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Tap List | Prairie Mary Will Add Some Pepper To Your Step
Put this one in your burn book. Border Brewing Co. is bringing some heat to the bar with Prairie Fire Chile Saison (7.5% alcohol by volume) on Saturday, April 13. The farmhouse ale is made with fire-roasted poblano and chipotle peppers. It’s a spicy play on the calm universe that is red beer. Fancy a…
Tap List | Red Crow Brewing Co. Is Open in Olathe
A little over a year after relocating from Spring Hill, Kansas, to Olathe, Kansas, Red Crow Brewing Co. is now open. Red Crow (1062 W. Santa Fe Drive) is initially serving three beers: Louise (an IPA), Isabelle (a Belgian blonde) and Donna (wheat). Chris and Mistie Roberts, along with Joe and Loretta Fisher (Mistie’s parents) opened…
Tap List | Jelly Bean Beer & Nevertheless She Brewed
Since you occasionally eat in between drinking beers, this felt like a good time to visit with Bier Station’s new food menu. In addition to the beer bar’s regular fare of pretzels, wings and tacos, the Waldo spot has a hot chicken sandwich, bierocks (Heirloom Bakery brioche stuffed with beef, onion, red cabbage, and Swiss), a…
Tap List | Green Beer, Snake Saturday & Not Lost Brewing’s Grand Opening
Feel like being a beer tourist? Not Lost Brewing (229 S. Main St., Ottawa, Kansas) is holding its grand opening on Saturday, March 16. The Kansas brewery, about an hour south of Kansas City, will be serving a kiwi sour, an IPA made with hops from the Kansas Hops Company (which is also in Ottawa),…
Tap List | Pink Boots Society Brew Day & Flyover Beer Fest
Annie Davis, the cellar at Double Shift Brewing Co., isn’t trying to make a statement by wearing pink boots. The founder of the local chapter of the Pink Boots Society has a simple answer for her choice of footwear on a recent Thursday. “They’re comfortable,” she said. Kansas City didn’t have a Pink Boots Society —…
Tap List | 3 Trails Brewing Co. Debuts on Independence Square
Let’s call this one Eastward Expansion. 3 Trails Brewing Co. (111 N. Main St.) opened last Thursday on Independence Square at the corner of East Maple Avenue and North Main Street. [FLEX-CONTENT] This past Sunday, a dad bounced on a baby on one hip next to a group of women casually paying attention to the…
Tap List | Free State Brewing Company Celebrates 30 Years of Beer
Free State Brewing Co. celebrates with one tap for every year of its existence this Saturday when Bier Station puts 30 of the Lawrence-based brewery’s beers behind the bar. Free State, founded by Lawrence native Chuck Magerl in 1989, has been the standard-bearer for craft beer in the Sunflower State. It was the first brewery…
Tap List | Taps on Main Opens & Plenty of Beer To Love
Legendary actor Bill Murray has a reputation for jumping behind the bar in cities across America and taking over drink-slinging duties. For those of us who are not Bill Murray, what if we could pull the tap handle and let the beer flow? Taps on Main (1715 Main St.) opened Monday at 11 a.m. The pour-your-own…
Tap List | Transport Brewery Opens in Shawnee
The local craft brewery boom will make its way to the Kansas side this year. Transport Brewery (11113 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas) will hold its grand opening Friday at noon. Transport is the first of a new crop of breweries expected to open in the coming months. Servaes Brewing Co. is in the works a block…
Tap List | Party Time, Excellent & 99 Bottles of Chocolate
Kansas City brewers often speak of camaraderie — a desire to help each other rather than see other brewers and breweries as competition. That spirit has been translated into action with Community Coming Together. It’s an effort to collect household items, non-perishable food and gift cards for federal employees affected by the recent government shutdown….