Category: Events

October 16, 2018

Halloween Events for 2018

Let the pumpkin beer flow, it’s Halloween season!

Here’s a list of pumpkin carving/decorating, costume parties, Halloween parties, and more for beer-related Halloween events.

Tuesday, October 16

11am – Yearly Pumpkin Party at Barley’s Kitchen + Tap, 11924 West 119th St, Overland Park, KS 66213 – Tapping all of their pumpkin beers at once. Beers from Schlafly, Avery Brewing Company, Dogfish Head, and Epic Brewing Company.

Thursday, October 18

6pm – Shocktober Hop Quiz Trivia with Screenland Armour at Boulevard Tours & Rec Center, 2534 Madison Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108 – Rounds of Halloween and horror trivia and two beers of your choice for $10.

Friday, October 19

8pm – Spooky Ride! at Velo Garage and Tap House, 1403 Swift, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Costume party and beer specials at Velo Garage and Tap House and then bike on up to Screenland Armour for a showing of Halloween. Best costume wins a free beer and a free movie pass. Tickets for the movie are $10.

Saturday, October 20

11am – Oktoberfest Barrel Roll Parade at Dubious Claims Brewery, 451 S Thompson Ave, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024 – If you’re not quite ready for Halloween and still in Oktoberfest mode, partake in the tradition of a Barrel Roll Parade. Starting at Dubious Claims Brewery and ending at Atlas Saloon & Brewery, the event is open to anyone 21 and over.
2pm – Boo ‘n Brew at Town Center Plaza, 5000 W 119th St, Leawood, KS 66209 – Eat, drink, and be scary! Houlihan’s will have a VIP Beer Garden and there will be yard games, a DJ, an adult costume contest, and a carved pumpkin contest. The whole area will be open to all ages.
7pm – Brew at the Zoo and Wine Too at Kansas City Zoo, 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, MO 64132 – Animals are a popular Halloween costume, so get some inspiration by drinking with the animals at the zoo. This beer and wine festival has been around a few years and always sell out. $40 for FOTZ members, $50 for non-FOTZ members.

Sunday, October 21

3pm – Howl-o-Ween at KC Bier Co, 310 W 79th, Kansas City, MO 64114 – Dog costume contest with prizes, photographer, fun activities, and fundraising for Wayside Waifs. $5 donation at the door gets you a raffle ticket and a doggie bag with goodies.

Tuesday, October 23

5:45pm – Here for the BOOs, Painting, and Trivia at Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, 101 E 13th St, Kansas City, MO 64105 – A $30 ticket includes a flight of four-5 oz beers, painting instruction, and horror movie trivia.
6pm – Pumpkins and Pints with Kansas City Girls Pint Out at Flying Horse Taproom, 600 E 63rd St, Kansas City, MO 64110 – Wear a costume and receive a free gift. Magic brews will be on tap.

Wednesday, October 24

6pm – Annual Pumpkin Carving Party at Green Room Burgers & Beer, 4010 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite D, Kansas City, MO 64111 – Sponsored by Schlafly, they’ll have fun prizes, giveaways, pumpkin beer, and pumpkin carving. The event is free but let them know you’ll be there so they can get the right amount of pumpkins.

Thursday, October 25

4pm – 3rd Annual Halloween Party at Crane Brewing, 6515 Railroad St, Raytown, MO 64133 – A creepy, crawly Crane Halloween party with more details to come.
5pm – Dog-gone Halloween Partay! at Cinder Block Brewery, 110 E 18th Ave, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Dog costume contest, all-you-can-eat chilli and cinnamon rolls ($10), Halloween movies, and Beer Paws will be onsite.
5pm – Literacy KC Spelling Bee & Kids Costume Preview with COOP Ale Works at Bier Station, 120 E Gregory, Kansas City, MO 64114 – Test your spelling skills and drink some COOP Ale Works beer to benefit Literacy KC. Kids will get a spelling bee round, too. Kids will also be able to test out their costumes and trick-or-treat skills for some candy.
6:30pm – Halloween Beer Dinner at Smokin’ Guns BBQ & Catering, 1218 Swift, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Halloween beers paired with frightening dishes, wear your best costume for a chance to win prizes. $30 single ticket, $50 for couples.

Friday, October 26

6pm – Haunted Halloween Beer & Boos Bash at Martin City Event Space, 13440 Holmes Rd, Kansas City, MO 64145 – All you can eat pizza and wings, new beer releases, costume prizes, giveaways, and more. Beer releases include Martin City Brewing Company Shunned House IPA, Alchemy Coffee Stout, Righteous Candor IPA, and Fallback Brown.
7pm – Halloween Bash at Callsign Brewing, 1447 Gentry St, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Special pint and growler pricing, special snacks, costume contest, and live music. They’ll also be collecting new or gently used blanket and cold weather items for donation.

