Calling all beer geeks! Here are the beers that hit shelves this week at liquor stores, bottle shops and better grocery stores throughout the St. Louis area. Please contact your favorite retailer for current availability.
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Grimm |
| Name of Beer: Present Perfect |
| Beer Style: Berliner Weisse |
| Description: This beer is a Berliner Weisse-style ale brewed with passion fruit that will hit 4%-AbV. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Grimm |
| Name of Beer: Cherry Raspberry Pop |
| Beer Style: Sour Ale |
| Description: Sour ale brewed with tart cherries, raspberries, vanilla and lactose. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: To Ol |
| Name of Beer: Sur Galaxy |
| Beer Style: Dry Hopped Sour Black IPA |
| Description: A rich roasted malt profile, smooth yet light bodied with a soured/tart finish. Balanced and finished with the citrusy and passion fruit like hop profile of this notorious Australian hop. 16.9 ounce can |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Prairie/Brewfist |
| Name of Beer: Spaghetti Western |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Stout brewed with coffee, cocoa and spaghetti. 11.2 ounce bottle |
| Status: Restock |
| Brewery: Dieu Du Ciel |
| Name of Beer: Peche Mortel |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: In Montréal, where this beer is made, they like a little sin now and then. A great big Mortal Sin is even better. The tiny ‘Dieu du Ciel!’ brew-pub, just at the edge of the city center, has developed an incredible reputation and a devoted following in only a few short years. The young brewer, Jean-François, has never had any formal training as a brewer, but he is a natural, with superb skills and flawless instincts. This Imperial Coffee Stout is the first beer he’s put in bottles, and the first to arrive in the U.S. It is made in ridiculously small batches – no more than 50 cases at a time, only three or four times a year. It is, of course, exceedingly rare, and rather expensive. But hey, as the Pope says, you have to pay for your sins. 11.2 ounce bottle |
| Status: Restock |
| Brewery: Dieu Du Ciel |
| Name of Beer: Aphrodite |
| Beer Style: Stout |
| Description: Black ale with aromas and flavours of vanilla, dark chocolate, bourbon and roasted malt. The vanilla and cocoa marry nicely, without out-competing each other, to produce a surprisingly well balanced beer. This beer is mildly hoppy, but the cocoa introduces a touch of bitterness. Its colour may be intimidating, but it is a very smooth beer within reach of most beer drinkers. This highly appreciated dessert beer is brewed with organic fair-trade cocoa and first rate vanilla beans. 11.2 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Lagunitas |
| Name of Beer: High West-ified |
| Beer Style: Imperial Coffee Stout |
| Description: This beer couldn't have been done without the help from our friends at High West Distillery in Park City, UT and Chicago's-own Metropolitan Coffee. We brewed a rich, malty Imperial Stout with some of Metropolitan's Spice Island blend, then let it vintag-ize in High West Rye and Bourbon Barrels for up to 17 FREAKING MONTHS. It's good to have friends. 6 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: New Belgium/Orval |
| Name of Beer: Anne-Françoise |
| Beer Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale |
| Description: Over the river and through the woods, deep into Belgium’s Forêt d'Orval you go. Quietly tip-toeing past towering tree trunks, a step ahead of the stalking shadows, you seek a place where light glows brightest against the dark wooded floor. Two brave brewmasters—Orval’s first female brewmaster Anne-Françoise Pypaert and New Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert—sought a similar place, where light penetrates creeping darkness; when they emerged, they crafted Lips of Faith Spiced Dark Strong Ale. Pulled from shadowy visions of the forest, they brought spruce tips and medium-toasted American oak to this brooding chocolaty beer, and then wove deeply herbal French Sprisselspalt and spicy Liberty and Willamette hops into the mix. Finally, a dash of grains of paradise for a beam of citrusy light—deliverance from the darkness. Journey into the dark to find your light. 4 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: New Belgium |
| Name of Beer: Lips of Faith-Clutch |
| Beer Style: Imperial Sour Stout |
| Description: It started as chance, a sandwich shop encounter between a band and a fan. It ended as the Clutch Collaboration. This pleasing, two-part potion was brewed with chocolate and black malts for a rich and roasty overtone, then fused with a dry, substratum of sour for a bold and audacious flavor. Black as night, this beer is blended at 70% stout, 30% dark sour wood beer for a collaboration that begins with a sour edge and finishes with a big, dark malt character, lingering, sweet on your palate. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Crane |
| Name of Beer: Gooseberry Gose |
| Beer Style: Gose |
| Description: English folklore speaks of a fairy, the Gooseberry Wife, who takes the shape of a hairy caterpillar and guards the tart fruit from the greedy hands of children. Not even a creepy caterpillar could keep us from adding this deliciously sour berry to our deliciously tart and salty gose. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye out for her when picking up your bottle. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Restock |
