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July 30, 2015

Updated Beer Festival List

Summer is almost over and school is about to be back in session, so it’s time for some fall beer festivals.  Grab your jackets and hats and read through to pick the ones you’ll be attending.  This list is also available on the 2015 Festivals page.

Saturday, August 01

  • 11am-6pm – City Market Free Beer Festival, City Market, Kansas City.   The Pitch hosts the first City Market Beer Fest with 100 beers available for purchase.  $10 for 4 beers or $20 for 10 beers.

Saturday, August 15

  • 1pm-5pm – Zona Rosa Microbrew Fest, Zona Rosa, Kansas City.   Lots of great beers and Missouri Mashers will be doing a competition as a part of the festival.
  • 2pm-6pm – 75th Street Summer Beer Fest, 520 W 75th Street, Kansas City, MO, $35.   A lot of local breweries are listed to be at the Summer Fest in 75th Street’s Alley.

Friday, August 21

Saturday, August 22

Saturday, August 29

  • 1pm-4:30pm – Midwest Microfest, 800 The Midway, Salina, KS, $35 GA, $60 VIP.  If you’ll be in the middle of Kansas on August 29, then this will be a good fest to attend.  Over 20 breweries are set to pour their beer at the event, including Red Crow, Radius Brewing, Goose Island, and River North.  There will also be live music.

Saturday, September 5

  • Festival of the Lost Township, Raytown, MO, $35 ($40 at the door) GA, $100 VIP.  Hosted by Crane Brewing Company, this beer festival also includes meet and greets with local beer celebrities.

Saturday, September 12

  • 2pm-6pm – Tour of Brews, 3365 SW Fascination Drive, Lee’s Summit.  Formerly TKC Real Ale Fest, this beer fest will have one of a kind firkins, live music, and beer demonstrations.  This event is in the middle of a fun-filled weekend in Lee’s Summit that includes a Tour of Towns on Friday, Small Biz Showcase on Saturday, and a community day with an adult scavenger hunt on Sunday.
  • 1pm-6pm – Brewtopia, 4380 S Noland Road, Independence, MO, $30.  Apex Brew and BBQ Supplies hosts their first festival.  Taste a wide variety of beers from over 40 homebrewers and local breweries.  Live music, food, and more.

Saturday, September 19

  • 1pm-5pm –  High Plains Brewhoff, Overland Park, free by invitation.  This fun event that puts you in the judge’s seat asks you to prepare your liver.  Celebrity brewers and homebrewers will be judged by you!  Tickets are now available at Brew Lab.
  • 1:30pm-6pm – KC Beer Fest, Power & Light District, Kansas City, MO, $35 GA, $60 VIP.  This fest has been around for a while, so they’ve got it pretty well organized.  Over 200 craft beers from around the world, rare keg tappings, live music, and food trucks will be spread across two blocks in downtown Kansas City.
  • 5pm-10pm – Village West Wine Fest & Beer, 9400 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS, $75 GA, $150 VIP.  That’s a hefty price tag, but this fest at Schlitterbahn will showcase over 200 wines and 100 beers from around the world, food from over 30 of KC’s finest restaurants, fireworks at 9pm, and dancing from 9pm until midnight.  Limited to 2,000 attendees.

Saturday, October 17

  • 12pm-7pm – KC Brew Fest Fall Edition, Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd, Kansas City, MO, $40.  Split between two sessions (12pm-3pm & 4pm-7pm), this fest will include tastings from over 50 breweries.
  • 6pm-9pm – Brew at the Zoo, Kansas City Zoo, 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, MO, $35-$45.  Appetizers, music, beer, and wine samples as well as two drink tickets included in your ticket at this event.  Breweries include KC Bier Co, Big Rip, Boston Beer, Crane Brewing, and more.  In the Valley Below will be performing.

Saturday, October 24

  • 1:30pm-5pm – Beerfest at the Ballpark, 1800 Village West Parkway, Kansas City, KS, $36.  I’ll be honest, you should skip this one.  The venue is great, but the beers and crowd were less than stellar, especially for the price.  If you really want to go, they do have over 200 domestic, microbrewed, and international craft beers while a DJ will be playing.

 

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July 29, 2015

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)
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June 17, 2015

Take a Trip to Boulevardia

Boulevardia is this weekend.  The event had its faults last year, but they seemed to have corrected some mistakes to make it a much Show Memore fun experience for attendees.  Bands will be performing on three stages, beer will be flowing from several locations, handcrafted goods from local artists will be available for purchase, and there will even be a Ferris Wheel!

