Austin Beer Guide - Spring/Summer 2014 by Austin Beer Guide

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Let me give you a little peek behind the ABG curtain. You might have noticed that this is the spring/summer issue. We’ve made the decision to only print two main issues per year. Don’t even start with that whole “print is dead” bullshit. Though, the second we decide to produce a digital magazine you can punch us in the face. We are #blessed to have great support from the Austin (and Texas) beer scene. Time is the issue here. In a world with full-time jobs and full-time families we’ve chosen to make two robust, deluxe issues. Not that our quarterly issues were not fantastic, but two gives us more time to make each issue fantastic-er. The fantastic-est! We hope you can tell the difference. No, you WILL tell the difference. Let the deluxe begin: Ever wonder if Cicerones are worth their weight in hops? We pit Cicerones against brewers in a battle of wit and witbiers (actually, no witbiers were involved) (p.26). Next, I hopefully argue some good reasons to move on from the term “craft beer” into a world where we can just be “beer” drinkers (p.34). Then we will take you up and rip you back down with a listicle on the best coffee and beer joints in town (p.38). Make sure to check out our new last page funterview (trademarked, don’t even think about stealing that, Eater), Last Call, where we interview a local bartender on their closingtime rituals. Roone from the Draught House checks in with us this issue. Plus a Brewer’s Brain with Josh Wilson from the Draught House (p.26), an Over a Pint with Amy Cartwright of Independence Brewing (p.26), and all the other silly and serious beer reportage (every page) you’ve come to expect from us. Grab your favorite craft beer and enjoy. –AC Chris Troutman Aaron Chamberlain Josh Spradling Shawn Phillips

FIESTA .......................................08 SEASON’S DRINKING .......................................10

OVER A PINT .......................................16 BREWER’S BRAIN .......................................22 CICERONE VS. BREWER .......................................26

CUT THE CRAFT .......................................34

BUZZ + BUZZED .......................................38 BEER & LOATHING .......................................46

CENTRAL AUSTIN .......................................53 SOUTH AUSTIN .......................................59 NORTH AUSTIN .......................................69 GREATER AUSTIN .......................................77

LAST CALL .......................................96 COVER DESIGN ...................Nick LaRoche PROOFREADERS ... Soﬁa, Sarah, and Kim

NEWS & BREWMORS

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Jeff Young exits Black Star to start Blue Owl Brewing. Jordan Keeper leaves Jester King to open his own brewery while Garrett Crowell will take over as head brewer. Jester King also recently announced Adrienne Ballou is now the head of the barrel program.

Solid Rock Brewing has been open and brewing for a little while now, but have been pretty quiet. Recently they’ve rolled out two beers for wider release and packaging. Nearby, another brewery is testing their equipment and are almost ready to roll open their doors: Strange Land Brewery. You remember them, they are the folks that have partnered with Hat Creek Burger Company. Their beers won’t be limited to those local chain locations though. They will be a full production brewery supplying brews to all your favorite joints. A little further out, in Marble Falls, Save the World should be slinging beers in April. They have acquired a bottling line, so look for their Belgian inspired beers in bottle shops and on draft. The nano brewery Spent Planet Fermentation at press time is still crowd funding to secure an ideal location to produce their American Farmhouse ales. WhichCraft, a specialty-beer-only beer store in south Austin, should be throwing open their doors soon.

PARTY DOWN Live Oak Brewery is turning 17 this year. The big birthday party is on April 19th. Grab a lawn chair and head out for an always fun party on the east side. Looking for a second party on the 19th? You’re in luck, because Real Ale Brewing is also having an anniversary party (their 18th). Beer, bands, and food trucks all going down in Blanco.

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A southern Austin brewery rumored to sell to new management. Few details were available at the time of print regarding the deal or new owners. In other news, ABG owners happy to announce acquisition of new brewery in south Austin. As a result of the surprise Justin Bieber performance at popular Rainey Street beer bar Banger’s, a new hybrid Bieber fanbase has been spawned known only as “Craft Beliebeers.” World renowned beer and music podcast, Draught Punk, sues Flying Saucer for the use of Draft Punk promo. Shortly after Daft Punk sues Draught Punk.

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Decorated pitmaster John Mueller hired on at Live Oak to handle expanded smoked beer program. Will not be allowed near the books.

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Brewer Jeff Young announced his departure from Black Star Co-op to open his own brewery where he can be free to brew his edgy natural harvest style ales.

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Following the popularity of their car detailing and tax services, Infamous Brewing decides to boost tasting room attendance by offering University of Phoenix accredited courses in: canine cosmetology, the art of improv, gunsmithing, upholstery, becoming a dental assistant or get your degree!

TEXAS FLOODED Texas welcomed its only (according to them) independent, non-BMC afﬁliated statewide beer distribution company in February with the arrival of Flood Distribution. Flood focuses on distributing small, independent beers, ciders and spirits in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and surrounding areas. They began distributing beers from Shelton Brothers Importers and local favorite Jester King and plan to bring in more highly sought after brands over time.

IMPROVING ON PERFECTION Independence Brewing Co. is in the midst of expanding their brewhouse from their current reclaimed 15 barrel pub system to a shiny brand new 60 barrel JV Northwest brewing system in their 10,000 square foot addition. Along with this new capacity, they plan to release several “session” beers in cans like the recently released White Rabbit white ale. See the full story in Over a Pint on page 16.

MALCOM IN THE MIDDLETON Starting in May, two year old Middleton Brewing plans to be operating out of their new space off Ranch Road 12 between San Marcos and Wimberley. The former RENDERING OF HOW MIDDLETON BREWING MIGHT LOOK

fireworks building will serve as the pub with garage doors opening up to a large patio, fire pit, and stage for live music. Ground has been broken for an adjacent building that will house the growing brewery’s new 10-barrel brewhouse. Construction is expected to be finished by early fall with distribution soon to follow in San Marcos, New Braunfels, Wimberley, San Antonio, Austin, and even Houston.

THE HOUSE THAT BEER BUILT Several Austin breweries are teaming up with Austin Habitat for Humanity to raise funds in 2014 to build a home for a central Texas family in need. Participating breweries include Pinthouse Pizza, the Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co., Black Star Co-op, Circle Brewing, Hops & Grain, Rogness Brewing Co., Real Ale Brewing Co., Solid Rock Brewing, and Uncle Billy’s Brew & Que. Check out www.austinhabitat.org/thehouse-that-beer-built for more info and upcoming events in which you can take part.

BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL Both Jester King and Hops & Grain have extended their popular tasting room hours on weeknights to satisfy the late night crowd. Just like Taco Bell and Jack in the Box, only delicious beer instead of shitty fast food. So besides the similar hours, that was really a poor simile and really unnecessary as the concept of “later hours” is not so difﬁcult that an analogy should be required. So ignore all that and just make a mental note that you can now enjoy fresh tasty beer at the Hops & Grain and Jester King respective taprooms later on weeknights than you could previously. Carry on.

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BEER OASIS Brewer extraordinaire, Spencer Tielkemeier, will begin slinging his new beers out at Oasis Texas Brewing Co. hopefully as soon as June. Tielkemeier, of (512), Uncle Billy’s, and Live Oak heritage comes from hardy brewing stock and can’t wait to reveal his line of session beers on draft and in cans to the thirsty masses of Central Texas. Oasis will roll out three core beers that are classic styles, really clean, and in the sessionable camp under 5% ABV. The initial beers will be a pale ale, kellerbier, and English-style best bitter. “I just want beers that I can have more than one of,” says Tielkemeier. “There’s an occasion for barley wines and double IPAs but not every day.” That said, Oasis plans to offer some larger format beers in their “Lake Monster” series comprised of barrel-aged and seasonal varieties. “Packaging is a brave new world for me,” Tielkemeier says. “I’ve worked at three different breweries and none of them have packaged. So I’m terribly excited to shotgun the ﬁrst can. I’ve never canned anything and I can’t wait to crack that ﬁrst can.” Ditto!

KEEP AUSTIN CANNED Armadillo Mobile Canning will begin operations the end of April offering a mobile canning service for breweries and brew pubs across Austin. Armed with a Wild Goose MC-250 canning line they will be able to can up to 80 barrels a day; that’s 1000 plus

cases of fresh tasty beer in shiny new cans. Additionally, they will be able to acquire small batches of shrink sleeve-labeled cans and other packaging materials, making it more affordable and convenient for smaller scale breweries to package their product. Says co-founder Curt Ivy, “First and foremost, Austin is our home. We’re from here and we live and drink here. The Austin beer scene has been rapidly growing for years now, and we know it’s just the beginning of what will become a major craft beer destination.”

