Modern Brewery & The Kings Oak
Modern counts more than 20,000 kegs of one beer, Citrapolis, and The Kings Oak puts birria on the fries beside it.2
Why go
One door on Oakland Avenue holds both halves. Modern brews on the Forest Park side of the Kings Oak neighborhood and keeps the list short: IPAs, lagers, sours.1 The Kings Oak cooks inside it and pours a cocktail list of its own on top of the brewery's draft cocktails.1 The kitchen runs evening specials, sandwiches and a kids' menu.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: Citrapolis. It is the beer the brewery counts by the tens of thousands of kegs.2
- Order: the birria fries, which are one of several fry builds on the Kings Oak menu.1
- Avoid: a long tap crawl. The list is deliberately narrow.1
Good to know
- Where to sit: the patio, when the weather allows.1
- To take home: four-packs of the beer go out the door.1
Verdict
could-visit — One brewery, one kitchen, one door beside Forest Park, and the brewery says it has sold more than 20,000 kegs of a single beer called Citrapolis. That is the brewery's own count and it is the only measure of the place anywhere in the file. Feast confirms the list is deliberately short, IPAs and lagers and sours, and that The Kings Oak fries birria and poutine beside it. No critic has been read on any of it, which is why the rung sits here.