Celebrating the Art of Craft Beverages, The East Crossroads Beverage District!
Mar 25, 2022 06:37AM ● By KAREN CASSIDY
Just a half-mile northeast of downtown Kansas City is the wildly popular Crossroads Arts District, and within this cultural mecca is the East Crossroads Craft Beverage District. This little slice of homegrown MO “happy hour” heaven contains the highest concentration of local craft beverage creators in the entire Kansas City metro area. And it’s worth a visit!
The East Crossroads, as they prefer to be called, contains seven local breweries, two distilleries and a winery. It offers says Lara Gray, owner of Casual Animal Brewing Co. “but also colorful street graffiti, record stores, and restaurants featuring some of Kansas City’s up and coming culinary artists.”The East Crossroads offers great food,Missouri-sourced wine, beer gardens, spirits, live music, and craft beer. Border Brewing Company, Casual Animal Brewing Company, City Barrel Brewery,Double Shift Brewing Company, KC Wineworks, Lifted Spirits Distillery, Mean Mule Distilling Co, Red Sash Brewing something for everyone looking to relax and imbibe in a creative atmosphere.While “The Crossroads” is known for celebrating the arts, "East Crossroads"is all about celebrating the art of craft beverages. This unique collection of original tasting rooms is quickly becoming a focal point for inventive food and drink in Kansas City.
“The Kansas City East Crossroads is a friendly, walkable neighborhood experience with not only award-winning craft beer, distilled beverages, and wine, ays Lara Gray, owner of Casual AnimalBrewing Co. “but also colorful street graffiti, record stores, and restaurants featuring some of Kansas City’s up and coming culinary artists.”
The East Crossroads offers great food,Missouri-sourced wine, beer gardens, spirits, live music, and craft beer. Border Brewing Company, Casual Animal Brewing Company, City Barrel Brewery,Double Shift Brewing Company, KC Wineworks, Lifted Spirits Distillery, MeanMule Distilling Co, Red Sash Brewing Company, and Torn Label Brewing Company are all active within the district. And they all pride themselves on unique personalities. Collectively, they pride themselves on working together to help their community succeed.
The creativity at these breweries spans everything from Border's Campfire Porter with a delicate oak finish and Torn Label's Eternal Yammnation—an imperial brown ale with roasted sweet potatoes, toasted marshmallow fluff cinnamon, brown sugar and vanilla. Let's not forget Brady's Brew Baltic Porter, from Red Sash Brewing and Casual Animal's Chaos Monkey, a banana cream pie ale. Each brewery in this district has a distinctive vibe which makes for an entertaining brewery-hopping experience.
Border Brewing Company offers free live music Sundays from 2-4pm. $2 of every pint of the rotating "Local Motive" tap at Casual Animal is donated to a local charity. Torn label Brewing Company is a "public house" concept offering Roman pizza and sandwiches expertly paired with one of their draft offerings. City Barrel Brewing is the place to visit for sours and IPAs.
The two distilleries in this district are Lifted Spirits Distillery and Mean Mule Distilling Co. Lifted Spirits Distillery makes a series of gins, a wheat whiskey, absinthe, and vodka. Mean Mule Distilling Co.'s American Agave Spirits is distilled from the agave plant but offers a flavor profile all its own crafted through the distillation process. Both locations showcase their spirits through a variety of innovative cocktails.
For those who want to get the most from an East Crossroads touring experience, an East Crossroads Craft Field Trip card can be purchased for $25 and is the most cost-effective way to go. This card gets buy-one-get-one drinks at each East Crossroads location. This $25 investment purchases around $150 worth of drinks. Of course, it’s not recommended or encouraged to spend it all in one day.
Next “happy hour,” birthday celebration, bachelorette party, or Saturday night, check out the East Crossroads Beverage District and make some memories. Remember to grab those Field Trip cards—they make an excellent gift for birthdays, weddings, and, well, just because! Visit kceastcrossroads.org for more information on the East Crossroads Beverage District
Border Brewing Company
512 E 18th St.,
Kansas City
(816) 469-5287
www.borderbrewco.com
Casual Animal Brewing Co.
1725 McGee St.,
Kansas City
(816) 214-5388
www.casualanimalbrewing.com
City Barrel Brewery & Kitchen
1740 Holmes St.,
Kansas City
(816) 298-7008
www.citybarrelbrewing.com
Double Shift Brewing Co.
412 E 18th St. ,
Kansas City
(816) 304-7028
www.doubleshiftbrewing.com
KC Wineworks
1829 McGee St.,
Kansas City
(816) 256-4608
www.kcwineworks.com
Lifted Spirits Distillery
1734 Cherry St.,
Kansas City
(816) 866-1734
www.liftedspiritskc.com
Mean Mule Distilling Co.
1733 Locust St,
Kansas City
(816) 514-1537
www.meanmuledistilling.co
Red Sash Brewing
406 E 18th Street,
Kansas City
(816) 260-7062
redsashbrewing.com
Torn Label Brewing Co.
