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Dreamsicle

MadTree Brewing Co. | www.madtreebrewing.com

MadTree Brewing Co.

3301 Madison Road

Cincinnati, Ohio 45209

(513) 836–8733

First brewed: 2014

Style: Kolsch

Alcohol content: 4.7 percent

IBUs: 11

Available: Year-round on draft

IF YOU LIKE THIS BEER, here are five other Ohio craft beers to try:

• Land-Grant Creamsikolsch

• Taft’s Nellie’s Key Lime Caribbean Ale

• Christian Moerlein Strawberry Pig

• Mt. Carmel Hibiscus Blueberry Blonde

• Numbers Apple Ale

MADTREE COFOUNDER Brady Duncan is the first to admit that Dreamsicle started off as a silly beer.

How else would you describe a brew that mirrors the flavor of a Creamsicle? Remember the orange Popsicle wrapped around ice cream that overwhelms your palate with orange-and-vanilla goodness? Well, that’s Dreamsicle.

MadTree created the beer as part of a competition among beer bloggers in 2014. To produce it, MadTree took its kolsch Lift and aged it with orange peel and vanilla beans.

The beer proved so popular that the brewery opted to keep making it. It’s now regularly one of the top three drafts sold in the taproom.

“Maybe it started off a bit silly but it’s a really good beer,” Duncan says. “Those two flavors really play well together.”

Dreamsicle has gained a cult following in the Cincinnati area. Because it’s available only on draft and has limited distribution outside the brewery taproom, MadTree fans are always clamoring to have the brewery release it in cans.

MadTree played a joke—some may say a cruel joke—on Dreamsicle lovers on April Fool’s Day in 2016 saying it would soon package the beer. (Here’s a lesson: Don’t believe any posts by MadTree on April Fool’s, because the brewery has a history of having fun on that day.) As part of the gag, MadTree released an orange Dreamsicle featuring an octopus eating an ice cream cone. Not everyone got the joke.

Later that year, super fan Adam Marcum of Fort Wright, Kentucky, even launched an online petition—all in fun, of course—to urge the brewery to can the beer. Hundreds of people signed it. Duncan says MadTree appreciates the passion.

And while there were no immediate plans to package Dreamsicle, Duncan notes, “There’s always a possibility.”