Enjoy a 21+ evening of live music and free sampling from over 30 local breweries and wineries, plus food trucks available to tame your belly’s roar!

Your 2025 Brew at the Zoo ticket also includes access to GloWild: Time Traveler , Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium’s immersive lantern festival featuring a 1-mile walk through handmade steel and silk sculpture works depicting nineteenth-century Paris, the American centennial, a sci-fi-themed trip to the future, and much more!

Each year, Brew at the Zoo highlights an animal supported by the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium’s Conservation Fund, which helps protect wildlife both locally and globally. In 2025, we’re soaring into the treetops with the rhinoceros hornbill! Native to Southeast Asia, this striking bird plays a vital role in forest ecosystems by dispersing seeds and maintaining biodiversity. The Zoo proudly supports conservation efforts that protect hornbills and their habitats. A portion of the proceeds from this event will go toward the Conservation Fund to aid in the protection of vulnerable species like the rhinoceros hornbill.