Urban Chestnut Brewing Company is an unconventional-minded yet tradition-oriented brewer of craft beer located in St. We like to call our unique brewing philosophy Beer Divergency—a ‘new world meets old world’ brewing approach wherein UCBC provides the beer drinker a divergent path of exploration into the worlds of; modern, American craft beers (our Revolution Series), the traditions of classic European brewing (our Reverence Series), and small batches of Bavarian brewed/imported biers (our Hallertauer Serie). Our original location, our Midtown Brewery & Biergarten, which opened in January 2011, is situated in an old 1920′s garage in a district of St. Louis known as Midtown Alley. With its traditional, German biergarten and developing barrel-aging program, our Midtown brewery represents the Reverence side of Beer Divergency. Additionally our second facility, our Grove Brewery & Bierhall (formerly a paper company which was also built in the 1920’s), opened in February 2014, and it is located in a neighborhood nicknamed “The Grove”. We utilize this brewery as the source for the bulk of our beer production and for all of our packaging and distribution. With its large, industrial bierhall and European-inspired cuisine, our second brewery represents the Revolution side of Beer Divergency. In November 2016, we opened the Urban Research Brewery (The U.R.B.), located across the street from our Grove Brewery & Bierhall, which houses a small, pilot brewery and a New York-style pizza-by-the-slice counter. The U.R.B. provides us with the capability to brew very small batches of experimental beers, and it allows us to collect instantaneous feedback from guests on these beers via their ‘smart’ devices. Finally in January 2015, we opened our German brewery in Brewmaster Florian Kuplent’s homeland of Bavaria. Wolnzach, a small town situated in the world’s largest hops producing region, the Hallertau, is now the home of Urban Chestnut Hallertauer Brauerei, where we produce our third series of beers; the Hallertauer Serie: small batches of locally sourced, Bavarian bier.