ADAM DOSS, CURT AND JEN IVY

Armadillo photo: Armadillo Mobile Canning

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Best of 2013 / Winter Issue Release Party REMEMBER THAT PARTY WE HAD BACK IN DECEMBER? THAT WAS FUN. LIKE ALL OF OUR winter issue release parties, it doubled as an awards ceremony for our best-of-the-year winners. Thanks to ABGB for hosting and all the good people who came out and partied. Also, big thanks to Tony Drewry for playing along with our silly idea for a Craft Santa. Photos by TYLER MALONE

SEASON’S DRINKING

Aged and Barreled APPARENTLY EVERYONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT BARREL AGING. WE RECEIVED MORE responses to this set of questions than any Season’s Drinking before it. Unfortunately we do not have the space here to print all the answers we received. But don’t worry, we are throwing them in French oak barrels to season and mature until they are ripe for reading. strictly from tank fermentation and conditioning. =dl YdZh V WZZg WZcZÒ i [gdb V\^c\ ^c V WVggZa4 JUSTIN RIZZA Flix Brewhouse NATE SEALE All the barrel-aged beers I (512) Brewing Co. do are dosed with souring miIt really depends on what you’re looking for. Some of the croorganisms so I am looking for a moderate amount of things a barrel could offer are wood flavor to blend with the the flavors of whatever was previously aged in it, the flavor sour character. and other characteristics, like JOSH HARE tannins, of the wood itself, Hops & Grain Brewery an inviting harbor for yeast A beer benefits from barand/or bacteria to inhabit, rel aging in many ways. The breathability (which encourmost impactful of these ages both flavor extraction from the wood, and potentially is the Zen like nature that is achieved when trapped some interesting types of oxiinside of oak for an extended dation), or any combination of amount of time. If you do it those characteristics. right you might pick up some oak as well. WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks JEFFREY STUFFINGS Wood aging beer allows it to pick up a complexity unachiev- Jester King Brewery In our case at Jester King, able by normal fermentation. we’re using our oak barrels There is a lot of wood sugars as fermentation vessels. Our and colors that are obtained goal is not to impart oak, spirit during aging from expansion or wine flavor into the beer. and contraction of the barrel Rather, we’re giving the beer as temperature changes. an environment where it can interact with small amounts JOHN MCINTOSH of oxygen and slowly develop Barber Shop Bar interesting flavors and aromas Barrels can increase the through wild fermentation. depth and complexity of a beer’s flavor profile. KEVIN ROARK North by Northwest BEN SABEL Depends on several factors Circle Brewing Co. Just like a fine whiskey, aging including the type of beer, type of barrel and desired in barrels allows for flavors outcome. The beer will and additional complexity pick up flavors from both to be added to the beer in a way that simply isn’t possible the barrel and the previous

liquid that was stored in it. For bourbon barrel beers, the barrel gives the beer a nice rounded softness and full-body with big boozy and sweet aromas, but that needs to be done to the right style of beer. Typically something strong and/or dark usually works the best. I’ve done a few wine barrel beers with mixed outcomes. I definitely got lots of vinous character out of them that can play well with certain hoppy beers. I mostly use wine barrels to sour beers in with great results. The souring bugs find a happy home in the wood and the barrel can be used over and over if done correctly. ERIK OGERSHOK Real Ale Brewing Co. It really depends upon what you are trying to achieve. A good base beer can be augmented by the caramel, vanillins, and other flavors/aromas that the various types of barrels offer. They can also host the microorganism that transform a good base beer into something completely different. 6gZ i]ZgZ Vcn g^h`h ^ckdakZY4 NATE SEALE (512) Brewing Co. Barrels are porous, so there’s always an inherent risk of wild yeast or bacteria that inhabits the wood infecting the beer inside, not to mention oxidation. They also provide

a ton of nucleation points, so putting beer with any amount of carbonation whatsoever into a barrel can cause some messy eruptions! WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks There are quite a bit of risks involved during wood aging. There are lots of bacteria and wild yeast that love to hide in the crevasses in a barrel. Also the risk of oxidation in a porous wood environment goes way up. The loss of beer from evaporation and leaky barrels are some other minor risks. The physical aspect of handling and stacking barrels can also be dangerous. JOHN MCINTOSH Barber Shop Bar Life is full of risk; slide down the volcano. . . take the risk. JEFF YOUNG Black Star Co-op Leaking! BEN SABEL Circle Brewing Co. Sure, but they are limited only to the time, effort, and beer you put in that barrel. JUSTIN RIZZA Flix Brewhouse I actually pay money for a bunch of the microorganisms brewers typically work hard to keep out of the brewery so the risks for me involve keeping them where I want them and not letting them migrate to the other beers, which really is not that hard. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewery Have you ever transcended space and time? JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery Yes, many. We routinely dump bad beer from our barrels. The most common and seri-

ous risk is the development of acetic acid, which produces harsh, vinegary ﬂavors in the beer. We use temperature control in our barrel room to try and suppress the growth of acetobacter, but it still manifests itself from time to time. KEVIN ROARK North by Northwest Yes, you can get all kinds of unwanted bacteria, wild yeast or mold if you are not careful. You also need to select barrels that are in good shape and will not leak. JOE MOHRFELD Pinthouse Pizza Yes, especially the risk of drunk people and kids pulling out the bungs of our barrels in our “interactive barrel aging space” here at Pinthouse Pizza. ERIK OGERSHOK Real Ale Brewing Co. The three biggest risks are oxidation, contamination, and loss. Barrels can be fragile. Sometimes they leak. Other times they fall apart and you lose the contents. If that beer is awesome, that is a very sad day. Sometimes you barrelage a beer and it doesn’t turn out as expected. Then you just dump it.

style of beer and end result you hope to achieve. If you want to bourbon/whiskey barrelage something you want big vanilla, spice, and warming alcohol characters. Wine barrel non soured: looking for toasted oak, vinous, and tannin. Sour barrel: a balance of acetic and lactic acids as well some funky and honey and vanilla notes. There are a lot of variations on this when choosing styles and barrels but this is a basic outline of what I look for. JOHN MCINTOSH Barber Shop Bar A fuller experience on the palette. Something that makes you want to drink another to better understand the beer. JEFF YOUNG Black Star Co-op We use barrels to give Epsilon aggressive whiskey/oak ﬂavor, and then we use the same barrels on Moebius to give a more mild, aged oak character.

BEN SABEL Circle Brewing Co. Depends on the barrel, but we’re enjoying playing with aging our ENVY in Garrison Brothers Bourbon Barrels. Those fresh American Oak barrels, apart from the typical L]Vi X]VgVXiZg^hi^Xh VgZ ndj bourbon characteristics, imadd`^c\ id \V^c [gdb V\^c\ ^c part some substantial vanilla V WVggZa4 notes that vary depending on the duration of aging, but reNATE SEALE ally add flavors and complex(512) Brewing Co. ity to the beer. Depending on the base beer that we’re filling the barrel JUSTIN RIZZA with, we may be looking for Flix Brewhouse sourness or “funkiness”, Sour and funky and fantastic. varying degrees of oak flavor, and/or hints (or more than JOSH HARE hints) of the flavor of whatev- Hops & Grain Brewery er filled the barrel previously. I look for companionship and oakiness. A well balanced WILL GOLDEN layer of coconut and vanilla Austin Beerworks are some of my favorite oak Badassery! Depends on the components.

JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery We’re looking for a soft, lactic tartness free of any volatile acidity, complete attenuation, and interesting fruity, funky aromas. KEVIN ROARK North by Northwest We mainly use whisky barrels with dark/strong beers, and are looking to add a little more depth and complexity to the original style. For our sour barrels, the flavors the barrel imparts plays a more minor role to the flavors the wild yeast and/or souring bacteria produce. JOE MOHRFELD Pinthouse Pizza This depends a lot on what type of barrel you are using. We work with a lot of whiskey barrels here at Pinthouse Pizza so we are looking for notes of bourbon along with the associated flavors of vanilla, coconut, almond and the increase in mouth feel from the tannins.

all types, mainly whiskey/ bourbon (Woodford reserve, Makers Mark, Jim Beam, and Jack Daniel’s are just a few). Neutral red wine barrels American and French white oak. Each barrel is different even of the same batch and vintage of barrel. JUSTIN RIZZA Flix Brewhouse Mine are all used red wine, white oak barrels from local wineries. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewery We’ve had the best luck with the free ones. JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery Neutral, French oak wine barrels.

