WBC Beer Samples @ Golfer Appreciation Day

Swing Into the Season at Golf Wichita's 2025 Golfer Appreciation Day!

📍 Auburn Hills Golf Course 📅 May 17 | ⏰ 1–5 PM

We're rolling out the green carpet for YOU—our amazing golfing community! Join us at the stunning Auburn Hills Golf Course for an afternoon of fun, celebration, and everything golf at the 2025 Golfer Appreciation Day.

🌟What’s Happening:

~Live Music from the incredible Blue Eyed Soul

~Free Golf Clinics to sharpen your skills

~Putting & Driving Contests – show us your best shot

~Vendor Village with golf gear, local businesses & more

~Raffle Prizes you won’t want to miss

~Special Guests & Equipment Demos

Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the game, this event is fore you! Bring your golf buddies and kick off the 2025 season in style. This is a free community event.

🕒 Event Timeline

1:00 – Opening Speech & Kickoff

1:30 – Raffle Drawing

2:00 – Golf Pro Q&A

2:30 – Raffle

3:00 – Long Drive Contest & Raffle

4:00 – Short Game Clinic & Raffle

4:30 – Big Raffle

4:45 – Closing Remarks

Let’s celebrate you—the heart of Golf Wichita! 

May 12-18, 2025

Attention indie beer lovers! It’s time to get ready for the official start of beer season, when temps rise, backyard grills heat up, taproom patios reopen, and lawn games get serious. Time to stretch your palate. Lift some pints. Get into shape for a fun, flavorful summer. Beer we go!

Courtesy of www.brewersassociation.org

Temperatures are warming up, taproom patios are reopening, and consumers are gearing up for a fun, flavorful summer. Beer season is here, ushered in by American Craft Beer Week (ACBW), the annual celebration of craft beer hosted by the Brewers Association (BA).

From May 12-18, 2025, American Craft Beer Week serves as a reminder that breweries are vibrant community hubs. In 2024, 9,976 operating U.S. craft breweries employed 197,000 people. Most Americans live within 10 miles of a craft brewery.

This celebration goes beyond beer, reflecting consumer interest in new flavor profiles and beverage options. Many breweries have adapted their products accordingly, offering a variety of unique beer styles and beyond beer beverages including cider, seltzer, and non-alcohol options to appeal to a wider customer base. That expansion is paying off: 52% of breweries producing non-beer beverages experienced volume growth in 2024, a 10% increase compared to the overall category.

This blog post is going to center around what’s going on at our warehouse these days.

To get everyone up to speed, here is how we got to where we are today. We purchased a warehouse just south of downtown at 727 E. Osie. It’s an 18,000 sf brick building that was previously used to warehouse chemicals. This old brick building will now be the home to our 15 barrel brew house and 60 barrel fermenters. We purchased our brewing equipment from Tallgrass Brewing out of Manhattan, Kansas. We were pretty lucky to stumble across them wanting to sell their equipment. No Tallgrass didn’t go out of business, they upgraded to a new building and bigger brewing equipment.

The building we are in will fit our needs perfectly once we are done with construction. But, we have to get through construction first to get to the brewing. Since it was just a warehouse, it didn’t have much infastructure to house a brewery. So far we have busted out concrete to put in floor drains throughout the warehouse. Then the new concrete was sloped and an epoxy was applied. The water service has been upgraded and new water lines have been ran to various parts of the building. One big water upgrade was installing a RO system for our brewing water. This will allow us to control what kind of water we are using to brew. The gas serice has been upgraded to make room for our boiler. The boiler will push steam to the boil kettle to heat it. The electrical has been the biggest upgrade so far. The building only had a few outlets and lights, but we will need a dash more power. To get more power, we had to get a large transformer set next to our building. Now we will have electricity running everywhere to power all the equipment. A large cooler was built to store all our cans and kegs. We are in the process of installing all the glycol lines to the fermenters, brite tanks, and cold liquor tank. Ask Greg about them sometime, he would love to tell you all about them. The canning line just came in last week. We purchased a four head filler from Wild Goose out of Boulder, Colorado. A beautiful machine but they somehow missplled Wichita and put Witchita Brewing Company on the machine. As long as it fills cans with beer like a champ, that’s all that matters. We have also built a lab where we will be able to monitor yeast and check vital information. We have teamed up with the Wichita State University Biology department and will be getting an intern next semester to help with some of the lab duties.

