‘Updates’ Articles

In the last three months we have made massive strides towards completing construction work on the brewery. Below are some pictures of the progress. [read more]

It is hard to believe it’s been three months since our last update to the Toxic Brew Company website. It has been challenging to make time for updates to our site or Facebook with all of the construction work we’ve been doing at the building. Rest assured though, we are making progress toward opening. It [read more]

  After over 5 months of working with the City of Dayton, we received our building permit on Thursday August 30th, 2012! Our first of many inspections is scheduled for Tuesday Sept 4th. Given our optimistic nature, we still hope to be open before the end of the year; however, it might be the beginning [read more]

The Toxic Brew Company Is Seeking Public Support for a Building Permit Variance We submitted our first set of architectural drawings to the city on March 8th as part of our building permit application.  Since we changed the use of the building, we have to bring our 130 year old building up to 2011 building [read more]

On one of our last posts we mentioned that we wanted to open July 2012.  That won’t happen.  We are working with the city of Dayton on a building permit.  My claim is that they have it held hostage for the last 4+ months since we submitted the first of our architectural drawings, but the [read more]

Today the Dayton Landmark Commission approved our plan for a patio area in the front of our building! Thanks to everyone who shared emails of support, and left comments on the site. We received over 200 emails and almost 50 comments on this site. With your support, we were able to convince the commission that [read more]

We are trying to make improvements on 431 E. 5th Street, but we are experiencing resistance from the City of Dayton. We want to remove the cinder blocks from this eyesore and renovate a building that has been vacant for six years. Since the building has switched from a pawn shop to a brewpub, we [read more]

Shane, the brewmaster for Toxic Brew Company, was recently interviewed about the new brewery coming to Dayton. Check it out… [read more]

Toxic Brew Company and its Place in the History of Dayton Beer Brewing Dayton’s first microbrewery began over 200 years ago on what was Main and Water (now Monument) started by Col George Newcom who was born in Ireland in 1771 and settled in Dayton in 1796. The rich brewing heritage quickly grew from there. [read more]

One of the first questions we get is “how did you come up with the name Toxic?”  Which is not surprising since when people comment on the name they either love it or hate it.  Based on the comments we get; ~5-10% hate it and ask why would you ever name a consumable product “Toxic”; [read more]