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: Schlafly |
| Name of Beer: The Variant |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Read our review here. An Imperial Stout aged in Port barrels with cocoa nibs. This rich stout shows a gorgeous dark color that evokes a deep red port. Complexity comes through in every aspect. The Variant is a limited release in the Ibex Rare series of beers. 750 ml bottles |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Schlafly |
| Name of Beer: Frugi-Four |
| Beer Style: Variety Pack |
| Description: Contains three bottles each of Apricot IPA, Peach Saison, Raspberry Hefeweizen and Watermelon Lager. 12 pack bottles |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Old Bakery |
| Name of Beer: Cerveza Con Lima |
| Beer Style: Light Lager |
| Description: We hit this Mexican-style beer with some Citra hops and a solid amount of lime juice because...why not? Bust out the chips & salsa! 4 pack cans |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Rogue |
| Name of Beer: Paradise Pucker |
| Beer Style: Sour/Wild Ale |
| Description: A Hawaiian inspired sour beer brewed with passion fruit, orange, and guava. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Rogue |
| Name of Beer: Hot Tub Scholarship |
| Beer Style: German Style Helles Lager |
| Description: In 2014 we created the Jack Joyce Scholarship Fund in honor of Rogue’s founder and his dedication to craft beer. As a nod to the original Rogue, the scholarship gives students interested in brewing an opportunity to pursue their passion for beer at Oregon State University’s Fermentation Sciences Program. The inaugural Jack Joyce Scholarship was used by its recipient to pay for classes and books. After covering his school expenses, he did the most Rogue thing he could think of and bought himself a hot tub. A truly inspired move, as Jack loved a cold lager and a long soak. In honor of that Rogue act and in support of this scholarship John Maier brewed a classic helles lager perfect for summer sipping or enjoying in a hot tub anytime of year. A portion of proceeds from the sales of Hot Tub Scholarship Lager will go to support the Jack Joyce Scholarship Fund. 6 pack cans |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Tallgrass |
| Name of Beer: Key Lime Pie |
| Beer Style: American Sour Blonde Ale |
| Description: First released in summer 2016 as an experimental draft-only release that was met with raving enthusiasm from fans, Key Lime Pie returns to the Tallgrass lineup as a summer seasonal in 6-packs of 12 oz cans. An American sour blonde ale brewed with lime peel, Key Lime Pie is true to its namesake, recalling the sweet, tart and refreshing dessert in beer form. 6 pack cans |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Left Hand |
| Name of Beer: Braveheart Nitro |
| Beer Style: Scottish-Style Ale |
| Description: Super smooth with soft caramel notes and bready maltiness. 6 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: New Holland |
| Name of Beer: Dragon' Milk Reserve: Mexican Spice Cake |
| Beer Style: Imperial Stout |
| Description: Looking for a sweeter, less hoppy beer? Vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa nibs and chili peppers and sweet complexity to this brew, with a grist of two row, black prinz, dark Munich and chocolate malts. Nugget, Willamette and Brewer’s Gold add flavor and aroma with little to no bitterness. It was aged for three months in bourbon barrel for an added kick of sweet vanilla flavor. 12 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Founders |
| Name of Beer: Sumatra Mountain Brown |
| Beer Style: Imperial Brown Ale |
| Description: This bold, imperial brown ale gets its body from a team of malts including Caramel malt for sweetness, flaked barley for dense foam, a bit of Chocolate malt for its deep color and Aromatic and Munich malts to add even more depth. German and Perle hops add a touch of bitterness to balance the malty sweetness. The addition of rich Sumatra coffee takes this perfectly balanced imperial brown ale to a decadent level. 4 pack bottles |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Avery |
| Name of Beer: Uncle Jacob's |
| Beer Style:Imperial Stout |
| Description: Jacob Spears, our 6th Great Grand Uncle, is credited as the first distiller to label his whiskey “Bourbon.” He built his distillery in Bourbon County Kentucky in 1790 — 203 years before we began brewing. While obviously a bit too late to produce Uncle Jacob’s wash, we’ve instead created something far more complex. In his honor, we present this robust, silky smooth, full-bodied and altogether extremely American rendition of an Imperial Stout aged for 6 months in the very finest Bourbon barrels. This explains a lot about our penchant for big brews! It’s in our blood! 12 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Avery |
| Name of Beer: Raspberry Sour |
| Beer Style: Barrel Aged Sour |
| Description: Luscious ripe red raspberries are elegantly intertwined with a bountiful amount of lactic acidity and delicate barrel nuances to cultivate this stunning sour ale. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: New! |
| Brewery: Maine/Stone |
| Name of Beer: DaySlayer |
| Beer Style: India Pale Lager |
| Description: Deep in the darkest reaches exists an elite group of brewers formed in the image of chaos. Destined to ravage the earth, sowing bitterness upon the tongues of beer drinkers everywhere, the warrior brewers of Maine Beer Company and Stone Brewing have sharpened their axes and grown in might and fury, anticipating this day of reckoning. A swath of nobly-hopped damnation has been carved, eradicating the sun, yet lulling you into confidence with its soft golden hue. Day Slayer is here to destroy the weak and huddled masses, unleashing upon the world a mouth-shattering crescendo of palate destroying hops, fermented with the finest of Pilsner strains, delivering a beer as sharp as their blades. 22 ounce bottle |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Evil Twin |
| Name of Beer: A Is For Apricot |
| Beer Style: Gose |
| Description: A Is For Apricot is a 4.5 percent ABV goes-style ale brewed with sea salt and conditioned on apricot puree. 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Evil Twin |
| Name of Beer: Tropical 'Itch |
| Beer Style: Berliner Weisse |
| Description: Berliner-Style-Weisse Ale with passion fruit added 4 pack cans |
| Status: Limited |
| Brewery: Omnipollo |
| Name of Beer: Aniara |
| Beer Style: Pale Ale |
| Description: In the intersection between pale ale and lemon juice. Lemonale. 22 ounce bottle |
Coming soon: Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA should be here the first week of May. 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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