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In its first year, Colony KC (312 Armour Road, North Kansas City, Missouri) hasn’t just pushed the envelope. They’ve stuffed it full of Lucky Charms and black currants and raspberry sherbet. As the nanobrewery inside of a coffeehouse and taproom attached to a performance space (The Rino) nears its first anniversary, Flatland sat down with head brewer…

You never know what might happen if you just look around a bit during your commute. Courtney Servaes moved to Shawnee with her family three years ago. She’d regularly drive through downtown on her way to prenatal appointments. And it was on those drives that she discovered a place that felt primed for a neighborhood brewery….

Nolan Brown can see the future home of Transparent Brewing Co. He can literally see it across White Avenue from his job at Gayle’s Harley Davidson in Grandview, Missouri. Brown and his mother, Michelle Brown, have been working for the past three years to bring Transparent Brewing Co. and The Chive, Simply Good Café &…

Daniel Bauer said he thinks he’s put about 30 gallons of paint on the side of the building at 613 N. Sixth St. Bright yellow accents flash out from the windows on the second story, a clear beacon drawing you in like bees to a flower. This is the future home of Kaw Point Meadery. Bauer,…

A beer rainbow arrived in Lee’s Summit Saturday. New Axiom Brewing Co. (949 NE Columbus, Lee’s Summit, Missouri) opened at noon and began pouring fire engine red sours and luminescent peach-colored Hefeweizens. “We want to make beer for everybody,” taproom manager Joe Migletz said. “That’s why you’ll find sours and stouts and pale ales.” New…