He connected with Beth and her husband David Harris through the ZZ Hops Homebrew Club, and they eventually started looking to open their own brewery in north Johnson County. In his free time, he would collect, propagate and hybridize wild yeasts, which today can be tasted in Pathlight’s peerless local wild ales. Vaughn was a Honeywell engineer for more than a decade, designing non-nuclear components of nuclear devices. “You would go down there and find a grisette on peaches just hanging out in his basement.” “He cultivated his own yeast strains and microbe cultures when he was just a homebrewer, and he had his own barrel program in his basement,” Beth Harris says.

But as co-owner and operations manager Beth Harris tells it, brewer Tanner Vaughn had already been developing some key ingredients a decade before. Pathlight opened in June 2020, just as the coronavirus lockdowns lifted, and it has emerged as one of the city’s best breweries. Really can’t go wrong with anything on the menu - even the Plum Streusel is worth a try.Before there was Pathlight Brewing in Shawnee, there was “Tanner’s basement” in KCK. For sides we go for the Cucumber Salad, Sauerkraut, and Potato Salads. Will need to offer that the Curry Wurst is no way like the original Curry Wurst from Germany - but ohh well, it’s Missouri. The go to menu items for us to have on our table for all to share are the Bavarian Style Pretzels, Sausages and Brats, Weisswurst and the Curry Wursts.

We make a point to sample several of their beers and always load up our table with a variety of German style foods to keep us grounded and nourished while we partake in the beverages. Open everyday but Monday, I recommend a visit on a weekend evening when they expand their menu to offer Oven Roasted Half Chickens and entertainment. Very casual place with friendly service and great food options to accompany a variety of locally in-house brewed beers and wine choices. Located along the Trolley Track Bike Trail in Waldo for the bicyclist wanting to take a knee and have a cold brew and snack KC Bier is both great for singles, couples, and Families. The perfect place to hang out and socialize with friends when visiting or living in Kansas City, great tasting brews - in particular we love the Helles Lager.

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