tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52836890138654276382024-03-05T07:43:45.263-08:00Sacred BeerMatt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-52135293400115992692012-02-24T15:07:00.005-08:002012-02-26T07:06:05.978-08:00The Fortune Teller BarFor those of you who may not know, I am opening my own beer bar this year. I have chosen a location (Cherokee Street) and I'm going through the all the lovely processes one must endure to open a fine drinking establishment. This is what I've been doing as of late instead of blogging about The Great Saint Louis Beer Renaissance. Well, this and raising the coolest kid on the planet.<br /><br />Can we talk about him for just a second? Don't worry, it's beer-related. So the other day I decided to take some time off of beer. Just a short vacation for my liver, really; I'm not a superhuman twenty-something anymore. I was mentioning this time off to my son and, wow, was he was excited. Because one of the few things this extremely observant 4-year-old knows about beer is that, when Daddy drinks beer, he usually leaves the house to do it, and usually doesn't bring Little Man along with. Therefore, beer = lame. So I was enjoying a big celebratory hug when my son pulls back and says this: "You know Dad, if you change your mind, you could still just drink some wine." So thoughtful!<br /><br />So that's the update. Keep an ear out for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fortune-Teller-Bar/259091100772147">The Fortune Teller Bar</a>, and, quite possibly, someday, more from this blog.<br /><br />See you down on Cherokee.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-79703088276297132712011-06-30T15:45:00.000-07:002011-06-30T15:47:14.884-07:00Mikkeller Single Hop series is back.Soooo <a href="http://thewineandcheeseplace.blogspot.com/2011/06/picture-of-19-different-hopped-beers.html">preeeetty</a>.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-73737162022523680962011-04-01T05:22:00.000-07:002011-04-01T07:03:35.209-07:00My latest discovery.<a href="http://stltaverns.com/index.html">STL Taverns</a>, in which some saucy local drinkers endeavor to document the area's more traditional corner bars. You can contribute, review and browse dives, sports bars, lounges, and of course taverns of note from the Innerbelt to the East Side. The simple prose of the guide serves the subject matter well, and reveals that the writers to be no mere slummers.<br /><br />These are proper old-school bars. Chances are you won't find much craft beer in these establishments, but you will find lots of character and a link to a timeless part of St. Louis that's easy to forget about. After all, these businesses don't always have websites and Twitter feeds. <br /><br />I like the simplicity of this website's maps. Instead of listing every neighborhood and municipality, the authors (thus far--it's a work in progress) have used colloquialisms to designate areas. For example, everything south-central from 44 down to Bevo is just "Tower Grove," and "State Streets" is, well, where you'd expect it to be. "North City" could use a few more divisions, though, setting apart the North of Downtown area and The Ville/MLK at least. And maybe S. Broadway should be its own category. (Ok, so I'm a map freak.)<br /><br />Anyhoo, great site. This weekend, try to work a corner bar into your plans. They're inexpensive, and they're the lifeblood of Old Saint Louis. Be friendly and keep it simple. I recommend the Busch cans.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-31280357290521252902010-11-11T19:59:00.000-08:002010-11-11T20:15:59.790-08:00I can make stuff.I just made pumpkin muffins. <br /><br />I mean, I got a pumpkin, cleaned it out, cut it up, baked it, pureed it, mixed it with pumpkin ale and a bunch of other stuff, poured the mix into a muffin pan and stuck it in the oven until it became muffins.<br /><br />And they were delicious.<br /><br />If you knew what a terrible cook I was, you'd understand: this is significant. Maybe I'm not a cook, but a baker. That must be it. I am a baker. I bake. Feel the power. <br /><br />(Credit is of course due to seven cookbooks, the internet, my wife who was in the next room, and to whomever at <span style="font-weight:bold;">Schlafly</span> posted Andy White's Pumpkin Ale Bread recipe on Twitpic. Thank you, thank you all.)Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-39370080213822872212010-10-22T02:09:00.000-07:002010-10-22T02:11:29.257-07:00Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!<br />Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!<br />Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!<br />Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!<br />Coffee Stout tapped today at the Tap Room!<br />Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-1740085084697333692010-07-02T09:38:00.000-07:002010-07-02T09:50:02.273-07:00Pete Brown nails it. Again.My favorite English beer writer wrote a <a href="http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2010/06/ugly-game.html">post</a> recently about the World Cup idiocy involving ABInBev and the Dutch brewer Bavaria. It's a rant to be sure, but it's not some casual AB bash. It's a story that is truly, as he says, scary.