Best MO or KS Brewery Nominations for a 2017 Golden Tappy

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… Continue reading Best MO or KS Brewery Nominations for a 2017 Golden Tappy

Bottle Shops – Nominate the Best for a 2017 Golden Tappy

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… Continue reading Bottle Shops – Nominate the Best for a 2017 Golden Tappy

Nominate the Best Beer Bar in Kansas City for 2017

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,… Continue reading Nominate the Best Beer Bar in Kansas City for 2017

Nominate the Best Small Brewery in KC for 2017

Best Small Brewery Once again, we have a winner for Best Large Brewery. Boulevard, take a bow! Now for everyone else: We are asking for your choice for best of the new – and established – small breweries around Kansas City. Which is your favorite? Kansas City is in a tremendous growth spurt of new establishments creating their… Continue reading Nominate the Best Small Brewery in KC for 2017

The Best of KC Craft Beer Nominations: The Golden Tappys

We Want Your Opinion. We know you have one. So let’s hear it. It’s time again to give your nominations for the best of craft beer in Kansas City: the Golden Tappys! We are looking for your nominations in six categories for 2017. We will continue the same six categories as last year: Best Local Beer Best… Continue reading The Best of KC Craft Beer Nominations: The Golden Tappys

Classic Styles Aren’t Always Boring

The beauty and success of American Craft Beer has been its amazing ability to consistently build upon pre-existing classic beer styles and make them “their own”. It’s great to see how different American brewers interpret these styles and how each one can tweak them here and there with available ingredients to show a unique and creative… Continue reading Classic Styles Aren’t Always Boring

’Tis the Season: Advent Beers Part 3

Nothing like publishing a buildup to pre-Christmas beers three days after Christmas. But, you know, life. Kids. Family travel. Be sure to check out Week 1 and Week 2 of our Advent Calendar of beers, if you haven’t already. Advent Beers, Week 3 Abita Christmas Ale December 13 Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from Abita Christmas Ale. Mostly… Continue reading ’Tis the Season: Advent Beers Part 3

’Tis the Season, Advent Beers Part 1

As a child, I was obsessed with Christmas. I was also Catholic. Advent came with four candles (do other Jesus-types do the four candle purple-purple-pink-purple wreath?), and a never-ending countdown to the greatest morning in the whole year. Presents! Cookies for breakfast! Cookies for lunch! Passing out in a sugar coma on top of the gifts! And weeks without school… Continue reading ’Tis the Season, Advent Beers Part 1

Be Critical. Be Nice. Be Specific.

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 carve out a place for themselves in the local… Continue reading Be Critical. Be Nice. Be Specific.

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