McCoy’s brewer Keith Thompson is tapped into KC’s beer culture
If you’ve had a beer in the Kansas City area in the past 20 years, odds are that Keith Thompson had a hand in it. Although, in the beginning, he was just making sure your glass was clean.
“I was a hydro-ceramic engineer,” Thompson says of his first job, as a dishwasher at the Free State Brewery in Lawrence. “But it was just about getting in the door because the response to the brewery opening was crazy. It was packed since they opened.”
