When you enjoy a beer, you want more than one of that beer," he says. The beers are brewed on Prost's new 50-barrel brew system. "I'm not doing it differently for the sake of being different ...

Visit some of the breweries within a 15-minute cab ride from downtown. Here’s just a sampling. (And for even more options, visit the STL Beer site.) Prost! Subscribe to SLM’s Craft Beer newsletter.