Update: Added new beers from East Side Brewers and A-B Homebrewing Club.

Evan Benn at the Post-Dispatch has a rundown of all of the commercial beers available at this year’s St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival. Edit: Looks like Evan linked to the list of all these beers.  But think of this as me saving you an extra click. But there are a group of homebrewers from the St. Louis Brews and Garage Brewers Society that put together some great beers for you to sample as well.

It’s important to note that all of the beers listed below will be on at random times during the festival.  There is no set schedule for releasing these beers.  Here’s a list of the homebrew and the brewers that brewed it:

American Wheat

• Bryan Clauser (GBS)
• Scott Hespen (GBS)
• Scott Hespen (GBS)
• Tim Hayes (GBS)
• Tim Hayes – Peach Wheat (GBS)
• Jim Yeager – Raspberry Wheat (GBS)
• Jim Yeager – Centennial Wheat (GBS)
• Adam Greminger – American Honey Wheat (GBS)
• Adam Greminger – Dustin Brown’s Wedding Wheat (GBS)
• Steve Dahl (GBS)
• Steve Dahl (GBS)
• Brad Mock (StLBrews)
• Paul Murphy – Murphy’s American Wheat Ale (StLBrews)
• Paul Murphy – Nat.’l Homebrew Day Amer. Wheat Ale w/Wyeast 1010 (StLBrews)
• Paul Murphy – Nat.’l Homebrew Day Amer. Wheat Ale w/Schlafly’s Yeast (StLBrews)
• Michael McCoy (StLBrews)
• Andrew Bretz (StLBrews)
• Kerth Stocker (StLBrews)

Red/Amber

• Scott Walters – Irish Red (GBS)
• Scott Walters – Irish Red (GBS)
• Jeff Britton (GBS)
• Dave Harnett (GBS)
• Tim Cochran – American Amber (StLBrews)
• Nic Zimmer – Irish Red, 4 gal (StLBrews)

APA

• Ted O’Neil (StLBrews)
• Dan Stauder (StLBrews)
• John Mitchell (StLBrews)
• John Mitchell (StLBrews)
• Mike Walters (StLBrews)
• Gary Burke (StLBrews)
• Gary Burke (StLBrews)
• Christopher Horn – Rye Pale Ale (StLBrews)
• Kally Gehly – Rye Pale Ale (StLBrews/GBS)
• Kally Gehly – Single-Hop Pale Ale w/Sterling (StLBrews/GBS)
• Kally Gehly – Single-Hop Pale Ale w/Sterling (StLBrews/GBS)
• Scott Walters (GBS)
• Kent Critchell (GBS)
• Jim Leabig (GBS)
• Shawn Mitchell (GBS)

IPA

• Bryan Clauser (GBS)
• Tim Hayes (GBS)
• Jim Leabig (GBS)
• Dennis Stroup – “Virgin Nectar” IPA (GBS)
• Kevin Tierney (StLBrews)
• Rick Haynes (StLBrews)
• Rick Haynes (StLBrews)

Stout

• Bob Brandt (GBS)
• Doug Howell (GBS)
• Jim Yeager – Oatmeal Stout (GBS)
• Phil “O” – Milk Stout (GBS)
• Jerid Saffell – American Stout, 7.5% ABV, 60 IBUs, Magnum, Ahtanum, & Simcoe hops (GBS)
• Bridget Doherty – Breakfast Stout (StLBrews)
• Nic Zimmer – Sweet Stout, 2.5 gal (StLBrews)

German Hefeweizen

• Rick Haynes (StLBrews)
• Rick Haynes (StLBrews)
• David Roesch – Bavarian Hefeweizen/Heritage Festival Beer (StLBrews)
• David Roesch – Bavarian Hefeweizen/Heritage Festival Beer (StLBrews)
• Joe Orsa – Bavarian Hefeweizen/Heritage Festival Beer (StLBrews)
• Sean Sweeney (StLBrews)
• Gary Reynolds (GBS)
• Jerid Saffell – 5% ABV, 12 IBU, Magnum hops (GBS)

