FACILITY.
THAT FACILITY INCREASED
OUR
BATCH SIZES
FROM 180-GALLONS A
WEEK TO 600-PLUS GALLONS A
WEEK.
REPORTER: NOW THEY
ARE UP TO
900-GALLONS A DAY.
AN OPERATION WHICH
IS 35 TIMES
LARGER, SERVING SIX COUNTIES AND
STILL GROWING.
PEOPLE STARTED COMING AND
THEN THEY WOULDN'T
LEAVE.
[LAUGHTER]
AND THAT WAS LIKE FRIDAY
NIGHTS WE WERE SUPPOSED TO CLOSE
AT 4:00, WE
WERE JUST SUPPOSED
TO BE DOING LITTLE TASTES WHAT
WE DID TOURS AND STUFF AND THE
PEOPLE WANTED PINTS.
REPORTER: A
DENG AID LATER THEY
ARE STILL PUSHING FORWARD.
BETWEEN THE TAP ROOM AND THE
OUTDOOR SEATING
THEY CAN FIT
ABOUT 120 PEOPLE.
BUT THEY PURCHASED TWO MORE
PLOTS
OF LAND AND ARE LOOKING TO
TRIPLE THE SIZE OF THIS
OPERATION BY AS SOON AS NEXT
SPRING.
REPORTING
FROM UNION TOWNSHIP.
ERIC ZARNITZ, WLWT NEWS 5.
MIKE: IF YOU'D LIKE TO CELEBRATE
THE 10th ANNIVERSARY MOUNT
CARMEL BREWERY IS HOLDING A