Saturday, October 27

10am – Halloweenie at East Forty Brewing, 1201 W Main St, Blue Springs, MO 64015 – The inaugural event begins with Main Street Trick or Treating at 10am and East Forty will open at 11am serving burgers, dogs, house-made chili, and all their standard offerings. There will be games for the whole family, costume contest, a downtown scavenger hunt, and weiner dog races.
11am – Night of the Thirsty Dead at Rock & Run Brewery and Pub, 110 E Kansas St, Liberty, MO 64068 – Time to get spooky. Enjoy new brews, costumes, and a pumpkin contest.
11am – Brews ‘n Boos at Flying Horse Taproom, 600 E 63rd St, Kansas City, MO 64110 – They will be releasing their collaboration beers with Free State Brewing, Barrel Aged Baltic Porter aged in Templeton barrels and Ironman Imperial Stout aged in Templeton barrels. They will also have a pumpkin carving/decoration contest so come in costume to help set the mood!
11am – Pumpkin Decorating for Kids at Chicken N Pickle, 1761 Burlington, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Good Natured Family Farms will be at Chicken N Pickle with a bunch of pumpkins to decorate.
11am – Prairie Moon Pumpkin Run at Prairie Moon Waldorf School, 1853 E 1600 Rd, Lawrence, KS 66044 – A 5K run for $15 that includes a t-shirt and pumpkin and ends at Lawrence Beer Company. Celebrate with food, drinks, and activities.
11am – Halloween Bike Rodeo at Bier Station, 120 E Gregory Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64114 – Dress yourself and your bike up in your best costume and enjoy activities like Red Solo Cup Handoff, Track Stand Contest, and other feats of bike skill. Great prizes including a chance to win a bike. Proceeds benefit BikeWalkKC.
5pm – Crossroads Pub Crawl in the Crossroads District – Locations include Border Brewing, Double Shift Brewing, Lifted Spirits, International Tap House, Mission Taco Joint, and Grinders. Spooky drink specials, candy, and an after party at Grinders with a costume contest.
7pm – 6th Annual Ripper Halloween Party at Big Rip Brewing, 216 E 9th Ave, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – All drinks included for only $35. Enjoy a DJ, drinking games, prizes, and a costume contest at this horror-themed brewery.
7:30pm – Halloween Party at Chicken N Pickle, 1761 Burlington, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Hang out on their rooftop where they’ll have a DJ, Halloween special cocktail, and a costume party.
8pm – Naughty and Nice Costume Party at Smoke Brewing Company, 209 SE Main, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 – Food and drink specials with live music and $100 cash prize for best costume.

Sunday, October 28

12pm – Fall Family Festival at KC Bier Co, 310 W 79th, Kansas City, MO 64114 – Activities including pumpkin painting, yard games, candy prizes, and a costume contest. Proceeds benefit Noah’s Bandage Project and the BMA Foundation.

Wednesday, October 31

4pm – People are Strange at Strange Days Brewing, 316 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64106 – Wear your best costume for beer specials and a costume contest.
7pm – Halloween Scary Movie-thon at KC Bier Co, 310 W 79th, Kansas City, MO 64114 – Two classic scary films, $3 Rot Lagers, and Bierhalle food specials.
8pm – All Hallows Eve with Freight Train Rabbit Killer at Stockyards Brewing, 1600 Genessee St, Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64102 – Live music with Freight Train Rabbit Killer.

Thursday, November 01

4pm – Day of the Dead at Grain to Glass, 1611 Swift Ave, North Kansas City, MO 64116 – Wear your best Grateful Dead apparel and enjoy some tribute music. They’ll have beer specials and prize for best shirt.

Let me know if I missed any beer-related events at beer@kansascitybeer.com Have a wonderful Halloween!

September 4, 2017

KC Beer Fest

With an appropriate date (09/09), the 9th Annual KC Beer Fest will kickoff on Saturday beginning at 2pm for VIP and 3pm for General Admission. The festival will host more than 50 breweries pouring more than 200 craft beers including rare tappings from Bell’s Brewery, Boulevard Brewing Company, Crane Brewing, Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Firestone Walker Bre wing Company, Martin City Brewing Company, Perennial Artisan Ales, and more.

