St. Louis Mini Microbrew tour

[kkozlen]

This past weekend, I visited St. Louis and got to play a couple of rounds of golf and visit several microbreweries. As you can imagine, a very fun and relaxing weekend was had. On Friday evening, our first stop was The Stable http://thestablestl.com/, a somewhat new brewpub and microbrewery in the old stables of the Lemp Brewery (almost across the street from A-B). Looking at their brew system, it looks like they're just getting started brewing their own and it looked like it was about a 20-25 gallon brew system. Despite only having one of their beers on tap - the Marzen, which was quite good - they did carry quite a nice selection of local and regional brews on tap. I was able to try another newer nearby brewery's beer, which was recommended by my friend - Charleville Brewery's Hoptimistic http://www.charlevillevineyard.com/?location=microbrews. Our next stop was Mattingly Brewing Company http://68.143.118.98/brewing/announcements.htm, where I had the brown ale and their tripel. Both were pretty good. Our next stop for the evening was Square One Brewery http://www.squareonebrewery.com/ in Lafayette Square. I had the IPA from the cask and their Single Malt Scotch Ale http://img188.yfrog.com/i/1pck.jpg/. Not bad, but both seemed a little on the light side. We stopped at Randall's to pick up some bottles to go, and I got some of Charleville's Hoptimistic and Amber Ale, some http://www.schlafly.com Schlafly APA, Racer 5 IPA, and some of http://www.averybrewing.com/ Avery's Maharaja. Our last stop of the evening, was the http://www.cabin-inn.com/ Cabin Inn at the City Museum - not a microbrewery, but a unique bar where we could get Schlafly.

Saturday was an early tee time at http://www.tapawingogolf.com/ Tapawingo National Golf Course, but we finished in perfect time to enjoy lunch at http://www.schlafly.com/brewpubs.shtml Schlafly's Bottleworks. http://img38.yfrog.com/i/mmy.jpg/ There, I enjoyed their Helles Summer Lager and their Export IPA... both very good. The rest of the afternoon/evening was spent http://img198.yfrog.com/i/z98d.jpg/ laying by the rooftop pool watching the activity at the City Museum and enjoying some of my homebrews. Sunday was a rough morning, but we managed to get in a round at http://annbriar.com/ Annbriar Golf Course</a> before I headed home.

A great weekend, which I can't wait to repeat again soon!

[bevoduz]

Sounds like a lot of fun!

[Michelle]

I REALLY want to go to the City Museum!

[karraker630]

I've been to Square One a couple of times. Nice neighborhood near the park. Happened to be there on brewing day last time and it reallly smelled good. Their wheat was excellent and their pale ale was nice and hoppy.