Devil You Know American IPA

Review Date 3/22/2025 By John Staradumsky

  Style: India Pale Ale   Brewery: KCBC   Country: USA   State: New York   $ Per OZ: $.31 (B)   ABV: 7%

KCBC! That stands for Kings County Brewers Collective in case you don’t know. I didn’t know until I visited their website, which also tells me this about the brewery:

Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC) began when a motley crew of Brooklyn-based brewers decided to join forces to create a new brewery & taproom for beer drinkers across New York City and beyond. Kinda like Voltron—except for beer.

Today, I’m here with my first review of a KCBC beer (though not the first KCBC beer I have enjoyed), this beer being Devil You Know American IPA, brewed to celebrate Marvel’s Daredevil Born Again TV series. It’s only fitting that a New York brewery should brew such a beer, old hornhead being based in Hell’s Kitchen as he is.

Being a longtime Daredevil fan myself (and by longtime I mean I’ve been reading Daredevil comics for 50 years), I was all over this beer as soon as I saw it. I’m four episodes into the series and highly recommend it, and the only reason I am not 5 episodes in is because the fifth episode has not been released yet.

KCBC says about this beer:

Pours yellow-orange hue in the glass with subtle red undertones and slight hop haze. Striking flavors of pithy grapefruit, tropical pineapple, white grape, and resinous pine. Completely smashed with our hand-selected Centennial, Nelson Sauvin, and Chinook hops. Bold and balanced. Crisp and clean. A classic reborn.

KCBC Devil You Know American IPA has an alcohol content of 7% by volume and it’s listed on the brewery website shop as selling for $20 a 4-pack. It also says they are out of stock. I paid $7.99 for a single can from Half Time, and thir website says they are also out of stock. Maybe the Kingpin bought it all. My can is marked PKGD 02/20/25.

KCBC Devil You Know American IPA pours to a pale orange jello color with a thick fluffy white head and a nose of assertive citrusy and earthy bitter hops. A thick layer of Brussels Lace clings to the sides of the glass and follows the liquid all the way to the bottom of the glass. Taking a sip, the beer is thin malty with a hint of caramel. It’s citrusy with orange and tangerine notes and leafy with minty herbal earthy hops. There’s some orange rind, too, and the beer finishes dry with a lingering bitterness. Very tasty indeed, with a little more body it would be outstanding, but as it is it’s very good indeed.

The beer without fear? I immediately thought that when I bought it, and KCBC has that on the label. I'd love to drink it again, though I doubt I will ever get the chance.