Drink to this: Rules eased on selling and making local beer
Photo used under a Creative Commons license courtesy Nicola
The city council voted on Thursday to allow farmers and producers to sell local beer and spirits at the Downtown City Market.
That follows a popular change last year that allowed ...
Change brewing in city beer laws
You really want to pay $9 for a big bottle of pumpkin beer without tasting it?
Regulators said they don’t remember why the city has a law against breweries giving free beer to folks, and it’s time for change.
The city council public safety ...
Missouri ranks high in beer drinking, Colorado shifting to another high
Given that Missouri surpasses Colorado in beer drinking per person, what will happen as more Rocky Mountain drinkers use legal marijuana?
With vast inebriation industries in play, the Beer Institute reports that in 2012 Missouri ranked number ...
Headier times for craft beer in Kansas City
In Kansas City, the craft beer movement grew so much last year that the KC Beer Blog calls 2013 “The Year of Beer.”
The post by Jay Aber cites some intriguing numbers to support his case.
The city started last year far behind the nation ...
Burned building holds Kansas City brewery history
The concept of “ice cold beer” may have started here, in the Imperial Brewery at 2825 Southwest Boulevard. A fire last week damaged the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
A fire Thursday extensively damaged the ...
Reflections on ale and sex
At Gomer’s in Midtown recently, there was (briefly) a warning about “Brewer’s Droop,” a sexual malfunction apparently exacerbated by hoppy beers and ales. The Midtown KC Post went looking for the story behind the warning.
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