IndiHop

This afternoon beer tasting across two different neighborhoods, The Grove and Cherokee is a fun idea.  The connection between these two up-and-coming neighborhoods, or districts really, is that they are both scrappy, urban, and irreverent.  Those are all good things in a neighborhood, in my book.

In parallel, the city is seeing a bubbling up of independent breweries (ugh, call them microbreweries, I guess).  The best thing going right now is a love of hoppy beers, like IPAs.  Here are three current favorites:
Schafly, St. Louis - Dry-Hopped IPA
Charleville, St. Genevieve - Hoptimistic IPA
4 Hands Brewing, St. Louis - Divided Sky Rye IPA

Don't know if any of those will be there, but it will be fun to walk around and see what else is around, and make some new favorites.