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Here it is, Kansas City. Your chance to vote in the first Best of KC Beer awards! We’re dubbing these five awards the Golden Tappys™. We asked for nominations a week ago, and thank you to everyone who responded via Facebook, Twitter, and on this site. Your input is compiled below. No nominations were left out, but we had ...

Beer Labels by aolin, via Flickr Category Four: Best Bottle Shop Not all of us can get out and drink at the bar very regularly. Work. Kids. Safely getting home. Stuff. Sometimes it’s best to get it to go and enjoy at home with the wife or with friends. To get the most of this experience, one needs a friendly face behind the c ...

Category Three: Best Beer Bar Kansas City may not have as many breweries as other towns our size, but we have quite a few very high-quality bars serving a large selection of craft beer. These gems with rows of glittering chrome faucets dispensing sweet and bitter nectar dot neighborhoods and ’burbs across the metro. ...

Category Two: Best Small Brewery There is one large brewery in this town. And a growing flock of small breweries and brew pubs which may fly under the radar because of location, distribution or something else. Which is your favorite? Is there a new brewery in a small town that we don’t know about? It’s tim ...

Update Some people have been unable to post comments with their nominations. We believe that issue has been fixed. Sorry for the technical error. Nominate away!   Much deserved medals, by Andrew Dallos via Flickr The Kansas City craft beer scene is booming. More great beer bars. More breweries. More beer. It’s a great time to ...

It’s been a while since we posted anything around here. Let’s do some picking up. Guest Writing So, it’s not like I haven’t been writing – just for some other people. Our friends at Fit Bottomed Eats recently had their first Beer Week, dropping a bit of knowledge on our favorite beverage on their readers. We ...

Oktoberfest_2010-26 by idirectori, on Flickr Yeah, we’ve been slacking with the event information. But we have you covered for what’s going to be a big finish to the summer. Let’s do a rundown: Sour Beer Week at the Flying Saucer now thru Saturday Special tapping from New Belgium, Prairie, and Jolly Pumpkin plus a spec ...

It’s slowly approaching fall in Kansas City. That means football is ramping up. It might dip below 90° any day now. School has been back for weeks. And playoff baseball? OK. That’s a newer one. In the beer world, fall also means in inevitable creep of the fall seasonals. Some of these autumnal styles I eagerly await. But p ...

It’s slowly approaching fall in Kansas City. That means football is ramping up. It might dip below 90° any day now. School has been back for weeks. And playoff baseball? OK. That’s a newer one. In the beer world, fall also means in inevitable creep of the fall seasonals. Some of these autumnal styles I eagerly await. But p ...

Beer Scouts Meeting Notes: New Feature! I’ve been planning to do this for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it till now.  My intention is to post a brief summary of each of our Beer Scouts meetings shortly after they occur.  These will not be formal meeting minutes. After all, pretty much nothing about Beer Scout ...