It's the same year Great Lakes Brewing Co. Lane is in charge of the beverage component of the business, and beverage means, primarily, beer. In addition to eclectic decor, the Lizard maintains an extensive craft beer list. A place for suds. Even then, Callam said, "We had an excellent beer list. We had about 40 beers on the list.
Samuel Smith was available. That is the one beer that has been with us the longest. Mostly yellow beers. That was your lineup. Amstel came up then. The bread and butter was the Millers and Budweisers.
Genesee was around. To this day, light beer remains a big seller, despite the emphasis on maintaining a diverse craft selection, with each location having about beers.
Lizardville - a bottle store - began in And much attention is spent on maintaining fresh beer in inventory and clean tap lines. The latter is a key facet of the beer and bar business that some places are strict about while others take a laissez-faire approach. If you have ever gone to a bar and asked for a draft of your favorite local brew and it tasted a bit off, or had flavors you weren't familiar with, there is a good chance lines are not being cleaned.
Cleanliness, as the saying goes, is next to Godliness. And in a craft-beer-centric market with educated consumers like Northeast Ohio has, it's imperative. Thirty taps could have 10 gallons of wasted beer. Today, domestic bottles total just over 2 percent of the Lizard's beer sales, a number that has been on the decline, but as Callam notes, "draft is king.
The Lizard rotates tap handles, and Callam guesses they bring in as many as 10 new bottles per month. That is not lost on craft-beer heads. The Lizard also doesn't have simple tap takeovers, where several beers from one brewery are featured on draft for a set period, ranging from a day to a week or more.
Instead, it takes a narrower focus: Flights of Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, a hearty Barleywine, for instance. Think of it as a chance to take a brief tasting trip through a brewery's special offerings.
And if you want a more extensive trip, well, the Tour of Beers is for you. Tour of Beers. The tour started in The concept was simple: Try plus different beers.
Get through 40, receive a t-shirt with the names on the back like a concert tour. Currently, tour beers come from more than half a dozen countries. They would keep track manually of which beers were drunk. And really, not much tinkering has been done. Hoodies and winter coats are some of the prizes offered. Callam said 4, people sign up, with about to 1, finishing.
Lizardville locations are already prominent within Cleveland in Bedford Heights and Rocky River and would add a well-needed retail beer store to the Akron area. If all goes as planned, the new and improved Winking Lizard and Lizardville will open in March of next year. The most immediate additions will come in the form of their latest creation, Winks Bar and Grille, a restaurant focusing on Ohio-made beer, wine, spirits and food. The first location will occupy a spot in the Galleria at Erieview mall in downtown Cleveland and is scheduled to open in October, presumably to coincide with Cleveland Beer Week.
He's also a student of beer, as can be easily surmised by the extensive and eclectic offerings at his various establishments. European brewing has informed his tastes and he's tried to bring those sensibilities and beers to Cleveland.
I think it starts from the fact that here beer is regulated by liquor commissions and in Europe it is considered a food item," says Lane. The breweries there are run by people who have inherited the operations over many generations. He credits many of those breweries for inspiring the successful U. And Lane's travel abroad inspired him to court beer distributors to give beers like those from Europe shelf space in America, many of which can only be found in Winking Lizards.
The Faro style was almost extinct and we were proud to reintroduce it into the U. It took me over three years of coaxing to get it into the U. Currently, it is only in Ohio and only with the Winking Lizards. Lane is not only appreciated locally for his knowledge and passion but also over in the homeland of many of the beers he brings to his restaurants. Lane's heart will never leave Cleveland though, and everything good and beer related he sees comes back somehow to Northeast Ohio.
For example, six years ago he was sharing a beer with friends and talking about how they admired Philly Beer Week. It wasn't long before they simply decided — hey, let's do Cleveland Beer Week. A half a dozen years later, Cleveland Beer Week is considered to be one of the top three beer weeks across the nation. The brewers, the distributors and the retailers, all with no ego, embrace Beer Week," says Lane. We welcome readers to submit letters regarding articles and content in Cleveland Scene.
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