The glass-walled, stainless steel fermenting and brewing vats that fill the center of the room proudly announce 75th Street Brewery's focus. Brewmasters Nick Vaughn and Cris Morgan offer the brewery's five flagship brews originally created by Artie Tafoya – Cow Town Wheat, Royal Raspberry Wheat, Good Hope I.P.A., Possum Trot Brown Ale and Muddy Mo' Stout – along with seasonal specials. This very lively and welcoming neighborhood pub, which reopened in late March 2007 after being closed for about five weeks due to smoke and water damage from a fire, originally opened in 1993. Staking claim as the first brewpub in Kansas City, 75th Street has expanded into a consortium of eight pubs in the K.C. metro area and Lawrence, Kan., under the name K.C. Hopps, Ltd. Bartenders and waitstaff cheerfully explain to novices the flavors in their award-winning beers: the light sweetness of the raspberry wheat, the puckery hops of the pale ale and the nutty malt in the brown ale. If they all sound good, try the six-pack sampler. The food here is as tasty as the beer. In true pub tradition, the brewery offers three types of fish and chips: Atlantic cod with a crunchy ale batter, spicy Creole catfish and Alaskan halibut with a lemon basil aioli. The salads and crispy, thin-crust brick-oven pizzas also shine, but are only a small part of the extensive menu. Meals are served with wheat bread made in-house with brown ale and a coating of brewery-spent grain. If you save room for dessert, get the root beer float, featuring the pub's own Monarch Root Beer, brewed in honor of the Negro League Baseball's K.C. Monarchs and its greatest champion, the late Buck O'Neal. Wednesday night features cheap draft beer from 10 pm to close and live acoustic music. The four-member band, Brew Jam, has rocked the place every Sunday night since it opened. Quieter booths are available at the back and side of the restaurant. Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Late-night Fri–Sat.