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-16357767089266938242010-06-30T13:16:00.000-07:002010-06-30T13:49:55.040-07:00I am so proud.Check out <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8763927.stm<br />">this great story</a> (and an even better video segment) produced by the BBC about local brewers reclaiming our city's beer heritage. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The BBC!!</span><br /><br />Somewhat less amazing, but nonetheless cool, is me in the Sunday New York Times. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Royale</span> was listed as one of two bars to hit if you have only <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/travel/27hours.html<br />">36 hours in Saint Louis</a> (the other being <span style="font-weight:bold;">Fred's Six Feet Under</span>), and there's a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/06/21/travel/20100621STLOUIS-5.html">picture</a> of me pouring beer for a few of my favorite people.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-81344408125305115792010-06-24T04:29:00.000-07:002010-06-24T04:50:47.719-07:00The Schlafly "Sale"Everybody take a deep breath. The Saint Louis Brewery, makers of Schlafly Beer, is not, repeat, <span style="font-style:italic;">not</span> for sale. For some reason, the owners thought it would be a good idea to let the world in on their inner workings a bit, and the story got all crazified. The owners are planning ahead--<span style="font-style:italic;">years</span> ahead--for their retirement, and to ensure that the brewery <span style="font-style:italic;">doesn't</span> end up in the wrong hands, the very long process of eventually selling the biz to senior management has begun. That is it. I'm not buying it, ABInBev's not buying it, some faceless investment bogeyman isn't buying it--the biz is staying in the family. Period. Now go have a beer.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-9984198343030395052010-06-10T05:05:00.000-07:002010-06-10T05:10:10.438-07:00iTap SoulardHooray for the International Tap House guys! For bringing good beer to the Chesterfield Valley, for being successful enough to open a second location, and for having the wisdom to open that second location in the City near my house. Methinks I will be catching quite a few World Cup games there this month. <br /><br />Opens Thursday June 17th.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-71177061192734869092010-01-11T10:18:00.001-08:002010-01-11T10:30:05.486-08:00Almost forgotThere's a new Dave Bailey joint opening up downtown, next door to Left Bank Books and down the street from Bailey's excellent spot <span style="font-weight:bold;">Rooster</span>. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Bridge</span> will be opening sometime this month. The Post has this blurb about it (http://tinyurl.com/y9g8u7v) and that's all I know. Dave knows his beer, so this "tap house and wine bar" should have an excellent selection.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-65644981649274558552010-01-11T09:59:00.000-08:002010-01-11T10:16:50.876-08:00JanuaryHello again. The holidays are finally over--well, The Holidays are over. Personal celebrations continue unabated, filling up my schedule like a dance card. <br /><br />Like Burns Night at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Tap Room</span> on Jan. 25th. Scotch ale, Scotch whisky, scotch eggs, bagpipes and haggis. And my mother-in-law drumming in the pipe band! Best way to start the new year. <br /><br />Then there's my buddy Joey Finn's 30th birthday at <span style="font-weight:bold;">some dive bar on the Southside</span>. Joe isn't really my buddy, though--he's family. He's the seventh Thenhaus. He's the only non-blood relative who can walk into my parents house, grab a sandwich and a beer, park it at the kitchen table and watch the game and no one bats an eye. Happy birthday, brother.<br /><br />Two more occasions at the Tap Room follow. The Royale is having their "Xmas party" there next week, and then Schlafly holds their annual Employee Reunion party the week after. Good thing it's one of my favorite places. <br /><br />This month of fun winds up with my old man's retirement party. Thirty-four years and two months of working for the Veteran's Administration and now he gets to put his feet up. Which of course he won't do. He'll still be running around his back yard chasing my two-year-old, helping me put my house back together, and climbing onto his roof every Christmas to put the damn huge star up. Saturday the 30th, we'll try to get to sit down and enjoy himself in <span style="font-weight:bold;">his own home</span>, surrounded by all of us ne'er-do-wells, raising a glass in his honor. Congratulations, Dad. You made it.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-10347065833868925772009-11-03T11:55:00.000-08:002009-11-03T12:09:27.939-08:00This past week and a half......has been sooooo great! I declared the beginning of The 12 Days of Halloween back on Oct 23rd and turns out I wasn't kidding. Two bonfires, two costumes, one street festival, one punk rock flea market, two pork bellies, two private tastings, one beer dinner, and one awesome little kid in a monkey costume saying "Me need more candy, Dada. Me got bellyache. More candy make me feel better." Halloween fucking rules.