Fruit

• Bob Love – Raspberry Cream Ale (GBS)
• Bob Love – Cherrywood Smoked Wheat (GBS)
• Dave Blue – Lemon Coriander Wheat (GBS)

ESB

• Tim Fahrner (StLBrews)
• Kevin Tierney (StLBrews)
• Kally Gehly – gal (StLBrews/GBS)
• John Sutton (GBS)
• Scott Hespen (GBS)

Blonde Ale

• Scott Hixson (StLBrews)
• Kerth Stocker (StLBrews)
• Christopher Horn (StLBrews)
• Steven May (StLBrews-affiliated)
• John Grady (GBS)
• Jerid Saffell – American Blonde, 4.8% ABV, 25 IBU, Summit & Ahtanun hops (GBS)
• Jerid Saffell – American Blonde, 4.8% ABV, 25 IBU, Summit & Ahtanun hops (GBS)

Kolsch

• Tim Hayes (GBS)
• Kent Robertson – Bonn-Bonn Kolsch (StLBrews)

Porter

• John Grady (GBS)
• Jim Yeager – Coconut Vanilla Porter (GBS)
• Tim Hayes – Chocolate Porter (GBS)

Cider

• Peter MacKercher (StLBrews)
• Paul Murphy – Hard Apple Cider (StLBrews)

Scottish Ales

• Kevin Tierney (StLBrews)
• Nic Zimmer – 80-Shilling, 4 gal (StLBrews)

Cream Ale

• Dan Stauder (StLBrews)
• Dan Stauder (StLBrews)
• Dan Stauder (StLBrews)
• Jeff Britton – Cream Ale (GBS)
• Andrew Wall – Coconut Cream Ale (GBS)

Miscellaneous

• Michael Doherty – Belgian Quad (StLBrews)
• Michael Doherty – Belgian Quad (StLBrews)
• Trish Thomas – Saison w/fruit (StLBrews)
• Trish Thomas – Belgian Triple (StLBrews)
• Chris Rahn – American Brown Ale (StLBrews)
• Jack Baty – Tart Cherry Beer, Aged 9 months (StLBrews)
• Sean Sweeney – Maibock (StLBrews)
• Sean Sweeney – Pennsylvania Swankey (a historic American beer w/star anise) (StLBrews)
• Kally Gehly – “Teddy Grahams” Ale (GBS “Ironman” Comp. Beer; StLBrews)
• David Nitzche – “Mystery Hops and Malts Ale” (StLBrews)
• Gary Burke – Maibock (StLBrews)
• Jerid Saffell – Cerveza-style (GBS)
• Chris Buchanan – Jalepeno Ale (GBS)
• Tim Hayes – California Common (GBS)
• Jerid Saffell – Belgian Pale Ale, 4.8% ABV, 30 IBUs, Kent Golding & Saaz hops (GBS)
• Scott Walters – “Fest Bier” Octoberfest Lager (GBS)
• Scott Walters – “Fest Bier” Octoberfest Lager (GBS)

Update:  The East Side Brewers and the A-B Homebrew Club will also be serving up some of their beers as well:

East Side Brewers

Greg Bridwell(Imperial Pilsner)

• Greg Campbell( Kolsch )
• Jeff Harbaugh(California Common)
• Toni Yager(TBD)
• Joe Mansker(TBD)
• Ben Cowan(Belgian Double)
• Andrew Sanders(Brown Sugga)
• Gary Burke(TBD)

A-B Homebrewers Club

• Greg Campbell (dual member – East Side Brewers & A-B) (Indian Spiced Ale)
• Steve Schick (Amber Ale)
• Steve Schick (Amber Ale)
• Tom Seiff (Saison)
• Mark Vance (APA)
• Mark Vance (Dunkelweizen)

This one is for all of those homebrewers out there. If you’re looking to get some honest feedback on your beer, a homebrew competition is the best place to start. They’re going to give you informative feedback that can only help to improve your beer. Dan Stauder of the St. Louis Brews forwarded information on to me about this year’s competition:

The Happy Holiday Homebrew Competition is the St. Louis Brews annual homebrew competition. It is a fully sanctioned AHA and BJCP event. This year it will be held on December 9, December 11, 2009 and December 12, 2009.

