i always had been a budweiser beer drinker. after i started coming here and started enjoying these micro brews, i never wanted to go anywhere else. reporter: 15 breweries are opening or operating in st. louis according to the post sdach. the most since prohibition. phil yymoore moved here. he says the 2008 sale of anheuser-busch to belgium s inbed left a bad taste in this mouths of people from st. louis. it allows people to fill the pipeline a little bit. reporter: the idea of opening their own shop came before the merger for urban chestnut. we want to bring back that feeling of old world tradition back to st. louis, all of the different styles of beer that maybe a larger brewery wont be able to explore. reporter: that has the big bottlers hopping. look at anheuser-busch and miller coors. they are trying to create craft beers to keep up with the little guys because they see this is