Kansas City

The hops have not been doing well during this especially windy summer.  I can't give them enough water to off-set the high winds (when I tried I ended up with fungus gnats).  On the brighter side, I recently went to Kansas City and found a couple of cool beer places.

McCoy's: This place is a brewpub in Westport (I think that's what they call the area).  I tried a sampler and a glass of their double IPA.  The Double IPA and stout from the sampler were very tasty.  I found quite a few hoppy wheat beers in the city, which were really delicious.  McCoy's wheat beer in the sampler was unfortunately not one of these hoppy ones, but was still pretty tasty for an american wheat.  They also had a nice lean bison burger, which was a nice break from all the barbecue I had been eating.  (The barbecue was very tasty, but I usually don't eat so much rich meat in a single meal and I needed a break.)

Down the street from McCoy's was a "World Market."  It had a wide selection of bottled beers (stored warm).

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium: This place was in the Power and Light district.  Not a brew pub, but had a nice wide selection of area beers as well as other beers that don't get distributed to my town.  They had a 3 dollar menu with solid beers (no watery lagers) and a wall full of taps.  I don't know how many.  It was a very nice place.  If there was a place this nice, with this many beers in my town, it would probably be really expensive.

Near Flying Saucer there was a Cosentino's Market, which had a lot of beer.  Unfortunately, they apparently put a bag with my Boulevard Smokestack beers in the cart of the people in front of me.  I noticed after I had left and taken a bus to my hotel.