Happy New Year's Eve Eve! Welcome to our freshly updated website. Feel free to click around and tell us your thoughts of the new layout. We would like to thank Nathan and his team at Baseline Creative for being great to work with and putting this together for us. We plan on running a lot of information through our website, including all our events, beers we package, and everything WBC. Our hope is that you know everything that we know, well maybe not everything...
WBC hopes that everyone had a Merry Christmas and is planning a safe and happy New Year. Like last year we will have just what the doctor ordered available on New Year's Day, BREAKFAST PIZZA AND MEGA BLOODY MARY'S! A nice addition to this year's lineup will include WBC mimosas.
The breakfast pizzas are the Flat Plains Pizza, the Dirty South Pizza, and the Springfield Pizza.
The first pizza is the Flat Plains Pizza, which is a Kansas omelette pizza. Capicola, breakfast sausage, scrambled eggs, cheddar sauce, steak, onions, red pepper, and mozzarella all on a thin crust with a base of our WBC red sauce. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
The second pizza is the Dirty South Pizza which is a breakfast bowl pizza. Get ready for this one. It is sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, hash browns, mozzarella, cheddar sauce, and sweet pepper bacon all served on our thin crust. A personal favorite of the WBC brewers. It will be your new favorite as well.
The third pizza is the Springfield which is a traditional breakfast pizza. Cheddar sauce, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, mozzarella, and sweet pepper bacon are perfectly positioned on our thin crust. Never thought I would say this, but I can't wait for New Year's Day.
Now for a little hair of the dog. We will have two awesome specials to help get you on track for 2017. The first one is the mega bloody mary. This is a bloody mary and a snack in one. It is our traditional WBC bloody mary served in a pint glass but then garnished with everything. The garnish includes this wonderful assortment; a hot link, pickle, jumbo shrimp, summer sausage, celery, cheese cubes, and olives. To make the bloody mary even better (how do you do that?) you sell them for $4.00 for the bloody mary and $4.00 for the garnish! That's a $8 dollar meal and a drink in one.
The newest addition to the New Year's Day line up is the WBC Mimosa. A classic drink that includes equal parts champagne and orange juice. Enjoy this kick starter for only $5.
Last but certainly not least is our draft lineup. Sunday is always $3 pints at WBC. We have 19 tap handles at both locations. Two of those taps are our own root beer and cream soda. That leaves 17 taps for the good stuff, WBC hand crafted beer. Here is our current lineup:
English Mild, Thunder Blonde, WBC Wheat, 5:02 Amber, One Hopper Pale Ale, Belgian Dubbel, V6 IPA, Valleyview Vanilla Porter, Bitter Ol' Banick, Game Day Wheat, What Winter Ale, Seal Team 6 Black IPA, Kilt Shredder Scotch Ale, Mass Hysteria Rye, Barrel Aged Mass Hysteria Rye, Barrel Medley, and Belgian Sour.
We hope you enjoy our new website and have a great end of 2016 and even better 2017.
Cheers from everyone at Wichita Brewing Company!
As brewers, most of our brewing starts off early in the morning. Which means we like to drink coffee to get our day started. So naturally we enjoy a hand crafted coffee beer. Last year we brewed four different kinds of coffee stouts using coffee beans from The Spice Merchant. The first coffee bean we used was chocolate mintcicle, which added a nice minty note to the coffee flavor. Then we used a coffee cake bean that added some sweet cinnamon notes to the beer. Our third coffee bean is a fun one to say, organic bali kintamani. This organic coffee bean added a rich coffee flavor to the stout poured on nitro. Our fourth bean that we used was papua new guinea peaberry. The owner of The Spice Merchant helped us pick this rare bean.
We are getting set to brew some more rich imperial coffee stouts, but we want your help. We want help picking out the coffee beans, being on our tasting panel to pick the best bean, and adding the coffee beans in the boil kettle! We need two people to come with us to The Spice Merchant and help us pick out five different coffee beans for testing. Then we need five people to sit on our tasting panel and find the perfect bean. We will steep the coffee into one of our beers and see which coffee flavor and aroma will be best. Then we want one person to help us add the coffee to the boil kettle the day we brew it.
If you would like to help us with our next coffee stout, just comment on the WBC facebook page that this link is shared on. Just comment on which part you would like to help at. We will also pick someone for our #wbcEPICxmas giveaway. Up for grabs is a women’s light blue zip up hoodie. We don’t have any hard dates on when this will take place, so please be flexible with us as we try and pin point some dates. More than likely we will pick coffee beans over the lunch hour. Then do the tasting panel after work around 6 or so. Then the day the beer is brewed, the coffee addition will be around late morning.
Written by Kyle Banick and proofed by Jeremy Horn.