Attendees will enjoy unlimited samples of beers from local and national breweries, lawn games, food trucks, and local artists as Flying Saucer and Power & Light District host the event that will shut down Grand Boulevard between 13th and 14th Streets. Many of the local breweries haven’t even been around since the inception of the festival including Cinder Block Brewing, Crane Brewing, and Torn Label Brewing Company, but old favorites like Boulevard Brewing Company will be pouring as well.

A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to Drink Local Think Global, a nonprofit with a mission to provide clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. There will also be raffles and giveaways from the group to raise additional funds.

VIP tickets are $65 now through Friday, September 8, $70 day of the festival. General Admission tickets are $40 now through Friday, September 8, $45 day of the festival. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit KC Beer Fest’s website at: www.kcbeerfest.com

See you there!

February 23, 2017

HopCat Grand Opening

HopCat has chosen Kansas City to open their twelfth location and they’re opening this Saturday with a Grand Opening all-day party.

HopCat derives its name from the hepcats of the jazz scene in the 1940s. You can see the love of music throughout the first floor with commissioned works of art that focus on some of the greatest musicians. Each floor has a different, unique style, just like each of their current 12 locations are different to accommodate and adapt to each city. So while they may be a chain, if you visit another location it won’t be quite the same as the KC one.

The beer selection is phenomenal. Tyler Goebel, HopCat’s Beer Program Manager, has hand selected each of the 100 taps on the first floor and 30 local taps on the second floor patio area. They’ve built a reputation with breweries, small and large, that they have great beer knowledge and will serve it properly. Two exclusives to Kansas City will be on tap this Saturday: COOP Ale Works Hot Chocolate DNR, available in the Oklahoma City area only except this keg and Brickway Brewery‘s Barrel-Aged Epic Blackout Stout, a 17% stout with only 3 kegs in existence and HopCat will have one. Other breweries that will have beers tapped include Crooked Stave, Founders, Moonlight Meadery, Crane Brewing, Torn Label, and Lagunitas. They plan on having collaborations with local breweries and doing small and large tap takeovers for several breweries.

Their food menu includes elevated pub food that’s made fresh and incorporates beer in a lot of the dishes. Their “Crack Fries” are battered in light beer before sprinkled with black pepper seasoning and have been named in Food Network’s America’s 10 Best French Fries.

With all that food, there’s bound to be waste, but HopCat is pretty big into sustainability. About 90% of what would normally go in a landfill is either composted or recycled. It’s a key point in all their locations, but they had some extra help in Kansas City from Bridging the Gap training employees how to be more sustainable.

Their Grand Opening will be this Saturday, February 25, starting at 11am. They are located at 401 Westport Rd, in Old Westport, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. Free crack fries all day for everyone but the first 200 guests get a card good for a free order of the fries every week for a year, rare beers on tap, giveaways, and a happening time!

We have a ticket for two to their VIP Grand Opening on Friday, February 24, a HopCat can-shaped glass, and a free Crack Fries for a year card to giveaway so visit our Facebook page for details. Follow HopCat on their social media for updates and other cool stuff: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Thanks to Chris Knape, Joe Prate, and Tyler Goebel for taking the time to take us on a tour and share the information with us.

Here are some photos of HopCat. They were still adding the final touches, so we’ll be going back to get more once they open.

Hop Cat

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August 29, 2016

Festival of the Lost Township

Let the Beet drop – Beet Beer that is. Since the Festival of the Lost Township is hosted by Crane Brewing, you can expect a lot of exciting beers from them as well as other breweries. The one about which we’re most excited is their Beet Weiss which will be officially debuting at the festival.

The Beet Weiss, once known as Magenta because of its color, is a much-anticipated addition to their unique lineup. Michael Crane, owner of Crane Brewing, has been making the beer for several years and has been pouring it at local events including 2014’s Parkville Microbrew Fest. It will be available first at the Festival of the Lost Township and then in bottles throughout their territories the following week.

Speaking of beets, well…beats, Festival of the Lost Township will feature a live band, Favorite Daze, that will serenade you as you try beers from local breweries, national breweries, and homebrewers. In its second year, this festival has combined with Brewtopia and offers homebrewers the opportunity to brew with Crane Brewing. As an attendee of the festival, you will get to try as many beers as you want and there will also be food trucks and a merchandise tent, so bring money. If you snag a VIP ticket, you get in an hour early not only to get a head start on the beer sampling, but you’ll also get to try several Kansas City Chefs pairings of food with unique beer.

What’s with the long, kind of odd name? Raytown is a lost township. In the early 1800s, when a large area of Jackson County was put up for sale, Township 49 (Raytown) was accidentally left out. It was eventually sold with squatters becoming landowners. So, it’s a Festival for the Lost Township now known as Raytown, celebrating a unique fact about a unique city. Full story here.

