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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

St. Louis Craft Beer Week 2010

Mike Sweeney of STLHops.com is hosting the second annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week.




St. Louis has an unparalleled history for beer in the United States. The St. Louis Craft Beer Week is a celebration of that history.

The 2010 Craft Beer Week celebration is beginning on April 24th and culminating on April 30th, May 1st and 2nd with the St. Louis Microfest. Each night of this event will provide an opportunity to talk to brewers, pair food and beer, play some trivia or meet other beer enthusiasts. This is your chance to really see everything that the St. Louis beer scene has to offer.

The
St. Louis Craft Beer Week is devoted to the beer brewers, drinkers and lovers in St. Louis. Be sure to check our Events page and the Calendar to learn more information about upcoming events.


Events are now posted on the site -- click here to see all events


Here are a few events at our stores....


The Wine and Cheese Place
7435 Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO
Monday, April 26, 2010 from 5pm - 7pm
Grand Teton Beer and Cheese Pairing
Open House Format! Bring your friends! No reservations needed!

Chuck Nowicki, Sales and Marketing Director of Grand Teton, will be on hand to talk about and taste their reserve series.
We will taste...
Grand Teton Pursuit of Hoppiness
Grand Teton Sheepeater Scotch Ale
Grand Teton Bitch Creek Double ESB
Grand Teton Howling Wolf Weizenbock

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Provisions Gourmet Market
Beer and Food Pairing Class
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
6:30 - 7:45pm
$25 / person

Reservations Required for this event - click here to sign up
or call Samantha at 314-989-0020
Most BEER dinners feature one brewery, we have the option of choosing from 1,000 different beers. Sign up now!
We have paired two experts Certified Sommelier Angela Ortmann (stlwinegirl) and Chef Scott from Provisions Gourmet Market for 5 courses of Food and BEER Pairing. The best bargain in town.



Sorry, sold out already!
The Wine and Cheese Place -- Forsyth

Blind IPA - Imperial IPA Beer Tasting
Thursday April 29

6pm-7:30pm

Only $5 / person

Reservations required -- limited to 24 people
Click here for reservations

We will taste many different IPAs and Imperial IPAs and rate them to see which ones are the favorites without label influence. You will not know which beers are in each flight, they will be tasted blind. We did this last year with Stouts and it was a great time. Fun, informative, and very interesting event.
Not sure of the list of beers we will use, but here ares some IPAs that we have to choose from: Avery Maharaja, Bells Two Hearted, Founders Centennial, Arcadia HopMouth Double IPA, Boulevard Single Wide IPA, Bouldevard Double Wide IPA, O'Fallon 5-Day IPA, Moylans IPA, Moylans Hopsickle, Lagunitas, Southern Tier, Avery, Laughing Dog IPA, Laughing Dog Alpha Dog, Anderson Brewing, Caldera, Bridgeport Hop Czar, Big Sky, New Belgium Ranger IPA, Weston, Goose Island, Shipyard, Southern Tier UnEarthly, Acme, Odells, Great Divide Titan, and maybe some Mikkeller!


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The Wine and Cheese Place
7435 Forsyth Blvd
Clayton, MO 63105
314-727-8788


Friday, April 30, 2010
4pm-6pm

Open House Format! Bring your friends! No reservations needed!
Boulevard Smokestack Series Tasting
Laura Dale from Boulevard will be on hand to taste the full Boulevard Smokestack Series.


We will taste:
Smokestack Tank 7
Smokestack Long Strange Tripel
Smokestack Double Wide IPA
Smokestack Sixth Glass Quad
Smokestack Dark Truth Stout
Smokestack Rye on Rye
Smokestack SeeYouLater Doppelbock

Smokestack Harvest Dance





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