Independent Craft Brewery
Nova Lima · Minas Gerais · Brazil
Established
2012
Beers released
436
Untappd rating
4.17
“Beer is the drink of those who think and feel no fear nor fetter — who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to think the better.”
We strive to brew unexpected beers. At KSB, craft and innovation are not limited to working with new hops or yeast strains. We research new ingredients and perfect our drinkers' favourite recipes as eagerly as we dig up and rediscover classic and forgotten styles.
It all ignites when we mix this wild availability of ideas and ingredients with energy borrowed from other domains — graphic design, music and literature.
West Coast, New England and Triple IPAs built on the freshest hop lots we can source.
French oak, mixed fermentation and barrel-aged Imperial Stouts.
Decoction, Czech floor malts, Czech whole leaf hops and the perfect pours served z tanku (straight from the tank).
Beers rebuilt from the historical record — period ingredients and techniques brewed as documented, not reinterpreted. Aggersborg and Schattengarten Pils lead the series.
With an early start in home brewing and a much-cherished DNA from his great-grandfather's brewery, Gustavo “KOALA” Simoni opened KSB in 2012 with a tight 8 bbl cellar. Bootstrapping and hardcore D.I.Y. dominated the brewery's first years — a challenge that set the brand as an absolute pioneer in a very young Brazilian craft beer market.
KSB shocked a generation that had known barely a handful of beers, launching ultra-hopped IPAs that blew both laymen's and critics' minds. Imperial IPAs, New England IPAs, mixed culture, coffee beers and Imperial Stouts flowed from the taps and, later, into its own cans.
Beers such as the West Coast Double IPA California Crossing and Livin' the Dream, a best-selling New England IPA, moved from underground classics to the general public's reference for a quality brew with prime ingredients.
Fourteen years in, with an upgraded brewhouse and far greater capacity, KSB is equally known for keeping its doors open to collaborators across the beer scene — brewers, coffee roasters, artists and bands from all over the world.
Gus “KOALA” Simoni is a master brewer, musician, audio engineer and business graduate. Father of two young boys and an entrepreneur with nearly two decades of nonstop passion for his creations and a body-and-soul devotion to KSB.
Eight programmes run in parallel at KSB. Below each, the highest-rated release in that style.
The cellar that produces KSB's highest-rated beers. French oak foudres and spirit barrels hold mixed-fermentation saisons for up to twenty four months, alongside a deep run of barrel aged high gravity beers displaying complex and multi layered sensory profile.
ISO series — twelve months in French oak. Rated 4.65.
Bourbon and rye casks for the RIS Straight line.
Ethiopian and Catuaí lots from Minas roasters.
Five of the ten highest-rated KSB beers come out of this cellar.
Decoction, Czech floor malts, Czech whole leaf hops and the perfect pours properly and perfectly served through Czech original side-pull faucets LUKR — and sometimes even z tanku (straight from the tank).
Blissed takes bronze in the New England / Hazy IPA category at Denver — the largest commercial beer competition in the United States.
SPLIT, a West Coast IPA, took first place in the competition run by the Hop Growers of America.
Cosmic Blur, in the Russian Imperial Stout category, voted by the Untappd community.
Gus Simoni named ambassador for Alsace hops in Brazil by Hop France and LNF.
Czech beer brewing theory and practical brewing education, Chotěboř, Czech Republic.
Style-category medals earned across the catalogue, awarded on ratings from more than 9,800 drinkers worldwide.
Over its trajectory KSB has brewed alongside brewers and breweries from all over the world. Tap a name to open its page.
