Screenland Armour Arts & Crafts Beer Festival

Screenland’s Crossroads location may get more attention lately, but the Armour location has an ace up its sleeve.  Winner of the Best Beer Festival 2014 from The Pitch Weekly, Arts & Crafts Festival is a two day festival that will take place on August 21st and 22nd at Screenland’s North Kansas City location on Armour.  They promise the most rare craft beers, the best live local music, great local artists, film premieres, and more.

Along with being the sponsor of the event, 4 Hands Brewing Company will also host a Short Film Competition in conjunction with Kansas City Film Festival and Screenland Theatres.  The top ten films submitted will be chosen by a panel of experts and will be screened at the festival on August 22.  The winner will be chosen by a live panel during the screening and will get to work with 4 Hands and Screenland to create a unique short film advertising the brewery to be played at Screenland Theatres for no less than six months.  The film must feature craft beer in some way.  If you enjoy film making and beer, this would be a fun project.

I attended last year and it was a more cultured event than typical beer festivals.  I was able to enjoy documentaries, indie films, exclusive and rare beers, local artist and bands, an industry Q & A, and food vendors.  At the start of each day, the space was too small to accommodate the crowd.  Their lobby should only hold about a third of the people who attended, but as events and screening opened up, the lobby opened up quite a bit.  At the actual beer tasting on Saturday the live music was too loud for the space, but the beer was easy to get to.  Some of the servers weren’t very knowledgeable of the beer, but most were actually from the brewery in which they were representing.

A portion of this year’s ticket sales will go to help support KC Pet Project.

Tickets are still available on their website, but will surely sell out as they are limiting it to 300 per day.

Get more information from the Arts & Crafts Festival website by clicking here.

2014 Arts & Crafts Festival (Not the best pictures I’ve taken)