Go to www.festivalofthelosttownship.org for full details. The festival will be at Raytown Rd & E 62nd St, Raytown, MO 64133, on Saturday, September 17th, beginning at noon for VIP and 1pm for General Admission. Tickets are $100 for VIP and $35 for GA. Designated Drivers get in the general admission area for free, but will not be allowed to drink any beer or liquor samples. IDs will be checked as everyone is required to be 21 years and older.

We’ll be there taking pictures, doing live interviews (contact us if you want to be interviewed), and taking notes for those who can’t make it but want to see what it’s all about.

Here’s a list of brewers:

Crane Brewing Raytown, MO	Cinder Block Brewery North Kansas City, MO	Red Crow Brewing Spring Hill, KS
Martin City Brewing Martin City, MO	Logboat Brewing Columbia, MO	Stockyards Brewing Kansas City, MO
Free State Brewing Lawrence, KS	Torn Label Brewing Kansas City, MO	Tallgrass Brewing Manhattan, KS
Central Standard Brewing Wichita, KS	Miami Creek Brewing Drexel, MO	Green Room Burgers & Beer Kansas City, MO
Colony Espresso & Beer North Kansas City, MO	Bur Oak Brewing Columbia, MO	Rock & Run Brewery Liberty & Kearney, MO
KC Bier Co Kansas City, MO	23rd Street Brewery Lawrencce, KS	Big Rip Brewing North Kansas City, MO
Calibration Brewery North Kansas City, MO	McCoy’s Public House Kansas City, MO	Radius Brewing Emporia, KS
Urban Chestnut Brewing St. Louis, MO	Mark Twain Brewery Hannibal, MO	Third Base Brewery Cedar Rapis, IA
Zipline Brewing Lincoln, NE	Earthbound Beer St. Louis, MO	Exit 6 Brewery Cottleville, MO
Core Brewing Springdale, AR	Ozark Beer Co Rogers, AR	Roughtail Brewing Midwest City, OK
Nebraska Brewing Company Papillion, NE	Destihl Brewery Bloomington, IL	Stone Brewing Escondido, CA
Toolbox Brewing Vista, CA	Fossil Cove Brewing Fayetteville, AR	Marto Brewing Co Onawa, IA
Kolibri Ale Works Tulsa, OK	Six Mile Bridge Maryland Heights, MO	Piney River Brewing Bucyrus, MO
Mikerphone Brewing Chicago, IL	Infusion Brewing Benson, NE	Avery Brewing Boulder, CO
Lagunitas Brewing Petaluma, CA	2nd Shift Brewing New Haven, MO	Perennial Artisan Ales St. Louis, MO
Oskar Blues Brewery Longmont, CO	Riparian Ales St. Louis, MO	Brickstone Brewery Bourbonnais, IL
Odell Brewing Fort Collins, CO	Blue Blood Brewing Lincoln, NE	Schlafly St. Louis, MO
Modern Brewery St. Louis, MO	Defiance Hays, KS	Farnam House Brewing Omaha, NE
Anthem Brewing Oklahoma City, OK	Founders Brewing Grand Rapids, MI	O’Fallon Brewery Maryland Heights, MO
Narrow Gauge Brewing Florissant, MO	Summit Brewing St. Paul, MN	Rockwell Beer Company St. Louis, MO
Ballast Point San Diego, CA	Alpha Brewing Company St. Louis, MO	Evil Twin Brewing Denmark
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales Dexter, MI	Left Hand Brewing Longmont, CO	White River Brewing Springfield, MO
Argus Brewery Chicago, IL	Shmaltz Brewing Clifton Park, NY	Crooked Stave Denver, CO
Mikkeller Denmark	Mother’s Brewing Springfield, MO	North Peak Brewing Traverse City, MI
Prairie Artisan Ales Tulsa, OK

List of distilleries, wineries, and artisan friends:

Kansas City, MO

J. Rieger & Co Kansas City, MO	Tom’s Town Kansas City, MO	Amigoni Urban Winery Kansas City, MO
Leaky Roof Meadery Buffalo, MO	Union Horse Distilling Lenexa, KS	Restless Spirits Distilling North Kansas City, MO
The Brewkery Kansas City, MO	Hugo Tea North Kansas City, MO	Benetti’s Coffee Raytown, MO
KANbucha Lawrence, KS	Alchemy Coffee & Bake Lawrence, KS	Second Best Coffee Kansas City, MO
Blip Roasters Kansas City, MO

List of food trucks:

Taste of Home KC	Wilma’s Good Food	Greg-Co BBQ
Lutfi’s Mobile	Poppy’s Ice Cream