Can Releases Coming in October
Saison in the Abyss – 6.7% ABV
A collaboration with Hell Bomb Tattoo. A French Saison that is anything but traditional. Pale in color, refreshingly tart in flavor, thirst quenchingly dry, and satisfyingly estery and hoppy.
Mass Hysteria Rye – 8% ABV
This deep red colored rye ale is hopped with Columbus and Cascade. A large portion of the malt bill is rye malt. This gives the beer a hint of spiciness with a creamy mouthfeel. The process of dry hopping this ale brings out the juicy citrus aromatics. Thus creating “Mass Hysteria” with every sip.
Catherine the III Vertical Release – 2016, 2017, 2018 – 9.5% ABV
This will be released in six packs with two cans from each year. The Catherine III is an imperial stout aged in wood with notes of chocolate, roasted coffee, and distant smoke. The 2016 was aged in our oak foeder that was treated with Leopold Bros small batch whiskey. The 2017 was aged in George Dickel Rye Whiskey barrels and the 2018 was aged in George Dickel Rye whiskey barrels with coffee and Madagascar vanilla beans.
Keep a look out for Yumkin Pumpkin on tap at all Old Chicago’s in Kansas for the Halloween Mini Tour starting October 10th!
Events in October
3rd Annual Hutch Brewfest – Hutchinson, Kansas – Saturday October 13th 11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Held in downtown Hutchinson this beer fest will include 12 different craft breweries, live music, and a mix of different types of food to enjoy. There will also be live music, and a corn hole tournament. The ticket for the beer fest portion is $30 and can be purchased at https://purchase.growtix.com/e/2018_Hutch_Brewfest .
Midwest Beerfest – Mulvane, Kansas – Saturday, October 13th 1:00 P.M. – 4 P.M.
This year’s Midwest Beerfest will be held at the Kansas Star Casino. We will be pouring beer along with several other breweries in Kansas and the surrounding areas, which will bring 300 beers to the table for you to enjoy. During the fest there will also be a silent auction and a wing fest. You can purchase a VIP ticket for $65 which grants you early entrance at 12:30 P.M. The general admission tickets are $45. Visit
http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/order-tickets/ to purchase tickets.
Botanical Brewfest – Overland Park, KS – Saturday, October 13th 4:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Come out and enjoy the botanical gardens in Overland Park, KS with food, music, games, and fun. We will be pouring beer along with over thirty five other breweries. This event benefits the Arboretum. You can purchase VIP tickets or general admission tickets. VIP tickets cost $75.00 with early admittance and a VIP party while general admission tickets are $5o.00. For more information visit https://artsandrec-op.org/arboretum/botanical-brewfest/ .
Prairieland Beer and Music Festival – Saturday, October 20th 3:00 P.M. – 12:00 A.M.
This event is sure to impress with nearly 40 breweries from across the state of Kansas. Music will start when the beer starts pouring with Bad Mother Hubbard and Mensaje Norteno. After the beer sampling the party continues with the Marcus Lewis Big Band, and the night will close out with a performance by the Budos Band. Ticket prices are as follows:
- Beer Only Tickets – $45 – Enjoy beer from 3 P.M. – 6 P.M.
- Music Only Tickets – $25 – Doors open at 6:30 P.M. for Marcus Lewis Big Band and the Budos Band
- Full Festival Pass – $60 – Stay all day!
- VIP Festival Pass – $85 – Enter the beerfest and chat with the brewers and find your favorite beer without all the lines. There will also be front row concert access and a bar dedicated for VIP patrons only
Tickets can be purchased online at the link below or you can purchase tickets at Central Standard Brewing Company or at both Wichita Brewing Company locations.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prairieland-beer-music-festival-tickets-49005691342?aff=efbeventtix
Brew Ha-Ha 2018 – Topeka, Kansas – Friday, October 26th 6 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Brew Ha – Ha in Topeka, Kansas is hosted by Kansas Big Brother, Big Sister serving Shawnee County. We will be there sampling beer along with fourteen other breweries from the state of Kansas. Not only will there be beer but there will also be wine from a local winery and Wheat State Distillery will also be at the event. All proceeds go to directly to serving more youth in Shawnee County. General admission tickets are $50 and VIP tickets are $100.
Purchase tickets at https://www.4kidsake.org/shawnee-brew-ha-ha/Donate/Tickets
Lone Elm Halloween Party – Olathe, Kansas – Saturday, October 27th 1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
We will be sampling beers some fall inspired beers with eleven other breweries. There will also be a raffle and a costume contest.
Bike Brew Q Pumpkin Smash – Great Bend, Kansas – Saturday, October 27th 5:00 P.M.
Join us in Great Bend, Kansas at Charlies Place to help raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. Enjoy live music, a tap take over and of course smashing pumpkins to support a great cause! We will be out there pouring beer and we hope you will be too! There is no cover charge for this event.
