2008 St. Louis Microfest Beer List
May 28, 2008 12:54 pm Beer EventsAs I’m sure most of you are aware of the upcoming St. Louis Microfest being held on June 6th and 7th, I’m just going to get straight to the meat and give you the tentative beer list for both nights of the event:
Friday:
Bottles
Belhaven Scottish Ale
Duvel Belgian Beer
Lindeman’s Framboise
Lindeman’s Pomme
Moretti Lager
Newcastle Brown Ale
Orval Trappist
Paulander Hefe-Weizen
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Singha
Strongbow Cider
Warsteiner Pilsner
Warsteiner Dunkel
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
Peroni Pilsner
Negra Modelo
Tsing Tao
Sapporo
Estrella Damm
Tooheys
Barons Black Wattle
Sol
Tona
Draught
Stella Artois
Smithwick
Harp
Guinness
Beamish Irish
Saturday:
Bottles
Abita Purple Haze
Bell’s Oberon
Bell’s Third Coast Ale
Bell’s Two Hearted Ale
Flying Dog In Heat Wehat
Flying Dog Tire Biter
Ommegang Hennepin Belgian Ale
Lemp Lager
Odell Easy Street Wheat
Odell Imperial Stout
Odells 5 Barrel Pale
Odells 90 Shilling
Pyramid Apricot Weizen
Pyramid Thunderhead IPA
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Rogue Hazelnut Brown
Rogue Mocha Porter
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere
Sierra Nevada Summerfest
Woodchuck Amber Cider s
Woodchuck 802 Cider
Woodchuck Granny Smith Cider
Woodchuck Pear Cider
Leine Summer
Leine Sunset
Boulevard Pale Ale
Sam Adams Cherry Wheat
Sam Adams Summer Ale
Sam Adams Irish Red
Avery Selections
Great Divide Samurai
Draught
Blue Moon Honey
Blue Moon
Shiner Bock
Boulevard Wheat
Boulevard Zon
New Belgium Fat Tire
New Belgium Skinny Dip
Schlafly Oatmeal Stout
Schlafly Summer Kolsch
Schlafly Raspberry Hefewiezen
5 day IPA
Smoked Porter
O’Fallon Wheat
Wheach
O’Fallon Gold
New Belgium 1554 Black Ale
New Belgium Mothership Wit
If you’ve made it this far, don’t forget you can enter the Microfest Homebrew Contest as well!
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Shep :
Date: May 28, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
So they only serve the domestic from bottles?? That’s gonna be a huge truckload for a recycling center somewhere.
Dave J :
Date: May 28, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
The Friday event is only bottles- imports. The Saturday session is almost all draft with each brewery having their own booth.
Dave J :
Date: May 28, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
There will be a lot more brewery’s there on Sat. that aren’t listed here. I know Buffalo Brewing, Little Yeoman, Alandale, Morgan Street, New Albanian (I think), Springfield (I think), Powerplant (I think), 29th Street (I think) and a few more.
I am bringing a Firkin of O’Fallon IPA dry hopped with Cluster hops. For Buffalo I am bringing some Rye IPA, Red, and Hefe.
Chuck S. :
Date: May 29, 2008 @ 5:50 am
Since when was Blue Moon, Guinness, Harp, ect. considered “micros”??
Derek Bean :
Date: May 30, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Chuck, you make a good point. But, as Dave said, Friday night is the “International Night” which replaced the old International Beer Fest. International Night is supposed to feature imports.
I agree with you about Blue Moon. But, for better or worse, every year there are beers featured there such as Leine’s Berry Weiss which are hardly “micros”. Unfortunately, with Microfest relying entirely on donations from distributors and breweries, some local distributors view this event more as a hassle and don’t see an incentive to serve beers in which their samples are not being reimbursed by the breweries.
More and more beer fests are popping up which means distributors are getting asked more often than ever for donations. This is making things more difficult now for distributors to decide which events they can afford to participate in. Moreover, it is relatively expensive for out-of-town brewers to come in for a weekend and pour free (donated) beer at a festival in a market in which many of these brewers aren’t even currently selling their beer.
I remember the first couple of years of Microfest when it had many out-of-town breweries represented and it was on the picturesque grounds of the Worlds Fair Pavilion.