“The future beer drinkers, the customers of ours, we want to look at as a kinship,” said Dobeck, whose brewery will be located on 6.25 acres north of Hickman Road and west of Northwest 10th Street in Waukee. “We’re all here [at the brewery] for a reason. We’re all here to have a good time. We’re all here to support each other.”

That kinship extends to other brewers as well, Dobeck said.

“We all have different ways of how we present our beer,” he said. “But we all enjoy what we do, and that brings us all together. So ‘kinship’ to me does a better job of reinforcing what is most obvious – those connections.”

Plans for Kinship Brewing include the construction of a 13,000-square-foot building that will include 10,000 square feet of production space and 3,000 square feet for a taproom that will hold up to 300 people. In addition, the brewery will include a beer garden with access to the Raccoon River Valley Trail and a dog park.

Dobeck is hopeful construction of the facility can begin yet this year with completion done so Kinship Brewing Co. can open in the summer.