The base is sparkling water. The brewery names no hop varieties or flavor compounds beyond the ingredients in the specs table (KC Bier Co. drink details).
As category context only, the GABF 2026 style categories define Hop Water as a sparkling drink with hop-derived aroma and flavor and no alcohol. The published formulation fits that description.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Hop Water
Bronze
Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.
Brewery Context
Kansas City Bier Co. is in Kansas City, MO. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.
Not Found: Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Water, Process. Checked kcbier.com, greatamericanbeerfestival.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Research Notes
Second pass 2026-10-13: Found the brewery product page with alcohol, bitterness, ingredients and can availability. The page opened during this pass, although later requests returned HTTP 403. Hop ingredients are generic forms, not named cultivars; no yeast or malt specification is published.
Earlier requests to the brewery home page and general beer paths returned HTTP 403.
A web search for the beer and brewery returned only general brewery coverage; a BeerMenus search for "hop spritz" returned an unrelated Brooklyn Brut IPA collaboration.
Untappd search pages did not return results to automated fetches.
No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery page lists the color as Clear and the ingredients as sparkling water, dried hops, hop extract and natural flavors.