CREAMY WHIP TUESDAY: NORWOOD DELITE

Norwood Delite has certainly withstood the test of time. Sandwiched by an apartment building and elementary school, it's easy to see that the young population keeps this creamy whip in business. The facade built with shades of brown and salmon pink will immediately transport you back to the 1960s and carefree summers as a child.

Keeping it simple, the ice creamery serves up vanilla, chocolate, and swirled soft serve, as well as eight FlavorBursts featuring vanilla swirled with a flavored syrup. Norwood Delite is also know for being "e-cone-friendly," offering most of their treats in a cone or waffle bowl instead of styrofoam cups in order to reduce waste. To encourage customers to select a cone for their treat, the owners have invented different flavors of cones to pair with ice cream flavors, and even created a sundae in a waffle cone with your choice of fudge, strawberry, caramel, or pineapple topping plus whipped cream and a cherry.

During our visit, we tried an Oreo cone with peanut butter FlavorBurst softserve. They also offer chocolate chip cookie cones, which would pair well with the regular vanilla or chocolate soft serve. If you're going for one of the more exotic fruit FlavorBursts, I'd recommend sticking with a traditional waffle cone.

With several outdoor picnic tables, small parking lot, and ample on-street parking, Norwood Delite is that old school, no-frills creamy whip you adored growing up.


Norwood Delite is located at:

4490 Forest Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45212

TAP ROOM TROLLEY

Kicking off the prequel to Beerfest, organizers of Cincinnati Beer Week hosted the Tap Room Trolley, in which guests spent Saturday afternoon sampling some of the best craft beers in town. Participants were divided into groups and shuttled around to six local breweries in charter buses. Each brewery had six to twelve of their beers on tap, offered tastes or pints, and some served us food upon arrival. Several of the breweries also gave tours of their facilities.

Patrick of Mt. Carmel Brewing Company leads a tour of the facility.

Our group was Bus #1, led by Chris Nascimento of Brew Monkeys, a homebrew supply store in Bridgetown. Patient and fun, Chris did a fabulous job of wrangling the group and making sure we hit each brewery on time (which probably grew to be a challenge as they day went on.)

Chris chatting with those of us who boarded early.

En route to brewery #3!
Photo by Chris Nascimento

The tour began at Moerlein Lager House, where guests checked in and had time to grab a quick bite before boarding the Tap Room Trolley. Then for the next six hours, our bus transported us around to the following breweries: 50 West, Mt. Carmel, Listermann, Rivertown, and Rock Bottom.

50 West

Mt. Carmel

Listermann

Rivertown

In addition to being toted around on the buses, our admission snagged us a stylish Tap Room Trolley tee shirt and sampling glass. Later on, we picked up a Rivertown Brewery Pumpkin Ale glass filled with the beer of our choice, plus an exclusive tour of the Rivertown brewing room, all courtesy of Hoperatives.

With over 250 people in attendance, Tap Room Trolley definitely built the excitement for all of the Cincinnati beer festivities taking place in February.