WBC Beer will be available this Sunday, June 1st at the Bartlett Arboretum for the Ruthie Foster concert. A perfect time to enjoy a Songbird Saison or a Johnny B’s Beer Band IPA while the tunes fill the trees!
Ruthie Foster
Sunday, June 1, 2025
This highly anticipated artist, rescheduled from last year, will make her debut at Bartlett Arboretum on the first of June.
Three-time Grammy nominee, and 2024 Grammy Blues Winner, Ruthie Foster transforms sorrow into career defining soul+blues joyful journey. From a family of gospel singers, as a teenager, Foster began fronting blues bands in the bars of Waco, Texas. Hoping for a wider view of the world she served our nation in the US Navy and was cherry-picked to sing with the naval band, PRIDE. Following her tour of duty, Foster headed to NYC and readily scored a record deal with Atlantic. The label had the intention of cultivating her as a budding pop star, but she preferred, instead, to explore the various strains of American roots music that informed her childhood. When her mother fell ill in 1993, Ruthie suddenly returned to Texas to care for her.
Her list of honors is extensive. She is a native of Austin, Texas but travels extensively all over the world. Her concert at Bartlett Arboretum will be one for the books.
Gates at 3
Downbeat at 4
$20 tickets at the gate
No pups on concert days
Pack a picnic or support food vendors onsite
Tickets:
https://bartlett-arboretum.square.site/product/6-1-ruthie-foster/260
Quench your thirst, hot or cold! Just get 10 stamps at any of the locations listed (one per business to receive your free Wicked Brew Tour T-shirt at Visit Wichita, 515 S. Main St., Ste. 115.
2,000 T-shirts, first come, first-served.
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.
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
- Ale of a Wine
- Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
- One Hopper Pale Ale
- Belgian Dubbel
- Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
- Scicilia II
- Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
- Catherine the III 2018
- Berry Berlemoner
- Grapefruit V6
Wichita Brewing Company Beer Trailer Taps For Saturday, August 4th
- Ale of a Wine
- Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
- One Hopper Pale Ale
- Belgian Dubbel
- Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
- Scicilia II
- Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
- Catherine the III 2018
- Berry Berlemoner
- Grapefruit V6
Brewpub Taps for East and West
- Rootbeer
- Cream soda
- Thunder Blonde
- One Hopper Pale Ale
- Belgian Dubbel
- Between the Rind Watermelon Ale
- Ale of a Wine
- Kiwi Do You Love Me
- Eisenweizen Hefeweizen
- Voyage on the 3 C’s
- V6 IPA
- Wushock Wheat
- Shaven Yak
- Longball Craft Lager
- Scicilia II
- Barrel Aged Seal Team 6
- Catherine the III 2018
- Berry Berlemoner
- Grapefruit V6
Available Cans
- V6 - $3
- WBC Wheat - $3
- 5:02 Amber - $3
- Valleyview Vanilla Porter - $3
- Shaven Yak - $3
- Longball Craft Lager - $3
- Wushock Wheat - $3
- Berlemoner - $4
- V12 - $5
- Catherine the III - $5
- Ale of a Wine - $5
- Scicilia - $5
- 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!
