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: Returning Seasonal |
| Brewery: Schlafly |
| Name of Beer: Double Bean |
| Beer Style: Blonde Ale |
| Description: Darkness and romance lurk beneath the golden exterior of this ale that combines the prominent flavors and aromas of coffee and the smooth richness of chocolate. We use simple, straightforward malts and hops to keep the focus on the notable characteristics of the featured ingredients. After the beer is fermented, we let it rest on cocoa nibs sourced from Ghana—one of the world’s largest chocolate exporters. In the final stage of production we add a cold coffee toddy made from filtered water and finely ground beans roasted by St. Louis’ own Kaldi’s Coffee and sourced directly from the Shiwanda Estate in Africa’s southeastern Tanzania. 6 pack bottles |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: 4 Hands |
| Name of Beer: Plush |
| Beer Style: Saison |
| Description: Plush is a saison brewed with grape in celebration of the New Year. This light and effervescent beer is dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin which contributes a delicate white wine fruitiness. Plush pours straw in color with a firm white head. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Uinta |
| Name of Beer: Croggy |
| Beer Style: Brett Saison |
| Description: Croggy Brett Saison is brewed with a hefty dose of mosaic hops, un-malted wheat, and rolled oats. This Saison possesses a tropical fruit character and snappy aroma that partners perfectly with the crisp, dry tartness of the Brettanomyces yeast. Pop the cork and hang on for the ride. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: New Belgium |
| Name of Beer: Dayblazer |
| Beer Style: Blonde Ale |
| Description: A deliciously refreshing golden ale, at 4.8% ABV, brewed with the finest malts and hops giving a sweet, crisp citrus finish with just a hint of honey. Available in 12-oz. and 24-oz. cans. |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Against the Grain |
| Name of Beer: Pile of Face |
| Beer Style: IPA |
| Description: What's the first thing you need to do when you start a brewery? Develop your logo, of course. With any potentially decent brewery, your logo must be a skull, it has to be a skull, you'll be laughed out of the room if you don't have a skull. So we went hunting in the area where all the great skulls have come from and were sh*t out of luck. By those fateful dumpsters all we found was this deformed neanderthal type deal, or maybe it's from an ape, and a big ol' pile of face. To celebrate our lack of success in finding a really cool skull, we are embracing another required cliché by brewing this American IPA. A modicum of simple malts provide the mediocre backbone to the mountain of various hops that are utilized and rotated throughout the brewing process. Look for dank overtones supported by various citrus and heirloom fruits. It's the straight forward f**kin' IPA that you always wanted from us. You lucky bastard. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Rodenbach |
| Name of Beer: Rodenbach |
| Beer Style:Flanders Red Ale |
| Description: A blend of 75% young beer fermented in steel tanks and 25% old beer aged 2 year in large oak casks. Rodenbach bears the proud title of "the most refreshing beer in the world". 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Rodenbach |
| Name of Beer: Grand Cru |
| Beer Style:Flanders Red Ale |
| Description: A blend of 1/3 young beer and 2/3 of beer aged 2 years in large oak vats. The more important proportion of oak matured beer contributes to its fruity taste, complexity and intensity. The finish is worthy of a great wine. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Rodenbach |
| Name of Beer: Alexander |
| Beer Style:Flanders Red Ale |
| Description: Extra-fermented beer with a fruity bouquet and a sharp, sweet and sour flavor. Matured for two years in oak casks. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Rodenbach |
| Name of Beer: Caractere Rouge |
| Beer Style:Flanders Red Ale |
| Description: The brewer allow the beer to macerate with fresh cherries, raspberries and cranberries. After this maceration in oak, the beer re-ferments in the bottle. The result is RODENBACH Caractère Rouge, an exceptional RODENBACH with fruit maceration and a 7% alcohol volume. The brew is more than unique and extremely exclusive, as only 900 75-cl bottles were produced. Geunes serves this willful beer as part of his other unique range of beer varieties in his restaurant, ’t Zilte, at the Antwerp MAS museum.. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Evil Twin |
| Name of Beer: Molotov Cocktail |
| Beer Style: Imperial IPA |
| Description: Did you like Before During and after Christmas? Maybe thought it pored brilliantly, the alcohol was admirable well hidden and you loved how the arrogant amount of hops numbed you. This beer will knock your tongue off, essentially due to the obscure amount of hops that went down this explosive fella – it’s a tour de force in hoppiness and by far the craziest beer ever made from Evil Twin – but not the last. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Restock |
| Brewery: Omnipollo |
| Name of Beer: Selassie |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Imperial stout with Ethiopian coffee and vanilla beans. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Against the Grain |
| Name of Beer: Kentucky Ryed Chiquen |
| Beer Style: Barrel Aged Amber Ale |
