For almost five decades, Hall's on the River has been serving beer cheese that was "invented" just across the road by neighboring barkeep Johnny Allman.
The owners of Hall's never shared their recipe for snappy beer cheese or sold the cheese anywhere other than the restaurant at 1225 Athens-Boonesboro Road in Clark County. In the 1980s they sold the right to use the name "Hall's" to a company that made a version of beer cheese.
"People always ask us why the Hall's beer cheese they get at the restaurant tastes better than the 'Hall's' they were buying at the stores," restaurant co-owner Melissa Crase said.
Recently, Crase and her husband, Karl, now sole owners of the restaurant, reacquired the trademark to sell the brand in retail stores, she said.
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