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On February 18, 2020 we toured BrewDog DogTap Columbus at 90 Gender Rd. in Canal Winchester, Ohio 43110.

The complex includes the brewery itself, a tap room, a hotel and a lot of parking.

Just a heads up about this tour gallery - there is picture after picture of stainless steel tanks and pipes and sometimes wet, but always clean, concrete floors with drain grating running their length.  This graphic gives a simplified representation of the process to help you imagine what you are looking at.

Registering for the tour involved scanning a QR code on our phones and filling in some information on the web site that came up.

This shows the lobby and BrewDog Taproom.  In the back left you can make out some of the dozen taps of their epic craft beers.  They also have curated guest beers from the Columbus, Ohio area and farther afield. Their taproom features a gaming area. The crew members staffing DogTap are on hand to help in any way they can.

Here you can see some of the huge mural on the wall on the left, and then in front is the wall of kegs leading to the dining area.

Souvenirs can be purchased in the lobby along with a wide variety of fresh, cold beer.

All kinds of beer for sale.  The samples this author had were very tasty, but some of it was very expensive.  But if you really enjoy beer, these are worth your consideration.

Here are some of the dozen taps and names of some of their brews.

Everything is kept very clean.

The Scottish founders' portrait hung on a wall of pallets is in an offbeat mash-up spoof of a shirtless Putin seated on a horse with Stalin in an ushanka (Russion ear flap hat) standing holding the reins.  Hmmm.  Could this be a veiled message that the real leader stands on firm ground while the self-deceived leader imagines the world looks up to him?  It's unlikely.  I really don't know.  Everyone said the two collaborate pretty effectively together.  BrewDog was founded in 2007 by James Watt and Martin Dickie.

This is a grain mill.

Our tour leader in the red jacket is also a brewmaster at this facility.  He was a wealth of information.  Here he points to something random off-camera.  Great guy originally from Texas and really loves beer.

They love their artist.  He goes around to all the breweries and paints all sorts of creatures on all kinds of fixtures.  Here we have perhaps a cat (maybe a fish or shark?) dressed in a soldier's uniform, howling at the sky with a pipe hanging from its mouth.  I believe this particular tank has a very large diameter and presented a problem when it was shipped to the brewery.  It was trucked down from northern Ohio and the Interstate had to be shut down such that no traffic could pass the truck as it was traveling south.

More tank art.  A tiger in a decorative, formal soldier's uniform.

More tank art.  Let's call this one a wolf in a mid-19th to very early 20th century German military uniform.

Another engaging example of tank art.  You look at me like I'm supposed to know everything.  I'm going to say it's an owl with a mustache and teeth in a colonial sea captain's uniform with a jaunty feather adorning his hat.

More great big tanks with a mural peeking through from the back wall.

Pipes, valves, tanks and drains

This accordion-looking device is a filter.