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Abouta brief introduction
We are a trio of experienced brewers who have joined forces to bring our shared vision of quality, variety and community to craft beer drinkers throughout New York City and beyond. We love working together, we love drinking together, and we’re super-duper excited to bring our fresh & flavorful beers to life here in Brooklyn.
After several years of honing our brewing skills in tiny apartments, at the American Brewers Guild in Vermont, and professionally at breweries across the city, we all independently came to the same conclusion: wouldn’t it be FRICKIN’ AWESOME to open a new brewery in NYC? Flash forward in time, and after various trials and tribulations (and many long drinking sessions together), we realized that if we combined our efforts, we could build a bigger, better, more badass brewery than if we each tried to do it alone. And thus: Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC) was officially born.
Basically, we’re like Voltron—except we make beer.
Location
Bushwick
Our 15 BBL production brewery + taproom is located in a 5,000 square foot warehouse at 381 Troutman Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn--just half a block from the Jefferson stop on the L train.
Once dubbed “the beer capital of the Northeast,” Bushwick was home to a large German immigrant population and a thriving brewing industry in the late 1800’s. Local beer was everywhere--in particular, on "Brewer’s Row," where there were 14 breweries operating within a 14 block area (beat that, Portland).
By the turn of the century, a whopping 10% of the beer produced in the US came from Brooklyn, and the majority of that beer was brewed in Bushwick. Then came the New York State hop blight and Prohibition. Ughhhhhh. Only a handful of the Brooklyn-based breweries survived and continued to operate afterward. When Rheingold and Schaefer breweries both closed their doors in 1976, Bushwick was left without a local brewery...
UNTIL NOW.
KCBC is the first brick-and-mortar brewery to operate in the neighborhood in more than 40 years.
Come visit us! Taproom open 7 days a week.
The Teamthe brew commanders

Tony Bellis
Smoked Midwest
Oak-Aged Coffee Pale Ale
OG: 1.975 • IBUs*: 66.7 • ABV**: 5.9
Special Ingredients:
A hefty handful of blast-beat drums and blistering guitar, two scoops of good family lovin' and a touch of graying beard.
Secret Move:
Piggyback Dinosaur (A,B,▶️↘️,B)

Pete Lengyel
SoCal Irish/Czech
Hop-Forward "Lager-Ale"
OG: 1.973 • IBUs*: 177 • ABV**: 5.9
Special Ingredients:
Copious amounts of ink, a sprinkling of facial fuzz, a generous dose of adventurous spirit and a smidgen of extra dry wit.
Patron Norse God:
Tyr (rhymes with BEER)

Zack Kinney
Pacific Northwest
Euro Funky IPA
OG: 1.978 • IBUs*: 44 • ABV**: 6.0
Special Ingredients:
9 fl. oz. of
non-linear creativity, 2 bushels of erratic dance moves, and a big bucket of FunTimes (turned up to 11).
Spirit Animal:
Trumpeter Swan
* Intergalactic Bad-ass Units ** Average Body Verticality
Photo Credit: Jason Falchook
Press
newsflash
The Brooklyn Brewery Blog:
We Teamed Up With KCBC To Get Our Escape Goat
7.27.18
NY Times:
Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops!
6.23.18
Hangout NYC:
Bushwick's Brewery
6.1.18
The Toy Chronicle:
Smoked Guru Beer By CZEE x KCBC At Five Points Fest!
5.28.18
The Stem Cell Podcast:
Ep. 117: "Biology and Beer'' Featuring Peter Lengyel
5.22.18
Decibel Magazine:
Brewtal Truth: Morbid Hour Arrives at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
3.26.18
Hop Culture Mag:
Magnify, San City, and KCBC to Host Can Release in Pittsburgh
3.13.18
Thrillist:
NYC's Best Brewery Is 18 Months Old And You've Never Heard Of It
3.22.18
American Craft Beer:
Transatlantic Beer Collaboration Madness in the UK!
2.23.18
Steal This Beer:
Episode - 143 Tony Bellis, KCBC (Kings County Brewers Collective)
1.8.18
Ale Street News:
The Man Behind the Glass: Pete Lengyel, Brewer, Biologist, and Birder
8.6.17
Draft Mag:
Pick this up: Kings County Brewers Collective Dangerous Precedent
Craftbeer.com:
After 40 Years, Brewing Returns to Brooklyn's Bushwick Neighborhood
1.19.17
Bedford + Bowery:
Raise a Glass to Bushwick's Pioneering Brewery KCBC as They Celebrate Their Launch Tonight
7.28.16
Bushwick Daily:
Kings County Brewers Collective Brings Beer Brewing Back To Bushwick After 40 Years
7.8.16
Paste Magazine:
Basement to Brewery: 9 Homebrewers to Watch as They Go Commercial
5.17.16
Edible Brooklyn:
For the First Time in 40 Years, a New Brewery Opens in Bushwick
4.29.16
Beer Sessions Radio:
Episode 325: Jack’s Abbey & KCBC
4.12.16
Beer Hear!:
Kings County Brewers Collective
4.13.16
Ridgewood Times:
Brewing Up Some Fun in Bushwick
2.4.16
Bedford+Bowery:
Coconut Beer and Sunshine Will Be Plentiful at This New Bushwick Brewery
1.29.16
Bushwick Daily:
Kings County Brewers Collective Is Set to Open a Brewery in Bushwick This Spring
1.21.16
Real Estate Weekly:
Bushwick Gets Its Brewery Back
10.14.15
Fuhmentaboudit:
Beer Are They Now? With KCBC
10.5.15
Taproom
fresh beer here
Taproom hours are: TUES - THURS: 5-10pm // FRI: 5-11pm // SAT: 12-11pm // SUN: 12-8pm
See What's On Tap right now at our Beer Menus page
Hit us up at: events@kcbcbeer.com if you'd like to host your party in our space!

Local Talent Tap
revolving uniqueness
As part of our Collective approach in the taproom, we have designated one of our twelve draft line to be as "Local Talent Tap." From this faucet shall flow a fountain of fresh, flavorful fluids, brewed on our pilot system in collaboration with friends and neighbors from the beer world and beyond. With these rotational one-off beers, we will celebrate the skill, innovation, diversity, and all around good beerfulness of other creative folks in our local community. We will also be donating a percentage of all profits from LTT draft sales to a local non-profit organization of each LTT brewer’s choice.
Initial LTT brewer & beer details COMING SOON...
Crowlershey, nice package!
Part can, part growler, 100% delicious. The Crowler is a 32 oz. aluminum can that we’ll be filling on-demand with the freshest-of-fresh KCBC beer from our taps. We think this portable, recyclable, outdoor-friendly packaging format is perfectly suited to NYC and to our beers--plus, we provide the cans so there’s no need to bring or purchase a glass growler.
Keep 'em cold. Drink 'em fresh.
Brews
the reason for being
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Behold: our taproom menu of draft brews and beer-to-go!! Get those taste buds ready...
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AND (when available), YOU CAN GET OUR BEER DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR VIA TAVOUR
Eventswhat you do
This is where we’ll tell you about all sorts of KCBC beer-related happenings--both at the brewery and in the wide world beyond. Festivals, tap takeovers, beer release parties, beer dinners, beer breakfasts, beer elevenses, and more. Stay tuned...
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Contact
work & drink with us
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KCBC
Kings County Brewers Collective
381 Troutman St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Taproom Hours:
Mon-Thu: 5-11
Fri: 5-12
Sat: 12-12
Sun: 12-9
info@kcbcbeer.com
sales@kcbcbeer.com
jobs@kcbcbeer.com