Boulevard Brewing Company

Boulevard Brewing Company

Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates	39°04′54″N 94°35′49″W / 39.08165°N 94.59688°W / 39.08165; -94.59688Coordinates: 39°04′54″N 94°35′49″W / 39.08165°N 94.59688°W / 39.08165; -94.59688
Opened	1989
Annual production volume	188,100 US beer barrels (220,700 hL) in 2014
Revenue	US$32.0M (FY 2011)
Owned by	Duvel Moortgat Brewery
Employees	125
Active beers
Name Type KC Pils Pilsner Pale Ale Pale ale Unfiltered Wheat Beer American wheat beer 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer American-Style Hoppy Wheat Ale Bully! Porter Porter Dry Stout Stout Single-Wide I.P.A. India Pale Ale Frequent Flier Session I.P.A. India Pale Ale
Seasonal beers
Name Type Irish Ale Irish Ale Boss Tom's Golden Bock Maibock Zōn Belgian Witbier Bob's '47 Märzen Nutcracker Ale Winter Warmer Snow & Tell Scotch Ale
Other beers
Smokestack Series Name Type Tank 7 Saison The Sixth Glass Quadrupel The Calling I.P.A. Double India Pale Ale Long Strange Tripel Tripel Dark Truth Stout Stout Saison-Brett Saison Bourbon Barrel Quad Quadrupel Imperial Stout American Double/Imperial Stout Harvest Dance Wheatwine Early Riser Coffee Porter Rye-on-Rye Rye Ale Grainstorm Black Rye IPA Black Rye IPA Reverb Imperial Pilsner Imperial Pilsner Reboot White I.P.A. White India Pale Ale Crown Town Ale Pale Ale

Boulevard Brewing Company is a regional brewery located in Kansas City, Missouri. The Brewers Association currently ranks the American arm of Boulevard's parent company, Duvel Moortgat USA, as the 12th largest craft brewery, and the 18th largest active brewery in the United States based on 2014 sales volume. After the sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev in 2008, Boulevard was the largest independent American brewery in the state of Missouri. Boulevard's beers are available in select markets across the country.

In 2013, Boulevard was acquired by Duvel Moortgat Brewery. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but industry publication Beer Business Daily estimated the sale price exceeds $100 million.

Boulevard began 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 with used equipment from a closed brewery in Bavaria, Germany, and the first batches of beer were produced in the fall of 1989. Based on the historic example set by the local and regional breweries that were once common throughout the United States prior to Prohibition, the brewery has a focus on providing locally-brewed beer for the Kansas City region. The brewery's first half-barrel of Boulevard Pale Ale was delivered personally by McDonald in his pickup truck to Ponak's Mexican Kitchen, located nearby. In 1990, Boulevard Wheat was added to the product line. Wheat and Pale Ale remain the company’s strongest sellers.

Introduced in late 2007, the "Smokestack Series" joined Boulevard's family of beers with year-round, seasonal, and limited edition lines of artisanal selections packaged mostly in 750 ml bottles, while some are also available in 12 oz. bottles and on draft. These bold, complex varieties were inspired by Belgian Trappist beer, and share several characteristics including their higher alcohol content. Year-round Smokestack beers include The Calling double ipa, Long Strange Tripel, The Sixth Glass quadrupel, Dark Truth Stout, Tell-Tale Tart a slightly sour ale, and Tank 7, a farmhouse ale. Additional Smokestack beers have been released, including some limited release and some that are available year round.

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