Nine PBS Beer History

Nine PBS is proud to occasionally partner with 4 Hands Brewing Co. to create craft beer for the St. Louis community. We are proud of our city; the beer creation event expresses that pride and our gratitude for the supporters of Nine PBS.

Coming in spring 2024, we will roll out social media polls to help us select the profile and name of our 70th-anniversary beer with 4 Hands Brewing. 4 Hands will design an eye-catching label and brew the beer, which will be available to sample at its three locations. The collaboration will culminate in a release party in June.  

We took a break in 2020 to wait out the pandemic. The 2021 collaboration was planned over video conference and, with the virtual world looming large, it was aptly named "Unmute Yourself." The finished product, a lager with grains of paradise and grapefruit zest, took center stage at the November 20 launch party in the Jack Galmiche Public Media Commons. 

The 2019 beer was brewed and named in honor of our late CEO, Jack Galmiche, who made the most of every day and was always the life of the party. In every situation, you could count on Jack to be there for the “Last Call.” The winning recipe was based on 4 Hands’ Full Life Lager, with hints of blackberry, honey, mint and cinnamon, and created by the Brew-Ha-Ha team.

The 2018 Nine PBS beer, On Air, was crafted by the Under the City Wide team at our beer creation event at 4 Hands Brewing Co. April 29, 2018. The winning recipe uses 4 Hands’ Ripple White Ale as its base, and adds hints of lime juice, lime zest, cardamom, and blackberry sage tea.

On Cue was the winner of Nine PBS's 2017 beer creation event at 4 Hands. It was created by the Brewers Like You team. On Cue is a gose beer (a sour beer, pronounced gohz-uh) with hints of cucumber, hibiscus and Himalayan salt. It uses 4 Hands’ City Wide Pils as its base. The beer was released to the public at a party at 4 Hands on Aug. 6, 2017.

The inaugural beer creation event occurred in 2016. A team of Nine PBS members calling themselves the Missouri Monks, created Cloud 9, a 5.5% American pale ale that combined raspberry, lime and vanilla to produce the sensory illusion of a grapefruit creamsicle. The base was 4 Hands’ City Wide Pale Ale. The fun culminated on June 25, 2016, when Cloud 9 was introduced to the public at a party in the Public Media Commons outside of Nine PBS.