Yesterday saw the release of a some new beers in St. Louis.  As the holidays are approaching, we’re going to be seeing a ton of holiday and winter beers coming into the area.  Thanks to Paul from The Wine and Cheese Place, here’s a list of what became available yesterday:

• Van Twee Belgian Ale – A Collaboration Between Bell’s Brewery and De Proef Brouwerij
• De Struise – Tsjeeses
• Ølfabrikken – Jule Ale
• High and Mighty – Home for the Holidays
• Dieu du Ciel – Solstice d’Hiver
• HopBack – Pickled Santa
• Haandbryggeriet – Nissefar Father Christmas
• Brasserie des Geants – Noel de Geants
• Hook Norton – Twelve Days
• Mikkeller – From/To
• Samuel Smith – Yorkshire Stingo
• Fraoch – Heather Ale 20th Anniversary
• Ridgeway Brewery – Bad Elf Winter Ale
• Ridgeway Brewery – Very Bad Elf Special Reserve Ale
• Ridgeway Brewery – Seriously Bad Elf English Double Ale
• Ridgeway Brewery – Criminally Bad Elf Barleywine Style Ale
• Ridgeway Brewery – Insanely Bad Elf Imperial Red Ale
• Ridgeway Brewery – Lump of Coal Dark Holiday Stout
• Delirium Noel
• Gouden Carolus Noel
• Nogne – Winter
• Nørrebro Julebryg – Nørrebro Bryghus
• Boulevard – Nutcracker

If you’ve been paying attention to the Wine and Cheese Place Blog or to the Beer Advocate forums this information may be old news for you, St. Louis is about to get three new breweries in 2009 thanks to Missouri Beverage and Summit Distributing.  Next year we’ll see the introduction of Magic Hat out of South Burlington, Vermont, Tommyknocker from Idaho Springs, Colorado and New Holland Brewing Company located in Holland, Michigan.

I’ve listed some of the beers from each brewery below, hopefully we’ll know soon enough what beers we’ll be getting from each brewery:

Magic Hat

• #9
• Circus Boy
• Single Chair Ale
• Lucky Kat

New Holland Brewery

• Mad Hatter
• Full Circle
• Sundog
• The Poet

Tommyknocker Brewery

• Oaked Butt Head Bock
• Imperial Nut Brown Ale
• Maple Nut Brown Ale
• Jack Whacker Wheat Ale
• Pick Axe Pale Ale
• Tundrabeary Ale

This seems like the week to revisit news from May, because if you remember way back then I reported that Anderson Valley Brewing would be available in July. Well, it’s now November so we only missed the target date by 4 months!

Over at the Wine and Cheese Place blog, Paul Hayden details which beers arrived in St. Louis. It looks like we’ve received a mix of six-packs and bombers of the following beers:

• Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout (6pk and 22oz)
• Boont Amber (6pk)
• Boont ESB Extra Special Beer (6pk)
• Hop Ottin IPA India Pale (6pk)
• Poleeko Gold Pale (6pk)
• Winter Solstice Seasonal Ale (6pk)

Be sure to check out the Wine and Cheese Place’s blog for more information on all of these beers.

Dave Johnson emailed me late last week and filled me in on a few new beers we’ll be seeing at Buffalo Brewing Company in the next couple of months. The first new ones we should be seeing are Oktoberfest Lager and a Belgian Pale Ale which Dave describes as “very tasty.”

Also in the mix is a DunkelRye. Dave was planning on brewing a Dunkel and there was a suggestion made of adding some Rye. Dave thought that was an awesome idea and the DunkelRye was born. That was brewed just this past Sunday, so it’ll be a little while until we see it. But that sounds pretty exciting.

If you have any idea for beer styles that you would like to see at Buffalo, feel free to leave them in the comments.  One of the things Dave loves so much about Buffalo is that it affords him the chance to really have fun and brew different things that can break up the monotony of brewing the same thing day in and day out.

Hope you’re all planning on having an exciting or relaxing Memorial Day Weekend. I’ve got a brewing session planned and a lot of beer I’m planning on drinking. Please be safe this weekend. Here’s the (short) Round Up:

Stuff from around the web

• Christine’s thoughts on some of the local beer dinners in St. Louis.
• Craft Beer Radio has some coverage of the Savor Beer and Food festival.
• Year of Beer reviews O’Fallon’s Goat’s Breath Bock beer.
• The blog Pfiff! talks about beer’s cousin Whiskey and talks about the incestuous marriage between them.

Beer Releases and News

• Andrew from Bon Vivant Wines informs me to some new beers he has in his stock:
  • Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale
  • Sierra Nevada Summer Fest Lager
  • Victory Prima Pilsner
  • Schlafly Summer Kolsch
  • Two Brothers Monarch White
  • Mahr’s Unfiltered Lager
  • Coniston Bluebird Bitter
• Paul at The Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton alerts me to some new beers he has in stock at the Clayton and Rock Hill locations:
  • Brauerei Heller Bamberg Hells Lagerbier
  • New Belgium La Folie
  • Maredsous 8
  • Maredsous 10
  • Ommegang Witte
• Mike Cherre, Beer Consultant at Lukas Liquor posts on their blog some of the new selections they have in stock:
  • Jolly Pumpkin La Roja Artisan Amber Ale
  • Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza Artisan Golden Ale
  • Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere Farmhouse Ale
  • Jolly Pumpkin E.S. Bam Hoppy Farmhouse Ale
  • Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca Artisan White Ale
  • New Belgium La Folie

Here’s a list of upcoming beer events:

• May 29 – Starr’s May Beer Dinner
• June – St. Louis Microfest