As a few of you may know, we are putting on a marathon/relay marathon in March. If someone would just wrap up the details on the on the registration website, we could start registration. #ThatGuyIsMe But anyways, this post is a little about our marathon and why we wanted to put on a race.
Since 1995, Boulevard and FreeState Brewing have been putting on a race to each others brewery. A fun run stretching over 40 miles and can have teams up to 10 run the course. WBC entered it’s first team of 10 in 2014. The idea is that everyone rides in a van together during the race and just drops off the runner for each leg. Then they will drive up to the next interchange and pick up that runner and drop off the next runner. This will happen until everyone has run their leg and you make it to the finish line and celebrate. Sounds simple and fun, right? Well, we tried making that simple process into a logistical nightmare. We somehow didn’t realize that if we all just get in a big vehicle and all ride together throughout the course it would be simple and fun. Each team can only have one car to drop off runners because of parking problems at the interchanges. So we put together this detailed plan on using two vehicles driving runners back and forth from our hotel in Lawrence. It was pure craziness and a massive headache coordinating the cars and runners. At the end of the day everyone ran their leg and we didn’t leave anyone behind. We celebrated our accomplishment of running the course but figured out that we weren’t very smart in our driving approach.
This year we had twenty people want to run on the WBC team for the brew to brew race. So we signed up two teams of ten to run. Being a little smarter than last year, we all met at FreeState in Lawrence and rented vans. FreeState was nice enough to let us park our cars at their production facility over night. We all piled in the two vans and drove to Kansas City for the night. We drove to Boulevard early in the morning and naturally had a beer to start the run. The first two legs of the run were a little challenging as it was during a cold thunderstorm. But rain or shine the race will go on. Luckily it cleared up after that and WBC team #1 dominated WBC team #2. We all met back at FreeState to enjoy some food and a couple well deserved beers.
We really enjoy doing adventurous things like this and want to bring that adventure to Wichita. So on March 13th, WBC, with help from GoRace Management and Timing, are putting on a certified marathon/relay marathon. The course will begin around WBC west and will stretch through Wichita and end at WBC east. If you’re a serious runner this will be a qualifying marathon. For the relay part, it will consist of teams of six. Each leg of the race will be slightly different lengths but you will want your strong runners at the beginning and the end. It will be $90 for a single runner and $40 per person on the teams of six. Each runner will get a participation medal and race shirt. Then after the race we will have a party at WBC east where each runner will get pizza and a couple of WBC beers. We will hand out awards for top 3 men and women, top team of men, top team of women, top 3 of coed teams, and best costume/team costumes. WBC is entering 3 teams to compete against each other, West, East, and Production. Production is the early favorite to take the crown.
Brew to Brew raises money for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). We are donating money to Kansas Food Bank. http://www.kansasfoodbank.org/ is their website where they have plenty of programs that they run to help people in need.
A registration link right here would be amazing, but it will be done soon. Look for registration early next week. We will spell out some more details on that site as well. We are also going to be looking for some sponsorship and volunteers to help out with the race. If you’re interested in either of those please contact us at kbanick@wichitabrew.com or jhorn@wichitabrew.com.
Then up for grabs on our #wbcEPICxmas giveaway is a grey WBC hoodie! To be entered to win just tag a friend or friends on the Facebook page that this blog post is shared on that you would like to run with at the marathon.
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
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!
We are excited to announce that our marathon website is up and ready to go for runners to sign up! The marathon this year will fall on Sunday, March 10. The 2019 marathon party will not only take place at our east location but we will also be hosting people at our new event venue which is located in front of the east brewpub, at 6160 E. Central. The marathon benefits The Kansas Food Bank; last year we donated $17,000 for the cause to fight hunger.
If you are interested in signing up for our marathon, visit our marathon page here. There are two options for signing up, the individual marathon or the relay marathon which consists of teams up to six. We will also be looking for around 100 volunteers to help this event run as smooth as possible.
We are also excited to announce that we will be opening our production facility to the public on December 29th from 12 P.M. to 5 P.M. for beers and tours. Along with beers on tap you will be able to purchase cans of beer to go. We will also be selling merchandise, including some bargains that are not available at the brewpubs. Our production facility is located at 727 E. Osie.
If you want to get to know our production team that makes all the beer magic happen, below are some fun facts about our staff.
For our December 24th #wbcEPICxmas we will be giving away two gifts. The first gift is a Wichita Brewing Company gift basket which will be filled with cool WBC swag. The second gift will be a team to be entered into the marathon, free of charge. To win the WBC gift basket, comment on the Facebook post that led you to the blog with the WBC staff person below who is most relate-able to you. For example, on Facebook if you think Jeremy Horn's bio is more relate-able type his name to be entered to win. To win a team in our marathon, share this blog post with the teammates you would choose to be in the race with you. We will pick both winners on Christmas Day!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Wichita Brewing Company Team!
