Casual Animal Brewing ~ Kansas City, Missouri

First visit: Oct 2023

We're now back in the city, and hitting the hipster inner city areas filled with record shops and vintage clothing stores. The neighborhood is called Crossroads. If you ever want to know the cool parts of town, look for music, food, vintage shops, and drink. Being the least cool guy there is, regardless I always find myself in these areas due to my interest areas. And somehow I fit right in lol.

Taking it one step further, this area is also known as Brewers Alley, as there are so many craft breweries in the neighborhood. We had just finished shopping at Josey Records*, and more or less went to the first brewery we saw. And that's Casual Animal. Apparently the founders are also from Colorado, Fort Collins in fact. It's a gigantic venue, with tons of seating, gaming areas, etc... We just had one beer to wind down before dinner. All excellent. Good vibes too.

* - Josey Records is named after Josey Lane in Northwest Dallas (their flagship store) - very close to where Mr. RJG spent his entire childhood before going off to college. Hard to imagine such a well known and highly regarded record store being from there. There was certainly nothing like that when I lived there. Probably a good thing. I would have never left. The building that is...

10/3/23 (new entry)