Emily Woodring
Stories by Emily Woodring
Tap List | Pumpkin Ales for Thanksgiving (Taste Test)
Tap List beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer taste tests three pumpkin-based beers for Thanksgiving feasts.
How Delta-8 THC is Shaking Up the KC Cannabis Industry
Delta-8 has surged in popularity since the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp and products with less than 0.3% THC, the intoxicating component of cannabis plants that delivers the “high.”
Tap List | Tasting the Difference Between Traditional and Fresh Hop IPAs
Tap List beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer compares the taste of a classic dry-hopped IPA with two local beers brewed with fresh hops from Kansas Hop Co.
Hopped Up: Brewing Beer with Fresh Hops from Kansas
Until recent years, Kansas and Missouri did not have a local fresh hop option for most breweries. Kansas Hop Co. in Ottawa, Kansas, can deliver fresh hops within an hour of being harvested.
Tap List | Comparing Local Oktoberfest Beers
Tap List beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer reviews three local Oktoberfest festbiers from Pathlight Brewing, Brewery Emperial and 3 Trails Brewing.
Tap List | KC Brewers Make Like Mad Scientists With Experimental Beers
Cassie Niemeyer, Flatland’s beer enthusiast, tastes and rates experimental brews from Sandhills, Torn Label and Big Rip breweries.
Tap List | An Enthusiast’s Guide to Beer Tasting Basics
Beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer demonstrates how to taste beer properly.
Cauldron Collective Shares the Power and Profit of Their Vegan Pop-Up
Members of the Cauldron Collective — Olive Cooke, Kim Conyers and Sylvia Metta — embrace a collective approach that shares both the power and profit of the vegan pop-up business equally.
Tap List | Do KC Yard Beers Outdo the Classics? (Blind Taste Test)
Tap List beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer taste tests some local and national yard beers just in time for the Fourth of July.
Food for the Cure Fights Cancer with Organic Food
Andrew Fitzgerald started Food for the Cure as a way to bring organic food to cancer patients for free.