BrewDog, The Brew Kettle, Bad Tom Smith Brewing, more make our WTAM 5-minute food-drinks chat

This week, our 5-minute chat with Bill Wills of WTAM covers BrewDog, The Brew Kettle, Bad Tom Smith Brewing and Platform Beer Co. (All by Marc Bona, cleveland.com, except for lower left by Matt Starkey, Cleveland Browns)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – BrewDog and The Brew Kettle have expansion projects under way in Northeast Ohio, Platform Beer Co. is out with Muni and a special hat tip to the Cleveland Browns, and Bad Tom Smith Brewing has closed. Our 5-minute food and drinks chat with WTAM’s Bill Wills is all about beer this week.

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BrewDog aims to open in the Flats soon; The Brew Kettle going into HOF Village

Turns out, BrewDog has been eying the Cleveland for quite some time. The Scottish-based brewery, which entered the U.S. market by opening a brewery near Columbus in 2017, aims to open a location in Cleveland’s Flats this November. Meanwhile, The Brew Kettle is teaming up with TopGolf for a venture at the Hall of Fame Villages project at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Here is why BrewDog is coming to Cleveland and more on The Brew Kettle’s venture.

Platform releases Muni with special Cleveland Browns 75th anniversary can

Platform Beer Co. is back with Muni, a Hazy India Pale Ale named after the famed tailgate lot near FirstEnergy Stadium. This year, the can has a nod to the Cleveland Browns’ 75th anniversary: About Platform’s Muni beer

Bad Tom Smith closes in Ohio City

Bad Tom Smith Brewing was closing in on its fourth anniversary, but the Cincinnati-based brewery decided to close its doors in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. A combination of a lease coming due with the uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic led the owners to shut the doors. Here’s more on the closing: About Bad Tom Smith’s closure

Bon appetit and cheers!

I am on cleveland.com’s life and culture team and cover food, beer, wine and sports-related topics. If you want to see my stories, here’s a directory on cleveland.com. On the air: Bill Wills of WTAM-1100 and I talk food and drink usually at 8:20 a.m. Thursday morning. And tune in at 7:05 a.m. Wednesdays for “Beer with Bona and Much, Much More” with Munch Bishop on 1350-AM The Gambler. Twitter: @mbona30.

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