KEVIN ROARK North by Northwest We’ve had good results with Jack Daniel’s, Wild Turkey, Maker’s Mark and Heaven Hill barrels and other American whisky barrels provided they are fairly freshly emptied. Garrison Brother’s is another one I’ve L^i] l]Vi ineZh d[ WVggZah had good results using. They ]VkZ ndj ]VY i]Z WZhi ajX`4 are smaller in size so the beer gets more contact with NATE SEALE the wood. Plus their whisky (512) Brewing Co. is awesome and that comes Again, just depends a lot on through in the beer. what we’ve been trying to achieve. Freshly emptied bourJOE MOHRFELD bon barrels are an essential Pinthouse Pizza ingredient in our Whiskey Barrel-Aged Double Pecan Por- This again depends on the project, I have had a lot of luck ter. We’ve gotten some great with “clean” beers in whiskey ﬂavors, and a little bit of color, using red wine barrels on some barrel, and with “wild” beers I prefer wine barrels. lighter-colored beers. Our foeders have probably been the ERIK OGERSHOK most fun to use, and right now we’re experimenting with some Real Ale Brewing Co. We primarily use American other spirit barrels as well as oak used wine barrels and some unused oak barrels. used Kentucky bourbon barrels. We have started to WILL GOLDEN incorporate new barrels into Austin Beerworks our mix. I have had great luck with

L]Vi VgZ i]Z WZhi hinaZh id V\Z ^c WVggZah VcY l]n4 Ldghi4 NATE SEALE (512) Brewing Co. Most sour or funky styles practically require a long time in wood, although there are plenty of exceptions. Aging in barrels previously used to produce liquor, like whiskey, rum, or brandy barrels, tends to best serve the darker and/or maltier styles like strong stouts and porters. I love the transformation that Cabernet barrels do on our Tripel. Generally the beers that I would avoid barrel-aging would be anything hoppy or particularly prone to oxidation—barrel-aged IPA, historically accurate as it may be, is not something I’ve ever been particularly impressed by. KEVIN ROARK North by Northwest Best are stronger & darker beers for bourbon barrelaging. Stouts, porters, coffee beers, barley wines etc. Worst would probably be a wheat beer (hefeweizen or wit). Never tried it, but it sounds horrible. ERIK OGERSHOK Real Ale Brewing Co. Big beers like scotch ale, imperial stout, and barleywine tend to stand up to barrel aging best. If you are talking wild ales, then that opens up the playing field quite a bit. I definitely think there are beers that do not benefit from barrel aging. I’m not really interested in a barrel-aged Helles or Weissebier. Like many things in brewing I like to follow this mantra, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

OVER A PINT

Amy Cartwright of Independence Brewing ON A COLD RAINY EVENING IN EARLY MARCH WE TOOK A TOUR OF INDEPENDENCE’S NEW 60 BARREL BREWHOUSE AND HAD A NICE LITTLE CHAT WITH CO-FOUNDER AMY CARTWRIGHT OVER A FEW CANS OF THEIR NEW DELICIOUS WHITE RABBIT WHITE ALE. ABG: Ok, yeah. So I guess tell me a little bit about this beer real quick. Amy: Well Brannon Radicke is our head brewer. This is basically his take on what was our summer release in 2013. He basically took some of our previous year’s seasonals— we had had Saison and a kind of a weird hybrid Belgian like a cross between a wit and a saison the year previous—looked at everything and put his own thumbprint on it and came up with the White Rabbit. So it is very much inspired by a traditional Belgianstyled wit. We use a classic Belgian wit yeast. We do use some coriander, orange zest and some peppercorns. We wanted to have just some slight essence of fruitiness. Most of it’s derived from the fermentation, but there is a little bit of zest as well. Pretty much what we were shooting for was that combination of the hint of fruit but a really nice dry ﬁnish. Subtlety over in-your-face and really we were just shooting for like our best session beer for the spring and summer that we could come up with. Went to some traditional roots and tried to put our own thumbprint on it. Yeah. Well it’s very good. I like it a lot. So there’s a whole lot going on here at Independence right now. Tell me, where are we standing. We are standing in what is 10,000 square feet of new warehouse space at the base of our 60 barrel JV Northwest brewing system. It’s very shiny. It’s a lot of shiny stainless steel that is the newest equipment we’ve ever had the beneﬁt of having in our almost ten years of brewing with Independence. It’s a 60 barrel system that is composed of a mash tun, kettle, separate

whirlpool—it’s got a really nice oversized hot and cold liquor tank and hop back, which we are very much looking forward to ﬁlling full of fresh hops for Stash and other big IPAs that we want to release. So for context, this is a 60 barrel, and you guys are currently brewing on a 15 barrel. So that’s like four times at least. It’s four times the batch size and additionally, our system is a pub system that was built as best as we can tell in 1989 in Santa Clara, CA. It was back in the day when craft beer was in it’s infancy and most beers weren’t above 7% ABV. So actually one of the biggest limitations of our old pub system is being able to produce higher ABV beers. Stash and Convict Hill actually result in less yield than even 14 barrels a batch.

So you’ve got some room to stretch out, per say. We are pretty much, number one, most importantly looking forward to just being able to brew more beer in a bigger batch size so we can bring it to new markets. We have just barely scratched the surface in Houston and have been telling Dallas-Fort Worth “no” for too many years. So, being able to actually brew more beer will allow us to finally get into some new markets besides Austin. Secondly, just being able to brew on a more modern system is going to be a joy, because, you know, anybody who’s ever brewed with us or seen how we brew, it’s extremely manual and it’s very labor intensive and while we have some finesse for the very experienced brewer, it’s actually a very difficult system to brew on. So we’re looking forward to something, a new system that’s a little more state of the art, has more efficiency, has more fine tuned control in terms of temperature and the ability to maintain our heat and maintain our hot water and all the finer points of brewing that we’d like to have better control over. And it’s much shinier. It’s so shiny. It’s brand new. We’ve never had anything new so it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. I feel like you guys should not brew on it. Keep it this pristine. It’s awesome. Another thing you’ll be able to do with a more efficient, larger capacity brewhouse is put out more beers—more beer quantity wise but also more styles like the White Rabbit we are enjoying right now. Yeah, so we’re starting with the White Rabbit and it’s the first beer we decided to put in a canned release. We were pretty much trying to identify in 2013 the best and the brightest of all of our limited releases and Brewluminati in 2013 and we settled on the White Rabbit to do first just because of the quality of the beer and the reaction and the popularity that we had in the marketplace. But also we really had been wanting to try to do some cans and it was the natural beer just in terms of what we thought people wanted in a canned beer. Yeah, you don’t see many beers like this in a can, which is nice. So our intent is to have this beer available all spring and summer and then we will be focusing on some other special releases in cans as well. So we will be targeting doing kind of a revamped version of our Independence Pale Ale that will be available in cans by the summertime and then towards the fall and winter we will have our Citrification which was a single hop beer—single hop IPA

that we did with Citra hops. We’ll be doing, kind of just for fun, some special releases that won’t be in cans but will be just draught only. One will be what we are calling “Batch 3,000.” We will be hitting our 3,000th batch of beer at Independence towards the end of March. Congrats. That’s awesome. So we have decided to do a single hop beer release that will focus on Mosaic. ‘Cause we are testing out some Mosaic and just want to have fun with that. Mosaic’s so hot right now. Yeah. It will be fun. And then for our final beer that we brew on the old pub system, our head brewer Brannon has actually had a beer that he’s brought in many many times to try that I’ve been dying to do but too scared to do on our old system, which is an amazing Berliner Weisse. So that will be the final beer that we do on that system. That would be cool. Burn it down with the Berliner Weisse. You should call it “Tear Down That Berliner Weisse Wall.” I don’t know. I love the White Rabbit, I think it’s a great beer, but also the artwork is really good and I feel like the artwork and the design of the can is a lot of the appeal to it as well. It compliments the beer well. Some of the inspiration. . . obviously there’s kind of that hint of, you know, I call it the “free your mind Jefferson Airplane” vibe, but we also wanted to throw back to kind of like the Texas history side of things. So actually the floofy collar and the blue jacket were kind of in the illustration style inspired by some old illustrations of Santa Anna and like some of the styles, like you know he was so full of himself and you know, so it’s kind of working in a couple. . . And the red eyes, also. He was the devil. The red eye was inspired by Rob. Or all of our brewers, really. So I guess moving forward, will the other beers you guys are planning to put in cans, are they going to have a similar style as far as the design goes, or are each to be their own? We’ll definitely maintain a lot of the same qualities, but actually I think we’ve left ourselves enough room to have some fun just depending on each one’s name and having a little bit of it’s own take on it. So I don’t expect it to be so set in stone that it’s identical looking to the White Rabbit, but they’re each going to be

awesome. We’ve ﬁnally found somebody who really gets us and what we are trying to evoke with Independence and what we’re about. He really nailed it with White Rabbit and captured kind of that essence of the brewery and what we’re trying to come across. So we’re looking forward to actually redoing all of our labels to some degree or another with him, but you know the Pale Ale will be the next one and then we’ll just go from there.

and have some unique beers that we do on a limited scale as well.

That will be cool. Very nice. I think what’s very exciting is that you guys have been doing the Brewluminati, or the single release series for I guess going on two years now and I think it will be nice to kind of capture more of those beers in a more permanent way, not that any of these would be for storage or saving. . . It’s hard when you have a beer that’s just draft only and you work with a distributer, you’re not always instantly able to tell everyone where it is. So in an ideal world with that kind of series we’d be able to say “go to this place and then go to that place” and you would know you could almost make a fun game of it. But when you have kind of an intermediary that you’re working with, it’s harder to pull off that direct level of control. So, I do think that by having the ability to have it to take home, that we’ll be reaching more people with it. I do think that as we progress in 2014 and are able to put in a small batch system and also you know make some changes to our tasting room that we will have a new program that’s like Brewluminati or very similar that allows us to have some creative, as I say, ﬂex our creative muscles

And that’s your Belgian Tripel, right? Yeah. We’re really hoping by midway point of 2014 we’ll have our new bottling line and we can actually start looking at doing some 22 oz releases ‘cause that would be the perfect format for that beer. In the meantime we are just going to be actually having some special releases available in the constellation 12 pack because we can still do label approval for 12 oz bottle and mix it in with the 12 pack. So we’re going to do our Jasperilla, the 2013 batch will be available in the constellation 12 packs in the 12 oz format and actually we are going to be doing a special release for our 10th anniversary in October. So we’re actually thinking that we’re just going to do a special four pack or six pack of that beer and just do it up. Do it up right.

