It seems like just last week we learned of a new microbrewery with plans to open soon in St. Louis. That's right, we did: , coming in April to Tower Grove South-Grand Oak Hill.Â
St. Louis beer lovers, make room in your bellies and on your palates for more new beer. will be producing bottles and kegs of "unconventional yet tradition-oriented" craft beers from its Midtown Alley location at 3229 Washington Avenue. (, a recently renovated 1920s garage.)
The brewery's co-founders are two former Anheuser-Busch employees: brewer Florian Kuplent and beer marketer David Wolfe. Kuplent, in his role as an A-B brewer the past eight years, helped create Michelob's line of craft beers.
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Urban Chestnut's beers will fall into two categories -- Reverence and Revolution. The Reverence series will pay homage to the traditional European styles that the German-born Kuplent first learned to brew; the Revolution series will be a nod to the more daring styles cooked up by American craft brewers.
"Florian and I hope to contribute to the already vibrant local craft beer culture," says Wolfe, a St. Louis native. "It is a great time for beer in St. Louis."
(About the name: "Urban," they say, is to recognize the U.S. cities that sparked the craft-brew revolution. "Chestnut" stands for tradition, as Bavarian brewers for decades have used chestnut trees to shade their bier gardens and cellars.)
And, another new brewery is getting ready to launch, this one about 60 miles west of St. Louis, in New Haven.
hosted some for a tasting preview and feedback session over the weeked. Sounds like it should be up and running fairly soon.
To find out more about Civil Life, Urban Chestnut, and the recent explosion of new microbreweries, be sure to check out my Hip Hops column in Friday's Go! magazine or at .