| Brewery: Evil Twin |
| Name of Beer: Even More Jesus |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: A few times in the history of craft beer it has happened that a highly praised beer rises beyond mortal stardom into a higher godly league. Usually the recipe to make such heavenly drops is thick fudge-like body, pitch black color, amazingly overwhelming aromas of chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and muscovado sugar, obviously only made in limited amounts and most crucial of all - it must taste rare! 16 ounce can |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Left Hand |
| Name of Beer: Bittersweet Nitro |
| Beer Style: Imperial Coffee Milk Stout |
| Description: OUR BIG, AGGRESSIVE Bittersweet stout is made smooth and even creamier with the help of tiny nitrogen bubbles that are released when you poured hard. The coffee’s dark cherry flavors and spicy undertones weave into the rich, imperial milk stout like a chocolate-covered espresso bean melting on your tongue. Bitter then sweet. Sweet then bitter. It’s Bittersweet. 4 pack bottles |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Ommegang |
| Name of Beer: Three Philosophers with Strawberries and Cranberries |
| Beer Style: Quadrupel |
| Description: Once this beer was a dream, not quite finished. Like a symphony missing a line. A quadrupel, for nights of deep thinking, and we thought is was perfectly fine. But we wanted much more, so we pondered a while. We brewed on, but our minds would not cease. Once we used cherries, and now, other lovely berries and, Eureka! a dark masterpiece! This unique version of Three Philosophers unites caramel and chocolate notes of our malty quadrupel ale with strawberries and cranberries, for new complexities to invite your deepest consideration. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: New Holland |
| Name of Beer: Mischievous 2 |
| Beer Style: Sour Brown Ale with Peaches |
| Description: A kettle-soured brown ale finished with local peaches which contribute a fruity nose and hint of sweetness. 22 ounce botte |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 4 Hands |
| Name of Beer: Barrel Aged Bona Fide |
| Beer Style: Imperial Coffee Stout |
| Description: Barrel Aged Bona Fide is our Bona Fide aged in Templeton whisky barrels with Madagascar vanilla beans and a single origin fully washed Peruvian coffee. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 4 Hands |
| Name of Beer: Secret Stash |
| Beer Style: Imperial Coffee Stout |
| Description: Secret Stash is Bona Fide with Peruvian Coffee beans that we aged in Angels Envy Port barrels. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 4 Hands/Logboat |
| Name of Beer: License to Dance |
| Beer Style: Blonde Ale |
| Description: This is a collaboration with our friends at Logboat Brewing Co. License to Dance is the product of late nights in bad bars. Modeled after a Sex on the Beach, this dangerously drinkable wheat beer is fermented with peach, cranberry, and orange zest. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Libertine |
| Name of Beer: Edna |
| Beer Style: Saison |
| Description: Our table saison is named after Edna Valley the amazing wine region just southeast of our brewery in SLO. We couldn’t think of a better beer to pair with a sunny summer afternoon picnicking and tasting through the wines of Edna Valley. Light in color and abv this is a great respite from the delicious pinot and chardonnays the valley is known for. We dry hop this delicious, funky farmhouse ale with tons of varying hop varieties to give huge amounts of hop floral aroma without the bitterness. This wild ale is very complex with hints of oak, lemon, fresh cut grass, pepper, and melon, don’t let the low abv and light color fool ya. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Libertine |
| Name of Beer: Aubree |
| Beer Style: Rye Saison |
| Description: Just like the girl this beer was named after, our rye saison is sassy, spicy, with a hint of red and lots of complexity. Very dry, and spicy from the rye malt, this beer is a great everyday drinker and an awesome BBQ beer for the summer months. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Libertine |
| Name of Beer: Pacific Ocean Blue Gose |
| Beer Style: Gose |
| Description: Our Gose recipe has changed many times over the years but the one constant is the use of our local sea water for the salt additions. This tart and slightly salty golden ale is a brewery favorite and truly gives you a taste of our Central Coast region in a glass. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Latitude 42 |
| Name of Beer: Party at the Moon Tower |
| Beer Style: Imperial IPA |
| Description: This dankalicious double IPA is a party in a can featuring Citra, Mosaic, 7c’s and Columbus hops that will make you wanna Party at the Moon Tower!! 16 ounce can |
Tim Lewis
Freelance Writer at Saint Brewis
Tim Lewis is a Certified Cicerone® who is obsessed with all things beer related. When not reading about beer, tasting beer, going to beer festivals or blogging about it, he's probably doing something else beer related. In short, BEER! Find me on Untappd!
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