| Description: An amber ale brewed with rye malt and aged in rye whiskey barrels. Our first barrel aged beer here at Against the Grain is the Kentucky Ryed Chiquen. Named so because it was made in Kentucky, has a lot of Rye in it and was aged in rye barrels and it's not Chicken. As we all know (or should know) Chiquen refers to anything that is not chicken. Now that we have all that straight, we will talk about what is in this beer. Brewed with Maris Otter from the UK and rye malt and caramel rye from Germany, imparting a spicy, fruity and dry flavor. Then hopped with enough English Nugget and Kent Goldings just to balance and fermented with our house ale yeast. After fermentation we moved the entire batch into the AtG private dining room and into used Redemption Rye barrels from our good friends at Strong's Spirits. There it aged for 5 weeks until we felt it had picked up the right amount of residual bourbon character and oak flavors. We then transferred it to our serving tank, carbonated it and the end result is on tap now, a balanced drinkable and complex barrel aged beer. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Against the GrainBrewski |
| Name of Beer: Pome and Grabbit |
| Beer Style: Fruit Beer |
| Description: There are tales of a land far away where all dance to Abba while eating rotten fish from a can and women are free to breastfeed in public. Meanwhile, in certain countries such as ours, any boobage not used for advertisement or entertainment is cause for Jerry Springer levels of outrage. We do, however, firmly believe in freedom. Be it to nourish our children, shove pomegranate and ginger in a deliciously sustainable beer or even play the mythical brown note. It’s time to take the power back! 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Against the Grain |
| Name of Beer: A Beer |
| Beer Style: Pale Ale |
| Description: Walk up to the bar and what do you ask for? A Beer, naturally. It doesn't always matter what it is, or what you want in this case. You want something light? We've got A Beer for you. You want something hop forward? We've got A Beer for you. You just want to camp out on that bar stool and crush something? We've got ABeer for you. We're only marginally apologetic that it's not kettle soured with Mosaic & Amarillo hops. This is better. This is a straight forward, refreshing extra pale ale utilizing the newest varieties of German aroma hops (Hallertau Blanc & Mandarina Bavaria). Call it a session IPA if you need, call it a pale ale if you prefer, hell, it doesn't matter what you call it, what matters is that you stop talking about it and throw ABeer down yer gullet. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Against the Grain |
| Name of Beer: Brett the Hipman Hop |
| Beer Style: Sour/Wild Ale |
| Description: A solid dose of light pilsner malt along with a variety of similarly undermodified German-style malts gave us a crisp, clean base to work with. Then we got it All Funked Up. Generous additions of Apollo and Vanguard hops created a substantial flavor of citrus peel and floral spice as well as plenty of IBUs for such a mild malt bill. Ale yeast was then used for primary fermentation before adding a blend of three strains of Brettanomyces. These superattenuating little bugs were allowed to thoroughly ferment out many complex sugars and leave behind their characteristic (and very apparent) wild and funky flavors. After about four and a half months, we added a fresh addition of whole leaf Amarillo hops that spent about a week imparting a citrusy, almost candylike flavor. Finally, we moved the beer to a bottle for a final fermentation that cleaned and carbonated this beer to be ready for the glass. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: O'Fallon |
| Name of Beer: Big Walt |
| Beer Style: Blonde Ale |
| Description: We've teamed up with St Louis Blues Hall of Famer Keith Tkachuk to bring you this BIG beer. O’Fallon’s Big Walt Beer is, well, BIG. We call the huge 22-ounce bottle a bomber for a reason – it’s BIG! And the Big Walt Bomber will be another power player for you this hockey season. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Elysian |
| Name of Beer: Split Shot |
| Beer Style: Coffee Stout |
| Description: Beer and coffee are Seattle siblings, jealously dividing the day. Split Shot combines the talents of Elysian’s brewers with a pound per barrel of cold-infused, Seattle-produced Lighthouse coffee. It’ll open your eyes to a delicious new beer. Split Shot was the official beer of 2012 Seattle Beer Week. 22 ounce bottle and six packs |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Toolbox |
| Name of Beer: Bog Sauce |
| Beer Style: Berliner Weisse |
| Description: A tart wheat ale brewed with raspberries and cranberries. 16 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Toolbox |
| Name of Beer: Sangria |
| Beer Style: Berliner Weisse |
| Description: A tart wheat ale brewed with Malbec wine grapes and sweet orange zest. 16 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Urban Family |
| Name of Beer: Muerte Al Cereal |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Stout with cinnamon, vanilla, cacao nibs, and chiles. 500 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Green Flash |
| Name of Beer: Baroque Belgique |
| Beer Style: Belgian Ale |
| Description: If Green Flash were founded in historical Belgium, Baroque Belgique would have been our flagship brew. A bold and complex layering of herbal hops finds delicate balance from traditional malts. Bottle conditioning with fresh ale yeast and Brettanomyces adds a funky finishing touch, creating a delightfully bright effervescence, dryness, and continuously evolving character. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Green Flash |
| Name of Beer: Ideal Belgique |
| Beer Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale |
| Description: Our Belgian-style Dark Ale is inspired by traditional Abbey ales to deliver the richest roasted malt flavors. Dual-yeast fermentation, spicy hops, and the addition of Muscovado brown sugar provide increased complexity and depth of flavor which effortlessly combine to present a delicious, balanced brew with a velvety smooth texture that pleases the palate. 750 ml bottle |
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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