A sustainable solution might just give a market edge to one local brewery. In the St. Louis beer battles, it’s an altruistic accouterment for your ales that might be the cure for the six-pack. “We call them can collars,” said Will Rogers, head of marketing for Schlafly Brewery. “Essentially, they’re wet strength cardboard with a laminate, so they can go...

I was just reviewing some of my writing from back in 2018, at the height of popularity of New England Style IPAs. Two years later, what I’m seeing now validates my belief that this style of beer was more than a trend and more than a craze.

Recent reports from IRI and Nielsen show off-premise sales of beer, flavored malt beverages (FMBs), and hard seltzer all increased in 2019. According to Nielsen, sales of beer, FMBs (including hard seltzer), and cider increased 3.4 percent to $39.6 billion in 2019. Beer comprises a much bigger slice of the pie — per IRI, $37.2 billion compared to FMBs’ $4 billion — but...

Trailhead Brewing Co. announces today the sale of its brewery and operations to Schlafly Beer, the original independent craft brewery in St. Louis. Located at 921 S. Riverside Drive, St. Charles, Missouri, Trailhead Brewing Co. will become Schlafly Bankside, Schlafly’s third brewpub in the St. Louis area in early 2020, along with Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust St.) and Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue).  

Schlafly Beer, an independent craft brewery in St. Louis, has partnered with Oklahoma-based Boardwalk Distribution, said to be the largest independently-owned distributor in the state.

Craft beer’s shift into alternative beverages has been one of the biggest trends of 2019. The most notable addition to many brewing portfolios has been spiked seltzer, which appeals to a new subset of drinkers, expanding the brewery’s revenue stream in the process. Craft breweries rolling out new spiked seltzer lines doesn’t generate the same type of headlines it did...

f there was one alcohol craze that dominated 2019, it was the increase of hard seltzers flooding the market (and our livers). Now, Schlafly Beer (multiple locations including 2100 Locust Street, 314-241-2337) is hoping to bite some of that same gluten-free and calorie- and carb-conscious market with a spritzer of its own.

Our Schlafly Pumpkin Ale Cake is super straight forward to make, and you, your friends, and your family will love it! It is great for Friendsgiving, holiday parties, or just for fun! Make sure to enjoy the leftover Pumpkin Ale too!

There are so many pumpkin beers on the shelves these days that it's difficult to figure out what's a trick and what's a treat. We’ve done the tough work of drinking the best pumpkin beers in America to ensure your next six-pack is full of sugar, (pumpkin) spice, and everything nice.

  Fran Caradonna gets a bit embarrassed when she talks about her beer-drinking past. "Don't tell anyone, but I was a Natty Light girl back in college at the University of South Carolina," Caradonna laughs. "It was the '70s. I was a frustrated hippie. I drank it because it was 'natural.'" As one of the most influential pioneers of St....