King Maker Brewing

King Maker Brewing was the Riverside craft brewery and taproom at 720 King Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204. Google Places matches King Maker Brewing LLC at that address and marks the listing CLOSED_PERMANENTLY, with a historical snapshot of 4.8 from 196 reviews. This Stay Safe Jax page is that King Street brewery. It is not Intuition Ale Works on East Bay Street, not Engine 15, and not Aardwolf in San Marco. Public ratings on this page are stored snapshots, not live scores. Because the taproom is permanently closed, Stay Safe Jax does not use the historical Google file as a headline. The score here is 0 from 0 reviews. Those numbers do not refresh when someone opens the page. A 4.8 from 196 reviews was a strong neighborhood score while the room was open. It is not a current pint list. The Florida Times-Union reported on April 6, 2026 that King Maker shut permanently on April 4 after six years in a two-story King Street building with painted murals. The same story said the brewery opened March 13, 2020 — two days before COVID-19 shutdowns — in the space Intuition Ale Works left when it moved downtown to 929 East Bay Street. Part-owner and head brewer Chas Nemecek was named in Times-Union photo coverage of the last pours. The paper said changing habits, costs, and the economy ended the run, and that food-truck tenant El Cubano Jax lost its home base when the taproom closed. That history ties two closed listings without merging them. Intuition left King Street for East Bay and later closed there in April 2026. King Maker occupied the old King Street room and closed about three weeks earlier. Stay Safe Jax keeps the addresses separate. There is no current sourced lawsuit or safety investigation in the facts used here. Stay Safe Jax leaves warning flags at 0. A small brewery that closed after six years is ordinary, not a scandal. The listing stays active so residents can see the sourced April 4, 2026 last day and the rejected idea that another brewery’s rating belongs on this page. Stay Safe Jax does not add the company’s own website.