Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery and Bierhall

Visiting from Wisconsin. We love UCB beer. We had our first taste of it at Salt & Smoke on an earlier visit this year and fell in love. We weren't able to check out the brewery last time, so the first place we went to when we got into town was Urban Chestnut The Grove. I wanted to give a 5 and honestly, if I didn't love thier damn beer so much, sadly, I would have given them a 3. My currywurst was cold, yes actually cold the fries were fresh out so I piled them on top of the sausage to warm it up. We ordered a flight and water, 30 minutes later we got the water. I want to irritate the beers are amazing, we had the battle of the porters and additionally the German porter. Chocolaty creamy goodness, yum. I should mention we were there at about 5:30pm on a Saturday. My opinion, don't bother with the food, and get your beer to go. Which we did. :-)

A great place to grab a pint and some grub. Communal tables, great prices, and very solid beers. Cannot go wrong and I’ll be back for sure.

Place kinda smelled funky BUT the beer was really good. Spacious and lots of variety of beers. Went twice so I can’t complain.

Cool brewery with a great atmosphere! If you’re from out of town definitely stop in! If you’re not a big fan of beer I would recommend the grapefruit radler!

Great beer, but the pizza was the sleeper hit. The vegan mushroom pizza was some of the best we’ve had. We also really enjoyed the brat platter — the potato salad was especially exceptional!

Cool place to go with a couple of friends, not the best choice for food. This place is huge on the inside with plenty of picnic style eating. At the entry, there are lots of arcade games and a pool table ($2.50/30 minutes). They also have 2 posting lots, the one further from the door is bigger but it’s about a 2 minute walk. They serve German dishes and my partner and I tried the Brat Sandwich with Potato Salad & Burger with Fries. These flavors were new to us and not for our palettes. The mustard on the sandwich is strong & we didn’t like the sweetness of the meat. Potato salad is not good at all, left the skin on and it was really tough, like baking potato skin. The burger was just decent, not overly flavorful and not many toppings. The fries were deplorable. They were cold and tasted like they’d been sitting out for a while before we even placed our order. We really wanted to try the loaded fries but they were out of cheese and wouldn’t serve them.

Truly great, can’t recommend enough. Massive space, proper Bierhall vibes, equipment in view. Impressive variety of lagers and other styles on tap and well-priced at $7/pint, which is cheap these days. Full kitchen serving some solid German food and a few American staples (grain bowl and chicken sandwich were delicious). To-go area as you walk in has some swag and plenty of their canned and bottle beers available. Their payment system is efficient, with a bar tab allowing food and to-go beer to easily be added. Pretty busy on a Wednesday just after noon and I can understand why. A neighborhood institution that seems to be a reliable community space and likely the business that resurrected this old corner of STL just south of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. If I were local, I’d be coming here weekly. Bravo!

I’ve had some of their beers at some craft beer bars, but I finally had a chance to check out the brewery in person. This is a massive brewery with a fun bier-hall like atmosphere. They mostly make good tasting German style beers. It has German style food as well as good tasting pizza. Unfortunately, they didn’t have flights, but they do have half pours for some of their beers.