And then I guess one day, some of those might see themselves in cans or bottles down the road? We are still trying to ﬁgure out what to do with the Lupulust, because it doesn’t strike us instantly as a canned format beer but we want to brew it.

Well cool. That’s a lot of stuff to look forward to. It’s the great debate in the brewery right now. It’s what to do for the 10th anniversary beer. Oh yeah. 10 years. You’ve got to go all out. Gotta burn it all down. Thanks, Amy. A lot of cool stuff coming up for Independence. Yeah, we like what you’re doing and like seeing new stuff. It’s fun.

BREWER’S BRAIN

ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES IS of my dad’s Olympia beer can. The one with its picture of Tumwater Falls under a horseshoe with the quote “It’s The Water.” I still remember its sour grainy taste and the cold aluminum on my lips. Apparently Olympia was not good enough and my father began home brewing with goods from Ken Grossman’s Home Brew Shop. The grain dust in the California sun, the sounds of clinking bottles, the smells of boiling wort, hops and fermenting beer imprinted themselves on my child’s mind (I still have a child’s mind). The early exposure to these sights and smells predetermined my future path (like I’m sure has happened to many others). Later, while living in Wisconsin, I gained a taste for good beers, as New Glarus hit the scene, though my budget usually called for $6 Huber cases. This was also the era of the 40 ouncer. Ah the taste of warm backwash malt liquor at the bottom of a bagged bottle. Somehow I got into film school at UT in the early 90s and landed a job at the Bitter End, an early Austin brew pub, at the same time. This was my first experience with making beer and I was immediately hooked. Unfortunately, a head brewer came on later that I did not get along with, so I quit. I still didn’t know much about brewing and when the person who set up the Bitter End’s brewery (Dan Moran) was hired to build a brew pub in San Marcos, I jumped on board. This venture was doomed by poor planning and a cheap owner (he hired a homeless man named “Web” to do the brewing). In 1995 the Draught House, which opened in 1968, came up for lease. I quit film school and

joined Moran in reopening it. The original owner wanted to keep the name, so we changed it to Draught Horse. Moran built one of his Alan Pugsley inspired “breweries” with its bricked in kettle, Grundy tanks and repurposed dairy equipment. Unfortunately, Mr. Moran was a difﬁcult partner who seemed to rub everyone the wrong way, including the city. Due to his bad behavior and the city threatening to shut us down, our partnership dissolved in 1999. My old partnership wanted to keep the name Draught Horse, so we switched the DBA back to Draught House. For the next 13 years I brewed on Moran’s system, upgrading it as best I could. I brewed all variety of

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styles, following my muse, and did not stick to the standard brew pub concept of set beers. It was a difficult and frustrating system to brew on, very physical and without proper fermentors. However, by brewing continuously for this period, I have developed my own set of guidelines. I prefer dry beers over sweet but ones with body, not too lank. Flavor is the goal, not alcohol production. I am happy to see the ABV arms race subside. New world hops beat European hops nearly every time. Again, more flavor. Unconventional ingredients make things more fun. Side note: anything a brewer can think to add to their beer has been done before. Styles are helpful for selling beer but can be restrictive. It is good to understand why a style has worked in order to break apart the elements and build a beer that fits no category. I strive to make beers with nuance and grace. But balance is in the eye of the beer holder. In late 2012, an angel came in the form of a coke head stripper. She was a renter on an adjoining property who was being evicted. She went into some rejection revenge spiral, calling code enforcement and the fire marshall on all her neighbors, and

the TABC on us. Code enforcement decided they did not like our 17 year old brewery setup, particularly our means of direct ﬁre. After playing footsie with the city for a few months, I decided that it was time for a new brewhouse. With a brewery opening every day in the US, I had to get in line and wait for it to be fabricated. By the time you are reading this, we will have the new equipment and soon the ability to produce more and better beer. I look forward to several more decades of brewing. I can’t imagine doing anything else.

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WORDS BY CHRIS TROUTMAN PHOTOS BY CASEY MOORE EVER SINCE THE CRAFT BEER INSTITUTE’S CULTURAL HIJACK OF THE MEANING OF THE word “Cicerone” from that of a museum guide to a tasty beer guide, we, surely like several other of you, were curious of the new program’s merits. Out of the gate the usual suspects all jumped on that wagon, but we being the jaded fellows we are, kept our distance. But unlike so many other craft beer fads, the Cicerone program has seemed to outlast its initial hype and proven to output some extremely skilled individuals. Although not as popular now among the craft beer throngs, the majority of Cicerones can be found in the industry, mostly behind the bar and curating some of your favorite tap walls. Even as helpful as those skills are, suggesting beers and assembling a masterpiece of a tap wall, we wondered if one truly required the extra education and title for that, or if there was actually more to the Cicerone nomenclature. So we put it to the test. For the uninitiated, a Cicerone (sis-uh-rohn) is the beer equivalent of a Sommelier, or Somm (this wine smells like garden hose, this wine smells like fresh cut garden hose), but with a few differences, mostly in the facial hair area. The program was started in 2007 by long time

homebrew legend, Ray Daniels. Daniels is the author of multiple treasured homebrew books, worked for the Brewers Association for several years, and is a senior faculty at Siebel Institute of Technology World Brewing Academy. It’s without a doubt that Daniels’ experience and reputation are what gives the Cicerone program credibility to begin with. The program currently has three levels of certification: Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone, and Master Cicerone (of which there are only six in the world according to their current online roster). Any enthusiast can become a Certified Beer Server with just $70 and a score of 75 on an online exam. Yeah, we’re rolling our eyes too. But the Certified Cicerone accreditation is a little more involved. It consists of an intense written exam and a tasting test. I have no first hand experience, but from what I’m told it’s pretty comprehensive, covering the beer gamut from history, serving, brewing, draft systems, identifying off-flavors, food pairings, to suggesting proper glassware. After all this, these folks are certified to know their shit. As far as the Master Cicerone certified folks, I imagine they run in the clairvoyant, Rain Man, Sherlock (Cumberbatch not Downey Jr.), “I see dead people” kid circles and would never even dignify the rest of us by allowing us to imagine they even drink the same beer we do. So for our purposes, we worked with Certified Cicerones. Going into this project, we knew these guys had chops, but wanted to really put them to the test. And without pretending we were qualified to test their skills, we thought who better to test beer tasting skills, than those with beer making skills. We were sure these individuals would do well, but honestly had our money on the brewers and were ready for some squirming on the Cicerone side of the table as the brewers delved out judgement like so many apocalyptic horsemen. For the actual test, we brought three industry employed Certified Cicerones to Draught House one pleasant Sunday evening and had them blind taste three Austin-brewed beers and taste and rate for style, characteristics, flaws, suggest food pairings, glassware, and finally the blind taste identification. As the Cicerones were tasting beers in the beer garden, the brewers of said beers were inside reviewing the Cicerones’ results and readying to bust their chops. After the last beer was tasted, we all took a potty break and then, like a trite reality show, revealed the brewers to the Cicerones to face their judgement. The resulting “drama” was interesting and, well we won’t spoil it for you. Read on to see how some of our city’s brightest Cicerones fared in the ultimate Cicerone vs. Brewer showdown!

CICERONES IG: B>C:G Certiﬁed Cicerone (Clean shaven = sissy-rone)

Assistant Operations Manager, Craft Pride “Fuck. I need a good quote and I can’t think of one. I’m so embarrassed!” “Fuck, I have to pee. . .”

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Bar Manager/Front of House Manager, Hopﬁelds “I’m here for the party.” Sign: Libra

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Beerworker, Austin Beerworks “Beer tastes good, so I drink it! Fuck you!” -Tim, as quoted by Will Golden Sign: Taurus

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Head Brewer and Co-Owner, Pinthouse Pizza “Craft beer is fucking rad!” “Drink craft beer or go fuck yourself”

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Founder and Director of Brewing Operations, Hops & Grain “You shouldn’t take yourself so seriously, it’s unattractive” Favorite Color: Something Green Favorite way to drink beer: Exactly

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Head Brewer and Co-Founder, Austin Beerworks “I love brewing beer and eating mayonnaise and cheese sandwiches—also the occasional practice of the art of manhood!”

BEER #1 PINTHOUSE MAN O’ WAR IPA

CICERONE Tasting Notes: Characteristics, flaws, general thoughts Cicerone 3: Mildly dry-hopped, some floral qualities, 60–75 IBUs? Straw colored, good clarity, possibly filtered. Decent head, some staying power. Hint of pine, extremely wellbalanced, not overly assertive for an IPA.

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I’m impressed with the answers. The characteristics are really spot on with what I would have said myself. I got kind of dank sweaty orange. Peaches, mango. Just a little light blueberry. Glass clippings, resin. Kind of a lot of hop oil.

