Screenland Armour – Kansas City Beer

November 22, 2015

Kansas City Has an Amazing Beer Community

It’s not under the best circumstance that more than 100 people will be attending the Friends-giving Bottle Share with Dan the Beer Man on Sunday, November 22, but it shows how the beer community in Kansas City is a pretty amazing community that will go out of their way to support a fellow beer lover. I won’t go into too much detail other than to say a truly kind and thoughtful person lost someone they cared about.

Ten dozen or so people will be at Screenland Armour bringing a lots of treats including rare beers to raffle, auction, and share; gift cards, beer lights, and other beer related items to raffle and auction; and main dishes and side dishes to enjoy. There’s a recommended donation of $10 and for every $10 you get a raffle ticket, but no donation is necessary to attend. They ask that you bring at least one bottle of beer and/or an appetizer to share. See more on the event on the Facebook event page here.

Aside from the bottle share event above, internet forums like craftbeerkc.com, reddit.com/r/KansasCityBeer, and the various Facebook groups are very active and helpful for all different types. Need a Love Child No. 3? You’re likely to find someone willing to trade. Need to know if an event is good enough to attend? Ask someone and they can give you an in depth review from experience or you may even get the event coordinator help you out. If you don’t want to be a part of the community in the real world, our online presence is just as amazing.

If you do want to be a part of the community in the real world and have never attended an event, I can tell you that the beer community is easy to talk to and very welcoming. With the excitement and growth of the Kansas City beer community, more people become interested in the beer scene here. Whether you’ve just turned 21 or are just now discovering how amazing beer is, Kansas City is the best place to do it.

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

6pm – Screenland Armour’s Arts and Crafts Beer Festival, 408 Armour Road, North Kansas City. Screenland Armour kicks off the event with exclusive film premiers, the best bands, artists, and even more rare beers!

Saturday, August 22

Screenland Armour continues their Arts and Crafts Beer Festival.

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.

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)

March 15, 2015

2015 Snake Saturday Pictures

If you made it out to Snake Saturday, you may have been most impressed by the perfect weather. Maybe a little chilly in the morning, but nothing a light jacket couldn’t cure. Another just as impressive point of the day was the beer scene. Big Rip, Grain to Glass, Cinder Block, and Screenland Armour were all able to hold their own as they welcomed the thousands of people that visited North Kansas City. Here are some pictures from the day.

Starting at 8am, Big Rip served up new beers, special cocktails, and a good time. Snake Saturday merchandise was available to purchase and some items were even free. Their foosball table was set up to entertain outdoor guests.

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Grain to Glass has the perfect location for Snake Saturday – right on 16th & Swift. I arrived quite early, so they weren’t too busy, yet. As I left, there was a steady stream of people coming in to check it out and have a beer.