page_title: Rhinegeist
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Rhinegeist / Location
caption_attribution_description: This photo was taken at an FC Cincinnati (FCC) event at Rhinegeist Brewery in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on May 29, 2018. At the event, Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber officially awarded an MLS franchise to FCC. Other speakers at the event included FCC general manager Jeff Berding, FCC owner and CEO Carl Lindner III, Cincinnati mayor John Cranley, and ESPN soccer commentators Adrian Healey and Taylor Twellman. The event was simultaneously livestreamed to a public party at Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati.
context_page_description: Rhinegeist Brewery is a craft brewery and craft cidery based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company also sells their ciders under the name Cidergeist, using an alternative apple-shaped skull logo. The brewery's 25,000 square feet taproom and production facility is located in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, and occupies the former, pre-Prohibition bottling plant of Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. Rhinegeist operates an additional shipping, storage and innovation brewing facility in Cincinnati's Camp Washington neighborhood.
  As of 2018, Rhinegeist was the 28th largest independent craft brewery in the United States and the 2nd largest in Ohio by sales volume. Rhinegeist currently distributes its products in Ohio, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The brewery self-distributes in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Rhinegeist's annual beer production was 100,302 US beer barrels in 2018.
context_section_description: Rhinegeist's main brew hall and taproom are located in a 25,000 square feet (2,300 m²) facility in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. The taproom is open seven days a week and is open to all ages, offering games such as corn hole. In late 2015, Rhinegeist opened a rooftop bar at the facility which is restricted to patrons 21 or older. Rhinegeist's brew hall can also be rented out for private events; in the brewery's first five years, it hosted more than 250 weddings and more than 750 events.
  In May 2018, Cincinnati Museum Center opened an exhibit of a Galeamopus dinosaur skeleton in Rhinegeist's brew hall. On May 29, 2018, Rhinegeist hosted the announcement event for a FC Cincinnati's expansion franchise in Major League Soccer.
caption: Rhinegeist's brew hall hosted the announcement party for FC Cincinnati being awarded a Major League Soccer franchise.
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