Food Pairing C2: I’d have to say this will be good with food. Speciﬁcally, sausage and biscuits, creamed corn, mashed potatoes. I could totally tear up some barbecue but nothing too spicy. But, also cereal is good with every beer.

Food pairings were interesting. There was pizza rolls, sausage and biscuits, cream corn? I don’t think cream corn goes well with any beer.

Glass C1: Pint glass, nonic pint, or a snifter (but unnecessary). Perhaps a ﬁve gallon bucket so I can ﬁt my entire head inside for proper aromatic enhancement.

Five gallon bucket was another good one, because you get the aroma. I’d agree with that.

Style Guess C2: This beer is an India pale ale. It happens to smell like India, looks pale and is likely an ale. By the way, I printed out the answers to the Cicerone exam and slipped them inside a clear plastic pen. So I’ll admit that I’m a super-cheater.

Behind the Blind Guess One Cicerone guessed beer on ﬁrst guess. Two guessed on second guess. C2: I don’t like super bitter beer. So actually I ﬁnd Man O’ War to be pretty bitter. When I go to Pinthouse, which is pretty much every Sunday nowadays, I don’t order it, but it tastes a lot like a Pinthouse beer. Which is why I was like “wait a second, is this breweries or is this brew pubs?” So that’s why I was like, “OK, now I know what we’re doing.”

Brewer Grade Joe: I grade them a pass.

BEER #2 AUSTIN BEERWORKS PEARL SNAP German-Style Pilsner

CICERONE Tasting Notes: Characteristics, flaws, general thoughts C1: Subtle fruity character with a grainy pils malt aroma and flavor. Slightly floral hop character. Clean, crisp.

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Bready malt, spicy, slight earthy, bright.

Food Pairing C3: Waldorf salad, chips and salsa, a small German child (lean portions).

“Waldorf salad?” Who the fuck eats that? Who the fuck eats. . . fuck you. It’s walnuts, it’s sour cream, apples, potatoes, marshmallows? Waldorf salad, if I was every going to eat one, I would eat it with Pearl Snap.

Glass C2: A gold rimmed, bejeweled crystal glass, signed by John Lennon. Or a regular pilsner glass.

The bejeweled crystal glass. . . nah. Not really into bejeweled. I do like it signed by John Lennon. Extra tall pilsner glass, yeah that’s a good one.

Style Guess C1: Blonde ale or pilsner.

Behind the Blind Guess All three Cicerones guessed beer on ﬁrst guess. C1: We fought over it a while, but it was clarity. Clarity meant it was a fucking Austin Beerworks beer. You can see through it like crazy.

Brewer Grade Will: I would give them all an A. Not an A+, strictly in the middle.

BEER #3 HOPS & GRAIN GREENHOUSE IPA IPA

CICERONE Tasting Notes: Characteristics, flaws, general thoughts C1: Spicy, floral, and peachy nose. Lots of malt sweetness to balance the hop flavor. Full bodies with a smooth bitterness, and malty sweetness. Subtle alcohol warming as it warms up. No flaws noticeable.

BREWER

Um. . . I’m into peachy. I don’t get a lot of spice. But I’m into ﬂoral and peachy. Feeling good on that one. Malty sweetness? Absolutely. Full bodied, absolutely. Smooth bitterness, malty sweetness, subtle alcohol warming. I mean this is what I talk myself through in my dreams.

Food Pairing C1: Roasted red meats or smoked meats. Blue cheese with a tropical compote or spicy mustard.

Not to throw the question to the other side of the table, but could you clarify what the “or” side of the statement is? Roasted meats OR smoked meats? Is there a roasted red meat that doesn’t have a smoky character to it? “A blue cheese with a tropical compote or spicy mustard”? Where can I experience this? I could talk about this in my dreams also, if I were ever able to taste it.

Glass C2: This will be the tulip glass. It’s just so ﬂavorful and I think that glass would be just smashing.

“Tulip glass.” That is what I suggested. Also. . . “smashing”. . . anytime that adjective is used, I agree.

Style Guess C1: American IPA or imperial IPA.

Behind the Blind Guess Two Cicerones guessed beer on ﬁrst guess. One guessed on second guess. C3: There’s something about a Hops & Grain beer that has a very unique character. I don’t know if it’s the yeast strain. A nice relatively clean yeast strain. Or the fact that my roommate works there and I drink a lot of Greenhouse IPA.

Brewer Grade Josh: From a grade standpoint, being the critical seventh grade teacher that I was, I would say based on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, the test you would take if you were a seventh grader, that you have all passed to the next grade. And I have a feeling you’ll excel well in eighth grade.

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CRAFT Words by AARON CHAMBERLAIN

CRAFT BEER IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW. CRAFT BEER BARS. CRAFT BEER SHOPS. Craft beer blogs. Craft beer books. Craft beer book signings. Craft beer apps. Craft beer podcasts. Craft beer documentaries. You might even say you are reading a craft beer magazine. Let’s cut the craft. I am not saying anything about the beer or the culture surrounding it. I’m talking about the term “craft.” Sometime last summer I started questioning the use of craft in the beer community. At the time I felt that craft was becoming a useless marketing word (especially for drinkers). As soon as the term craft started gaining steam, it immediately seemed dated, similar to microbrewery, especially if you were using it in your brewery name. I figured at some point owners would think, “Damn, I wish we had just called ourselves a brewery.” These thoughts were spurred on by the fact that Jester King had Craft Brewery in their name. It seemed like a superfluous add-on to the brewery name. A justification that was not needed. The craft was evident in the content of the bottles they produce. Craft was a marketing tool that was ultimately unnecessary. Around that same time I attended a going away party for Matt Abendschein, the creator of the blog You Stay Hoppy Austin. He was leaving Austin for the bright lights of DFW. In attendance were two Certified Cicerones. So I posed to them the question, “How long until Jester King drops the Craft from their brewery name?” They both looked at me queerly and wondered why I would even ask such a question. They both basically said, “Never.” And then what happens? A couple months later, Jester King drops Craft. Obviously my discussion with these, I’m sure otherwise knowledgeable, Cicerones had nothing to do with it. It was just one of those odd coincidences. I did some Googling and discovered that questioning craft is something that has been bubbling up quite a bit in the last year. But most of those discussions revolved around the subject of defining craft. The US definition is officially laid down by the Brewer’s Association and many people seem to have problems with it. One problem with the definition, it changes. Some big changes were made to their definition in March. But I don’t want to talk about definitions. 34

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CRAFT Like I said, my main reason for objecting to the term craft was that it seemed outdated, a la microbrewery. Although microbrewery sounds passe, it does actually give some clues right off the bat to with what you are dealing. As soon as a brewery calls themselves micro, you know they ain’t the big boys. It does not testify to the quality, but certainly their size, to a degree. Craft on the other hand is mysterious. Sure the Brewer’s Association has tried to define the term, but. . . STOP. I almost slipped into definition chatter. I also thought it was strange that we were attaching such a limiting label to beer. What is wrong with beer? Why do we need to put it in a box. Do cheese lovers only seek out craft cheese? Wine fans? No, they seek the best wine and cheese they can get. In a discussion with a wine or cheese buff, varieties and particular makers are mentioned. Just as with beer, there are certainly ways to find out which products are prime: magazines, websites, classifications, etc. Those things make up a culture. All cultures have their nasty bits. Macro and micro bits of nastiness are present in beer culture as well. Plopping craft on the front of beer and trying to set up parameters does not cure that problem. Think about how many times you have to explain to family and friends what craft beer is. Having that craft in front of beer does not help clarify anything for beer newbs. There is still a large amount of explanation that occurs. “Well, it means they are smaller and independent. . . usually, not always. They are just better, more carefully produced beers, like the hops and malts are meticulously chosen, well not necessarily. It’s just good!” On and on. The conversation usually ends with giving examples of your favorite beers. Craft shone no light onto the conversation. If you are like me you just 36

avoid this whole conversation. Just tell your mom you are a wine snob. But I am just a fan. Beer nerds have a lot of nutty ideas. I wanted to hear why a brewery would take the step to cut craft from their name, so I reached out to Jeffery Stuffings at Jester King Craft Brewery: “Our decision to drop ‘craft’ from our name was motivated in part by our opinion that the term has become so amorphous and all-encompassing, that it now holds little tangible meaning. Some of the largest breweries in the world making over 1,000 times more beer than us are considered ‘craft.’ Breweries employing substandard practices fueled by suspect intentions are considered ‘craft.’ Likewise, some breweries adhering to strong principles and producing excellent beer are not considered ‘craft’ because they fail to meet the independence criteria contained within the Brewers Association definition. “ Ok, so he talked a little about the definition, but he did point to the idea, as I said before, the term craft is too mysterious with which to attach an entire culture. He concluded, “Rather than presenting a suggestive but mostly hollow adjective to beer drinkers who see our name, we felt more comfortable simply calling ourselves a ‘Brewery’ and letting beer drinkers draw their own conclusions from there based on the quality of our beer.” Breweries are going to use craft. They are all in. I can’t blame them, it’s good for marketing. But how does that help the drinker? Any brewery can purchase some slick packaging and call themselves a craft brewery. Any brewery can work towards hitting all of the BA’s specifications to get on some master list of craft breweries. But what if the beer sucks. “Hey dude, at least it’s craft beer, right?”

