Beer and brats. Beer and pizza. Beer and cheese. Beer and … yes … even bingo.
Note a motif? If so, celebrate your powers of observation by attending St. Louis Craft Beer Week, which starts this weekend.
Technically 10 days, the “week” of beer-related events runs from Saturday, April 24, to Monday, May 3, and incorporates the three-day St. Louis Microfest in Forest Park. Its organizers (predominantly Mike Sweeney of local beer blog STL Hops) intend it to educate as well as to entertain – a celebration devoted as much to thinking as to drinking.
The series of events opens at 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar with “B33r and Brats.” It closes at the Schlafly Bottleworks with the Henry Herbst Memorial Lecture, which honors the local beer historian of that name; at the lecture, an Anheuser-Busch representative will discuss the history of beer in the United States. One caution, though. Some events are free, some aren’t – and some require tickets in advance. For details, click here.
Several area restaurants and other establishments beyond 33 and the Bottleworks will sponsor events: Bigelo’s Bistro in Edwardsville, Bridge Tap House and Wine Bar, Cicero’s, Felix’s, The Good Pie, International Tap House, Mattingly Brewing Co., Morgan Street Brewery, Newstead Tower Public House, Provisions Gourmet Market, the Schlafly Tap Room, The Shaved Duck, The Stable and The Wine and Cheese Place.
And confess – just studying that roster made you want to wet your whistle, didn’t it?
This article appears in Apr 1-30, 2010.