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There’s a busy week of beer events around Kansas City starting tonight. Let’s do a fast rundown! Monday, November 10 Martin City Brewing Company Launch Party at Lew’s and the Well Martin City Brewing begins distribution around the area with a launch party in Waldo. Owner Matt Moore and brewer Nick Vaughn will be at ...

Rarely do beers of this nature live up to the expectations formed in my head. The fact that I have heard this beer is legen-wait for it-dary, doesn’t mean anything to me until it hits my lips, travels over my taste buds and proceeds south to my belly. Beers such as Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout can fluctuate in qual ...

The August meeting for Outpost 1 yielded many delicious brews, but we saved the best for last. Boulevard’s 2012 Saison-Brett is a tour de force that left me believing it was the best offering I’d sampled as a member of KC Beer Scouts. The pour reveals a beautiful, full head that stays for a spell. Aromatically mild, it offers nostal ...

Honestly, I didn’t want to try this beer, let alone enjoy it: My ex’s named is Brett. But I couldn’t look like a wimp in front of my newly found beer lovers, so with a sinking heart I began my review. Upon my first whiff, I was excited because it smelled like crap. (Meaning: I wouldn’t enjoy it, therefore it would be Bri ...

This was one beer that opened my eyes to wild fermentation many moons ago. Since my introduction to this farmhouse, (more like farmmansion) I have pursued different saisons and wildly fermented beers pretty enthusiastically. This is an ale that I try to taste every single year it is produced, yet rarely have the patience to cellar or wait even ...

This past weekend in Denver, over 700 breweries dished out samples of their best beer to nearly 50,000 attendees, fellow brewers and judges who swarmed thru the aisles at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). That last group, the judges, had some hardware to hand out. When the winners were announced on Saturday morning, it be ...

Come November, Missouri residents need not travel across to Kansas for their cans of delight. Oskar Blues, the original canning craft brewer out of Colorado, has signed with Major Brands for distribution in Missouri starting the week of November 10. Cans of Ol’ Chub and Dale’s Pale have been available in the Whe ...

Goose Island is the latest brewery setting off on a tour of the country. Their Migration Week lands in Kansas City next week at Bier Station, the Flying Saucer and the Foundry in Westport. Brewers and educators from Goose Island will be in town to talk with you face-to-face while pouring some of their best beer. A ...

Historisches Oktoberfest 2010 by digital cat, on Flickr If you’re talking Oktoberfest – with a capital O followed by a k – then you’re really discussing happenings in September. And your probably looking for beer, pretzels, and sausage, all washed down with a healthy helping of oompah. So ...

Pop Quiz: What’s the oldest brewing establishment in the Kansas City area? Boulevard, you say. Well, they’ve been around since 1989. Free State Brewing is a good guess, they’re celebrating 25 years. The correct answer, if you accept my vague definition of ‘brewing establishment’, is Bacchus and Barleycor ...