If you do it right, it goes like so: BUZZZZzzzz buZZZZZZ BUzzzzzz buZZZZZZ and so on. We couldn’t find any medical journals or doctors to sign off on this, but with all the linkbait articles that begin with “new research shows” and then go on to spell out the “health benefits” of coffee and beer to the relief of the guilty over-indulgers everywhere, we’re almost positive that if coffee is good for you and beer is good for you, then coffee AND beer can only be great, right? Whether these two liquid gifts from God are combined during brewing, blended after, enjoyed in succession, used to temper the other, or simply indulged in combination because YOLO, you can’t go wrong chasing some of the bean with the grain and vice versa. The subtle nuances found in a cup comprised of beans from high quality roasters manipulated in the hands and tools of skilled baristas (coffee crafters?) is just as stimulating as a well made beer crafted and brewed with superb ingredients by an experienced brewer. So whether you enjoy your coffee and your beer separately, back to back, blended, or brewed together, you’ll likely find a few choice spots amongst our list that will definitely hit the spot and help you accomplish a healthy buzz and buzz.

500 San Marcos Street thebrewandbrew.com Recommended pairing: The Brew & Brew suggested or requested coffee + beer pairing on a nifty wood serving tray So we borrowed this feature’s name from Brew & Brew. Sorry not sorry. Honestly, I think it came from a tired ABG meeting at the ol’ B&B when we were uncharacteristically dry on ideas and suddenly thought to write up a list of great coffee and beer joints. Of course the Wright Bros. were ﬁrst to mind. Not even a year old, B&B crush the competish in both beer selection and rotation, coffee quality, and also a very healthy self awareness of when to be a bar and when to be a coffee shop with just the right amount of attitude of each at all times. It’s a venerable Jekyll and Hyde for the self medicating. With 39 well-curated rotating taps of tastiness and a coffee side hip and hip with the bean geniuses at Flat Track, B&B has the cure to what ails you at any time of the day.

4200 North Lamar Boulevard houndstoothcoffee.com Recommended pairing: Coffee Beer Repeat - two coffees + two beers for $12 Houndstooth, fresh off opening their second location downtown, focuses on quality and process over speed. Don’t come here looking for a quick cup of drip, but when you do you’ll ﬁnd a group of folks passionate about their product and process. Houndstooth is not as much a coffee shop in the traditional “Friends” deﬁnition, but more a “coffee appreciators collective.” Sure you can come hang out and such, but it’s more about coming to enjoy the coffee than to check your Facebook a hundred times while you pretend to “hammer out some work” and make multiple bathroom trips thanks to the bottomless cup you’ve been nursing going on three hours. Yeah, they have beer too. With only four taps and a nice selection of cans, it’s no Draught House (although just a stone’s throw away), but what they do pour is local and, like their coffee, well-curated. If you’ve got the opportunity try the “Coffee Beer Repeat” special comprised of, um, well a coffee, a beer, and then another of each. It’s $12 and worth it to ask the barista for pairing suggestions.

1401 Koenig Lane 2200 Manor Road thunderbirdcoffee.com Recommended pairing: Thai Iced Coffee and Live Oak Pilz (hey, summer’s almost here) There was a time (Clementine, anyone?) when Thunderbird on Manor claimed to maybe have the most taps on the east side. Now with their extensive renovation at the Koenig location, they can claim to have the most taps next to a high school. While Manor maintains itself as a college favorite with caffeine and (mostly local) booze fueling cramming sessions from dawn to dusk, Koenig is transforming itself from a Brentwood coffee staple to a full service neighborhood beverage stop. Sure it always had beer to accompany the well-crafted Cuvee-based drinks and light fare, but with 35 new taps and a remodel, they’re refreshing themselves to join the ranks of establishments that blur the coffee and beer lines to create a social space where you’ll be more likely to talk than type.

1400 East 38th 1/2 Street cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com Recommended pairing: Espresso and Brooklyn Chocolate Stout Cherrywood Coffeehouse is nestled comfortably in it’s neighborhood namesake just a stone’s throw east of I-35. It’s a favorite neighborhood haunt due to it’s low-key eclectic decor, plentiful indoor and outdoor seating, ﬁfteen rotating local and national taps, coffee varieties, and mostly for its unassuming yet delicious food menu. Cherrywood is dog and kid friendly and hosts a plethora of community events including open mic nights. It’s great any time of day you’d care to get buzzed or buzzed in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere.

1505 Town Creek Drive buzzmillcoffee.com Recommended pairing: Americano and Alaskan Amber The Buzz Mill wins for best signage. Walk beneath the giant grizzly bear, if you are brave enough to enter. Inside, the atmosphere is a sort of hipster Cracker Barrel, less country, more mountain. But the Cracker Barrel does not have good beer and good coffee like the Buzz Mill. They have a full coffee menu and 12 taps (beer, cider, and kombucha). If you are really looking to get your buzz on, they have a full bar as well. The inside area is not huge, so if it gets too crowded head out to their expansive backyard to play hand-made bar games (craft games!); Also outside, enjoy the ultimate dichotomy of cuisine, vegan tacos from Rockin Vegan Tacos and BBQ from The Blue Ox. Not into those? Visit on Sunday morning for all you can eat pancakes.

1010 East Cesar Chavez Street cenoteaustin.com Recommended Pairing: Cortado and Hops & Grain Alt There are coffee shops and coffee houses. Cenote is definitely the latter. Just a couple of blocks east of I-35 before you hit Piñata Alley, Cenote is home to eight taps and 15+ bottles and cans along with craft coffee and a full food menu, including Fri-Sun brunch. The cozy, old house interior is an artist den for creatives that opens up to a relaxing porch and expansive wrap around patio of umbrella covered picnic tables. It’s the kind of place you’d wake up on Sunday morning, roll out of bed for that first shot of espresso and some eggs, move onto the porch with coffee and the paper, and eventually find your way into the sun, beer in hand, as you let the day slip away. That is, until you realize some Beer Guide jerks have taken over the patio because their kids love climbing on the larger-than-life octopus sculpture out front.

2908 Fruth Street spiderhousecafe.com Recommended pairing: Macchiato and (512) Pecan Porter Spider House is the grandpa of coffee and beer in Austin. But being Austin, this grandfather is a bit different, eclectic, and still in college. Located next to the UT campus, Spider House has been keeping fake studiers buzzed since the early 90s. They have tons of beer on tap, mostly locals, and any coffee concoction you could think up. This is another joint that also features a full bar for maximum learning. Their patio area is something out of a trippy nightmare, which in the end you are sad to wake up from. Don’t make a mistake and not order anything off their food menu, it’s some pretty tasty grub.

John McIntosh The Barber Shop Coffee with a pinch of sweetened cocoa powder and half and half. Michael Waters Uncle Billy’s I take my coffee in double espresso form with absolutely no sugar or additives. Joe Mohrfeld Pinthouse Pizza Depends, but here is one scenario: I wake up and make my traditional morning cup of coffee with my french press and decide on that particular day a little cream and cinnamon sound nice. . . so I add it. The next morning when I go

through this same process of waking up, I realize I am out of coffee at my house so I instead go over to Houndstooth and have a perfectly made cup of coffee black. Josh Hare Hops & Grain I take my coffee in two forms, listed in order of preference: Cortado and French Press. Kevin Roark North by Northwest Gotta have my coffee every morning! I’ll brew an entire pot that me and my assistant, Joel will usually polish that off within our ﬁrst hour at work. Take my coffee with a little half and half, but no sweetener. Nate Seale (512) Brewing At the brewery: Usually

black, and lots of it. Our coffee machine wears a permanent Employee of the Month ribbon. At home: Chemex glass dripper, maybe a little almond milk to start, easing towards black as the morning goes on. Justin Rizza Flix Brewhouse French press and super black. Erik Ogershok Real Ale Brewing Co.

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Ben Sabel Circle Brewing Co. Strong and black. Like a boss.

