Tap List
Tap List | Say Hello To The Maine Beer Co.
New-England style IPAs are the latest darling on Kansas City taps. Brewers in and around the metro have been trying to nail the juicy, hazy style of pale ale. With lots of fruit notes and arresting color, it’s easy to understand the infatuation. That’s why I want you to know that Maine Beer Co. is…
Tap List | Spirit Cowboy & Bring Out Your Dead
Stouts are like Lifesavers. You’ve got a lot of different flavors in the pack, and if you find one you don’t like, you can just offer it up to a friend and move on to the next one. Go discover milk stouts and coffee stouts and oatmeal stouts this week in #TapList. Tap Notes Colony…
Tap List | Beer It Forward & All The Halloweens
Fringe Beerwork (224 SE Douglas St., Lee’s Summit, Missouri) and the newly opened Apex Aleworks (4356 S. Noland Road, Independence, Missouri) both have a “Beer it Forward” board. The idea is you can buy a beer for someone and put their name up on a whiteboard (Fringe) or chalkboard (Apex); then they can come in and claim…
Tap List | Brew & Chew, Boo ‘N Brew, & Brew at The Zoo
The beer calendar has turned to winter, even as the outdoor beer festival goes strong. Get ready for dark, strong ales, and plenty of spice in your pint glass. Help yourself to a glass of #TapList. Tap Notes New Axiom Brewing Co. (949 NE Columbus St., Lee’s Summit, Missouri) has a host of new brews…
Tap List | Strawberry Hill Brewing Co. In The Works
You never know what happens when you talk to your neighbors. Derek Kempf was on paternity leave three years ago from the Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department, and he was chatting with Larry Murray, who lived across the street. The two decided to try a test batch of home brew. A wit went wrong. A…
Tap List | KC Bier Co. is Bringing Oktoberfest to Crown Center
There will be a little more oomph in the oom-pah-pah at KC Bier Co.’s Oktoberfest this year. The festival, now in its fifth year, is moving from the Waldo brewery’s bier garden to the plaza at Crown Center. “We ran out of space at the brewery,” KC Bier Co. founder and managing partner Steve Holle…
Tap List | Gluten-Free Beers, Ciders & Mead in KC
The narrative on gluten free beers is, at times, an unfair one. They are often relegated to the corner of the cold case reserved for non-alcoholic beer or seen as an oxymoron. But gluten-free, locally-produced options have increased dramatically in Kansas City over the past five years and that means we need to be having a conversation…
Tap List | Crane Brewing Keeps The Beet Going
Crane Brewing Co. has always marched to its own “beet.” And this year, it’s more than 1,000 pounds of beet, roughly one per bottle of Beet Weiss, according to co-founder Michael Crane. “The beets were not overly earthy or tart,” Crane said. “This batch has such an incredible sweetness.” Beet Weiss, the brewery’s fall seasonal,…
Tap List | 3 Trails Brewing In the Works in Independence
The thousands of visitors that flock to Independence for the Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival next year may find an unexpected surprise in the beer garden: an Independence, Missouri, brewery. 3 Trails Brewing, which is in the process of building out its space at 111 N. Main St., hopes to open by year’s end on Independence Square. And the…
Tap List | Grains & Taps is Launching a Brewery
Chicago had Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. Grains & Taps (10 SW Third St., Lee’s Summit, Missouri) will likely someday point to an exhaust fan as the reason it’s brewing beer this winter. Brad Boehm still remembers the moment in February when he came to Grains and Taps, the business he co-owns with Brian Bixby, and smelled smoke. He wondered…