Vine Street Brewing Co.

About Vine Street Brewing Co.

Vine Street Brewing is a brewery with a bandstand's soul. It opened on June 30, 2023 — Missouri's first Black-owned brewery — in an 1850s limestone public-works building in the heart of the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District, a short walk from the American Jazz Museum and the Blue Room. The founders — Kemet Coleman, Elliott Ivory and Woodie Bonds Jr. — built it, in their words, "fermented in the spirit of jazz and hip-hop," and the beer list keeps the theme: the Jazzman Black Lager is the flagship pour.

The music is not decoration. On Wednesdays the taproom hosts "Office Hours," a jazz jam led by trombonist, arranger and educator Marcus Lewis that LiveJazzKC's jam guide calls "a damn good Wednesday jazz jam" — because it is one: working players, a listening crowd, and a room full of neighborhood history. The brewery programs live music beyond the jam as well, and its events calendar is part of the district's weekly rhythm.

Come for a pint of something brewed twenty feet away; stay because 18th & Vine sounds like itself again in this room.

Standing gigs

"Office Hours" Wednesday Jazz Jam with Marcus Lewis — Wednesdays, 7–10 p.m.

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