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Former A-B employees launch St. Louis’ latest craft brewery
Two former Anheuser-Busch employees will carry on the St. Louis brewing tradition with Urban Chestnut Brewing, which will debut in the city’s Midtown Alley neighborhood later this year. Bavarian-born brewer Florian Kupulent—who learned the trade at Germany’s Brauerei Erharting, helped launch London’s Meantime Brewing and most recently revamped Michelob’s lineup—will helm the tanks, while David Wolfe, who’s directed the marketing efforts for European A-B brands like Stella Artois and Leffe, will manage sales and marketing.
Situated in a 1920s-era building that had a previous life as a garage, the brewery will boast an Old World-style tasting room and an authentic German-style biergarten shaded by chestnut trees. A dozen or so taps will pour the brewery’s wares, plus suds from other St. Louis outfits. Urban Chestnut also plans to bottle its beer for sale on shelves throughout the city.
Kupulent says his brewery aims to blend American beer innovation with European brewing tradition in a “revolution meets reverence” ethos. “I have a traditional European brewing background, but I also worked on the American craft side, so it’s a little bit of both,” Kupulent says. “We’re trying to bring traditional styles to our area and experiment with ingredients and styles—tweak some things, make them new.”
Kupulent’s keeping mum on the brews, but he told DRAFT, “We’ll start off with two, and one will be a Germanic lager. We’re still tweaking the recipe a bit.”
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