I’m pleased to announce that the two winners for the tickets to the Wine and Cheese Place Beer and Cheese Tasting are Sam Saikia and Caleb Posner! Congrats to Sam and Caleb and thanks everyone for entering. If you didn’t win, don’t be too upset, once again I have some cool stuff to give away soon.

I once again want to thank Paul Hayden from The Wine and Cheese Place for donating the four tickets to the tasting. There are a few tickets still available for those of you that didn’t win, be sure to head out to tonight’s tasting. It sounds like a lot of fun and I hope we see a lot more to come.

For all of you drooling over the pairings for the Beer and Cheese tasting that’s going on tomorrow, Thursday, September 2nd at 6PM, at The Wine and Cheese Place, I have a contest for you.

Only a few tickets for this event remain, but fortunately for you Paul was kind enough to give us 4 tickets to give away for this event. So, email contest@stlhops.com with the subject line of: Beer and Cheese. A couple of quick notes:

• If you’ve won something from STL Hops in the past 6 months, please be cool and let someone else enter.
• You much be 21 or older to enter.
• No multiple entries.
• If you don’t think you’ll be able to attend, please don’t enter. I’d like to make sure that people available to attend have a chance to win.

As this event is tomorrow, I’ll be picking two random winners tomorrow (09/02/2010) at 9AM. Send your email now if you want to attend!

I‘d argue that few things in the world pair better than cheese and beer. With that in mind The Wine and Cheese Place on Forsyth will be holding a beer and cheese pairing this Thursday, September 2nd from 6pm-7:30pm. Each pairing has been hand selected by Certified Sommelier, Angela Ortmann (STLwinegirl) to show you the excellent possibilities that beer provides when pairing to cheese.

Here’s a list of the beer and cheese pairings:

• Double creme paired with Drie Fonteinen Oude Kriek
• Aged goat paired with DePreof La Grande Blanche and Boulevard Two Jokers Double Wit
• Pecorino cheese paired with Sierra Nevada Tumbler Brown and Corsendonk Brown Ale
• English Cheddar paired with Southern Tier 2XIPA and Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
• Blue Cheese paired with Amager Batch One Danish Barley Wine and Hofstetten Barley Wine

Tickets for this event are $30 and can be made by calling 314-727-8788 or via the TW&CP website.

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be holding their weekly Friday beer tasting. Here’s just a couple of beers that they’ll be tasting this afternoon: Tap Room 21 Amber Ale, Tap Room 21 Lager, Tap Room 21 Pale Ale, and O’Fallon Wee Heavy. 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.Boulevard Single

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be holding a beer tasting featuring Kristen Bender from Sam Adams. Here’s just a couple of beers that they’ll be tasting this afternoon: Sam Adams Oktoberfest, Imperial White, Oktoberfest plust the Beer Lover’s Choice. 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.Boulevard Single

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be holding a beer tasting featuring Laura Dale of Boulevard Brewing. Here’s just a couple of beers that they’ll be tasting this afternoon: Single Wide-Tank 7 Yeast-Sorachi Ace IPA, Boulevard Amber, Boulevard Single Wide IPA, Smokestack Two Jokers, and Smokestack Tank 7. 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.Boulevard Single

Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be tasting a number of different beers: McSorleys Black Irish Lager, McSorleys Irish Pale Ale, New Belgium Hoptober, Southern Tier 2XIPA, and De Molen Engels English Style Bitter. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Sejal from Royal Wines and Spirits in St. Peters , located at 7884 Mexico Road, is holding a beer tasting this Saturday from from 5PM to 7PM. This week they’ll be tasting Cathedral Square Agave Ale, Cathedral Square Belgian-Style White Ale, and Cathedral Square Belgian-Style Abbey Ale.

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.