St. Louis Breweries

Several years ago, we started ranking breweries using our own ranking system based on a number of factors. We have always wanted to share our rankings, and now that we have our travel site, we finally have a place to do exactly that! We have visited 32 breweries (that are still open) in the St. Louis area and hope to eventually visit them all!

Since a lot of time has passed since we started our ranking system, we decided to revisit all of the breweries we had been to previously to provide the most up to date scores. We visited most of the breweries in 2024 and a few in late 2023. We are happy we revisited as a lot has changed! Some of our favorites are no longer our favorites, and others have had wonderful improvements! A few have closed, and a few have opened so we visited some for the first time.

We use a five-point ranking scale and rank each brewery on the following categories:

• Ambiance

• Service

• Best Beer

• Overall Beers

• Entertainment

• Cleanliness

We then take the average to get the total score out of five. As you will see below, the competition is close!

1. (tie) Civil Life - 5

1. (tie) Urban Chesnut - 5

1. (tie) 2nd Shift - 5

1. (tie) Two Plumbers - 5

1. (tie) Steampunk - 5

1 (tie) Blue Jay - 5

7. Mackenzie - 4.96

8. Schlafly - 4.92

9. Earthbound - 4.88

10. (tie) Old Herald - 4.83

10. (tie) Side Project - 4.83

12. (tie) Third Wheel - 4.75

12. (tie) Crossroads - 4.75

12. (tie) Six Mile Bridge - 4.75

15. (tie) Crafty Chameleon - 4.67

15. (tie) Ferguson - 4.67

15. (tie) Arch Nemesis - 4.67

15. (tie) Melvin/Freestyle - 4.67

15. (tie) Wellspent - 4.67

15. (tie) Rockwell - 4.67

21. (tie) Old Bakery - 4.58

21. (tie) Square One - 4.58

21. (tie) Alpha - 4.58

24. Heavy Riff - 4.5

25. (tie) Bluewood - 4.17

25. (tie) Perennial - 4.17

27. (tie) 4 Hands - 4

27. (tie) Narrow Gauge - 4

29. Good News - 3.83

30. (tie) Modern - 3.5

30. (tie) Main and Mill - 3.5

32. No Name - 3

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