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Photo by RJ Hartbeck, courtesy of Moonbase Market
Soulard Preservation Hall
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Photo by RJ Hartbeck, courtesy of Moonbase Market
The event space inside the hall
Earthbound Beer has announced a new venture, nearly six months after reopening inside the Old Cherokee Brewery stock house.
The brewery will open a satellite tasting room, dubbed Earthbound Satellite, inside the Soulard Preservation Hall (1921 S. 9th) in April. The new location will focus on "experimental cocktails, futurism, and special beer releases" and is part of a larger redevelopment of the preservation hall—which opened in the 1890s—as a competitive video gaming venue and 300-seat event space from Moonbase Market.
“We all thought we would be tired of building things after the new brewery opened, but when this opportunity came along, we jumped at it," said Earthbound co-owner Robin Johnson in a press release.
Moonbase reached out to the Earthbound team for launching a new concept inside the hall. "We decided the overall feel would be 'dive bar on a space station,'" co-owner Stuart Keating said in a release. He tells SLM they approached the concept as more of a design experiment.
"We thought about how to make it an extension of what we currently do but also differentiate it," Keating says, "while also highlighting what we do best and fitting in with the Moonbase clientele and the way they run things."
Earthbound's Ryan Pier will helm the small but frequently changing cocktail menu. “I’ve wanted to run a full bar program at Earthbound since I started back in 2015,” he said in a release, “but neither location has really lent itself to experimental cocktails. I’m looking forward to blowing everyone’s minds at Satellite.”
Keating adds that Pier will use "unexpected ingredients in unexpected ways," such as pickled beets and candied oranges. "We've got some weird tricks up our sleeves," he says. Satellite will also boast an early-2000s Jägermeister machine, which Keating found at an antique mall, to dispense chilled cocktails.
The new taproom will seat 35, with the 300-seat venue attached. It'll be open seven days a week, and the Earthbound team will potentially add food this summer.
