As Gut Check has noted several times, this is the first annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week. So it's nice to see St. Louis craft breweries getting attention outside the area.First up, we have a poll for "Best Midwest Craft Brewery" on the Web site the Full Pint. Schlafly won with 25% of the vote, edging Great Lakes Brewery by 160 votes.Schlafly also garnered attention from Baltimore Sun beer blogger Rob Kasper. Kasper attended Savor, a craft-beer celebration in Washington, D.C., this past weekend.
Was chatting with Schlafly co-owner Dan Kopman today and learned that the famous other St. Louis beer is now available in a whopping seven locations inside Busch Stadium.Might not sound like much, but in years past, only one or two Schlafly brews have ever been available in a mere one spot in the ball-park. "It used to be you had to have sunglasses and a hat on, and go, I'd, uh, like a Schlafly [in a low voice], and the person at the bar was like, Do you know the secret password?" Kopman quips.
Craft brewers.And they are the subject of a sudsy documentary, Beer Wars, playing only one night -- TONIGHT -- in movie theaters across the country.Made by a woman who's allergic to alcohol (egads!), the documentary focuses on micro-brewers Rhonda Kallman of New Century Brewing and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery and Distillery,
and their "battle" to make it in a multinational marketplace dominated
by Miller, Coors and our very own company we suddenly love to hate,
InBev Anheuser-Busch. So
Craft brewers do.And they are the subject of a sudsy documentary, Beer Wars, playing only one night -- TONIGHT -- in movie theaters across the country.Made by a woman who's allergic to alcohol (egads!), the documentary homes in on micro-brewers Rhonda Kallman of New Century Brewing and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery and Distillery, and their "battle" to make it in a multinational marketplace dominated by Miller, Coors and our very own brewer that everyone suddenly loves to hate, InBev Anh