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Daytrippin’ Out West Words by CHRIS TROUTMAN Photos by AARON CHAMBERLAIN

ON ONE OF THOSE RANDOM BEAUTIFUL 75 degree days we had sandwiched between 30 degree days late last February your intrepid heroes three decided the Lake Austin/Marble Falls area was ready for a nice healthy beer and loathing. With breweries, brew pubs, dive bars, and camping a plenty, the area west of Bee Cave on Highway 71 is a venerable fertile crescent of booze and mischief to be had. And with camping on the docket, there was little to hold us back minus our livers’ constitutions. I picked up Aaron bright and early (or maybe closer to 11. . . ) and we stocked up on sustenance for our adventure. I was particularly excited to ﬁll my new Stanley Classic vacuum thermos with coffee to test it’s 24 hour regulated temperature endurance. I love camping and I especially love enjoying some hot coffee around the still warm coals the morning after an outdoor evening of imbibing. OK, Stanley, we’ll see how you do. . . With our cooler full of beer, sausages, cheese and ice and hearts full of hope, we made our way west out on Highway 71, but not without a stop for a tasty bottle of bourbon to seal the evening’s deal. Bulleit Rye was our poison of choice. After 45 minutes of discussing things that dads who own magazines do, we arrived at Pace Bend, a Travis County park with lake

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views and cliff side campsites incredible enough to tempt you to just stay camping forever. Camping forever. . . We chose a doozy of a spot; close enough to a toilet in case of emergencies but not so close fellow poopers would walk by, a not too distant trek from the car to the camping area, plenty of level ground for tents, an already assembled rustic ﬁre circle, beautiful lake views, access to the cliff sides for sunset drinking, and absolutely zero neighbors. As glorious as our spot was, we knew that Double Horn in Marble Falls had tasty burgers and beers waiting for us. Pace Bend to Marble Falls looks a lot closer on Google maps than it does from within the actual car. As we passed several suitable places to enjoy good food and beer, we began to second guess our plans, but Aaron, stalwart that he is, kept us on track. So with rumbling tummies we pulled into the Double Horn parking lot and made our way to the bar. I’ve only eaten at the bar and can only recommend one does when visiting. The service is great and when it’s not too busy it’s nice to chat up the bartenders about brewer Eric Casey’s latest concoctions. And it’s also a great way to get smack dab in the middle of the local culture. We ran into the world’s most awkward dad trying to teach his kid to sit on a stool and drink from a straw at the same time

(amateur), a pair of the most authentic cowboys we’ve ever seen pounding more Bud Lights than we could house beer samplers, and the most chatty Cathy good ol’ boy west of I-35. Seriously, that guy was addressing the entire bar every time he spoke. He was a mix between Kramer, Rosanne, and Barney from the Simpsons. Yeah, sit at the bar. Besides our amazing eclectic company, we enjoyed bison burgers, onion rings stacked higher than the unsold Bitch Beer books at Book People, and a few flights of the house brews. I always enjoy Eric’s pale and IPA, but this day they had on their Scout Stout, a tasty roasty beverage just right to set the tone for our evening outdoors around a fire. We would have stayed for more but adventure was calling and luckily we found it just on the other side of the Double Horn parking lot manifested as a back alley entrance to an establishment displaying the simple straight forward sign “Sports Tavern.” With a scary metal ramp and a dumpster serving as door man, we knew this place wasn’t to be fucked with. We entered with a healthy trepidation and quickly scanned the mile long bar for the three 1pm patrons. A guy playing Candy Crush (we assumed he was the owner), a “regular” with cowboy hat drawn low and sipping something yellow and fizzy, and the bartender were all smoking. Except maybe the bartender, but really, she might as well been. They don’t make bars like this anymore. Aaron ordered two frosted tumblers filled with Fireman’s #4, and as our eyes adjusted to the darkness we were able to fully take in our surroundings to find two Skeeball lanes. And upon asking if they were operational (I can’t remember why I assumed they weren’t. . .) we were informed they were, and also free. Gratis Skeeball. I’d like to imagine this place is what the celebrated musician Coolio had in mind when he penned our generation’s preeminent classic, “Gangsta’s Paradise.” So with a frosty Fireman’s #4 in

the left, and wooden balls in the right we skeed into the afternoon. Like most of these outings, as we found ourselves maintaining that perfect balance of bliss and buzzed, sadly we had to move on—camping was calling. With Marble Falls in the rearview mirror, we swung back by the campsite to rendezvous with Josh and made haste to one of our area’s youngest breweries, Solid Rock Brewing in Spicewood. When we arrived the SR crew were out in full force bottling their latest batch of Roundhead Red. Solid Rock is not open yet for public tastings or tours, but they will be mid to late summer. Co-founder Steve Jones showed us around and served us a few Roundheads (I’m still kicking myself for forgetting to ask what a “Roundhead” is) while we chatted and drank in the brewery loft with Hill Country views to our back and a bottling frenzy down below. Steve explained they had their IPA in the tanks with a cream ale and dry Irish stout on deck. We didn’t want to keep Steve from his bottling station too long so we finished our Roundhead’s and said goodbye, excited to check out the rest of their offerings as soon as they hit Austin. We continued towards the lake, through the lavish neighborhoods of Lakeway as they gave way to more and more earmarks of a true lake community (read: boats in every driveway/yard) and we finally arrived at Infamous Brewing just at the tail end of their Saturday tasting room hours. We arrived just in time to jump on co-owner Josh Horowitz’s final tour of the day. We grabbed pours of the coffee version of their Bugsy’s amber, Sweep the Leg Peanut Butter stout, and the IPA and followed Horowitz and Infamous head brewer Matt Bitsche as they led us through their brewery. If you’ve been on one brewery tour you’ve been on them all, but the Infamous tour, much like Live Oak, is interesting as a lot about the brewery’s character and ingenuity is revealed through their cleverly self-engi-

neered brewhouse and brewery operations. Horowitz and Bitsche, both coming from strong homebrew backgrounds, brought that conﬁdent DIY ethos with them and their brewhouse is a testament to the American “fuck you, I’ll do it how I think best” attitude that is especially at home out by the lake. Enough making bald eagles shed single tears, it was just tasty beer. Especially the IPA, which is the next canned beer Infamous plans to release. On the day we came there was a high end car detailer on premise to detail your car while you detailed your liver. The next weekend Horowitz said they’d have some tax professionals out to help prepare your taxes. ‘Cause sure, why not? Whatever, their IPA is damn tasty these days and if you can get other professional services rendered while enjoying a few, then the better for you. Aaron and I were toast at this point. Luckily the fresh faced Josh was driving this leg and he put a prompt stop to our dumb asses taking 1990s’ JCPenney’s fashion photos on the old-timey Infamous vehicles and drove us back to Pace Bend. Good lord, I’m glad neither of us were wearing ﬂannel, combat boots, or overalls that afternoon or we’d have never left. We were not done yet. Just a literal stone’s throw outside the gates of Pace Bend sits a little piece of Heaven known as Moon River Bar-Grill. Josh enlightened us to the glories of this lakeside/proximity drinking hole with neon lit interior and outdoor seating comprised of large wooden wire spindles

arranged amongst a grove of large live oaks. We three choked down cold Ziegenbock from Bud Light logo tumblers beneath the live oak canopies as we each contemplated the life choices that brought us there. No, it wasn’t so bad. I just pretended I was drinking Pepsigone-bad in a nice setting with my friends and it went down easy enough. It’s a nice citycleanser before you enter Pace Bend. Now you, like we have for a while, may wonder the exact “rules” about drinking out at Pace Bend. For the years we’ve been going it’s always been a “don’t ask don’t tell” paper bag situation. We’ve always operated under that assumption; once even to the degree of justifying a keg because it was “out of sight” in the trash can of ice. Well friends, on this trip, it was finally spelled out for us. The kind woman running the entry gate simply explained it like this; “Keep your alcohol out of sight.” She didn’t say “Now if you have alcohol. . . ” She knew. Like your parents when you come home from college, Pace Bend is finally admitting were all adults and no longer pretending this is just innocent camping. It was like that awkward yet validating time your old man slipped you a jimmy hat before that big date, Pace Bend told us since we’re going to do it, at least do it by some agreed upon rules. Roger that. Now I’ll spare you the details of our camping, but know it involved some cliff drinking, a little bit of bourbon, some chill tunes, meat cooked over fire, and oh yeah, cups of still hot coffee in the morning.

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Draught House* INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4112 Medical Pkwy Austin, TX 78756 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . Mon–Thu 3pm–2am, Fri–Sun 1pm–2am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes (many) BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes (growlers) BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.draughthouse.com

Brewer Josh Wilson likes to keep his beers moving. Josh doesn’t adhere to the general brew pub rules that say you have to develop four solid recipes and keep those on year long while only reserving a few taps for experimentation and seasonals.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING GZY EaVcZi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Ale 7dbWVn >E6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA ?jWVa 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winter Warmer

WE RECOMMEND Malt Ball, Red Planet (also Double Red Planet), Bombay IPA

*Draught House is not currently brewing, but still has plenty of good brews ﬂowing.

Hops & Grain Brewing INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .507 Calles Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . Wed–Fri 2–10pm Sat 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . Yes (Basically) BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hopsandgrain.com

Bringing his Colorado beer knowledge and inspiration to Austin, Josh Hare has opened one of Austin’s two east side breweries. With three year-round beers canned for easy use during your outdoor drinking endeavors, and a handful rotating series: Greenhouse, Volumes of Oak, and Volumes of Funk.

BEER SAMPLING

Pale Dog, The One They Call Zoe, Greenhouse IPA

EVaZ 9d\. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale 6ai"ZgVi^dc. . . . . . . . . . Dusseldorf-style Altbier I]Z DcZ I]Zn 8Vaa OdZ . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Lager <gZZc]djhZ >E6 . . . . . . . . . .Rotating IPA Series

WE RECOMMEND

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Live Oak Brewing Co. INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3301 East 5th Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . No, samples only BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.liveoakbrewing.com

Built by hand by Chip McElroy in a small (and now worn) building on the east side of town, Live Oak has been an Austin staple since 1997. They use an old-world style of brewing mostly practiced throughout Germany and the Czech Republic and utilize techniques such as open fermentation and secondary lagering.

