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High Plains BrewHoff 2015 Recap

One of the many great events from this past Saturday was the High Plains BrewHoff in Brew Lab‘s Old Downtown Overland Park parking lot.  I had planned on attending more events during the day, but I had a small injury in the morning and could only get to the BrewHoff.  Below you’ll find a quick recap and some pictures from the event.

It was a good time overall with a lot of great, unique beers.  It had the same bad/good things as last year.  Bad:  kids, event space too small/too many people.  Good:  the beers, free snacks, water stations, good bands, it was free.  See my review for last year here.

They did try to expedite the entry by having a VIP line and letting people in 30 minutes early  Although a line didn’t start to form until about 12:45pm, by 2pm there was still quite a line.  They did also try to discourage children (and Broncos apparel) by posting on their Facebook, but there were still quite a few kids (and one Broncos hat).

I love the spirit Fuzzy Helmetsof the homebrewers.  There’s so much creativity and passion that goes into each beer and it’s
refreshing to be at the type of event where the server knows what they’re talking about.  Many tents had entertaining setups, from a Craftsmen toolbox keezer to a group of Fuzzy Helmets.

There weren’t as many homebrewers that were in the process of going legit as last year.  Crane, Red Crow, Torn Label, and Double Shift all had a tent last year and are either already open or within a month of opening.  BVH Brewery (Twitter, Facebook, Untappd) will be spending 2016 promoting their beers at several events while working on getting a permanent location.  Mount Anderson Brewery (Untappd) is in talks with Missouri Hy-Vees to start selling 22oz bottles of their beer.  They’ll be brewing and bottling just outside of Peculiar, MO.

Speaking of Mount Anderson, their beers and brewery did really well as far as voting went at the event.  They took first for Best Beer with their Vanilla Milkshake Porter (well deserved).  Click here to see all the winners on High Plains BrewHoff’s Facebook.

High Plains BrewHoff will hold their third BrewHoff next year on Saturday, September 17.

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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 CompanySchuBrew, 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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