The Schlafly Growler Newsletter: July, 2008

Calling all mussel maniacs! Muscle your way down to The Tap Room for a weekend of mouthwatering mussels prepared in spectacular style. Wash them down with delicious Schlafly Belgian beers, including Witbier, Grand Cru, Tripel and Bière de Garde. Sweet.

Live music schedule: Friday, July 18th – Wormword Scrubs, The Scissormen (9:00 p.m.). Saturday, July 19th – John Farrar (5:00-8:00 p.m.); Box Social, Ottomen (9:00 p.m.).

Let Them Eat Art
Friday, July 11, 6:00-10:00 p.m.
Downtown Maplewood, including Schlafly Bottleworks

Maplewood’s Bastille Day celebration with a twist. Enjoy a self-guided tour of live art by St. Louis’ top artists, belly dancing, dream interpretation, top spinning, face painting, live music, a fire-shooting ice cream truck, St. Louis craft mania and your favorite destination restaurants (including Schlafly Bottleworks) offering French-influenced food and drink. Brought to you by The City of Maplewood.

Check in at Bottleworks for a MAP of participating artists and entertainers. Artists will be painting and creating live! All finished artwork will be for sale. More details at www.schlafly.com/events.shtml.

Raspberry Hefeweizen – Our unfiltered wheat ale is delicious and refreshing with the addition of raspberry. Also available in bottles and on tap at Bottleworks. ABV: 3.9%, OG: 9.5, IBU: 14

Belgian-Grand Cru (July 11) – Fruity, spicy aromas and flavors contribute to the complexity of this golden-colored Belgian ale. Medium body and effervescence contribute to a light, dry impression, despite its strength and sweet, smooth finish. ABV: 9%, OG: 18.3, IBU: 20

Belgian Witbier (July 18) – This unfiltered wheat ale is brewed with a Belgian yeast and flavored with orange peel and coriander. Made with locally harvested unmalted wheat from Alhambra, Illinois. Very snappy and refreshing. ABV: 5%, OG: 12, IBU: 18

We brew more than 30 beer styles per year! Get the skinny on all our seasonal beers.

July at Bottleworks

Maplewood Farmers' Market – Every Wednesday
Knowing where your food comes from is more important than ever these days, so hop on over to the Bottleworks and buy straight from the farmer. Enjoy live music and fresh Schlafly Beer!

Sunday Spin – Every Sunday
Enjoy your favorite Schlafly brews while listening to music provided by DJ Argyx of Musical Geeks. No cover, great beer, friendly service, and lively music! Sundays, 6:00 p.m. until close.

Strange Brew: Cult Films at Bottleworks – Wednesday, July 2
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. Visit our website for information about this month’s film.

Closed for the Holiday – Friday, July 4
Don't forget to order your beer early for the long weekend. Details here.

SLOWednesday – Wednesday, July 9
Get to know your local farmers! This month: Our Garden, a ten-acre family farm seventy miles west of St. Louis in New Florence, MO. They grow a wide variety of naturally grown fruits and vegetables. Plants and herbs are available in the spring. Jams, pickles and seasonal vegetables, along with goat cheese and goat meat are available throughout the year. 7:00-7:45 p.m.: get settled in the Crown Room and order food and beer if you’d like (whole menu available); 7:45-9:00 p.m., guest farmer presentation followed by Q&A.

Let Them Eat Art – Friday, July 11
Join in on Maplewood’s Bastille Day celebration at Bottleworks. More details above.

St. Louis Green Drinks – Tuesday, July 15
St. Louis Green Drinks is a loose knit network of environmentally-minded citizens, businesspeople, and activists who meet monthly to discuss the Green movement and how to change the world together. 6:00 p.m. For full details, visit href="http://www.bgb.org/greendrinks">www.bgb.org/greendrinks.

Theology at Bottleworks – Wednesday, July 16
Theology at Bottleworks brings people of all political, religious and philosophical views together to talk about things that are important to all of us. This month’s discussion topic is “Are Pets the New People?” Why do we have pets and how important are they? What do our pets, our attitudes toward them, and our spending on them say about us as individuals and a society? Who or what should be valued, and why? Grab a brew, give your view and lend an ear to others’. Free and open to absolutely everyone. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Complete info at www.journeyon.net/midrash.

July at The Tap Room

Blind Cat Black Outdoor Screening – Tuesday, July 1
A (slightly) new cut of amateur surrealist zombie silent film by director Chris King – Blind Cat Black – will screen outdoors at The Tap Room at 9 p.m. as part of a Missouri Zombie Double Feature that also includes Song of the Dead (2005) by Chip Gubera from Columbia.

Closed for the Holiday – Friday, July 4
Don't forget to order your beer early for the long weekend. Details here.

Exene Cervenka and The Original Sinners – Saturday, July 12
Don’t miss this chance to see legendendary X frontwoman in The Club Room. Opening acts Rats & People and Black Diamond Heavies. $3.00 cover, 8:00 p.m.

Belgian Beer & Mussel Mania – Friday & Saturday, July 18-19
Muscle your way down to The Tap Room for a weekend of mouthwatering mussels prepared in spectacular style. Live music schedule: Friday, July 18th – Wormword Scrubs, The Scissormen (9:00 p.m.). Saturday, July 19th – John Farrar (5:00-8:00 p.m.); Box Social, Ottomen (9:00 p.m.). See above for more details.

Top Fermentation: Tom Schlafly's Monthly Column

Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy.

These are the opening lines of “Street Fighting Man” by the Rolling Stones, which was recorded in March and April of 1968 and was on the album Beggars Banquet. When the album was released on December 6th of that year, these words would seem eerily prescient. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King in April, cities all over America had erupted in riots. French university students had rioted in May. Violence had erupted on the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention in August. In October deadly riots had occurred in Mexico prior to the Olympic Games.

While the sound of marching, charging feet might have been heard everywhere, my own political activity during the summer of 1968 was far more prosaic as I worked on Tom Eagleton’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate. Nevertheless, prosaic as it was, my involvement in the campaign has been documented for many generations of future historians with the publication of a photograph of me with Barbara and Tom Eagleton (among others) on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Missouri Historical Review.

Read the rest of Tom's fascinating column by clicking HERE .

Live Music

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