Lost Signal Brewing Co. opened last week in Springfield, Missouri, making it the fourth microbrewery in the city and the second on Springfield’s Route 66.
Lost Signal opened Valentine’s Day at 610 W. College St. (aka Route 66) in a building that once housed the KICK radio station, hence its name, reported the Springfield News-Leader. The station’s radio tower is still there.
Today, the place where DJs spun records back in 1948 is a glassed-in brewing room filled with an aroma like baking bread. A bar is set up where the radio offices were laid out. And owner/head brewer Tyler Hoke had a brand-new kitchen, including a barbecue smoker, built onto the building’s back end.
A partly covered driveway is blocked off at either end and will serve as a patio, connected to Lost Signal’s interior rooms by a glass garage door.
Lost Signal has these beers on tap.
- American amber
- English brown
- Irish red
- American wheat rye
- American pale ale
- Smoked pecan porter
Hoke acknowledged he isn’t brewing anything overly exotic; he favors “drinkable” beers.
Don’t go to Springfield liquor stores looking for Lost Signal in six-packs, either. The brewery has no plans to distribute its brew at this time.
Lost Signal also serves barbecue made by Hoke’s dad, Jack.
The other microbrewery on Route 66 in Springfield is Mother’s Brewing Co., which has gained acclaim and ample distribution across Missouri. Springfield Brewing Co. sits only a block south of College Street in downtown.
The third microbrewery, White River Brewing Co., sits on Commercial Street about a mile north of College.
Springfield fast is becoming a microbrewed beer haven within a relatively small area. The only places on Route 66 that rival it are St. Louis and Flagstaff, Arizona.
(Image capture of a Lost Signal Brewing Co. beer being poured from a Springfield News-Leader video)
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