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Summer is not my season. Give me fall. Then winter. I guess spring’s OK once the pollen settles. But summer in KC is a hot, sticky, gross, sweaty, sunburnt mess. At least for me. Which makes this mild summer 2014 so far the most enjoyable summer in recent memory. Until this week, that is. The typically abysmal Missouri summer i ...

Grill at Bruges park by Dukas Ju, on Flickr Avez-vous brasser de la Belgisch bier? That’s kind of a Flemish/French mishmash. But, do you brew Belgian beer? Unless you’re reading this in Ghent, the question should be Do you brew Belgian-style beer?. Any way, our friends over at Grain to Glass are having a homebrew c ...

photo by Rick Chung, on Flickr Summer is reaching its dog days, and thus, so it beer festival season. There is still a lot going on, even more than what is listed here. Check our Beer Calendar for all the events happening around Kansas City. Now, let’s do a little run down on what still on tap between now and fall. National I ...

Sierra Nevada Brewing, one of the grandaddies of American craft beer, completed twelve (12!) collaborations with other breweries from across the US. These are huge names in beer, and only a couple of these other breweries distribute around Kansas City. We’re talking New Glarius, Russian River, 3 Floyds … that level of be ...

[Editor’s Note: Please welcome our newest contributor, You You Ben, to the KC Beer Scouts. He attended the Dozer Unleashed event at Martin City Brewing Company last Thursday and was kind enough to write up a little something on the gathering and the barrel-aged imperial coconut porter. Take it away, Ben!] As a long term residen ...

Time to pull out your desk calendar dayplanner Palm Pilot cell phone. The beer festival season is not over yet! Check out the rest of the big summer beer events coming up soon in Kansas City and around the region. Here’s a rundown. Midwest Belgian Beer Festival, July 26 in St Louis Perennial Artisan Ales and ...

I’ve been a homebrewer for 14 years. I’ve been a beer consumer for longer. I’ve attended more beer festivals than I can remember. But I’ve never done anything like the KC Nanobrew Fest. A First-Timer’s Experience Photo courtesy of Kellie Bloxsom-Rys The 2014 KC Nanobrew Festival landed in downtown Libert ...

So, we’ve spruced the place up a bit. When we started KC Beer Scouts, I envisioned a site full of reviews of interesting and varied beers written by our group and lovingly compiled, with the occasional bit of local beer news and an essay or two. More than two years later, that vision never really came to be. Our site ...

Boulevard Brewing’s first street festival, which wrapped up on Sunday, crowned the list of events comprising the inaugural Kansas City Craft Beer Week. Every announcement concerning Boulevardia built up immense anticipation for the three days of beer and music. Alas, we didn’t make to Boulevardia this weeke ...

The first annual Kansas City Craft Beer Week has come and gone with a bang. Due to a variety of reasons, the only event I was able to attend was Peter Bouckaert’s visit to Bier Station on Friday night. It was an amazing event that I might write more on later. Boulevardia has come to a close. If you follow Facebook and ...