The Wine and Cheese Place in Rock Hill will be holding their first Beer and Cheese Festival on October 17th from 1PM-4PM. This festival will allow you to sample beers and cheese from around the globe. Here’s a preliminary list of breweries and distributors that have been confirmed for the festival:

Blakelee from Magic Hat

• Magic Hat #9
• Odd Notion Fall 2009
• Circus Boy
• Roxy Rolles

Nick from Schlafly

• Kolsch
• APA
• Oat Stout
• Quadruple
• Grand Cru
• Oak-Aged Barleywine
• (plus he said he might bring a few surpises)

Jack from Missouri Beverage
Distributor of Founders, Mikkeller, Left Hand, Southern Tier, Jolly Pumpkin, Grand Teton, Moylans, O’Fallon, Nogne, and so many more.

Brian from Major Brands
Distributor of Avery, Greene King IPA, Grimbergen, Kronenbourg, Great Divide, Tin Mill, plus more.

This is an open house event, so be sure to swing by and sample some great beer and cheese!

On Saturday, a few STL Hops members trekked their way to Rock Hill to visit my home for a beer tasting.  There’s been a few requests for a chance to sit down and taste a few different beers with other beer aficionados and I wanted to offer up my home for that chance.  Here are some of the photos from that event.

You know you had a good time when you wake up and find half of a bottle of Stone Russian Imperial Stout sitting on the table and you pour yourself a glass.  Thanks to everyone who came out, it was a really fun time.

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I was over at the Rock Hill Wine and Cheese Place on Friday and was pleasantly surprised to see a whole new expanded beer selection now available. I emailed Paul to find out the details and he informed me that they added about 150 beers at Rock Hill to bring the total up to around 460. Not too shabby for a friendly neighborhood wine store. (Paul also let me know Clayton W&C is up to 720 beers in stock!)