Ohio real estate market embracing craft-beer craze
Dan Monk
1:02 PM, Aug 23, 2016 8:50 PM, Aug 23, 2016CINCINNATI - Bad Tom Smith Brewing is cooking up a regional expansion plan that could yield a half dozen new locations and $10 million in annual sales within three years, all of it built around the story of an Eastern Kentucky killer hanged in front of thousands in 1895.
Were going to develop a concept, said owner John Vojtush. Then, were going to take that concept to communities where it fits.
Vojtush is a Cleveland-based software consultant and serial entrepreneur who came to Cincinnati to work for Toyota Motor Corp. Once here, he re-connected with a high school friend, Sean Smith, founder of the seven-employee craft brewery Eastern Ave. in Linwood.
Smith is a fifth-generation descendant of a Breathitt County outlaw who was executed for six murders 121 years ago. Smith incorporated Bad Tom Brewing LLC in 2011. The company was on its last legs when Vojtush, impressed by its branding potential, bought the brewery in April 2015.
Its product lineup includes American Outlaw Session IPA and Coal Hearted Killer Russian Imperial Stout. Its tagline, Badass in a Glass, evokes the hard-drinking womanizer dubbed the terror of Eastern Kentucky by the Louisville Courier Journal.
You can identify your beers very quickly with this personality, Vojtush said. It kind of gives you a little bit of an edge, something that separated us from the other brands that are out there.
WCPO Insiders will learn how the real estate market may be ripe for Bad Tom's expansion plan.
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