The “Love Handles” department in Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine® is devoted to great beer bars. Here are the three beer bars that we explored in Issue 15 (October/November 2016).
Side Project Cellar (St. Louis, Missouri)
Pedigreed craft-beer bar with an inborn advantage—exclusive beer from one of the highest-rated craft brewers in the world
What it is: Side Project Cellar is not really a taproom because they serve more guest beer than their own, and it’s not really a brewpub since they don’t have a kitchen. So let’s just call it the best craft-beer bar with a built-in house label beer in the world. As the home base of sorts for Side Project Brewing (Ratebeer’s 8th best brewer in the world), it’s one of the only places to grab to-go bottles of Side Project Bière Du Pays (CB&B rated 100) among others. In addition to Side Project beer, the Cellar stocks a selection of beers (draft and bottles) from brewer friends from around the world.