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Side Project Brewing

🌍 United States · Regional · Known for Saison
Known for Saison

Founded by Cory King — who started at Schlafly before working at Boulevard — Side Project focuses entirely on barrel-aged beers: saisons, wild ales and spirit-barrel-aged stouts fermented with house mixed cultures. The Cellar tasting room in Maplewood is considered one of the essential craft beer destinations in America. Widely cited as one of the best breweries in the country for barrel-aged and wild fermentation.

13Beers
4Styles
8%Avg ABV
2013Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Side Project Brewing

13 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 13 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 13 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
spicy
10 of 13 beers
dry
8 of 13 beers
oak
6 of 13 beers
yeasty
8 of 13 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied13 beers · 4 style families
Farmhouse 8Sour 2Stout 2Strong 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 96 other breweries making Saison.
typical for SaisonSide Project Brewing
in no beersin every beer
light
in 1 of 13 · typical Saison brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less light than typical.
refreshing
in 2 of 13 · typical Saison brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less refreshing than typical.
vanilla
in 5 of 13 · typical Saison brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more vanilla than typical.
herbal
in 1 of 13 · typical Saison brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less herbal than typical.
oak
in 6 of 13 · typical Saison brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more oak than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 68%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 13
beers above the median
#2480
best ranked beer
Saison du Blé Blend #16

Their beers place in the Top 68% of the catalogue on average, across 13 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Side Project Brewing

Founded by Cory King — who started at Schlafly before working at Boulevard — Side Project focuses entirely on barrel-aged beers: saisons, wild ales and spirit-barrel-aged stouts fermented with house mixed cultures. The Cellar tasting room in Maplewood is considered one of the essential craft beer destinations in America. Widely cited as one of the best breweries in the country for barrel-aged and wild fermentation.

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