Women Of Influence

After a run of autumnal seasonals, News & Brews tackled a different fall flavor this week — cider. With apple picking time upon us and stores stocked with cider (alcoholic and otherwise), we opened a four-pack of Columbus-based Mad Moon’s Eat a Peach. Dry, sweet, fruited or flavored, we talk personal preferences, interesting impressions and why craft cider is in comparatively short supply versus beer and other alcohol. Did you hear Columbus Brewing Co...

Business First’s weekly recap of business headlines is back. But now, The Wrap is available in easy-to-listen-to podcast form. This week, Editor Doug Buchanan, Assistant Managing Editor Eleanor Kennedy, reporter Dan Eaton and I discuss everything from a new apartment complex project in Clintonville and the Crew Stadium to Columbus Brewing Co.’s new taproom and a butcher shop’s promise of “meat for life.” The podcast will be available every Friday morning.

When Casey McCarty first joined the Idea Foundry, her role was largely behind the scenes. She was in charge of operations, something she compares to your organs, in that "you don't really think about them unless there's something going awry. But then, last August, she ascended to the top job at the makerspace. Early in her tenure as CEO, though, she learned an important lesson about what it takes to be the "frontman" of an organization...

09.16 N&B Oktoberfests Final by Columbus Business…

This week’s News & Brews sets up a seasonal face-off. The team samples a pair of local-made Oktoberfests — Norden Hoch from North High Brewing and Festbier by Columbus Brewing — and compares and contrasts the malty lagers. Which Columbus creation prevailed? Beyond the beer, we hoist some metaphorical steins to news from Columbus Brewing, which expects to open its taproom Sept. 18...

When Casey McCarty agreed to help out the Columbus Idea Foundry, she thought she knew what kind of response she would get. "Who even is she?" McCarty said she imagined the (largely male) members of the makerspace saying when they saw McCarty, a neophyte to the world of the "maker" industry, trying to make necessary operational changes. "I was just expecting all of this pushback," said McCarty, who joined the Idea Foundry as COO about eight years ago. "That's not what I encountered at all...

Central Ohio is home to more than 50 breweries, the vast majority of which opened in the last six years. But there are a few that have been in the business for decades — Columbus Brewing, Barley’s Brewing and Smokehouse Brewing, which is only a few years old under that brand, but once was part of Barley’s. Elevator Brewing Co. is part of that class as well, marking 20 years of business in 2019...

A Canton native and Ohio State University graduate, Corrine Burger started her career with accounting giant Deloitte in Phoenix, a location she chose in part for the warm weather. She eventually returned home to the Buckeye State, though, taking on a variety of positions with the financial institution we today know as JPMorgan Chase & Co., the country's largest bank and an employer of nearly 20,000 people in Central Ohio...

Forbidden Root won’t open at Easton Town Center for a few more months, but its beer already is here. For this week’s News & Brews, we cracked open a fresh four-pack of the Chicago brewery’s flagship beer, its Strawberry Basil Hefeweizen. That is one of four Forbidden Root beers that are now being sold around Central Ohio in cans...

For Corrine Burger, even bad managers could be good role models. The reason? They show you what not to do. Burger, who leads JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Columbus operation and also serves as a managing director and chief control manager for the financial giant, talked about her good and bad mentors during a recent taping of the Women of Influence podcast. She shared some of the worst advice she's ever received, as well as the No. 1 tip she'd give to others looking to follow in her footsteps...