Boulevard Brewing Company: Tour & Free Beer

This was one of the most enjoyable, exhilarating, and glowing tours for us in Kansas City. What a Wednesday! Free tour and FREE BEER!

We reached Boulevard at about 11 AM and we registered ourselves for the 11.30 AM tour. We roamed around the gift shop and beer hall (upstairs). 

The tour was about 45 minutes. IDs were checked before the tour started. Our tour guide was a young lady with the happiest personality ever. We started off with free Pale Ale (my favorite) and then off to see the 2 brew houses. Ended up on the rooftop and took from pictures there. Came back down and everyone gets to sample 2 glasses of beer (of your choice) each. Oh boy!

We ended our day at the Beer Hall.

  

Beer Hall

The Roasterie: Air-Roasted Coffee

Hi everyone, Welcome to The Roasterie, Kansas City, U.S.A. 

This Roasterie is well-known for its air-roasted coffee.

What is air-roasted coffee?

Coffee beans are suspended by roasting them on a fluid bed of 680 degree hot air. The fluid bed is a vortex inside of the roasting chamber. The vortex allows each coffee bean to be roasted evenly. The coffee beans will pop and crack during air-roasting. A skin, known as 'the chaff', from the beans will then be blown away into a different chamber. This is an important process because if the chaff stays on, it would burn and smoke; giving the coffee a bitter and smoky flavor. Once the desired roasting level is reached, the heat would be cut off and the cooling process starts.

The Roasterie is famous in Kansas City. It started in 1993 and today, it has cafes all over the city. It even has a cafe in the University of Kansas! We were privileged to tour the coffee factory and had free tasting of coffee.

 Cafe at the entrance of the factory

 Coffee products for sale

 The start of our factory tour

 

 Free coffee!