The location of the competition & banquet is the Annunciation Church in Webster Groves, located at 12 West Glendale Road, just South of Hwy. 44 on Elm Avenue. Here is a link to a map. We are proud to be the final qualifying event for the Twelth Annual Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing.

2 bottles per entry
Fee is $6.00 per entry
Entries must be received by Friday, December 4, 2009

Please register on the web with a valid email address. The registration page will have all the details of where to send the entries. Local dropoff will be at the local homebrew shops.

Scoresheets will be scanned and emailed back to the brewer by the next day. Currently this is the only competition that I know that scans and emails scoresheets for quick feedback to the brewer.

I plan on entering a few beers this year just to get some feedback (and if they’re good enough maybe win an award.) If you’re a homebrewer I would strongly suggest that you do the same!

I missed this one last week, but luckily there is always the lovely invention called the “podcast.” Last Thursday, local NPR affiliate 90.7 KWMU aired a segment called Brewing in St. Louis on their St. Louis On the Air show.

The guests for the hour were Don Roussin and Kevin Kious two of the authors of “St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis, 1809-2009“. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but if the book is any gauge, it should be a very interesting hour of radio.

While Henry may no longer be with us, the show will go on. Tonight’s scheduled St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis 1809-2009 book signing event will still take place.

Authors Don Roussin and Kevin Kious will still be at the Schlafly Bottleworks tonight from 7PM-9PM.  If you don’t have a copy of this amazing book, you can purchase a copy at the Bottleworks retail center tonight.

Henry’s family will be in attendance for the event tonight and I’m sure there is going to be a pint raised in Henry’s honor.  If you can, go out to support this amazing book, some great authors and a great man.

Back in March, I let you know about what will probably be the definitive book about brewing in St. Louis, St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis 1809-2009. Well, the book is now available, and first off, you MUST pick this up.  It’s wonderfully detailed and full of amazing photographs from throughout the past 200 years of brewing in St. Louis.

This upcoming Monday, October 19 from 7PM-9PM, will provide you with the chance to get a signed copy of St. Louis Brews by one of the book’s authors Henry Herbst at the Schlafly Bottleworks.  I don’t know if any of you have been following along with Henry’s condition, but things aren’t going great.  But Henry is going to fight through hell and high water to attend the event.

If you have the chance to attend, I’d love for everyone to stop by and thank Henry for this book and have a chance to meet a legend of the St. Louis beer scene.

If you’re one of those people who’s always wanted to get their homebrew on, but never knew where to start tomorrow is your best opportunity to learn how to turn grains and hops into beer. May 7rd marked the 30th anniversary of National Homebrew Day and to celebrate homebrewers are going to do what the do best, brew beer!

Each year on the first Saturday in May, homebrewers unite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate National Homebrew Day, joining with thousands of homebrewers from around the world in brewing the same recipes and sharing a simultaneous toast at noon Central Time.

You may be asking yourself, “Hey Mike, we’ve already passed the first weekend of May!”  And you’re right, but with Microfest going on last weekend, the St. Louis homebrewing clubs decided that they were going to hold off a week to make sure there wasn’t competing events on the same weekend.  So, National Homebrewing Day will take place this Saturday, May 9th in St. Louis.

Locally the two biggest homebrew clubs will be celebrating in two different locations. The Garage Brewers Society will be celebrating the event at O’Fallon Brewery while the St. Louis Brews will be brewing up a storm at Worm’s Way. Both locations will be offering up great food, great discussion and of course plenty of homebrew.

This Fall will see the release on what will be the definitive book about brewing in St. Louis when St. Louis Brews: 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis 1809-2009 hits store shelves.  This hardbound, full color book will feature over 330 pages detailing the history of beer and its importance to the St. Louis region.

This book was researched and written by local brewing historians Don Roussin, Kevin Kious and Henry Herbst.  (Henry will also be a featured player at this years St. Louis Craft Beer Week where he will be hosting a discussion about the History of Craft Beer in the United States.)

If you’re interested in obtaining a copy of this book be certain to buy your signed copy here or you can also pay by check via this PDF.  I have a feeling this will be on a lot of local beer nerd’s Christmas lists come this fall.