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Not impressed. The beers were not full bodied and tasted very weak. The aggregate in the front was a very poor choice especially for people with sandals or nice shoes. 'Landscaping' was not finished. The small section of parking in front should be another patio, while they should have waited until completing the Beer Garden before opening. This is the place which was supposed to have a 400 person space? Staff were nice and the interior works. We will not be going back until they are actually finished.

doug wrote:Not impressed. The beers were not full bodied and tasted very weak. The aggregate in the front was a very poor choice especially for people with sandals or nice shoes. 'Landscaping' was not finished. The small section of parking in front should be another patio, while they should have waited until completing the Beer Garden before opening. This is the place which was supposed to have a 400 person space? Staff were nice and the interior works. We will not be going back until they are actually finished.

Yeah, they should have hired a "psychic" who could have told them the business next door would sell them their parking lot two years after they planned on opening.

They have several great beers, and I look forward to the beer garden opening soon.

Did anyone attend the soft opening for the beer garden last night? Also mentioned on their blog, they are starting to bottle.

http://urbanchestnut.com/blog/?p=835

Biergarten- It’s happening tonight at 6pm…we are opening our new biergarten to the public. And while all of the finer points (like our umbrellas and logo’d steins and our future parking lot and our future bank of restrooms and our…) are not yet in place, the weather has been too nice. Soooo, we are resisting no longer.
The vision of our biergarten is to bring a little bit more of Bavaria to St. Louis

Bottles- We are finally going to operate our bottling line and actually package some beer this week. Then next week, we will be releasing a small batch of both our Winged Nut & Zwickel bottles targeted for grocery & liquor stores in the STL City & County ONLY. Once we get our legs under us, we then plan to make the bottles available (in the same geography) for ‘bottle-only’ restaurants, bars, etc. And we may have some available ‘to-go’ in our taste room as well. After that… we’ll just go/grow from there.

I haven't been by lately. I assume the bottling line is on-site? I know they have a lot of room there.

I look forward to seeing the biergarten.