Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting a tasting featuring these beers: Goose Island Demolition, Jurand Extra, Jurand Premium, Grieskirchner Weisse Pint, Laughing Dog CSB, and Laughing Dog DogZilla.  Additional information can be found at their blog.

Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting every Wednesday evening from from 5PM to 8PM. Each Wednesday will offer up a few new beers for you to taste. Swing on by and check it out.

City Gourmet will be holding a New Belgium tasting this Saturday, March 13th from 1-3pm. Available to taste will be the Explorer Series and some of the Lips of Faith line. As an added bonus, you’ll also get a chance to enjoy snacks from Billy Goat Chips.

Once again, if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

I’ve made a change in how the beer tastings will be listed in the Friday Round-Up, it’s going to be a week’s worth of tastings starting with the Friday that the list is posted. So if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting a tasting featuring Boulevard Smokestack Dark Truth, Boulevard Smokestack Rye on Rye, Corsendonk Brown, Corsendonk Pale, and Bridgeport Hop Czar. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting every Wednesday evening from from 5PM to 8PM. Each Wednesday will offer up a few new beers for you to taste. Swing on by and check it out.

Schlafly will be holding a tasting at Gustine Market, this upcoming Tuesday, March 9th from 5PM-8PM.  They’ll be offering up Pale Ale, Hefeweizen, Coffee Stout, Dry-Hopped APA, and Irish Extra Stout.

Jon Pace from Paradise Wines in Fenton has let me know that they’ll be doing a beer tasting tonight from 6PM-8:30PM.  They’ll be tasting a  small sample of their 1000+ beers in stock by trying variety of Irish beers.

Once again, if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

I’ve made a change in how the beer tastings will be listed in the Friday Round-Up, it’s going to be a week’s worth of tastings starting with the Friday that the list is posted. So if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting Ron Lindenbusch and Karen Hamilton from Lagunitas where they will be offering up tastings featuring Lagunitas Maximus, Lagunitas IPA, Lagunitas Pale Ale, Lagunitas Hop Stoopid, Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball, Lagunitas GnarlyWine, and Lagunitas Cappucino. As an added bonus, they’re also going to do a vertical of Brown Shugga vintages! They’ll be tasting 2006-2009 bottles of Brown Sugga. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting every Wednesday evening from from 5PM to 8PM. Each Wednesday will offer up a few new beers for you to taste. Swing on by and check it out.

Once again, if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Being completely oblivious about wine, I was unaware of this idea put forth called “Open that Bottle Night.”  The plan is to break out a bottle of wine that you’ve been sitting on and actually drink it.  No special occasion needed, you’re simply drinking the wine to enjoy it.

This is brilliant.  I’m sure that I’m not unlike a lot of you.  I’m sure that you have a few (or more) beers that you’ve set aside for that special occasion.  Sometimes though it begins to get difficult to open to beers just because you’ve sat on them for this long, they may be better if they sit a little longer.  Or maybe the occasion just isn’t special enough.

But enough of that, it’s time to open that beer.  So, this is the plan, we’re all going to open up something from our cellars this week and post it in the comments.  Let us know what you thought about your beer.  How it’s aged, how it tastes, are you happy with the results, etc.

I’m curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.

I’ve made a change in how the beer tastings will be listed in the Friday Round-Up, it’s going to be a week’s worth of tastings starting with the Friday that the list is posted. So if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting a tasting featuring Avery Black Tot, Bells Consecrator Doppelbock, Odell Bourbon Barrel Stout, Ommegang Abbey, and Southern Tier Back Burner. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting every Wednesday evening from from 5PM to 8PM. Each Wednesday will offer up a few new beers for you to taste. Swing on by and check it out.

Once again, if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

I’ve made a change in how the beer tastings will be listed in the Friday Round-Up, it’s going to be a week’s worth of tastings starting with the Friday that the list is posted. So if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting a tasting featuring Saint Somewhere Pays du Soleil, Fantome Dark White, Haandbryggeriet Wild Thing, De Ranke Hop Flower, Nogne Dunkelwit, and Chatoe Rogue Dirtoir Black Lager. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting every Wednesday evening from from 5PM to 8PM. Each Wednesday will offer up a few new beers for you to taste. Swing on by and check it out.

Once again, if you’re a retail shop, bar, restaurant, brewery or distributor and want me to list your tasting, make sure to email me at mike@stlhops.com.

Andy Snead brings back his monthly beer tastings at the Whole Foods Galleria in February with an emphasis on Barley Wines:

That’s right; the monthly beer series is back and in full swing with the ever popular style of Barley Wine! Ranging from sweet to bitter, these complex and high alcohol brews are just what you need to shake off the chill from Jack Frost. There will be examples foreign, domestic and seasonally available for you to experience. Perfectly paired snacks provided. Cheers!

This tasting will cost $25. The date is Thursday, February 11th and it runs from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. You can buy tickets online here.