Cheers! We hope to see you at some of these events! Thanks for reading our October Blog.
Yumkin Pumpkin Special Release
A quick thank you to everyone who has ordered to-go food and beer with us during these abnormal times.
In March, we held a fun social media “March madness” tournament with our beers. We started with 64 of past and current WBC beers in the tournament and you voted on which one was your favorite. Well, as you can see Yumkin Pumpkin was crowned the tournament champion. To honor such a victory and to put a smile on your face, we have brewed up a single batch of Yumkin Pumpkin. We know we have a lot of avid Pumpkin fans. We want to make as many people happy as possible and keep this a fun release. To help spread the joy to as many Yumkin Pumpkin fans, here is our release plan.
The single “small” batch we brewed should yield 14 beer barrels of Yumkin Pumpkin at the time of packaging. There are 31 gallons of beer per barrel. We are going to divide up the liquid in the following manner:
4- ½ barrel kegs
20-1/6 barrel kegs
118- cases or 472-6 packs
The ½ barrel kegs will go to the brewpubs and will be used to fill growlers. That will yield about 30 growlers per keg. Limit of two growlers per customer.
The 1/6 barrel kegs will be sold to individuals on a first come first served basis. To order a keg of pumpkin, email production@wichitabrew.com. Limit one per customer. Cost of a keg is $100 plus a $30 deposit fee for the keg shell (refundable upon return). Instructions on pickup times will be included in a confirmation email. The kegs will need to be picked up from our production facility at 727 E. Osie. If we do not have 20 people that want a 1/6 barrel, we will put that liquid in more cans.
The cases of Yumkin Pumpkin will be divided up equally and sent to the East and West brewpubs on Friday, May 1st. We are also canning the pumpkin that Friday morning. So, the beer will be as fresh as it will ever be. The cans and growlers will begin to go on sale at 1 PM May 1st. We are limiting everyone to two 6-packs per person. When we are gone, we are gone. Yumkin Pumpkin ordering will not be available online. Phone ordering should only be used in conjunction with food orders. If you are only wanting to buy beer to go, please order in person at one of the pubs. This will help us control the flow of people to maintain appropriate social distancing to keep everyone safe. The phone number to our west location is 316-440-2885. The phone number to our east location is 316-440-4885. We will have a specially designated area for beer only sales near the front door of each brewpub. Please help us enforce social distancing and keep 6 feet away from other people while at the brewpubs. Please be patient when picking up. We will try to make the process as smooth as possible for everyone. No orders for cans or growlers will be accepted before 1 PM on May 1st.
Can’t forget about the treasured spice rims for your Yumkin Pumpkin! We will have one spice rim container available for free with every purchase of Pumpkin. If you would like additional containers of the spiced rim, they will be $0.50.
We hope to make these unknown times a little more enjoyable for everyone. Thanks for being a fan of Wichita Brewing Company and supporting us. We look forward to the days of re-opening our dining room doors and sharing a pizza and beer with you all.
Cheers and stay safe everyone.
Sincerely,
Wichita Brewing Company
We are excited to announce our lineup for our social media giveaway, The Wichita Brewing Company EPIC Christmas, or for short #wbcEPICxmas. This is where we give away brewery swag and merchandise every day leading up to Christmas during the month of December. This is just a small thank you for being such amazing followers of ours on social media. If your friends or family members don’t follow us on social media, tell them that now is the time! We will give out items ranging from pint glasses to shirts and more!
Listed below is everywhere we will make a post for the day and randomly pick the name of one of our followers who engage (reacts, comments, shares, retweets) with our post on the next day. The social media outlets you need to make sure to follow in hopes to win will be our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will also be posting on our WBC Venue Facebook and our WBC Venue Instagram accounts. We hope that you have a great Christmas season and that you win a prize. Cheers and good luck!
Christmas Giveaway Social Media Schedule:
December 1st - December 6th - Facebook
December 7th - December 11th - Twitter
December 12th - December 18th - Instagram
December 19th - December 21st - Facebook
December 22nd / December 23rd - Wichita Brewing Event Venue Instagram
December 24th - Blog post that you can access via Facebook!
Anniversary #9, but not Anniversary Party #9. Normally we would have a big write up of a cool music lineup for a big gathering at both brewpubs to celebrate another year in the books. We would explain how many different beers we would have inside vs what beers would be outside. What food we would serve outside as the party gets going. We would keep a good eye on the weather to make sure that we could pull everything off. Internally we would be debating how many servers and bartenders we will need to make sure we take care of everyone in a timely manner. How many kegs and cases of beers we need to cram into our small brewpub coolers. How many bags of ice are needed to keep beers outside cold? Who must set up everything and who must stay late and make sure everything gets put away? What could we do to make this year’s anniversary party bigger and better for everyone? Well, that is not the case this year. Insert pandemic here.
