CIDER MAKERS
BRICK RIVER CIDER COMPANY
Brick River Cider Company is Missouri’s only company dedicated to making nothing but hard cider. Founded in 2018, we make fresh pressed, gluten-free hard ciders with no juice concentrates in both Saint Louis and Kansas City. Award winning ciders include 2019 World Cider Championship Gold Medal-Best in Show Sweet Lou, and 2022 Specialty Cider of the Year @Tastings.com our Homestead Peach. Brick River Cider sources all of our fruit from the local region, come taste the best the Midwest has to offer.
CINDER BLOCK BREWERY
Cinder Block Brewery is a new microbrewery located in Kanas City, MO which started in a small home but and has now grown into a 15bbl facility with a full taproom and barrel aging program. Bryce Shafter opened Cinder Block Brewery in 2013 after his wife nudged him in a bigger space other than his basement. Bryce met Bryan "Bucky" Buckingham at a brewery event and Bryce and Bryan forged a friendship that would take Cinder Block Brewery from humble beginnings to new heights with Bryan’s long history of professional brewing. Later down the road, Bryce's interest and passion in experimenting led to the inception of hard ciders and meads at Cinder Block!
CROWN VALLEY BREWING & DISTILLING CO
Crown Valley Winery is known as Missouris Premier Winery. Located among the rolling hills of Ste. Genevieve County, Crown Valley is a cant-miss experience. This architectural masterpiece overlooks miles of vineyards, making Crown Valley a breathtaking entity. As if the view isnt enough, Crown Valley Winery offers a large selection of fine wines. Choose from indoor or outdoor seating while sipping on your favorite glass of Crown Valley wine. On chilly days, grab your favorite Crown Valley wine and warm up by one of the relaxing fire pits. Come see us if you are in St. Louis County, Ste Geneveive County, Jeffererson County, Butler County, Poplar Bluff County, Farmington, Cape Girardeau County in Missouri, and Randolph County, Sparta, Jackson County, in Southern Illinois.
Kansas City Cider Company
KC Cider Co. is a joint effort between Brad Means; his brother, Jeffrey; cidermaker Trafe Brewer; and Chris Meyers. The company was started about a year ago with the hopes of bringing the first cider to market one year later when local apple season began. The team hit that goal last weekend, and consider the rollout of KC Cider Co. to be off to great start.
KC WINEWORKS
Kansas City wineworks was Established in 2014 and is Kansas City Crossroads’ first ever grape-to-glass winery producing award winning wines. KC Wineworks takes their wines to the next level by crafting unique and rotating cocktail menus that break wine out of its bottle.
SCHLAFLY BREWING COMPANY
From Midtown to Maplewood to the Main Streets on both sides of the river, we believe in neighborhoods. Beer is more than an emblem of solidarity. Producing it locally leaves a significant impression on the surrounding community. We’ve experienced this first hand. At 2100 Locust, we opened the first new brewpub since Prohibition in 1991. And in Maplewood at the turn of the 21st Century, we established a landmark for the area and a cornerstone of local commerce. On the historic corner of Main Street in St. Charles, we’ve become an anchor where friends and neighbors come to gather around a pint. And on Main Street in Highland, IL, we’ve come full circle to the immigrant roots of the Schlafly family. These locations stand as unique testament to the heritage of a region and the strength of a community.
URBAN CHESTNUT BREWING COMPANY
Urban Chestnut Brewing Company is an unconventional-minded yet tradition-oriented brewer of craft beer with authentic heritage and proven quality. 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).
WAVES CIDER COMPANY
While we are relatively new to making cider, we have been studying and fermenting beverages for the better part of a decade. Understanding how to create a drink that is approachable, complex and refreshing is no easy task. But our team has done an outstanding job sourcing the highest quality apples and juice this country has to offer. We understand cider is still very new to a lot of humans in the midwest. Our goal is to help educate those willing to learn and provide them with information to better understand the beverages they are consuming.