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Tap List | Chocolate Ale and Chili Are Your Winter Warmers
There’s a whole new kind of chocolate fountain in town. Chocolate Ale (8.7% alcohol by volume) is back. The collaboration brew between Boulevard Brewing Co. and Christopher Elbow, which debuted in 2011, has inspired folks to stalk delivery trucks, led to a recall and had a brief dalliance with raspberry as an additive. [FLEX-CONTENT] This…
Tap List | Crane’s Nightmare Machine & KC Restaurant Week 2019 Beer Edition
The growth of Kansas City’s brewery scene could hit an unexpected speed bump in the first part of 2019. As the government shutdown moves into its third week, the backlog of beer label approval requests continues to stack up as the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has suspended its review process in…
Tap List | Pour One Out For a Little Less Sexism in Beer
The world of beer still tilts heavily toward men. And it’s a particular kind of man that is stereotypically seen as drinking beer. A man that might crush the can when he is done with it. But progress comes from unexpected places. Hopcat, which made the decision to rename its ‘crack fries’ in 2018, is…
Tap List | 12 Beers of Christmas & an Invitation To a Puppy Party
Forget partridges. Forget pear trees. Tapcade (1701 McGee St., Suite 200) is celebrating 12 Boulevard Beers of Christmas through Monday, Dec. 24. Each day features a new, limited-release Boulevard beer (Saison Brett is today, Rye on Rye 2017 is Friday) for $4.50, alongside specials on more than a dozen other Boulevard beers. Limitless Brewing Co….
Tap List | Order Martin City’s Donut Stout By The Half-Dozen
Humankind has finally invented a drinkable doughnut. Martin City Brewing Co. has a new dessert stout — Donut Stout (6% alcohol by volume) — out in six-packs. It’s all breakfast in the nose with maple syrup being followed by chocolate malt and a vanilla punch that will have you thinking of a chocolate glazed. The beer…
Tap List | More Bourbon Chocolate In Your Diet & Pale Lager for Wildfire Victims
Kansas City’s independent restaurant scene has been fueled by chefs over the past decade doing a simple calculation that they could afford to accomplish more here than on the coasts.. That same desire for cheaper real estate, an opportunity for ownership and the chance to return home could now energize the local craft brewery boom….
Tap List | The Day the Music Died: Rock & Run Brewery and Pub Closes
A brewery at the forefront of the recent craft beer boom has closed. After nearly five years in downtown Liberty, Rock & Run Brewery & Pub shut its doors last Tuesday. The following note was posted on the brewery’s site: “From all of us at Rock & Run Brewery, we are sad to say that…
Tap List | Limitless Brewing & Black Squirrel Friday
This is why you’ve been drinking all these years, Lenexa. Limitless Brewing (9765 Widmer, Lenexa, Kansas) is planning its grand opening Wednesday at 4 p.m. as long as the brewery receives its final permitting today. Limitless will open with a trio of brews on tap: Biere de Garde (strong pale ale), English session ale and…
Tap List | Get Out There Imperial Stout Troopers
Leave the weights to someone else. True feats of strength involve imperial stouts. And as the mercury dips, breweries begin releasing beers to make you forget just how cold your toes are in your shoes. This is a week of imperial (just a formal word for strong) stouts. If big beers seem scary. Don’t worry….