The construction phase is close to winding down and we’re hopeful to be brewing before the end of the year. If that is the case we will be launching our beer into the Wichita market at the end of January! We are going to roll out with five brands to start with (WBC Wheat, V6, Valleyview Vanilla Porter, What Winter, Seal Team 6). And no that’s not a typo, WBC wheat is what we will have to call the half-wit wheat. Another brewery already has that name. We will have 12 and 16 ounce cans that will be sold at liquor stores. This is exciting and nervous times for us right now. We also haven’t forgot about the brewer for the day winners from last Christmas. We will be in touch with everyone once we get brewing down there.

Thanks for reading! Now the important stuff. Up for grabs today is 2 WBC coffee mugs. To be entered to win you must be tagged by someone from the Facebook post that this link is shared on. Winner will be picked at random and since it was posted late we will give you until 9 AM Monday morning. Hope they tag you back. Cheers!

Written by Kyle Banick and proofed by Jeremy Horn.

It's time to predict the future of WBC and craft beer!  Well, we wish it was just that easy to do.  Some guy named Teddy Roosevelt said "I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the future".  That being said, we are going to look back at what happened in 2016 first.

2016

Shortly after the start of 2016, in early March, we wrapped up construction on our 18,000 square foot warehouse and fired up our newly acquired brew house.  The brewing equipment came from a well known brewery just a short couple hours north of us, Tallgrass Brewing Company.  We purchased everything they used to make beer except their canning line.  Our brewing friends from El Dorado, Walnut River Brewing Co., purchased that piece of equipment.  Tallgrass moved to a bigger building with bigger equipment.  Excited, anxious, and nervous we began our journey of producing beer for the purpose of being canned and distributed.  We started with three house beers, one seasonal, and one high gravity; WBC Wheat, Valleyview Vanilla Porter, V6 IPA, What Winter? Ale, and Seal Team 6 Black IPA.  These five beers are distributed throughout the State of Kansas by our various wholesalers in the Kansas Craft Alliance.

Armed with a little more knowledge and experience, we started to expand our distribution footprint.  We head north and west to the Hutchinson and Salina markets.  By now we have canned our next round of a seasonal and high gravity, BerLemonEr and Mass Hysteria Rye.  Shortly after getting those markets opened, we opened the rest of Kansas.  We travel throughout Kansas doing many liquor store samplings, beer events, and tap takeovers with the mission of talking to people about our beer and our story.  As our beer travels farther away from Wichita, we find that we need to take advantage of those moments of telling our story when they present themselves.

We end the summer and begin the fall with canning two brewpub favorites, Yumkin Pumpkin and V12 Imperial IPA.  Then we add a couple new beers to our lineup, 5:02 Amber and Catherine III.  5:02 Amber is a year round offering and Catherine III is a big barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout that is a one off brand.  After all that took place in a short but long 2016, what will 2017 have in store for us?

2017

Now that we know a little about our past, we can start looking to the future.  We start 2017 with 7 different offerings available in cans, WBC Wheat, Valleyview Vanilla Porter, V6 IPA, 5:02 Amber, What Winter? Ale, Seal Team 6 Black IPA, and Catherine III RIS.  Not a bad lineup, huh?  Get ready for two more brands to hit the market early this year, our first lager and first barrel-aged sour.  The lager is going to be a Bohemian Pilsner that doesn't quite have a name yet.  We have some ideas on the name though.  This will be will be featured and Lawrence Dumont Stadium, as we are a 2017 Wingnuts sponsor.  Go Nuts!  We are looking to release this beer in early April.  Our next new brand release will be a barrel-aged sour, Scicilia.  We have three different sours aging at this moment.  One kind of sour is aging in a 60 barrel foeder and then two different kinds in wine barrels.  We have been sampling different types of blends for the last two months to figure out the first release.  This beer is set to be released in early 2017.

As we distribute deeper into Kansas, we now begin to look outside our borders to sell our beer.  We have been researching bordering states and what it takes to distribute beyond Kansas.  We have to ask ourselves a lot of tough questions when it comes to selling beer far away from home.   What will differentiate us and our beer from the over five thousand other breweries?  What can we do better to make people want our beer over their local beer?  Do we have what it takes to succeed in an ever growing and changing industry?  Honestly, only time will tell what the future holds for WBC in 2017.  The most we can do is be prepared for anything and everything as it comes our way.  In the meantime, we continue to strive to get better at our craft every day.  Cheers!

