-- Repeal of Prohibition Beer Festival at Bottleworks

-- Details about our new Schlafly SIP Club

-- Art Outside 2007 Call for Art!

-- Introducing Dry-Hopped APA

-- April at The Tap Room

-- April at Bottleworks

-- Other Schlafly Stuff

-- Top Fermentation: Tom Schlafly's monthly column

-- Live Music Listings

Are you a Schlafly Beer lover? Join our new Schlafly Imperial Pint Club (SIP) and receive:

• A custom Schlafly Stein
• A Schlafly discount card: present to server or bartender and receive a 20 oz. beer for the price of a 16 oz. (excluding beers over 8% alcohol)
• 10% discount in our retail shops
• Invitation to special in-house member tastings and events

Annual membership is only $25 and is available at both The Tap Room and Bottleworks.

Schlafly's Art Outside Fair is issuing a Call for Art inviting all artists living within a 125-mile radius of St. Louis, Missouri to submit work for consideration to participate in the outdoor fair taking place September 7-8, 2007. To download a prospectus/application, click here.

Say "so long" to Expedition Reserve and "hello" to APA.

We've changed the beer by dry hopping to add extra hop flavor and aroma. Now we're ready for the packaging to reflect the improvement. But, because we're earth-friendly, we'll use up the old packaging we have in our warehouse. So, until all the Expedition Reserve labels are gone, rest assured you'll be drinking the same great beer. Fruity, spicy hoppiness with big malt flavor -- now that's an American dream!

*Summer Kolsch
This light-colored, refreshing ale is THE beer of Cologne. Well-balanced and mild-mannered, this beer is great for summer. Also available in bottles. APRIL 13

*Raspberry Hefeweizen
Our unfiltered wheat ale is delicious and refreshing with the addition of raspberry. Also available in bottles. APRIL 20

Organic Vienna Lager
Deep amber in color and medium in body, this malty lager is a light version of the Oktoberfest style. APRIL 27 (get a sneak preview at Earth Day in Forest Park on APRIL 22)

Get the skinny about all of our seasonal beers.

STRANGE BREW: CULT FILMS AT BOTTLEWORKS -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
Great films and great beer! Join us the first Wednesday of each month for a collection of weird and wonderful films from around the world, presented by the highly acclaimed Webster Film Series. The film begins at 8:00 p.m., admission is $4.00. March's film: WIZARDS (Ralph Bakshi, 1977, USA, 80 min.).

REPEAL OF PROHIBITION BEER FESTIVAL -- SATURDAY, APRIL 7
Party like it's 1933! See details above.

THEOLOGY AT BOTTLEWORKS -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
This large and lively discussion combines cold beer and hot conversation on important subjects of our times. This month’s topic is “Food, Friends or Fodder for Science? Animal Treatment and Ethics.” We’ll discuss the various ways our society views and uses animals. Animals are viewed as pets and pests, as food and entertainment. Are there ethics and even rights in dealing with animals? Are they over-protected or undervalued? Should people always have priority? Grab a brew, give your view and lend an ear to others’. Free and open to everyone. MORE INFO

BENEFIT BRUNCH -- SUNDAY, APRIL 22
Help us support our community by attending one of our benefit brunches at Bottleworks. We donate 10% of our sales to a worthy non-profit. The next benefit brunch takes place from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on April 22 and benefits Maplewood Cub Scouts.

SCIENCE ON TAP -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
Join us the last Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. and explore the latest ideas in science and technology with Washington University professors. Enjoy 20 minutes of presentation, followed by a seven minute break for introductions and then an hour of discussion. Seating is limited to the first 100 people, no reservations are accepted. MORE INFO

EARTH DAY IN FOREST PARK, APRIL 22
11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on The Muny Grounds in Forest Park

St. Louis Earth Day strives to affect environmental change through education, action, stewardship and celebration. Join Schlafly Beer at the festivities and enjoy our Organic Vienna Lager!

Given our past proclivity for putting out April Fools’ issues of The Growler, I want to emphasize that what you are about to read is the absolute truth. As bizarre as it may seem, this is not a hoax concocted by the editorial staff of this publication.

The tale involves a former National Guard Armory in San Francisco which, like The Schlafly Tap Room, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While the City of St. Louis welcomed us with enthusiasm back in 1991, when we first expressed interest in renovating a building that had been vacant for 22 years, city officials in San Francisco are a whole lot pickier. That city’s Planning Department reviewed and rejected numerous proposals for the former armory before approving the use it deemed most suitable: filming pornographic movies. That’s right. Apartments, storage space and even a church were all considered inappropriate, whereas plans by an outfit called Kink.com for producing hard core pornography in the building received a rapid regulatory imprimatur.

There’s a certain irony in the fact that a city named for a saint is apparently less receptive to religious worship than it is to movies far too salacious to be described in these pages. The irony is compounded by the fact that San Francisco is the namesake of Francis of Assisi, an eminently peaceful man whom few would associate with bondage and other sado-masochistic practices that form the backbone of the cinematic offerings of Kink.com.

Read the rest of Tom's fascinating column by clicking HERE or visiting http://www.schlafly.com/topfermentation.shtml.

We feature live music Friday through Sunday at The Tap Room and Friday and Saturday at Bottleworks. Click HERE for our complete listings.

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