Schlafaly Bourbon Barrel Aged Quad for The Wine and Cheese Place

The label for our first Collaboration has been approved!!!!!

The beer has been in barrel since August 5 of 2011.  With the label approved and the bottles ordered, we are hoping to bottle late January or early February 2012 when then beer will have seen 6 months in the barrel.  Stay tuned!  Remember, there will only be abougt 20 cases of 750ml bottles made (or about 240 bottles).  Talk about limited production!


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Here is a look at the label......

The Wine and Cheese Place is extremely excited to have our first label approved....

We have recently been selecting and purchasing our own barrels of Bourbon.   We taste through a number of barrel samples and then choose which barrel we like the best.   The Bourbon distillery then bottles the Bourbon for us with our own label and normally would clean and ship the barrel to us for display.  But, we thought, why waste this perfect vessel for display purposes, why not use it to age a delicious beer?  We asked the Bourbon distilleries if they would not wash, clean, or do anything to the barrel and just ship it to us as is -- they all said yes!   The Wine and Cheese Place Barrel Aged Collaboration Series was born.

The first in the series is with Schlafly -- St. Louis' original craft brewery.... 

The Wine and Cheese Place Collaboration #1 with Schlafly  
The St. Louis Brewery, Schlafly, paved the way for craft breweries in St. Louis.  Without Schlafly, the booming St. Louis Craft beer scene that we are currently experiencing would not be happening right now.   When this Collaboration Series first germinated, I approached Dan Kopman of Schlafly first because of everything they have done for us and for St. Louis beer scene.  Dan and Schlafly were on board and the wheels were in motion on the collaboration series.

Click here to read more about our barrel aged series.