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City Barrel Brewing + Kitchen is an independent, locally owned brewery and full restaurant in Kansas City’s East Crossroads, founded in 2018. Known for sour, wild, and hazy beers and a scratch, chef-driven kitchen, it occupies an 8,000-square-foot space at 1740 Holmes St and earned a 2022 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal.

Description

City Barrel Brewing + Kitchen is an independent brewery and restaurant in Kansas City’s East Crossroads. It brews a wide range of styles with an emphasis on sour, wild, and hoppy beers — including the use of wild yeast captured from the metro to create a sense of place that, as co-founder James Stutsman put it, “you can’t get anywhere else.”1 The kitchen is described by the brewery and listings as “scratch, chef-driven,” offering elevated pub fare prepared on a wood-burning grill and paired to the beer program.23

The roughly 8,000-square-foot space includes a ground-floor taproom and dining room and an upstairs patio nicknamed the “barrel deck.”1 The venue functions as a neighborhood gathering spot, hosting trivia, music bingo, and weekday happy hours.2

Ownership and history

City Barrel was founded in 2018 by three Kansas City partners: James Stutsman, Grant Waner, and Joe Giammanco.14 Stutsman came from the beer industry (previously in sales and marketing with KC Bier Co. and later Deschutes Brewery) and leads vision and strategy; Grant Waner, formerly a Kansas sales representative / regional manager for Tallgrass Brewing Co., serves as head brewer; and Joe Giammanco, a CPA with a background owning Kansas City–area businesses, handles the finances.4

The brewery originally planned to occupy 1916 Grand Boulevard, but that lease fell through in spring 2018. The partners instead took the Holmes Street building, which offered additional room for the kitchen and the upstairs patio, opening as one of the East Crossroads breweries alongside neighbors such as Torn Label, Double Shift, Border, Casual Animal, and Brewery Emperial.1

In October 2022, City Barrel won a bronze medal at the Great American Beer Festival for its hazy IPA “Rad AF” in the Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale category.5

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Footnotes

  1. Flatland KC — “City Barrel Brewing Finds a Home in The Crossroads” (June 11, 2018). https://flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/tap-list-city-barrel-brewing-company-announces-crossroads-location/ — asserts: founders, 2018 opening, wild/sour/hoppy concept, 8,000 sq ft + “barrel deck.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. City Barrel Brewing Co. — official site, East Crossroads location. https://www.citybarrelbrewing.com/east-crossroads — asserts: 1740 Holmes St, KC MO 64108; “elevated pub grub,” events, takeout; now also a second location (Pizza + Patio). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Crossroads Arts District — City Barrel Brewery + Kitchen listing. https://kccrossroads.org/explore-the-crossroads/city-barrel-brewery-kitchen/ — asserts: scratch chef-driven kitchen; 1740 Holmes St; East Crossroads. ↩ ↩2

  4. Founder backgrounds — James Stutsman (KC Bier Co./Deschutes; strategy), Grant Waner (Tallgrass Brewing; head brewer), Joe Giammanco (CPA; finance), per Flatland KC (above) + Axios KC, “Crossroads welcoming two KC brewery expansions” (Nov 2025). https://www.axios.com/local/kansas-city/2025/11/21/crossroads-welcoming-two-kc-brewery-expansions — asserts: founder roles; established 2018; 2025 expansion. ↩ ↩2

  5. Yelp — City Barrel Brewery (Kansas City). https://www.yelp.com/biz/city-barrel-brewery-kansas-city — asserts: open/active, updated May 2026; 2022 Great American Beer Festival bronze (“Rad AF”). ↩

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  • Locally owned
  • Crossroads