February 2016 – Kansas City Beer

Beer Festivals 2016

We will officially kick off the 2016 Beer Festival Season with The Big Chill strong beer and chili tasting at 75th Street Brewery on Saturday, February 13! Over 30 festivals dedicated to the love of beer will take place between now and November. Several different locations, atmospheres, styles, locally organized, nationally organized, homebrew only, some with food, some with live music – whatever your fancy, you’re bound to find at least one to attend.

Click here to see the full list.

We already have plans to attend a few: Big Rip Snake Saturday Party, Crafts & Drafts Presented by The Pitch, Kegs ‘N’ Eggs at the Renaissance Festival, KC Nanobrew Fest, Boulevardia, and the High Plains Brewhoff.

If you don’t want to end up arrested or just plain don’t want to be an asshole this year, here’s our blog post from last year on Beer Festival etiquette.

If you’d like us to come to your event to take pictures and write a review, email beer@kansascitybeer.com.

Kansas City Bier Meisters 33rd Annual Homebrew Competition

Wow, 33rd Annual! That’s longer than even Boulevard has been around. Kansas City Bier Meisters will be holding their 33rd Annual Homebrew Competition this month. If you’d like to enter go to their website to register and drop your entries off at KC Bier Co. You have just until tomorrow (02/05) at 5pm to do so.
Some amazing prizes are up for grabs including 2 commercial scale ups (Cinder Block & KC Bier Co), brewing equipment, a Lifetime Membership to Brewer’s Friend, a counter-pressure bottler, and more. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony on Saturday, February 20. Before the Awards Ceremony, there will be a Banquet with featured speaker Chef and Certified Cicerone Celina Tio.

They have a lot of other fun things planned (over $10,000 in raffle prizes to name one), so be sure to check out their website: www.kcbiermeisters.org for all of the information.

If you’d like to volunteer to be a judge or to help out in some other way, email competition@kcbiermeisters.org.

Kansas City Bier Meisters holds monthly meetings the third Friday of each month, typically at Christ the King Church in Kansas City, MO. The group was founded in 1983, making them the oldest homebrewing club in Kansas and Missouri and the second oldest in the country. In addition to their monthly meetings, they also host several social events throughout the year. Join their Facebook group and Follow them on Twitter.