Just about every Tuesday evening, The Royale’s Matthew Thenhaus hosts an event where he guides you through the wonderful world of beer styles and beer history. This week he’ll be featuring an event he calls: “Hopbombs“. Here’s a quick synopsis of what will be on tap:

Tonight we showcase those stalwarts of the craft scene–the brews that make the geeks go all giggity-giggity–American IPAs.

Featuring Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA on draught, and Lagunitas Hop Stoopid in 22oz bottles.

As Matt is extremely passionate and extremely knowledgeable this is a great opportunity to not only enjoy some great beer, but to learn about just some of the great styles of beer we have available in St. Louis.

Just about every Tuesday evening, The Royale’s Matthew Thenhaus hosts an event where he guides you through the wonderful world of beer styles and beer history. This week he’ll be featuring an event he calls: “It Doesn’t Taste Like Metal Anymore: ExtravaCANza 2010“. Here’s a quick synopsis of what will be on tap:

Tonight we toast a farewell to the stigma of canned beer. The can is the craft beer containment vessel of the future for so many reasons–flavor protection, ecological impact, convenience, accessibility–that small brewers everywhere have begun to proclaim Yes We Can!

Featuring Schlafly Summer Lager, O’Fallon Wheach, Lion Stout and a few very special surprise guest cameos

As Matt is extremely passionate and extremely knowledgeable this is a great opportunity to not only enjoy some great beer, but to learn about just some of the great styles of beer we have available in St. Louis.

Just about every Tuesday evening, The Royale hosts an event called Tuesdays With The Beertender. Matthew Thenhaus who writes The Beertender columns for the Riverfront Times, guides you through the wonderful world of beer styles and beer history. This week he’ll be featuring European Wheat beers styles. Here’s a quick synopsis of what will be on tap:

Nothing wrong with a light, spritzy American wheat beer in the summertime. Europeans, however, get to enjoy all that wheaty refreshment with an extra wallop of flavor. Whether it’s Belgian witbier or German weissbier, Old World wheats are a very different experience and tonight we revel in their glory.

Tonight, our featured draught is a classic German wheat from the oldest brewery in the world, Weihenstephan. Bottles? Free stuff? Well, you’ll just have to roll by and find out!

As Matt is extremely passionate and extremely knowledgeable this is a great opportunity to not only enjoy some great beer, but to learn about just some of the great styles of beer we have available in St. Louis.

Just about every Tuesday evening, The Royale hosts an event called Tuesdays With The Beertender. Matthew Thenhaus who writes The Beertender columns for the Riverfront Times, guides you through the wonderful world of beer styles and beer history.  This week he’ll be featuring European Wheat beers styles.  Here’s a quick synopsis of what will be on tap:

Nothing wrong with a light, spritzy American wheat beer in the summertime. Europeans, however, get to enjoy all that wheaty refreshment with an extra wallop of flavor. Whether it’s Belgian witbier or German weissbier, Old World wheats are a very different experience and tonight we revel in their glory.

Featuring St. Bernardus Wit, Franziskaner Hefe-Weiss, and two American takes on the styles: Cathedral Square White Ale and Sierra Nevada Kellerweis.

As Matt is extremely passionate and extremely knowledgeable this is a great opportunity to not only enjoy some great beer, but to learn about just some of the great styles of beer we have available in St. Louis.

If you’re looking to Erin Go Bragh tomorrow here’s a couple of places with a great beer selection that will be celebrating the national day of drinking:

The Stable:  Opening at 7AM tomorrow and will be serving up breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, corned beef hash.  A great way to start the morning.  It’s important to lay down a base.

International Tap House:  Open at 1pm; $3 Guinness, Smithwicks, Harp and Boulevard Irish Ale.  Live Music starts at 8pm.

Growlers Pub:  Both locations will be offering an all you can eat breakfast buffet from 6am to 10am that includes your choice of coffee, juice or a pint of Harp, Smethwicks, or Guinness.  The from 11am to close they’ll be offering a Corn Beef and Cabbage dinner.  Live music as well.

The Royale: Offering up a selection of  stouts, ales, whiskeys, Guinness beef stew, Bangers and Mash (meat or vegetarian) and more starting at 11:30AM.  Then from  4pm-6pm there will be live Irish music from the Gannon Junior Crew Duo.  John Gassel will provide Irish and Irish inspired music from 9pm- close. There will also be some literature readings throughout the day and other surprises as well.

Pat’s Bar and Grill: Tapping a Cask of Schlafly APA at 10 am.

If there are other locations that want their events listed, just add them to the comments section and I’ll add them throughout the day.

As you all know, Schlafly Hop in the City is coming up this Saturday and to help kick off the event The Royale will be throwing a party on Thursday, September 17th beginning at 6PM with a cask of the Hop Festival beer, the American IPA.

Not only do you get to enjoy some delicious cask beer, I’ve been told that representatives from Schlafly will be on hand to give out some tickets for Hop in the City.  Cask beer and the possibility for free tickets?  Sounds like a win-win to me.

Another day, another APA.  Not that this is a bad thing, in fact it’s a great thing.  Who among us doesn’t enjoy the citrusy, fruity aromas and flavors of an American Pale Ale?  You don’t?  Well, you may be a communist, because this is an American beer, for real Americans.

But I digress, Charleville Vineyard has begun kegging its Explicit APA and now it’s throwing a party at The Royale on Wednesday, June 17th begining at 6PM.   Not only will you be able to talk to Charleville brewers and enjoy their newest release on draught, but they’re bringing up a cask for consumption as well.

Here’s a description of the beer from the sexy new label that you see on the right:

“American Pale Ale is not only the standard but the foundry for what has inspired the craft beer movement. Here at Charleville we wanted to celebrate the beer style that stands as the corner stone for what has made American craft brewing so great. Our Explicit APA is brewed with five additions of hops prior to the wort passing through the Hopback on its way to fermentation. To complete this full bodied ale dry hops are added during cold maturation to create a hop forward ale, with a transcendental copper hue.

14 Plato (2 row, Carapils and Crystal malts)

30 IBU (Cascade and Centennial hops)

ABV 5.4%”

So go out, enjoy this beer and prove to everyone that not unlike Hulk Hogan, you’re a real American.