Side Project Brewing is a brewery in Maplewood, St. Louis.
Side Project is the metro's most acclaimed craft brewery, specialising in barrel-aged sours and farmhouse ales that draw national beer pilgrims to Maplewood.
Tip: Allocations of the sought-after barrel-aged bottles go fast; check release schedules. The nearby Cellar is the tasting bar.
Address: 7458 Manchester Rd, Maplewood, MO 63143, St. Louis
Schlafly's Maplewood Bottleworks is the brand's larger production brewery and restaurant, with a beer garden, a Saturday farmers market and brewery tours.
Tip: The patio and the seasonal farmers market on the lot make it a daytime destination. Tours run on weekends.
Rockwell's flagship near the Grove brews crisp lagers and saisons and pours them with tavern-style pizza, a well-regarded newer name in St. Louis beer.
Tip: The tavern-style pizza pairs with the house lager. Rockwell also runs a seasonal beer garden in Francis Park.
Civil Life brews sessionable English-style ales in Tower Grove South, a low-key brewery whose American Brown is a local classic. A neighbourhood beer garden.
Tip: The American Brown is the order, ideally in the leafy beer garden. It is cash-friendly and unpretentious by design.
Narrow Gauge brews some of the region's most sought-after hazy IPAs in Florissant, a small operation that took silver at the 2025 Great American Beer Fest.
Tip: The hazy and imperial IPAs are the reason to make the north-county drive. Can releases sell through quickly.
Ryan and Lindsay Sherring brew Belgian-inspired and American styles at this Maryland Heights taproom, a husband-and-wife operation growing since 2015.
Tip: The taproom is family-friendly with rotating taps. A west-county stop worth pairing with nearby Creve Coeur Lake.
Schlafly's Maplewood Bottleworks is the brand's larger production brewery and restaurant, with a beer garden, a Saturday farmers market and brewery tours.
Tip: The patio and the seasonal farmers market on the lot make it a daytime destination. Tours run on weekends.
Urban Chestnut's Grove Bierhall pours German-leaning lagers and American ales in a 400-seat hall built in a 1920s warehouse, with Fordo's pizza on site.
Tip: The Bierhall is huge and family-friendly; the Zwickel lager is the flagship pour. Pizza comes from Fordo's in the same space.
