2021 Thanksgiving & Black Friday Week
Spend a few hours with the family and then get shopping for beer! Pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, and Small Brewery Sunday – a busy week! Perfect time to pick up some gift cards, merchandise, and beer bottles for Christmas! Links are mostly Facebook links.
Email us if you know of or have an event to add: beer@kansascitybeer.com
Wednesday, November 24
- BeerSauce Shop, Kansas City -Narrow Gauge Out of Market Release 4pm-10pm
- Cinder Block Brewery, North Kansas City—Open 3pm-9pm Bomb specials
- East Forty Brewing, Blue Springs—2021 Fools Rush In Imperial Stout with Cocoa Nibs and 2021 Where Angels Fear to Tread Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout releases on draft and in bottles, keg only tappings of 2019 Fools & 2020 Angels
- ExBEERiment Brewing, Gardner—Half price growler fill on Magnetism Oatmeal Stout (limit one half price fill per customer)
- Iron Kettle Brewing, Grain Valley—$3 Iron Kettle original 5 beers all day long, Debby Z karaoke at 7pm
- Happy Basset Brewing, Topeka—Lazy Wayne Band 8pm-11pm, Bobby’s Food Co 5pm-10pm, open until midnight
- Limitless Brewing, Lenexa—Thanksgiving Eve Bash with live music, food truck, and beer 7pm
- Lost Evenings Brewing, Lenexa—2 beer releases: Love Potion 9 3/4 Butterscotch Cream Ale and Making Christmas Imperial Gingerbread Stout, $12 4-pack cans specials 3pm-8pm
- Oak & Steel, Kansas City—Blackout Wednesday where half the tap list is filled with the biggest, darkest beers
- Outfield Beer Co, Edwardsville—Open 5pm-10pm for pours and crowlers
- Pathlight Brewing, Shawnee—Holiday releases: 4 beers including Foeder Grisette Muscat and Foeder Saison Malbec.
- Range 23, KCK—Beer Yoga 6:30pm, open 5pm-8pm
- Red Crow Brewing, Olathe—Beersgiving Can Sale
- Red Sash Brewing, Kansas City—Beer release: Ghost Rounds White Stout collab with Bizz & Wizzy
- Rockcreek Brewing, Mission—New beer release: Switcheroo Rye IPA plus get your cans to go 4pm-9pm
- Strange Days Brewing, Kansas City—Beer releases: Berry Smooth fruited sour with blackberry, raspberry, cherry, vanilla, and lactose and Firmly Grasp It DDH Hazy IPA
- Transparent Brewing, Grandview—Beer Karma Release: Oatmeal stout with cranberries and cinnamon a collaboration with Beers with Nigel, Game Night
Thursday, November 25
- ExBEERiment Brewing, Gardner—Open 2pm-9pm, free music BINGO at 3pm
- Limitless Brewing, Lenexa—Thanksgiving Meal free for all, bring a side if you want 3pm
- Red Sash Brewing, Kansas City—Open 5pm-9pm meet owners Patrick and Allison Mitchell
- River Bluff Brewing, St Joseph—Open 4pm-9pm
Friday, November 26
- Alma Mader Brewing, Kansas City—New beer releases, use code BLACKFRIDAY for 15% online purchases (Tuesday-Friday)
- Barley’s Kitchen + Tap, Shawnee—Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Tapping 11am
- BeerSauce Shop, Kansas City—Epic stout tappings, buy $50 gift card get $5 in BeerSauce cash, buy $100 in gift cards get $10 in BeerSauce cash, 50% off Annual Mug Club Memberships
- Big Rip Brewing, North Kansas City—Beer release: Gravity Well 13% Imperial Stout aged in Union Horse Distilling Bourbon Barrels, Las Múnequitas food truck
- BKS Artisan Ales, Brookside—Open 1pm-8pm
- Cinder Block Brewery, North Kansas City—Black Squirrel draft & bottle release and waffles from the Waffler 11am
- City Barrel, Kansas City—DARKSTAR peanut butter, chocolate, and bourbon stout barrel aged in Willett Bourbon barrels 12pm
- Crane Brewing, Raytown—12 Days of Cranesmas and Advent Gift Boxes available starting at 12pm
- Diametric Brewing, Lee’s Summit—Tezcatlipoca beer release 9am
- Dubious Claims Brewing, Excelsior Springs—Buy $25 in gift certificates and get a free Dubious Claims beer chip
- East Forty Brewing, Blue Springs—3-pack vintage bottle gift packs of Fools and Angels beers, Twelve Beers of Christmas packs available for preorder, Mantel Candy Spiced Winter Warmer beer tapping 12pm
- Fringe Beerworks, Lee’s Summit—Donuts and Bourbon County Stout tapping 10am
- The Goat Brewing, Lee’s Summit—5 new, never before released beers on tap including Tingle Oil a 10.9% Cherry Chocolate Stout 9am
- Grains & Taps, Lee’s Summit—2021 Cookies and Cream Imperial Stout release
- Happy Basset Brewing, Topeka—Tyler Gregory 7pm-10pm, Level Up Food Kreations at 5pm
- International Tap House, Crossroads—Specialty beers, trivia at 2pm, goods collections for Shelter KC 12pm
- Iron Kettle Brewing, Grain Valley—20% off all merchandise, buy $50 in gift certificates get $10 free, buy $100 in gift certificates get $25 free
- Not Lost Brewing, Ottawa—Lost in the Evergreens winter warmer IPA release, first 10 people will receive a free Oktoberfest Stein to take home
- Pint Path, North Kansas City—Pint Path Pub Crawl tickets go on sale with a promo code for Black Friday Weekend
- Range 23, KCK—Open 12pm-5pm
- Red Crow Brewing, Olathe—$5 beers all day
- Red Sash Brewing, Kansas City—All beer is $5 and all crowlers are $12, opens 11am
- Rockcreek Brewing, Mission—Wood fired beers from 451 Pizza at 5pm and 12 delicious craft beers on tap
- Servaes Brewing, Shawnee—Five different barrel-aged variants of Washed in Black stout release, two variants of Back Again Black IPA release, mixed 4-packs available 12pm
- Strange Days Brewing, Kansas City—Open 11am-10pm
- Torn Label, Kansas City—Eternal Yammnation Release 11:30am
- Transparent Brewing, Grandview—Special deals
Saturday, November 27
- 3 Trails Brewing, Independence—Shop Small Week kicks off on the Independence Square
- Dubious Claims Brewing, Excelsior Springs—Buy $25 in gift certificates and get a free Dubious Claims beer chip
- Happy Basset Brewing, Topeka—Holiday Blues & BBQ with Local Vendor Market 1pm-5pm, Josh Vowell Blues Band 7pm
- Red Sash Brewing, Kansas City—Black Knights Saturday: come cheer on Army Black Knights football
Sunday, November 28
- Visit some of the 70+ breweries in the Kansas City area to show your support during Small Brewery Sunday!
- Crane Brewing, Raytown—Hannukah Family Brunch 10am