St. Nikolaus Day at KC Bier Company

Have you been a good boy or girl this year?  Let St. Nikolaus reward you with goodies in your Stiefel!  Kansas City Bier Company will be celebrating this mostly European holiday this weekend at their brewery.  This will be a family friendly event with bier, a toy drive, and Santa from 1pm-3pm each day.  I was born in Milwaukee, so I’ve been raised with the tradition of St. Nick and continue to put my stocking out on December 5th every year (when I’ve been good).

KC Bier Company says,

“On December 6th & 7th, we’re hosting our first annual “St. Nikolaus Bier Boot Day & Toy Drive”! In case you’re not familiar with the German holiday St. Nikolaus Day, here are the details; St. Nikolaus Day is on December 6th each year. Children in Germany put their “Nikolaus Stiefel” (or nicholas boot) outside their front door that night. If the kids were good that year, St. Nikolaus would leave them gifts and sweets in their Nikolaus Boot.

Instead of us rewarding kids with candy in their boots, we’re rewarding adults with Bier in Boots! We’ll be pouring liters of Bier in Boots all weekend long (also known as Das Boots). We will also have a toy drive that weekend to benefits the Shadow Buddies Foundation. For every toy people bring in we’ll take $1 off each bier. So if you bring in 3 toys, you can get $1 off 3 different biers. Details on the toy drive can be found here http://www.shadowbuddies.org/events/2014/10/holiday-hugs-toy-drive/.

Both days we will have Santa in the brewery for pictures from 1-3pm and live Bavarian music from 3-5pm. We encourage people to bring their friends, family, and children to the brewery to enjoy a day of family fun, German fare and German Bier.”

We will be there on Saturday, so say hello if you see us.  If you haven’t been a good boy or girl, you only have a few days to make up for it!