<br /><br />A big glass of witch's brew raised to the following quality establishments.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Amsterdam Tavern<br />The Schlafly Tap Room <br />Sandrina's<br />Binge & Purge<br />Duff's Restaurant<br />The Royale Food & Spirits<br />Foam<br />Buck's house<br />Whitey's house<br />Dylan's house<br />The Fortune Teller Bar ;)</span>Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-26022421013235448662009-10-29T12:08:00.000-07:002009-10-29T15:12:41.327-07:00Happy Halloween!This month, I would just like to point out that this Saturday is the greatest of all holidays, Halloween. Grab some pumpkin ale or some mulled wine or some smoky whisk(e)y and Come As You Aren't! <br /><br />Also, the day after All Hallow's Eve is pretty cool too. On Cherokee Street, there will be a Day of the Dead celebration all up and down the strip. This is a great opportunity to check out the amazing variety of shops and joints that are thriving on Cherokee now. I love watching this neighborhood come back to life. I'll be hitting the punk rock flea market at Binge & Purge, Sam Coffey's open house, La Vallesana for some lengua and Jarritos, and best of all, the long-awaited <span style="font-weight:bold;">Foam</span> at the corner of Jefferson. Foam is slated to open this Friday after teasing us for months (Foam's facebook page boasts "Opening since 2008!") and I'm super excited. Coffeehouse-slash-alehouse, this will be the first place on the strip to serve craft beer. Reason enough to come out and celebrate.<br /><br />http://cherokeestreetnews.org/<br />http://www.myspace.com/foamstlMatt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-21210264229614562342009-09-19T02:22:00.000-07:002009-09-19T02:29:17.004-07:00The holidays are here.That's right. The only two holidays that really matter are upon us. Halloween is next month, and tomorrow, for one day only, the Saint Louis Brewery, brewers of Schlafly Beer, will crack open a keg of every single one of their 40+ styles of beer and let us all drink deep. Thirty bucks, all you can drink--the greatest display of brewing prowess this town has ever known. <br /><br />I'll be the one with the big dumb grin. See you there.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">HOP in the City<br />Schlafly Tap Room<br />2100 Locust St. Downtown STL<br />September 19, noon-5<br />314-241-BEER</span>Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-5992459911023910192009-09-14T13:10:00.000-07:002009-09-14T13:54:58.947-07:00Another roundJust so all three of you know, I'll be writing about beer in a new online venue very soon. I'm sure I'll still have the occasional STL-bar-centric post for Sacred Beer, but the more reliable, slightly more professional stuff will be available elsewhere. <br /><br />Stay tuned.<br />But first, go to <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Royale</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Blueberry Hill</span> soon <span style="font-style:italic;">(a rare personal plug--sorry, it's all about the beer)</span> to experience O'Fallon Chocolate By The Barrel Cream Stout. I was told that only the big O'Fallon accounts get this beer. Go. <span style="font-style:italic;">(Check stlhops: Beer Lists for availablility.)</span>Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-10392776004915835252009-09-06T08:47:00.000-07:002009-10-29T13:47:32.028-07:00Back to schoolSo, for the first time in eight years, I'm enrolled at an institution of higher learning. I figure that, if I want to open a bar, I should probably have some learnin' under my belt regarding that business stuff. A little law class couldn't hurt either. I just I wish I'd known that online classes are in fact more time consuming than real life ones. Silly me, thinking I was being smart avoiding the drive. <br /><br />Writing--well, doing anything, really--with a toddler in the house requires ninja skill and speed. Working on assignments requires lots of time sitting quietly, a state of being anathema to your average 2 yr old. Even now as I write this, the J-Bear is looping his arms around my right arm, chanting Come outside wif me. Come outside wif me.<br /><br />Ok the laptop just caught a soccer ball. Gotta go.<br />Oh, uh, Founders Breakfast Stout on tap at <span style="font-weight:bold;">Stable</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">33</span>. Go.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-20362040180776407442009-08-26T08:30:00.000-07:002009-08-26T08:39:49.302-07:00Yet another story about buying downGreat news for beer...<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE57G2VL20090817<br /><br />...even though the increase in popularity proves that craft beer is hardly boutique. Appreciated by a specialized and sophisticated market, yes, but ultimately populist in nature.