For the unfamiliar, Ohio has some fairly strict liquor laws. Those regulations make finding certain whiskeys rather difficult, and finding a whiskey bar a bit of an oddity. The Winking Lizard Tavern, a popular Ohio-based chain of beer-and-burger bars, is trying to fill that empty space with a whiskey bar attachment to their restaurants known as “Lizardville.”

For the sake of disclosure, I frequent the Akron-area Winking Lizard Tavern. There are, of course, several locations in the greater Cleveland area, including one downtown near the Indians baseball team’s stadium, as well as several in Columbus. Each location varies in size and…