Struggling Craft Breweries Giving Up On Kansas City Proper?!?

We're sharing this optimistic note with a caveat . . .

Overall the craft brewery boom seems to be kaput and the retreat from Kansas might not REALLY be a victory but a desperate search for the old school middle-class demographic that maintains pricey artisan beer in an age where legal weed sparks the most dynamic economic activity in the big city.

Again, here's the more hopeful spin . . .

"Defiance is nothing new to Kansans. Some prognosticators suggest that the craft beer industry is drying up. However, the westward expansion of local craft breweries across the metro and into Kansas strikes a defiant stance: Hold our beer. Kansas City Bier Company, Transport Brewery, Stockyards Brewing and others have crossed the state line and opened operations in the Sunflower State."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Westward Libation: Three KC-area Breweries Expand Into Kansas

Three KC-area Breweries Expand their beer into Kansas such as KC Bier Co., Transport Brewery and Stockyards Brewing Company.