Adds Kuplent: "Our hope is to provide our patrons with the look, feel and communal atmosphere of what has existed in Bavaria for centuries and what was a big part of St. Louis' past."

Urban Chestnut's beer garden will be built on what is currently a parking lot on the east side of the brewery's tasting room.

The lot and the building to the east of it, at 3207 Washington Boulevard, were recently purchased by real-estate holding company Kelley Acree LLC. The company's principals, Jeffery Kelley and Andrew Acree, plan to make the building the headquarters of their Chameleon Integrated Services IT firm, which is currently located in Lafayette Square.

"There are a lot of great things going on in the midtown area, and for us to be able to invest in the community and to be able to partner with another emerging business like Urban Chestnut was a no-brainer," Kelley says in a statement. "The fact that we worked some free beer into the deal might have been a little incentive for us, too."

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