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: Bell's |
| Name of Beer: Mars |
| Beer Style: Imperial IPA |
| Description: The first release in Bell’s Planet Series, Mars (The Bringer of War) is a double IPA with a complex hop character and a malty backbone. Notes of tropical fruit, citrus, pine, lemon, lime and pineapple are all present in both the aroma and flavor. Hopped at a ratio of about 3.4 pounds of hops per barrel, the recipe for Mars was developed from a trial batch called Larry’s Latest Double IPA brewed in our original brewery located adjacent to the Eccentric Café in downtown Kalamazoo. 6 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Lagunitas |
| Name of Beer: Davey Murray's Best |
| Beer Style: Scotch Ale |
| Description: This Scotch Ale is sweet, but not cloying. It's strong, but not brash. It's smooth and smokey, like a good dram among friends. Cheers! 6 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Perennial |
| Name of Beer: Hopfentea |
| Beer Style: Berliner Weisse |
| Description: Collaboration with Hopleaf! We started by brewing a traditional German Berliner weiss—which Napoleon’s men called the Champagne of the North—then tweaked it with a homemade tea blend to impart a slight apricot hue and botanical aromatics. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Prairie Artisan Ales |
| Name of Beer: Paradise |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Coconut Vanilla Stout. It’s about to get really hot outside. How about a cold glass of refreshing Imperial Stout. Yep, you heard that right. Brand new to our line up is Prairie Paradise. We took a stout, gave it a hint of vanilla and a good deal of toasted coconut and created one season defying, genre bending brew. Imperial stouts are usually thought of as a cold weather beer, but here the coconut and vanilla blend push the image of the stout into a year round, all season style. 12 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Prairie Artisan Ales |
| Name of Beer: Apricot Funk |
| Beer Style: Sour/Wild Ale |
| Description: Sour ale aged on apricots. 500 ml bottle |
| Status: Returning Seasonal |
| Brewery: Ska |
| Name of Beer: Mexican Logger |
| Beer Style: Mexican Style Lager |
| Description: If you are a closet Pacifico drinker during the warmer weather then seek this one out. It is a far better brew, my friends. SAAZ hops are the star in this amazingly delicious lager. 6 pack cans |
| Status: Returning Seasonal |
| Brewery: Great Divide |
| Name of Beer: Roadie |
| Beer Style: Grapefruit Radler |
| Description: Roadie Grapefruit Radler was named both for the road biking cyclist (roadie) and the German word for cycling (radler) and inspired by Great Divide’s roots in the cycling community. Brewed with natural grapefruit puree, this easy-drinking ale pours a hazy sunrise gold and is bursting with citrus aroma. Unique in its class, this Radler is refreshing and slightly tart, with just enough bitterness to keep both cyclists and spectators coming back for more. 6 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 2nd Shift |
| Name of Beer: El Gato Grande |
| Beer Style: IPA |
| Description: Here's a big hoppy IPA that is done the way they should be done and has about four truck loads of hops in it, although it is not very bitter at 74 IBUs. LOTS of Amarillo with a good bit of Citra and Columbus just for a good time. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 2nd Shift |
| Name of Beer: Little Big Hop |
| Beer Style: Session IPA |
| Description: We like drinking, but big beers can be overwhelming. We made Little Big Hop to provide a punch of hop aroma and flavor without killing your taste buds. This beer is stupid good. Hops used: Magnum, Cascade, Zythos, Simcoe, Columbus. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: 2nd Shift |
| Name of Beer: Cat Spit Stout with Blueprint Coffee |
| Beer Style: Stout |
| Description: Same as our regular Cat Spit Stout, but brewed with Blueprint Coffee. Coffeey, roasty, blah blah blah, it's a stout, just drink it, it's really good. 750 ml bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Latitude 42 |
| Name of Beer: Bourbon Barrel Aged Lucifer's Cuvee |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Dangerously devastating, Lucifer’s Cuvée is our Double Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. Intense hearty rye, along with a decadent gourmet chocolate essence, are balanced by the addition of Cascade hops. Aged in bourbon barrels since October of 2014. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: 4204 Main Street |
| Name of Beer: 420/4 |
| Beer Style: American Pale Ale |
| Description: Our American pale ale is high on flavor, and isn’t a one hit wonder. The result of a joint effort by our brewers, the 420/4 dispenses notes of sticky hops with just the right amount of malt. 6 pack cans |
Coming soon: It looks like The Cooper Project from Goose Island got pushed back to next week. Keep watching the shelves!
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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