So why even have an anniversary if you cannot have a big party? Celebrating our anniversary is more than just cramming as many people into our brewpubs on one night or weekend as possible. It is more than hanging out on the patio listening to local music. It is more than sharing a pint or two with friends on a night. Do not get us wrong, we love and miss all those things as much as the next person. Having the anniversary this year is now just a way for us to show gratitude to some of the most loyal customers in Wichita and around. It is a time that we can reflect for being so lucky to have amazing people support us during a difficult year. It is a time that we can be thankful for all the little things that we take for granted every day. With that in mind, thank you.
What will this year’s anniversary look like then if it’s not going to be a party? The best part of all our anniversary party is our beer lineup. This year is no different than previous years. We have saved the release of some exciting beers for Friday, the 31st. I think the most anticipated beer on the beer lineup is Key Lime Pie. This was formerly Tallgrass Brewing’s more popular seasonal releases that they did. Did not know we were making Tallgrass Brewing brands? Where have you been? Just kidding, we are and that is story for a different blog. Everyone will get their first taste of it this weekend. Just think Key Lime Pie in a glass and you will not be disappointed. We also are releasing the first beer in a new series called Sour Psychology. This is a barrel-aged sour red ale with black cherries. The combination of all the flavors in this beer meld together perfectly. Another exciting summer release is our newest Wichita Hard Seltzer Black Raspberry. Light in every way possible except in flavor. Seltzer beers are not going away anytime soon and with one drink of this one, you will agree. We have a couple specialty anniversary seltzer kegs to tap on Friday. The east brewpub will tap a lemon green tea flavored seltzer. The west brewpub will tap a pineapple seltzer keg. We only have one keg of each. If anyone is into big beers and big flavors, we have that covered too. Hatch Green Chile Barleywine is one to satisfy the biggest flavor seeker. After Johnson Garden Center had to cancel one of our favorite events, Iron Head Hatch Green Chile Fest. We thought we would pay homage to them and their event with this beer offering. If you like a little salt in your beer, we have that as well. Pineapple Lime Gose will be freshly kegged on Friday morning right before the doors open at 11. One beer that is becoming an anniversary staple, Grapefruit V6. V6 infused with some of the biggest grapefruits on the market. A juicy hopped up IPA that comes around once year. Like all these beers? Be the first to try it.
It still sounds like you are trying to get a bunch of people to your place and not be socially responsible? We are offering all these beers to go and our amazing food to go as well. Any single topping pizza ordered to go will only be $9. Anniversary #9 with $9 single topping pizzas to go…Creative, we know. We will be fully stocked with cans, growlers, and pizza boxes ready to help you celebrate wherever you want to celebrate. So many can options, that it is too many to list. Well just list on here, an appropriate beer lineup will be able to do that. We are open for dine in and having a beer inside. We just want everyone to keep in mind that everything is available to go. Like everyone or almost everyone, you will need a mask to enter and move around at the pubs. And of course, you do not have to wear a mask while you eat or drink. It is just too messy to do that.
What else can I (customer) do to help WBC celebrate their anniversary? We (WBC) want to share your story on your favorite WBC beer, pizza, experience, event, anniversary, or anything related. Tell us on social media by tagging us in your favorite story and we will share it on our page. Do not have social media? Email production@wichitabrew.com your story that you want to share. To show appreciation of your story, we will pick 10 people’s story and give them a WBC shirt of their choosing. Already have every single shirt we have made. We can find something for you, do not worry. You can send those stories over Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. I will give you an example of a story of mine. One of my favorite beers we ever did was the first time we made Barrel-Aged Seal Team 6. We had just picked up four freshly dumped Leopold Whiskey barrels from Colorado and filled a couple of them with Seal Team 6. My mind was blown on how much barrel and whiskey flavor seeped into the strong Black IPA. One of many favorite beers we have done over the years.
Thanks for reading and cannot wait to read some of your stories. Cheers to you and thanks for helping us turn the big 9. We are grateful for your support, especially in these trying times.
Respectfully,
Wichita Brewing Company
Kyle Banick
We are excited to announce our lineup for our social media giveaway, The Wichita Brewing Company EPIC Christmas, or for short #wbcEPICxmas. This is where we give away brewery swag and merchandise every day leading up to Christmas during the month of December. This is just a small thank you for being such amazing followers of ours on social media. If your friends or family members don’t follow us on social media, tell them that now is the time! We will give out items ranging from pint glasses to shirts and more!
Listed below is everywhere we will make a post for the day and randomly pick the name of one of our followers who engages (reacts, comments, shares, retweets) with our post on the next day. The social media outlets you need to make sure to follow in hopes to win will be our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will also be posting on our WBC Venue Facebook and our WBC Venue Instagram accounts. We hope that you have a great Christmas season and that you win a prize. Cheers and good luck!
Christmas Giveaway Social Media Schedule: