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" There&amp;#039;s a palpable buzz in New York about the arrival of Shiner Bock to the Big Apple. A Texas-bred, Brooklyn-based Esquire contributor hailed it as &amp;quot;the stuff ... dreams are made of.&amp;quot; A friend in Manhattan breathlessly e-mailed me to say he&amp;#039;s planning his summer around drinking Shiner. Here&amp;#039;s the thing: Shiner is good, but Schlafly is better.  Schlafly (shlaa-FLEE) beers come from the St. Louis Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, and they&amp;#039;ll be available in New York City for the first time, starting May 13. Schlafly is the granddaddy of craft beer in St. Louis, having just celebrated its 21st anniversary (drinking age!). And the brewery&amp;#039;s owners (anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly has no stake in Schlafly Beer) have kept their suds staunchly local. Outside of a small distribution footprint in the D.C. area, New York is the first place to get Schlafly beers beyond a 300-mile radius of St. Louis.  Hopheads should start with Schlafly Pale Ale, move on to the Dry-Hopped American Pale Ale, then buckle in for the resiny, piney wallop that is American IPA. (Making things easy for consumers, Schlafly names all its beers according to style; no silly puns here.) People looking for something a little lighter, with more summer refreshment, should try Kolsch Ale and Helles-Style Summer Lager. And everyone should look out for Schlafly Pumpkin Ale when it comes out late this summer; hands-down, it&amp;#039;s one of the best pumpkin beers in the country.  For Schlafly co-founder Dan Kopman, this will be his second foray into selling beer in New York. He tried it back in the &amp;#039;80s, when he was a stateside salesman for Young&amp;#039;s Brewery in London. It didn&amp;#039;t go well. He got lost on the subway and had beer equipment stolen from his rental car.  This time around, he says, things should be different. &amp;quot;I can now navigate NYC Metro with my phone. I plan not to get lost and not to have anything stolen from my rental car,&amp;quot; Kopman says. &amp;quot;We are going to make some great beer and enjoy it with family, old friends, and new friends. We do so with a sense of humility; customers will decide if our beers are any good. Many of thousands in St. Louis say they are really good. We will see.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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