Eats & Drinks

Big Rip Brewing Co.

Tap List | Big Rip and Vine Street Team Up 

Vine Street Brewing Co. has hooked up on its latest collaboration, releasing We Belong in tandem with North Kansas City’s Big Rip Brewing Co.

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Four Washed in Black variants Servaes Brewing Co. will release during Black Friday.

Tap List | 5 Black Friday Beer Releases You Need To Know About

Black Friday has become the day that many breweries release their blackest of beers – big stouts.

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City Barrel partnered with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to create Creative Juice.

Tap List | City Barrel Partners With Nelson-Atkins On New Brew

City Barrel has partnered with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to create Creative Juice.

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Thirsty? Your Hoppy Guide to the Downtown KC Craft Beer Scene

(Editor’s note: This article was last updated Dec. 26, 2022) Kansas City’s downtown craft beer scene traces its hoppy roots back to Nov. 17, 1989. That’s the date John McDonald, founder of Boulevard Brewing, delivered his first keg of Pale Ale to Ponak’s Mexican Kitchen just a few blocks down the road on Southwest Boulevard….

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Odin Smith of Lenexa shares a smile with Stella Musongong, who owns African Dream Cuisine with her husband Neba Ngwa. It was Odin’s first time dining at the food stall in Lenexa Public Market.

Dreams Come True at Lenexa Public Market

Lenexa Public Market has become an incubator for emerging restaurant concepts such as African Dream Cuisine.

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Green Dirt Farm Bringing Café and Cheese to East Crossroads

By Kevin Collison It’s a big transition from the gentle hills outside Weston to the post-industrial vibe of the East Crossroads, but Sarah Hoffman believes her hospitality and green approach to making cheese will find a great second home there. It also helps to have a lot of microbreweries and craft distillers in the new…

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Buck O'Neil stands with a statue of himself in the Negro League Baseball Museum in 2005.

Tap List | Boulevard and Vine Street Collaboration Beer Honors Buck O’Neil

Boulevard Brewing Co. and Vine Street Brewing Co., the city’s first Black-owned brewery, have teamed up to create Buck O’Neil Barrel-Aged Saison Ale to honor the recent Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.

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Nelson-Atkins and Negro League Museums Get Brews of Their Own

Downtown brewers have rolled out a couple of special edition beers to help raise money for two major cultural institutions, the Negro League Baseball Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. City Barrel Brewing in the East Crossroads has released a pale ale called Creative Juice in partnership with the Nelson-Atkins. The beer will be…

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Exterior of Red Crow Brewing Co. in Olathe.

Tap List | Red Crow Brewing Co. Marks 7 Years in Business

Olathe’s Red Crow Brewing Co. is celebrating its seventh birthday with special events running from Thursday through Sunday.

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A flight of Big Rip Brewing Co. beers.

Tap List | Boo! Big Rip To Host Spooky Market

As Oktoberfest season wraps up among local craft brewers, Halloween season is ramping up.

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