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Best Outstate Brewery Kansas City’s awesome. We know. But we also like to share our craft beer love with the other amazing breweries spread across Missouri and Kansas. So, we want to know your favorite breweries outside the Kansas City area, but inside our two states. (Lawrence is KC-area. Topeka and Springfield are not.) Your nominated ...

Best Bottle Shop Liquor stores – and grocery stores in Missouri – have stepped up their game with a wider and deeper selection of craft beer. In Missouri, several have growler/crowler filling options too. Now it’s time to pick your favorite place to pick up craft beer for enjoying somewhere else. Nominate your choice for the ...

Best Beer Bar for 2017 There’s a lot of great beer bars in Kansas City. Some are well known as craft beer destinations. Some disguise themselves as neighborhood bars or steak houses. But each and every great beer bar cares for the quality of beer flowing from its numerous, well-cared-for taps. The bottle selection is well designed, if no ...

Original photo by Tristan Schmurr “Trolls” via Flickr Everyone wants to make good beer. Everyone. Presumably, everyone also wants to drink good beer. It’s OK to be critical of the beers you drink, and it’s OK to not always be satisfied with everything you are drinking. Breweries that have just opened and are trying to c ...

Welcome to the neighborhood, BKS Artisan Ales. The first residential-area brewery in Kansas City will open for regular hours starting in December. And – lucky me! – their door is 856 ft from my front door. Lucky you, Brian and Mary Rooney are friendly folks and make tasty beer. Brian is a homebrewer who began years ago on a Mr ...

“Walmart on Black Friday” by Laurie via Flickr Gonna dig yourself a hole? Stay inside hoping for a good football game? May I suggest a few alternatives. You could avoid maddening shopping crowds and hang with the beer nerds you love. There are many Black Friday gatherings around town. Many are centering on one specific imperial sto ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first piece by Stully, a new contributor to KC Beer Scouts. Stully comes to us with a wealth of knowledge from the craft beer industry, having worked in multiple cities across the Midwest in his career. Original image: “Kansas City Photo”, by Pam Broviak via Flickr If you are a craft beer drinker in ...

Ron Swanson with his two, simple loves. I’m a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food. Those eloquent words were delivered in customary deadpan fashion during S2:E8 of the NBC comedy-drama Parks and Recreation by the single greatest television character of all time, Ronald Ulysses Swanson, as played by Nick Offerm ...

The weather seems to have us frantically jumping back and forth between late summer and mid-to-late fall lately, so a little alcohol is just what the doctor ordered to soothe my sore throat from the dry air and dramatic temperature changes.  (What, your doctor doesn’t prescribe beer? Maybe you need a new doctor.  Just saying.) J ...

Public House Brewing has been an oasis for me in Rolla, Missouri since they opened seven years ago. My wife’s family regularly gathers at her grandparents’ house on the outskirts of Rolla. And I honestly enjoy the weekends and holidays with her cousins, aunts and uncles. But, you know, sometimes you need a friendly pint away from th ...