Today is International Beer Day! Even if it sounds like a recently created holiday, we're happy to use it as an excuse to have several beers.
We've also taken the opportunity to look back at the last year of happenings in the St. Louis beer scene. Some might think International Beer Day means we should drink foreign beers. We prefer to think of it as the day when the whole world raises a collective glass of local brew.
Here are some of our favorite local beer stories from the past year: Brewer Chat: Stuart Keating Raises the Bar for Craft Beer at Earthbound Brewing
Perennial's Abraxas Named the Best Beer in Missouri
Alpha Brewing Scraps "Submission Ale" -- But Not Necessarily a Beer Mocking Islam
A Look Inside the Old Bakery Beer Company, Alton's First Craft Brewery
Excel Brewery Debuts New Stable of Beers
How to Keep Your Beer from Skunking While Drinking Outside
Bottled Wisdom: An oral history of St. Louis' craft-beer movement
St. Louis Startup Snake Bite Wants to Open Your Beer
St. Louis Named One of the 10 Best Beer Cities in the U.S.
Anheuser-Busch Debuts Oculto, a Tequila-Barrel-Aged Lager
The 10 Most Instagrammed St. Louis Restaurants and Breweries of 2014
Brewer Chat: 4 Hands Brewing Company's Martin Toft IV
Urban Chestnut Buys a Brewery in Germany
Brandon Stern on The Civil Life and St. Louis' DIY Spirit
Market Pub House Debuts Pizza Crust Made with Budweiser
It's been a good year for the St. Louis beer community. Here's to another!