The app was released last week with the list of beers during the festival and at Taps & Tastes, including their official festival beer, Show-Me Sour.

We’ll be volunteering on Saturday, taking pictures, and handing out buttons.

Here are the pictures from last year:

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June 6, 2015

KC Nanobrew Festival Beer List Released

Starting in 2009, a group of Brooksiders decided they like to homebrew and wanted to share that experience with friends, family, and fellow beer lovers, so they created the Annual Brookside Nanobrew Festival.  For the first few years, there were just a handful of beers to be tried, but every year grew bigger.  So in 2012, they upgraded to a larger festival called KC Nanobrew Festival.  This year, over 50 homebrewers will be sharing over 100 of their creative beers.

This festival has spit out several successful breweries including Big Rip Brewing, Cinder Block Brewery, Red Crow Brewing Company, and Rock & Run Brewery.  A few homebreweries to watch for this year include Beagle Brewing Co, The Brewkery, Burrows Brewing, Eye for an Eye Brewing Company, SchuBrew, and Spare Oom.

Tickets are $32.04 (including services fee).  They are limited and will sell out, so if you haven’t purchased yours, don’t wait!

Without further ado, here’s the list:

ACM’s Brewing

  • Fresh Pots! Imperial Coffee Milk Stout
  • American Pale Ale

Astronobrew

  • Heliosphere – Honey Kolsch

Bad Cat Brewing Company

  • TACOCAT Chipotle Porter
  • Wake the F**K Up Coffee Porter
  • Slightly Stray Session Ale

Beagle Brewing Co

  • 9 day IPA
  • Royal Gose
  • Coasted Toconut Ale
  • Collabo’d Orange Gose

The Big Rip Brewing Company

  • Black Lager

Brew Lab

  • Vanilla Bean Cream Ale
  • Blood Orange Braggot
  • Summer Saison
  • American Wheat Featuring Madarina Bavaria Hops

The Brash Cellar

  • Le fetter – Hybrid Belgian IPA w/Pomegranate Molasses
  • Kamellia – Kolsch w/Oriental Beauty Oolong Tea

The Brewkery

  • Dustin’s Vanilla Porter
  • Not Cho Momma’s Milk Stout
  • The Nutty Farmer
  • Apricot Wit for Brains

Burrows Brewing

  • Chocolate covered cherry porter
  • Cucumber IPA
  • Accidental Snow Globe – Coconut Porter
  • Accidental Blonde – Coffee Vanilla Blonde Ale

BVH Brewery

  • Super Tuscan Stout
  • Mexican IPA
  • Imperial Stout
  • American Pale Ale
  • Hoppy Wheat
  • Session IPA
  • Saison
  • ESB – English Style Bitters

Call Sign Brewing

  • Wrath 11 Amber Ale
  • Beatle 12 Pale Ale
  • Jocky 14 Irish Red
  • Komodo 11 Brown Ale
  • MAFFS 7 IPA

Cinder Block Brewery

  • TBD

Cliche’ Brewing Company

  • Roots Radical – Farmhouse Ale with Beets, Carrots, Etc.
  • Wild Yeast: Metschnikowia Pulcherrima

Danger Zone Brewing

  • California Common
  • Strawberry Blonde

Dangerzone

  • Dangerzone IPA
  • Sasquatch Golden Strong

Devil Dog Brewery

  • Bullet Catcher Pale Ale
  • Bag Nasty Cherry Cider

divergent ales

  • Brevity – Raspberry Cream Ale
  • Lack of Focus – IPA
  • Deep Thoughts – Oatmeal Cream Stout

East Forty Brewing Co.