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-57477124467392687072009-08-24T11:31:00.000-07:002009-08-24T11:57:42.357-07:00Oh right, I have a blog.Whoooooooshit that was a long break. OK, back to keeping my thoughts on the local drinking scene in an orderly black-on-white manner as opposed to clogging up my head or littering my house in scrap paper form. <br /><br />For today's note, I'd like to mourn the passing of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Wm. Shakespeare's Gastropub</span> in Midtown. I'd only visited once, and I was wary when I saw the totally dead term 'gastropub' in the very title, and the beer selection left something to be desired for a place claiming to be a pub, a pub being more than just dark wood and Guinness on tap, but still, sucks to see another potentially beercentric place go down. Especially at that location--how great would it have been to have a thriving beer destination next to the Fox Theater? Ah well, back to the brewpubs.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-66077667932655117422009-03-09T03:01:00.000-07:002009-03-09T04:10:53.457-07:00Saint Louis Craft Beer WeekYes! It is happening. For too long I've stared longingly at stories about beer weeks in San Fran and Philly and, geez, every week in Portland, and now, thanks to beer god Mike Sweeney Saint Louis has embarked on its first Beer Week as well. Philly's big enough--and been doing this long enough--that they've racked up an astonishing <span style="font-style:italic;">seven hundred events</span> over a ten day period. Ours will be decidedly low-key by comparison, but hey, why am I comparing? <br /><br />The festivities culminate at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Brewers Heritage Festival</span>, Friday & Saturday June 5 & 6. The previous Saturday, May 30, I will be in in the Windy City celebrating <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Maifest</span>--that city's got enough German joints to make it a kickass celebration. In between, we'll be rocking this town's beer past and beer future within an inch of its life. My birthday's on June 2, so you see...well, I've already told my wife I might be a little, um, absent that week. If you know me, you should try to find me. I'll be the one with the big smile.<br /><br />Keep up with everything at <span style="font-weight:bold;">http://www.stlbeerweek.com.</span>Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-62456110226170981642009-02-25T21:19:00.000-08:002009-02-25T21:35:32.628-08:00Date NightMy lovely wife and I celebrated our 6th anniversary on Sunday. Hard to find a place open on Sundays, but we were determined. We decided to satisfy our curiosity about <span style="font-weight:bold;">Herbie's Vintage 72. </span> Good call, that was. A proper White Tablecloth joint, the food and wine and service were fantastic, but the nicest surprise: a solid beer list. A bottle of sparkling with dessert, of course, but with dinner, delicious draught beer. Switching back and forth between Schlafly APA and Bear Republic Racer 5 while supping on perfectly medium rare filet, tender rabbit and sashimi grade tuna was just goddamn sublime. "Let's do this once a month." "Deal."Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-81119820482943448672009-02-08T18:50:00.000-08:002009-02-10T05:05:56.366-08:00Out of TownFound myself in Evansville, Indiana today. Yes, today, as in Sunday, as in "Yeah we know Indiana has beer you can't get in Missouri and that you don't know when you'll be back in Indiana but screw you we made a stupid law about no package sales on Sunday and we're sticking to it." Grr. That's not to say, however, that there was no beer to be had. On-premise sales are ok, as in "Get drunk at the bar and crash your car but you can't take any home to drink." OK I'll let it go. <br /><br />Yes, the beer to be had. A fine establishment by the name of the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Gerst Bavarian Haus</span> was open for business and they served beer. Lots of beer. Twenty-six taps, the most intriguing of which were Dark Horse Oatmeal Stout, Arrogant Bastard Ale, and a decent enough trifle called Gerst Amber Beer which, a quick search of BA tells us, is a Dunkel made by Pittsbugh Brewing. Bottle selection was extensive and appropriately German-heavy. Prices were very good, even for the monster frosted fishbowls. Man that was cold beer. Kept me from drinking very much, the cold, it did. The food was tasty and included offerings not found in many US German restaurants, including kraut balls, fried pickles, cornbread cakes, and on-the-bone pig knuckles. Gerst is big and woody and beautiful, housed in a former hardware store on a classic small town Main Street strip. (The front windows still bear the words "Feed & Seed", "Tools", etc, plus new additions in the old painted style, creating some hilarious juxtapositions like "Implements/Oysters" and "Guns/Ammunition/Lunches.") Took some great pictures that I'll post here if I can.