Respectfully,

Kyle Banick

Wichita Brewing Company

 

 

Here is a look back at 2017 through some pictures.  2017 was a good year for Wichita Brewing Company and we hope you had a great year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We started last year just like we are going to start 2018, with our New Year's Day specials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We started our pizza of the month program and that will also start Jan.1, 2018 with some new places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremy and Kyle went to the state capitol, where Jeremy spoke on behalf of Kansas breweries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In March, we held our second annual relay marathon that benefits the Kansas Food Bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In April, we launched "I drank Wichita", which we will do again in 2018 with some new places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We launched some new brands in 2017 including F'N Ned, Longball Craft Lager, Scicilia, and Oztoberfest to name a few.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We celebrated our 6th anniversary by hosting parties at WBC West and WBC East.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We held our second annual golf tournament which benefited the Kansas Food Bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totality!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the biggest highlights of the year was winning a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We signed a lease on the building in front of WBC East to be a Venue.  Opening spring of 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were in the news a couple of days for someone stealing our truck that we got back the next day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most recently, we released our newest beer, WuShock Wheat.

 

Hope you enjoyed our year in review and cheers to what 2018 will hold.

 

Respectfully,

Kyle Banick

 

 

Anniversary Week has arrived once again and we are happy to announce we have a beer list ready for you.

On Friday, the party starts out east at 11 a.m.  All beers on tap will be a $1 off and we will have certain beers available in cans (listed below).  Starting at noon, the event venue will open up across the street for an open house.  Appetizers will be available until 5 p.m.  Food will be available for purchase at 5 p.m. Live music starts at 7 p.m. with the band The Plains. There will be ten taps pouring beer and also available cans. Beer will be available to-go once you are done at the party, including Seal Team 6 four packs for only $4.

On Saturday, the party starts out west at 11 a.m. with all draft beers $1 off. During the evening the patio will open and our beer trailer will be out with ten taps pouring the beers listed below, cans will also be available outside. Live music starts at 7 p.m. with the band Reach for the Sky. Look for Seal Team 6 packs for $4 to take home with you.

If you want to get the party started a little bit earlier on Saturday, there will be a pre-party bike ride starting at 9 a.m.  Meet at the west Wichita Brewing Company location and bike ride to our production facility at 727 E. Osie. There will be an open house where you can tour our facility where the magic happens, and there will also be beer available for sampling. If you aren’t that big into bike riding you can still swing by, the bike ride should take approximately 45 minutes each way. We will bike ride back to the west side around noon.

There are five beers that we put on tap just for this special occasion. Those beers include:

• Grapefruit V6 – Double the grapefruit compared to the beer we released last year.
• Berry Berlemoner – Same great sour wheat but we went ahead and added some raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries.
• Barrel Aged Seal Team 6 – Aged in a George Dickel Rye Whiskey Barrel
• Scicilia II – Sour red ale fermented in wine barrels with Roeselare Blend.  Roeselare is a mixed culture blend of wild yeast, bacteria and ale yeast.
• Catherine III 2018 – Aged in whiskey barrels and then we added vanilla and coffee beans.

Also available for purchase will be year seven anniversary shirts for $20.

Wichita Brewing Company Event Venue Taps For Friday, August 3rd

1. Ale of a Wine
2. Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
3. One Hopper Pale Ale
4. Belgian Dubbel
5. Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
6. Scicilia II
7. Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
8. Catherine the III 2018
9. Berry Berlemoner
10. Grapefruit V6

Wichita Brewing Company Beer Trailer Taps For Saturday, August 4th

1. Ale of a Wine
2. Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
3. One Hopper Pale Ale
4. Belgian Dubbel
5. Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
6. Scicilia II
7. Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
8. Catherine the III 2018
9. Berry Berlemoner
10. Grapefruit V6

Brewpub Taps for East and West

1. Rootbeer
2. Cream soda
3. Thunder Blonde
4. One Hopper Pale Ale
5. Belgian Dubbel
6. Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
7. Ale of a Wine
8. Kiwi Do You Love Me
9. Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
10. Voyage on the 3 C’s
11. V6 IPA
12. Wushock Wheat
13. Shaven Yak
14. Longball Craft Lager
15. Scicilia II
16. Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
17. Catherine the III 2018
18. Berry Berlemoner
19. Grapefruit V6

Available Cans

1. V6 - $3
2. WBC Wheat - $3
3. 5:02 Amber - $3
4. Valleyview Vanilla Porter - $3
5. Shaven Yak - $3
6. Longball Craft Lager - $3
7. Wushock Wheat - $3
8. Berlemoner - $4
9. V12 - $5
10. Catherine the III - $5
11. Ale of a Wine - $5
12. Scicilia - $5
13. Seal Team 6 - $2

If there are any changes to the line-up we will make sure to post about it on Facebook.

We can’t wait to see you this weekend!