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Charleville’s latest allows you to have your cake and drink it too

Have you noticed that there is a National Day for just about anything these days? This past Saturday, September 27th was National Beer Drinking Day, not to be confused with National Beer Day, National Drink […]

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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 […]

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Charleville brews new ale exclusively for the St. Louis Science Center

There is something a bit extra special when you come across a beer that was exclusively created for a special purpose.  Sometimes it’s an event, a festival, or more recently I’m seeing more and more […]

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Pub run-crawl, bags tourney highlight 1st Annual All Saints Festival at 21st Street Brewers Bar

A year ago, our friends at 21st Street Brewers Bar learned a valuable lesson.  “We learned don’t host a bags tournament in the middle of the day in August with no shade on a concrete beer garden-among […]

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8 medals for local and regional breweries at Great American Beer Festival

Next year I hope to write this story from Denver on the floor of the Great American Beer Festival. On Saturday the 2017 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awarded 293 medals to some of the best […]