The Beer Thread

[lukethedrifter]

Rant: the beer thread is/was on page 6.


Rave: It is Craft Beer Week in St Louis. Had a delicious meal at The Block on Monday night with fantastic beer pairings. Think I might stop in to Wildflower around 530 this evening to check out the Smoked Stone Porter with Vanilla Bean with my wife.

jim is so jealous

[stlouie_lipp]

Tried this at a bar near Wrigley last Saturday called the Gingerman. Best part - I found a liquor store here in D-town that sells it!

[Popeye_Card]

St. Louis has needed this for a while. I think it is better executed in a more residential neighborhood like Soulard or around Tower Grove, but I'll settle for this.

It's probably far cheaper for them to set up shop where they are now than in either of those neighborhoods. With the area growing quickly (Pappy's, Triumph, etc. drawing people in), they probably have a good opportunity to grow with the area. For me it's a quick ride up Compton so I really like the location, and if it was in Soulard there would be too much risk for the place becoming bro-tastic (maybe not, they don't serve bud light).

I didn't really mean for Urban Chestnut to up and move. Just that I think a biergarten is better suited for a more residential setting like that. Partly because there's more trees there, and that's an important part of a good biergarten.

For instance, if a brewer took over Molly's, that area between Molly's and the former Norton's would be perfect.

I agree. Drinking beer outside is the best, and the more parklike a setting the better. We tolerate the less than stellar beer at Square One and Augusta Brewery because they have excellent outside drinking settings. (though Square One's outside area is too small).

Schlafly is really lacking in this regard. Schlafly really needs to open up a biergarten in a residential neighborhood. They don't have to brew on premises--just bring it in from the Bottleworks. This is a million dollar idea. I'm telling you.

OK, so it isn't in a residential neighborhood and it is being opened by a billion-dollar megacorporation, but kudos to A-B InBev for the proposed beer garden in Ballpark Village.

[jim]

I'm finding Tecate is a cheap and major upgrade for a generically produced mass beer. I can get it for roughly the same price as Budweiser, and it's better than Bud. I bought a case the other day for $13.99. It's becoming my go-to cheap beer.

[lukethedrifter]

Changing up now that cool weather is here?

[robbotis]

I'm finding Tecate is a cheap and major upgrade for a generically produced mass beer. I can get it for roughly the same price as Budweiser, and it's better than Bud. I bought a case the other day for $13.99. It's becoming my go-to cheap beer.

I drink Tecate often as well. Funny you compare it to Bud, I do to. A bit tastier, and cheap.
Tecate aleays has mail in rebates for boxing PPV. Something like buy a case of Tecate and the Pacquaio fight, and get $20 back. I always hit that up.

[JackofDiamonds]

Changing up now that cool weather is here?

I am. Drinking more barleywines and stouts, fewer witbiers and hefeweisens.

[lukethedrifter]

The Mexican lager we’re going to look at is really a Vienna lager. The Vienna lager died out in Germany, but not before Santiago Graf and other Austrian immigrant brewers in the late 1800s brought the style to Mexico. In fact two popular beers, Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Ámbar are heavily influenced by the Vienna style.

learned this at a beer dinner a while back

[JL21]

I'm in a weird rut where I drink stouts and porters even in the summer. Although "rut" implies that I feel ashamed about it or that I think it needs to change, and that's not true.

Schlafly's Oatmeal Stout, Porter, Imperial Stout... they're my go-to products. The Raspberry Coffee Stout is great, too, and has the dual benefit of nostalgia since I drank it to celebrate after game 7.

[lukethedrifter]

Guinness is certainly light enough for a summer beer. A few of those others I might not want to drink on a hot day while sitting outside. At least not regularly. Imperials for sure. At night, I'm in.