710. St. Louis Brewery / Schlafly – Bière De Garde
The air is cool and the sun is setting, so I thought I’d have another beer this evening out on the deck. I got this beer a couple years ago at our beer club Christmas party. Someone brought this and the Schlafly glass I often use for the gift exchange. The bottle says, “Schlafly Biere De Garde is a bottle conditioned, French farmhouse style ale. The name refers to the beer’s ability to improve with age and if you...
627. Cathedral Square Brewery – Belgian Style White Ale
The kids are off school today for Thanksgiving break, so I had to stay home with them. It’s a cold day outside, so we stayed in, cleaned up a little, and played on the Xbox a little bit. I’m getting ready to move the beer fridge, and I need to clean it out a little bit. So, I’m trying to dig in to a few more beers there, and I found this one. I can’t remember when I got it, but I must have picked it up when I...
549. Perennial Artisan Ales – Peace Offering
As I mentioned with the Perennial Hommel Bier I had, my dad lives in St. Louis and I visit there often. I stopped by Perennial once and picked up a couple of beers, but I can’t remember when it was, and there’s no date on the bottle. The bottle says, ” Peace offering is un-American brown ale, brewed with a few hundred pounds of maple roasted Missouri squash. We hope you enjoy our take on autumn in that the flavors...
548. Cathedral Square Brewery – Hail Mary Belgian-Style IPA
It’s Sunday night, and I’m finally getting a chance to sit down and relax after sending the kids up stairs to get ready for bed. I’ve found another corner of the beer fridge, with some beers (like Perennial Hommel Bier) I brought back from my many trips to St. Louis to see my dad. I’m not sure how long these St. Louis beers have been in the beer fridge, since they don’t seem to have dates on them, but...
505. Cathedral Square – Bourbon Barrel Aged Holy Moly
As I mentioned in my review of Urban Chestnut’s Thrale’s, I’m in St. Louis for the holidays and we’re at International Tap House (iTap) in Soulard to watch the Mizzou-Illinois basketball game. We’ve already had a couple of beers while watching the game, as well as some awesome BBQ from Bogart’s down the street. I wanted to go for a local beer I couldn’t get elsewhere, and this looked like the...
452. 4 Hands Brewing – Pi PA
Several weeks ago I was in St. Louis visiting my dad and my wife and I attended the St. Louis Brewers heritage Festival. I had to pick my wife up on Friday night at the train station since I took the day off and took the kids to the zoo on Friday. Her train was running a little bit late and so I stopped at Four Hands Brewing Company in downtown St. Louis. I had their Prunus Saison at the time, and picked up a growler of this to go....
435. St. Louis Brewery / Schlafly – Yakima Wheat Ale
After a quick stop at a new beer bar in Columbia, MO named 44 Stone, and enjoying Schlafly’s Black IPA and Avery’s Hog Heaven, my friend Joe and I checked into the hotel. We met up with the guys we’d be playing golf with the next day at Booche’s in downtown Columbia. It’s a pool hall with some of the best little hamburgers anywhere. Joe and I each ordered several burgers as well as a pitcher of this...
432. O’Fallon Brewery – 5-Day IPA
As I mentioned in my last post, I picked up my wife from the train station in St. Louis, and we stopped at Bailey’s Chocolate Bar in Lafayette Square for a drink. I started off with their house beer, an amber wheat Chocolate Ale, brewed by O’Fallon. I was less than impressed, and decided to go with something bolder and hoppier. Location: On tap and served in a regular pint glass at Bailey’s Chocolate Bar in...
431. O’Fallon Brewery / Bailey’s Chocolate Bar – Chocolate Ale
In my last post, I mentioned I was in St. Louis for the weekend, taking the kids to the zoo on their day off school. My wife had to work and was taking Amtrak into town to meet us. Her train was delayed a bit, so I stopped at 4 Hands Brewing, had a pint of their Prunus Saisonand picked up a growler to go. My wife’s trip wasn’t great, so she wanted to stop at a bar for a drink before heading to my dad’s house. We...
430. 4 Hands Brewing – Prunus Saison
I’m in St. Louis for the weekend, visiting my dad and taking the kids to the zoo. Since the kids had the day off school, I took the day off work and took them to the zoo. However, my wife had to work and is taking the train in to meet us. I headed downtown to pick her up fron the train station, and since her train was delayed a half hour, I stopped in at 4 Hands to have a drink and pick up a growler to go. According to the...
417. St. Louis Brewery Schlafly – Pale Ale
It’s a nice Saturday evening, and I’m out with my family at Joe’s Station House Pizza Pub here in town. It was a great night to relax with the kids, have some pizza, and a enjoy a few beers. I started with a Bell’s Hop Slam, only because it was actually on tap here, and then decided to slow it down a bit when the pizza came. I’ve had to start checking this blog to see if I’ve had certain beers...
414. Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. – Zwickel
After a long day of hitting a few St. Louis microbreweries, including 4 Hands and Urban Chestnut, we headed out for dinner at Dressel’s Public House in the Central West End. Despite having just left Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, this was one of the only local beers on their list I haven’t had yet. According to UCBC, “Zwickel, our flagship lager, pronounced ‘zv-ick-el’, is an unfiltered, unpasteurized, German...
