This is a great family-friendly outing that is also educational. Afterwards, stop in at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery. The most popular beers from the Griesediecks include a golden pilsner and an unfiltered Bavarian-style wheat beer that is available in local bars all throughout the area.

You can also tour the brewery in the nearby town of Belleville. As your last stop in town, check out the Saint Louis Brewery. Home of the Schlafly brand of beers, this brewery ships to states in the southern US and up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

Located in the suburb of Maplewood lies The Schlafly Bottleworks, which also houses a produce market and an eatery to compliment their beers, which include pale ale on draft and 25 seasonal brews.

7. Asheville, North Carolina

Once crowned ‘Beer City USA’ by an online poll in celebration of Craft Beer Week, Asheville offers up an enormous selection of delicious beers, ranging from commercial ales to quirky microbrews. The city boasts nine craft breweries, which is the highest in the nation per capita.

Asheville also hosts a whopping five brew festivals a year and even has a ‘Beer Guy’ column in the local newspaper. The Brewtopian Society of Asheville has listed a complete list of tours that will help you experience all the best beers that the town has to offer.

If you want to do some pub-crawling on your own, The Asheville Brewing Company in downtown offers up a Fire Escape Ale that is brewed with jalapenos and packs quite a punch. If that’s not to your liking, they also have Rocket Girl Lager, which is a huge local favorite. The Thirsty Monk is another downtown favorite that makes nano-brews. This allows for a lot of variation between batches and yields such recipes as Cherry Chocolate Stout and Scotland Trainwreck. If you’re looking for originality, the Monk has it in spades.