1708 Campbell,
Kansas City
(816) 656-5459
www.toasttab.com/torn-label-brewing-co/
The East Crossroads, as they prefer to be called, contains seven local breweries, two distilleries and a winery. It offers says Lara Gray, owner of Casual Animal Brewing Co. “but also colorful street graffiti, record stores, and restaurants featuring some of Kansas City’s up and coming culinary artists.”The East Crossroads offers great food,Missouri-sourced wine, beer gardens, spirits, live music, and craft beer. Border Brewing Company, Casual Animal Brewing Company, City Barrel Brewery,Double Shift Brewing Company, KC Wineworks, Lifted Spirits Distillery, Mean Mule Distilling Co, Red Sash Brewing something for everyone looking to relax and imbibe in a creative atmosphere.While “The Crossroads” is known for celebrating the arts, "East Crossroads"is all about celebrating the art of craft beverages. This unique collection of original tasting rooms is quickly becoming a focal point for inventive food and drink in Kansas City.
“The Kansas City East Crossroads is a friendly, walkable neighborhood experience with not only award-winning craft beer, distilled beverages, and wine, ays Lara Gray, owner of Casual AnimalBrewing Co. “but also colorful street graffiti, record stores, and restaurants featuring some of Kansas City’s up and coming culinary artists.”
The East Crossroads offers great food,Missouri-sourced wine, beer gardens, spirits, live music, and craft beer. Border Brewing Company, Casual Animal Brewing Company, City Barrel Brewery,Double Shift Brewing Company, KC Wineworks, Lifted Spirits Distillery, MeanMule Distilling Co, Red Sash Brewing Company, and Torn Label Brewing Company are all active within the district. And they all pride themselves on unique personalities. Collectively, they pride themselves on working together to help their community succeed.
Many of the breweries in the East Crossroads use locally sourced ingredients and most of the beers are small batch creations.
The creativity at these breweries spans everything from Border's Campfire Porter with a delicate oak finish and Torn Label's Eternal Yammnation—an imperial brown ale with roasted sweet potatoes, toasted marshmallow fluff cinnamon, brown sugar and vanilla. Let's not forget Brady's Brew Baltic Porter, from Red Sash Brewing and Casual Animal's Chaos Monkey, a banana cream pie ale. Each brewery in this district has a distinctive vibe which makes for an entertaining brewery-hopping experience.
Border Brewing Company offers free live music Sundays from 2-4pm. $2 of every pint of the rotating "Local Motive" tap at Casual Animal is donated to a local charity. Torn label Brewing Company is a "public house" concept offering Roman pizza and sandwiches expertly paired with one of their draft offerings. City Barrel Brewing is the place to visit for sours and IPAs.
The two distilleries in this district are Lifted Spirits Distillery and Mean Mule Distilling Co. Lifted Spirits Distillery makes a series of gins, a wheat whiskey, absinthe, and vodka. Mean Mule Distilling Co.'s American Agave Spirits is distilled from the agave plant but offers a flavor profile all its own crafted through the distillation process. Both locations showcase their spirits through a variety of innovative cocktails.
There is currently one winery in this district, KC Wineworks. They have a variety of Missouri sourced red and white wines, rosés, and ciders and boast the first-ever canned wine in Missouri, with Show Me Sangria.
For those who want to get the most from an East Crossroads touring experience, an East Crossroads Craft Field Trip card can be purchased for $25 and is the most cost-effective way to go. This card gets buy-one-get-one drinks at each East Crossroads location. This $25 investment purchases around $150 worth of drinks. Of course, it’s not recommended or encouraged to spend it all in one day.
Next “happy hour,” birthday celebration, bachelorette party, or Saturday night, check out the East Crossroads Beverage District and make some memories. Remember to grab those Field Trip cards—they make an excellent gift for birthdays, weddings, and, well, just because! Visit kceastcrossroads.org for more information on the East Crossroads Beverage District
Border Brewing Company
512 E 18th St.,
Kansas City
(816) 469-5287
www.borderbrewco.com
Casual Animal Brewing Co.
1725 McGee St.,
Kansas City
(816) 214-5388
www.casualanimalbrewing.com
City Barrel Brewery & Kitchen
1740 Holmes St.,
Kansas City
(816) 298-7008
www.citybarrelbrewing.com
Double Shift Brewing Co.
412 E 18th St. ,
Kansas City
(816) 304-7028
www.doubleshiftbrewing.com
KC Wineworks
1829 McGee St.,
Kansas City
(816) 256-4608
www.kcwineworks.com
Lifted Spirits Distillery
1734 Cherry St.,
Kansas City
(816) 866-1734
www.liftedspiritskc.com
Mean Mule Distilling Co.
1733 Locust St,
Kansas City
(816) 514-1537
www.meanmuledistilling.co
Red Sash Brewing
406 E 18th Street,
Kansas City
(816) 260-7062
redsashbrewing.com
Torn Label Brewing Co.
1708 Campbell,
Kansas City
(816) 656-5459
www.toasttab.com/torn-label-brewing-co/
