In addition, Working Class Brewery has its own tap room where retail customers may come to view the operation of the brewery, purchase beer by the glass, beer to go, snacks, and retail items such as T-shirts, hats and glassware with our logo printed on them. The products of Working Class Brewery are wholesaled to premium pubs, taverns and restaurants in the city of Cleveland and its suburbs throughout Cuyahoga County and then to the broader regional market. Our products are distributed in kegs to licensed retail outlets. In addition one-offs and experimental beers will be sold exclusively in our taproom. Working Class Brewery produces five year-round styles of beer and a variety of seasonal beers are also available throughout the year. Working Class Brewery and taproom is located in the Kamm’s Corners area at 17448 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Richard Skains is an award winning brewer with over 10 years of experience working in professional breweries. Working Class Brewery is a working class guy following a passion and dream to create great fresh local craft beer for hard working people. In addition to the brewpub, Great Lakes beers are available at most beer outlets in Cleveland. Great Lakes Brewing Company distributes in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Seasonal brews, such as Moondog Ale and Christmas Ale round out the selection. The brewery also produces Burning River Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Eliot Ness Amber Lager, and Holy Moses White Ale. Great Lakes is best known for its amber beer, Dortmunder Gold. Today, they produce 70,000 barrels annually. They produced 1000 barrels that first year. The Conway brothers, who still own the facility, employed a master brewer, Thaine Johnson, who had worked in the last of Cleveland’s historic breweries, thus tying the old with the new. They were the first such brewery in Ohio. The Great Lakes Brewing Company started crafting beer in 1988, at the beginning of America’s fascination with microbrews. In 1988, a brewery was added to the historic six-building complex, as well as banquet facilities, and a gift shop. Adjacent to the brewpub is an indoor/outdoor beer garden, the perfect setting for a sunny day. The downstairs, Rathskeller, features distressed brick walls and another wooden bar. Bullet holes in the bar are said to have been caused by Cleveland Safety Director, Eliot Ness, the same who would later take down Al Capone in Chicago during the prohibition era (with the help of Sean Connery). The Taproom features the Tiger Mahogany Bar-Cleveland’s oldest. The brewpub occupies two historic buildings on Market Avenue in Ohio City. Great Lakes Brewing Company, located just west of downtown in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland, stands as the state’s first microbrewery.
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