Beer

Why oysters and stouts go so well together

I love food, especially how it interacts with beer. Recently, I’ve written about an uptick in high-quality restaurants and local brewers coming together to find more and more ways to pair food with varying kinds […]

Beer

Drinkin’ For A Cause | 3rd Annual Ales for Tails

We’re on a mission to shine a light on all the good brewers around the St. Louis region who are using their beer and time to help out our community. Drinkin’ For A Cause – is […]

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Get ‘buzzd’ with Old Bakery and their new Rum Barrel-aged Belgian Quadrupel

It just seems like yesterday. One of my first articles posted on this blog back in 2015, was about the new brewery in Alton, Illinois. The brewery, Old Bakery Beer Company was unique in that it […]

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Here’s the entire brewery and pour list for Centennial Festival this year

There are few festivals as enduring and as impressively organized as  The Centennial Beer Festival. Now in its 11 year, Centennial is set to kick off February 19th, for 5 days of all sorts of beer […]

Beer

Cork and Keg collaboration dinner planned with Defiance Ridge and Side Project Brewing

St. Louis has had a rough few weeks—too much snow and freezing rain and wind, mostly. Thankfully, there are so many ways to forget the weather. One way to forget the elements is to indulge […]

Beer Tourism

Urban Chestnut’s Wolpertinger Fest returns Sunday with special guest Casey Brewing

VIP Tickets are sold out but click here to purchase general admission. Outside of St. Louis, the city has been known as the beer capital of the world primarily because of the success of the […]

Beer

2nd Shift to host STL Resilience IPA Fest in February

The biggest and most positive beer related story in 2018, was Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s relief effort in response to the devastating Camp Fire that hit northern California in November. The Chico, California, brewery’s founder Ken […]