Welsh Ale
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

 

 

 

 

So many of the APA's I am experiencing have been pushed to extremes ( 3 Floyd's Alpha King, Burning River, Stone's 7th, S. Nev's Harvest & Pale Ale) I am left a little wanting in one that is brewed on the conservative side of the style

Schlafly's American Pale Ale is less than medium-bodied, weaker hop bitterness, a nice flavor and aroma. Brewed for 1804 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commemoration. A drinkable beer worthy of a growler for the friends at home.

Earliest brewed beer in St. Louis was by John Coons, a few years after 1804, when the territory was purchased by the United States. By 1810 one of St. Louis' original French residents, Jacques St. Vrain, a former officer of the Spanish government, opened the St. Vrain Brewery. But beer production and consumption did not really become popular until waves of German immigrants reached St. Louis just before the Civil War.

Patrons, new to Schlafly's array of microbrews, ask for lighter beers similar to their favorite macrobrews, I bite my tongue and stay quiet. I knew no better for the 1st 40 years I drank beer. Now one tastes like an 80°F 3 week old can of Falstaff from my grandfather's hot smoke house (Grandmother's rule was no beer in the house)