Our Ohio is ThinkTV’s weekly series showcasing the lifestyles, heritage and culture of the Buckeye state. The show airs on Channels 14 and 16, but it also offered at no cost to other PBS affiliates throughout Ohio, Kitty Lensman, chief operating officer of ThinkTV, told us.
The segment will air next year, according to Julie Davis, production manager for ThinkTV who is working on the segment. Here’s how Davis described it:
“The story for Our Ohio begins with Jamie Arthur at Little Miami Farms who has grown a field of butternut squash. In doing a story on specialty crops — he grows hops — he explained that some of the squash would be going to the Carillon Brewing Co. to make squash beer. Hence, we are putting together a story to air next year — season 11 begins in June — about the historic brewing company, and part of the story will be about squash beer making.”
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Davis described shooting the segment at the brewery as “a very interesting day, watching how squash beer is made and the choreography it takes to create a beer over open fire. Kyle (Spears), the brewmaster, has perfected the technique to almost make it look easy, but it is far from that! It is truly fasinating to watch the whole process from start to finish and the staff was very patient with us, with us asking if they would do a procedure over again, so we could get it from a different angle.”
Brady Kress, president and CEO of Carillon Historical Park and a driving force behind the brewery that opened in August 2014, said, “This is something we have wanted for a number of years, since we built the building. We thought they’d be interested in it — and they are.”
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The brewery/museum is designed and built to evoke an 1850s-era brewery. It offers free tours and demonstrations, during which costumed “interpreters” detail Dayton’s brewing history and show visitors how beer, cider and wine were made in the middle of the 19th Century.
Carillon officials recently learned the park was named winner of a 2016 Leadership in History Award from the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH).
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