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-43620754048471117412009-02-05T04:12:00.000-08:002009-02-05T05:06:50.402-08:00Good time of year to drink.Seriously, pull up a chair. It makes all the winter blahs turn into cozy memories. <br /><br />Schlafly is of course on the ball, providing ample festivities to get you out of the house. Last week was Burns Night, the annual celebration of Robert Burns and all things Scottish. Mmmmm, haggissy. This weekend they'll do it all again at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Cod & Cask</span> festival, for which the kitchen (woo-hoo Andy White!) makes up a whole mess o' battered cod and serves it up with beery selections from Ye Olde Handpump. I'll be there in the afternoon--the stuff goes fast! <br /><br />Also last week was the 1st Annual <span style="font-weight:bold;">Arch Rival Rollergirls</span> Trivia Night fundraiser. Lots of Bud was imbibed (hey: free) and lots of cheese balls inhaled. Mmmmm, junk food. (Bud and cheesy poofs? Throw in some canned green beans and you got my family's grocery list circa 1982... JK, Mom. JK.) Anyhoo, the important thing here is that the fourth season of roller derby in Saint Louis is about to begin. The kickoff party is Friday the 13th at the City Museum and the season opener is the following Saturday the 21st. Drinking beer with roller girls is good for the soul. We should all give my wife a big bear hug for bringing them to Saint Louis.<br /><br />Did anyone hear about the megatap that just opened in Chesterfield? Of course you did--they're already getting lots of press. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">International Tap House</span> looks mighty fine. Too bad they're in Chesterfield. I can count on one hand the number of times I've found myself out there. Well, every neighborhood deserves a good beer bar, at least until there's good beer at every bar. Then we'll have gotten somewhere. If you're in the neighborhood, check 'em out.<br /><br />And there's always <span style="font-weight:bold;">Blueberry Hill</span>.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-47234465938330156902009-01-02T10:20:00.000-08:002009-01-02T10:54:10.872-08:002009Everybody's already saying it's better than 2008. Adios, shitty recession/corporate bailout/lame duck/torture/Prop 8/Palin/ABInBev/Blagojevich/Madoff scumfest. On the other hand, thanks for the new president. We were kind of embarrassed for the last guy. Party at my house Jan 20th.<br /><br />Speaking of ABI...well, let's not. I'm just waiting to see how the distribution scene changes. Just another reason to DRINK MORE LOCAL BEER. And while hometown brewers are putting out some respectable brews that may be called extreme by some, I like Lew Bryson's suggestion that we make 2009 The Year of the Session. I know that I've been rediscovering the joy of having quite a few little ones as opposed to just a couple big ones. Let's reward those brewers who remember how to put out a nice English- or German-inspired pint of Everyday Beer. Mild, keller, ordinary, helles--these are the exciting beers in my world right now. No dis to the Belgians or Californians--ever--but, y'know, I just keep thinking of that scene in Beerfest. Remember, where the guys drink the family's beer for the first time and love it so much that they start rattling off all the celebratory and pornographic things they want to do with the beer? Well, that wasn't barrel-aged quad. That was dark lager. That's the beer I want to spend some quality time with in the upcoming year.Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-73596043160287277742008-12-11T10:05:00.000-08:002009-02-10T03:06:38.161-08:00Adult Beverage EstablishmentsJust a quick note about recent developments, all in the city.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Wedge,</span> at Bates & Virginia, just steps from the iconic, the glorious, the almighty Iron Barley, has transformed itself from...something else...into a proper rock & roll bar. Small stage upstairs, pix of punk icons on the walls, and a TCB beer selection. Stag drinkers of Dutchtown, we salute you.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mattingly Brewing Co. </span>at Jefferson & Crittenden, in Benton Park, has started allowing glimpses of their upcoming house beers. Once a week, the brewers feature a Peek-a-Brew: samples of two styles that may be on tap soon. Check out the website or stlhops.com for details. Be on time--shit goes fast.<br /><br />Lastly, <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Bleeding Deacon</span> is having its grand opening this Saturday, December 15th. What's the name mean? Does it matter? What we know is that this joint at Gravois & Chippewa bleeds South Side cool, with a big nod to scooter culture. Are they mod or rocker? Just shut up and have a Curly Dog. (Beer selection's nice too.)Matt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283689013865427638.post-56385285339926996542008-12-04T09:11:00.000-08:002008-12-04T09:24:18.531-08:00Anniversary of Repeal of ProhibitionOn December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment fully repealed the 18th Amendment. Seventy-five years ago, we ended one of the more destructive experiments that this country has undertaken. Make sure to spend Friday educating yourself about this tragedy and celebrating the day we came to our senses. <br /><br />Here's some fun little bits to get you started:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmnqXV-ZfE (August Busch Jr's 1933 radio address)<br />http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/<br />http://newyork.metromix.com/bars-and-clubs/roundup/repeal-day-in-nyc/805347/content<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Drunkard%27s_Progress_-_B%26W.jpgMatt Thenhaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073253869473077796noreply@blogger.com0