About Boulevard Brewing Company

Founded in 1989, Boulevard Brewing Company has grown to become the largest specialty brewer in the Midwest. 

The Boulevard story begins in 1988, when founder John McDonald started construction of the brewery in a turn-of-the-century brick building on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard. A vintage Bavarian brewhouse was installed, and the first batches of beer were produced in the fall of 1989. That November, the first keg of Boulevard Pale Ale was delivered—in the back of John’s pickup truck—to a restaurant just a few blocks away.

Boulevard beers, known for their full flavor, distinctive character, and unsurpassed quality, are currently available throughout Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Colorado, California, Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia with partial distribution in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. The GABF® Gold Medal-winning Unfiltered Wheat Beer remains our most popular offering. An easy-drinking American-style wheat beer, Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat is the best-selling craft beer in the Midwest. 

In 2006, a major expansion adjacent to the original brewery raised Boulevard’s brewing capacity to approximately 600,000 barrels per year—a sizable increase from the 6,000 barrels contemplated in John’s original business plan. The new brewing and packaging facility is a model of sustainable urban architecture and engineering; a three-story, 70,000 square foot building housing a new, state-of-the-art 150-barrel brewhouse, packaging lines, administrative offices, and hospitality rooms.


Beers made by Boulevard Brewing Company

Bourbon Barrel Quad

Limited Release Quadrupel (Quad)

Love Child No. 10

Limited Release American Wild / Sour Ale

80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer

American Pale Wheat Ale

Berry Noir

American Wild / Sour Ale

Boulevard Pale Ale

American Pale Ale (APA)

Bully! Porter

English Porter

Dark Truth Stout

American Double / Imperial Stout

Funky Pumpkin

Pumpkin Ale

KC Pils

American Pale Lager

Single-Wide IPA

American IPA

Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale

Saison / Farmhouse Ale

Tell-Tale Tart

American Wild / Sour Ale

Tequila Barrel Lime Gose

American Wild / Sour Ale

The Calling

American Double / Imperial IPA

The Sixth Glass

Belgian Strong Dark Ale

Tropical Pale Ale

American Pale Ale (APA)

Unfiltered Wheat Beer

American Pale Wheat Ale

Whiskey Barrel Stout

American Double / Imperial Stout

Berliner Weisse

Seasonal Berliner Weissbier

Bob’s ’47 Oktoberfest

Seasonal Märzen / Oktoberfest

Cranberry Orange Radler

Seasonal Fruit / Vegetable Beer

Early Riser Coffee Porter

Seasonal American Porter

Ginger Lemon Radler

Seasonal Fruit / Vegetable Beer

Hibiscus Gose

Seasonal Gose

Irish Ale

Seasonal Irish Red Ale

Nutcracker Ale

Seasonal Winter Warmer

Show Me Sour

Seasonal American Wild / Sour Ale

Snow & Tell

Seasonal Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy

Tough Kitty

Seasonal Milk / Sweet Stout

Brewery Contact

Phone Number

+1 (816) 474-7095

Send a Message

fineales@boulevard.com



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