Jester King’s name came from a homebrewing friend of Stuffings’. It comes from a King Lear reference and pokes fun at another brewery that has called itself the king.

“A homebrewing buddy suggested it and never asked for any royalties or anything. He was an English major and suggested that in King Lear there is a reference to the wise fool or the ‘Jester King’ that speaks truth to power and lived to tell about it and I thought in 2010, doing some beers that are very uncommon to at least Texas, I thought it would bring in some kind of funky weirdness to an environment that is very much controlled by the self-proclaiming king of beers. We all knew who that is and so this kind of felt it fit, pushed back or sort of opposite tide to the power in our state.”

Stuffings does many collaboration beers with other breweries and has been working with Chase Healey, formerly of Prairie Artisan Ales and now the founder and brewmaster of Tulsa’s American Solera.