  • Blue Springs Pale Ale
  • Strawberry Sunset Saison

Evoke Brewing Co

  • Strawbeery Vanilla Ale

Eye for an Eye Brewing Company

  • Coffee Seventh Trumpet – Coffee RIS
  • Parousia – Peach Berliner Weiss
  • A Pale Horse – American Pale Ale

Foamy Gnome

  • Lemon Wheat

H&B Brewing

  • Casked RyePA
  • Weizenbock
  • Agave Wheat

Hard Pour Brewing Company

  • Scottish Ale
  • Papaya Wit
  • Dunkelweizen

Hopper

  • Kensington Ave Bitter
  • Your New Favorite Cider

Jarboe Brewing

  • American Pale Ale

Javelin Brewing Company

  • Tailwind Tropical Wheat
  • Sage Advice Saison

Johnson County Brewing Society

  • Cinnamon Roll
  • Nuclear Butterflies (Session IPA)
  • Er’body Gettin’ Tipsy – Pale Ale with Spruce Tips
  • It’s Bacon! – Smoked Red Ale

Kansas City Bier Company

  • Dunkel
  • Der Bauer – German Farmhouse Ale

KC Nanobrews

  • F_ _ kin IPA w/Grapefruit – Cask Conditioned

K&J Brewing

  • Berliner Weisse
  • Gose

Libre Brewing Co

  • Farmhouse
  • Farmhouse with Brett
  • IPA
  • Citra Wheat

LongDawg Brews

  • Hell Hound IPA – Flavored w/Macerated Habanero Peppers
  • Hef-Weiner – Barvarian Hefeweizen
  • Happy Tail Pale – American Pale Ale

Lv. 2 Brewing

  • Noble Sword – Dry Hopped Saison
  • Skull Knight – IPA

Moats Brewing

  • The Other Peppered Ale
  • Chinook IPA

Monarch Brewing Co.

  • Vierunvierzig Altbier
  • Strawberry IPA
  • Spruce Tip Pale Ale
  • Bilge Water American lager

Morman Brewing Co

  • Galaxy Far Far Away Session IPA
  • Experimental Pine IPA
  • Wits Happening
  • Ctrl-Altbier-Delete

Motley Brewing Company

  • Dirty Blonde – Blackberry Blonde
  • Flying Blind IPA

Mount Anderson Brewery

  • Vanilla Milkshake Porter
  • Flyover Pale Ale

NEMO NANO

  • Janis Hoplin beer “me” – Single Hop IPA
  • Bobby McGee – APA

Outlook Brewing Co.

  • GIPA – Grapefruit IPA
  • Scotchy Scotchy Scotch Ale

Phantom Brews

  • Peeping Tom Petite Saison

Red Crow Brewing Company

  • Isabelle – Belgian Blonde
  • Elaine – Saison
  • Norma Jean – Pomegranate Wit
  • Louise – IPA

Rock & Run Brewery

  • Sweet Citrus Saison
  • Draft Punk
  • Goldfinger
  • Backline

Root Sellers, Inc

  • Row Hard Root Beer
  • Pedal Hard Ginger Beer

SchuBrew

  • SchuBrew and Friends Barrel Aged Wheat Wine w/Brett
  • Tart of Awesomeness II – The Funk Strikes Back
  • The People’s IPA
  • Peach Float Radler
  • Barrel Aged Apple Jack
  • Hard Root Beer

Schuley’s

  • Chocolate Roastey Stout
  • Apple Farm

Sharky’s Brew Tank

  • Remora’s Ruby Red Radler
  • Caribbean Shark Tropical Shandy

Short Wolf Brewing

  • Coffee Stout

Smug Pug Brewing Co.

  • Cincinnati Chili Porter -Chocolate, Cinnamon, & Chipotle Chillies
  • Strawberry Tart Saison – Soured Saison w/Strawberries

Spare Oom

  • Thing 1
  • Thing 2
  • Wheach Ale – Peach Wheat
  • Fighting 69 – Irish Dry Stout

Stuck Truck Brews

  • A Stout?

Sunflower Prairie Brewing

  • White Session IPA
  • American IPA
  • No Bake Porter
  • Mojito Blonde Ale

Supernatural Brews

  • Bourbon Cocoa Coffee Stout
  • Jalapeño Ale

Two Matts Brewing Company

  • Jekyll IPA
  • Hyde IPA
  • First Degree Pumpkin Ale

Urbanwood Brewery

  • Straight from the Cacao – Double Chocolate Milk Stout
  • Brown Post – Cold Brewed Coffee Brown Ale
  • Lupulin Loopy Double IPA

Wagner Homemade Beer

  • Pils
  • Oak-aged Abbey with Tart Cherries

Weeping Angel Brewery

  • Jean-Luc Picard – Belgian Wit
  • Locutus – White IPA
  • Zoe Washburne – Creme Brulee Stout
  • Untempered Schism – Dry Hopped Sour

You You Brewing Company

  • Hazed & Coriand-Fused – Belgian Wits
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