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There is a new coalition trying to get rid of the ridiculous law that only allows grocery/convenience stores to sell low gravity beer (3.2% ABW). Their big hook is increased jobs which I find that questionable, but whatever lies they have to spin to make buying beer/wine more convenient is okay with me. Lots of other states (missouri) allow it and they all still have plenty of independent liquor stores. [LJ World]

Saturday is Kansas's 150th Birthday as a State and everybody is invited to celebrate by raising a glass of Kansas beer, wine, or cider at 6:00pm when the KU - K-State game tips off. I'm sure I'll have a growler of something nice from Free State (Iron Man Imperial Stout?) [facebook]

Hops Shortage. Everybody Panic. [Rouge Wire Service]

In Boulevard Brewing news:

• Their collaboration with Christopher Elbow should be on shelves in time for Valentines Day. Mmmmm Chocolate. [KC Beer Blog]
• Imperial Stout is in bottles so keep an eye out for that, probably won't last long. [facebook]
• Rye-on-Rye is in barrels. [facebook]

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There appears to be a new brewery in Kansas City. Dead Canary Brewery is a new, female owned brewery located in the West Bottoms of KCMO. It looks like they'll have some pretty kick-ass beers. It'll be awesome to have another brewery in the area. I can't wait 'till they launch.

Meanwhile, over at Boulevard, they are pumping out new beers left and right. In case you missed it, they recently released a funktified version of their Saison. I have three of these aging in the cellar right now.

To follow that, they just released a special version of Sixth Glass that was fermented on tart cherries and then aged in bourbon barrels. I just picked up two bottles today I should have a review up soon. (More info on the two special releases here)

As if that wasn't enough, They also released a new year-round IPA called Single-Wide IPA. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these. Right now the Single-Wide is only available on tap, I hear they have it at the Jazzhaus, so I'm going to have to hit that up soon.

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Craft beer takes another bite out of the beer sales pie [beertown.org]

Missouri State Rep. Curt Dougherty proposes to make Budweiser the official state beer. Only in Missouri. [KC Star]

Good article about beer glasses [SF Gate]

Matthew McConaughey, proving he has bad taste, wants to name his kid Bud. "You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N." [Trans World News]

Good news, hops farmers are planting more hops [kimatv.com]

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The idea is to bring you interesting beer related news and links at least once a week. Enjoy.

A local look at the hop shortage - Free State is altering their IPA recipe. This is bound to get worse before it gets better. [LJ World]

A somewhat technical artical about a fancy new temperature control system at Bell's Brewery [InTech]

The first casualty in the Carlsberg and Heineken split aquisition of Scottish & Newcastle, Britians last major brewery [Guardian]

Is real ale the second? [Bromley Times]

A-B's monopolistic distributorship polocies come home to roost [Rocky Mountain News]

I wish politicians would make bets like this...[Daily News Tribune]