Kansas City breweries are rolling out new and innovative beers. Here's where to get started

From wild fermented beers to tropical stouts, these Kansas City craft breweries are going all-in on creative, unique styles of beer.
At one time in the early 20th century, Kansas City was home to the Wettest Block in the World, setting the record for most saloons in a city block, down near State Line Road in the West Bottoms.

The first breweries in the Kansas City region cropped up in the 1850s (before that, most beer was homebrewed) and even Prohibition couldn’t keep Kansas City from its beer, which flowed through the wide open world of the Pendergast-era, though it did officially tank the local commercial breweries.

Then, in the 1970s, the craft beer movement started to develop, leading to the founding of Boulevard Brewing Company in 1989 here in Kansas City. The rest, they say, is history.