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WE RECOMMEND

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(512) Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407 Radam Lane Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS. .Some Saturdays with RSVP GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . No, samples only BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.512brewing.com

Kevin Brand moved back to Austin from California in early 2008 to start the brewery and began brewing beer that summer. Brand’s initial lineup was the Wit, Pale, and IPA, but quickly added the Pecan Porter to the year round line up after the enormous reception it received as the ﬁrst winter seasonal. Currently (512)’s beers are only available on draft but they have had some special releases in bottles.

BEER SAMPLING *&' >E6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA *&' EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale *&' EZXVc EdgiZg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter *&' L^i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wit or white beer

WE RECOMMEND Pecan Porter, IPA, Pale Ale

Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . 1305 West Oltorf Street Austin, TX 78704 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . Varied, check website Closed Mondays GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.theabgb.com

Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. (ABGB) swung wide their doors in late August and have been steadily supplying their south Lamar n’hood and beyond with tasty brewed beverages and pies like old pros. And that’s because this “new” establishment is run by some old stalwarts of Austin brewing lore. Amos Lowe and Brian “Swifty” Peters, co-brewers and founders work tirelessly to keep the suds a ﬂowing.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

7^\ BVbV GZY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hoppy Red Ale 9Vn Ig^e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale =Zaa NZh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helles Lager >cYjhign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German Pilsner

Hell Yes, Big Mama Red, Industry

Always Available: IPA, PECAN PORTER, WIT, PALE. Next up: TRIPEL & ENGLISH STRONG ALE

512brewing.com

Hand crafted American ales from the heart of Austin Over 80% organic ingredients in every pint Available on draft at the finest bars in Texas Family owned, operated & 100% self-distributed

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Independence Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3913 Todd Lane Austin, TX 78744 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fri 4–8pm, ﬁrst Saturday of the month GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . Yes (Basically) BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . .www.independencebrewing.com

Husband and wife Rob and Amy Cartwright started Independence Brewing Co. in south Austin in 2004, but were active members of the ATX brewing community long before. Since opening, Independence has created a local niche for themselves by packaging the OU Suks bottles every fall for the UT vs. OU game, supplying the Alamo Drafthouse house beer from 2004-2009, and hosting the large monthly beer gathering at their ﬁrst Saturday tasting and tours.

BEER SAMPLING 8dck^Xi =^aa DVibZVa Hidji. . . . . Oatmeal Stout >cYZeZcYZcXZ EVaZ 6aZ. . . . American Pale Ale HiVh] >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Convict Hill, Stash IPA

Kamala Brewing at the Whip In INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1950 IH-35 Austin, TX 78704 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10am–12am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . www.whipin.com/brewery.htm

Born a simple family owned convenience store on the side of I-35, Whip In was not content to live its days out that way. After becoming one of the top bottle shops in Austin, they slowly crept tap by delicious tap to becoming one of the largest draft and Texas-brewed beer selections in town. And now, they are home to Kamala Brewing.

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WE RECOMMEND

7gV]bVaZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA K^h]cVk^ig^eVaZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tripel <VcZh]VaZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Belgian Quad AV`h]b^ =Z[Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spiced Wheat Ale

Brahmale

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South Austin Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . .415 East Saint Elmo Road Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website, Groovy Sundays (most Sundays), 3–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . .www.southaustinbrewing.com

Parked in the same neighborhood as Independence and (512) breweries, South Austin Brewing Co. have been producing their signature Belgian-style ales since 2012. Brewing on their trusty 50-barrel Newlands brewhouse, they supply the ﬁne folks of south Austin and beyond with yummy Belgian inspired beers often paired with local live music in the brewery.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Belgian Style Golden Ale, Saison D’Austin

7Za\^Vc HinaZ <daYZc 6aZ . .Belgian Golden Ale HV^hdc 9É6jhi^c. . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Saison

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Uncle Billyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 1530 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . Sunâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Thu 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12am, Friâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sat 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;11pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.unclebillysaustin.com

Texas is BBQ heaven. Austin is Texas Craft Beer heaven. Put them together and you get Uncle Billyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brew and Que. Uncle Billyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the ideal spot after a day of festival-ing at Zilker Park or cooling off at the springs. Brewer Michael Waters has kept on the Austin staple Ax Handle Pale Ale while mixing in a constant rotation of beers with an emphasis on hoppy ales and sessionable lagers.

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WE RECOMMEND

6m =VcYaZ EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . American Pale Ale <gZZc Gddb >E6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Hbd`ZY Dji Hidji . . . . . . . . . . . . Smoked Stout H\i# HiZYZc`d . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Red Ale

Ax Handle, Green Room IPA

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BREWERIES &'# 8^gXaZ 7gZl^c\ 8d# 2340 West Braker Lane &(# 6jhi^c 7ZZgldg`h 3009 Industrial Terrace &)# 6YZaWZgiÉh 7gZlZgn 2314 Rutland Drive, Ste 100

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Adelbert’s Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . .2314 Rutland Drive #100 Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . Wed & Thu 5–8pm, Fri 5–8pm, Sat 1–4pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . Yes (Basically) BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.adelbertsbeer.com

In 2010, Scott Hovey was ripe for a midlife career change and when he looked for inspiration, he found it in the eclectic and exciting life of his deceased older brother, Adelbert. Adelbert’s is a tribute to George Adelbert Hovey (1953–2000). Scott was introduced to the complexities and ﬂavor possibilities in bottle conditioned aged Belgian beers at the 2010 Craft Brewers Conference. He returned and set out to start Austin’s ﬁrst all Belgian-style bottle and keg conditioned brewery, aptly named after his older brother.

BEER SAMPLING E]âdhde]ôZg . . . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Saison IgêZa 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Belgian-Style Tripel Ale HXgViX]^cÉ =êed . .Belgian-Style Biere de Garde

WE RECOMMEND Scratchin’ Hippo, Philosophizer

Austin Beerworks INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . 3009 Industrial Terrace Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . Thu & Fri 5–9pm, Sat & Sun 1pm–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . Yes (Basically) BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.austinbeerworks.com

Austin Beerworks is a collection of four friends spanning from the East coast to Austin, united and “hell-bent on excellence” in beer making. The beerworkers, Michael, Will, Adam, and Mike, have raised an impressive production brewery and cannery in the northwest sector of town since April 2011. With their regular lineup of four beers—including 2011 GABF silver medal winner Peacemaker Extra Pale—the four friends have come storming out of the gates and onto the Austin beer scene.

BEER SAMPLING 7aVX` I]jcYZg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schwarzbier ;^gZ :V\aZ 6bZg^XVc >E6 . . . . . . .American IPA EZVga HcVe <ZgbVc E^ah. . . . . German Pilsner =ZVkn BVX]^cZgn . . . . . . . . .Rotating IPA Series

WE RECOMMEND Heavy Machinery, Black Thunder, Pearl Snap

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Black Star Co-op INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . .7020 Easy Wind Drive Austin, TX 78752 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Mon–Thu 4pm–12am, Fri-Sat 11am–1am, Sun 11am–12am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.blackstar.com

Black Star Co-op is the ﬁrst known cooperatively-run/owned brew pub in the world with members from across the globe. Monthly beer socials, starting in 2006, provided an outlet for recruiting new members and grew to host up to 500 members at each gathering. Black Star Co-op encapsulates everything Austin with an emphasis on local producers and community action, all through enjoyment of local beer.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Moebius, Double Dee

6m^db . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Lager OZe]ng EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale 9djWaZ 9ZZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale

Circle Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . 2340 West Braker Lane, Suite B Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . .Occasional open houses GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . No, samples only BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.circlebrewing.com

Circle Brewing appeared on the internet beer rumor mill in the second half of 2008. Fast forward two years, Ben Sabel and Jud Mulherin were brewing their ﬁrst batches of beer for Austin. Circle brews their beer following the Reinheitsgebot, the German purity law from 1516. Their basic philosophy to make beer “with only the best ingredients and NONE of the other stuff.” If you can ﬁnd Smokin’ Beech on tap somewhere, get it while you can.

BEER SAMPLING 7ajg IZmVh =Z[Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen :ckn 6bWZg 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale =de DkZgWdVgY EVaZ 6aZ. . . American Pale Ale C^\]ia^\]i >g^h] Hidji . . . . . . . . . Dry Irish Stout

WE RECOMMEND Nightlight Irish Stout, Hop Overboard Pale Ale

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North by Northwest INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 10010 Capital of TX Hwy N Austin, TX 78759 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nxnwbrew.com

North by Northwest is Austin’s most upscale brew pub and offers a complete menu, with the restaurant itself driving many people to the establishment. Identiﬁable by the grain silo out front, the feel is very “Northwest lodge,” rounded out by stone, wood and a ﬁreplace. The beers are solid and their monthly cask nights have a dedicated following.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

7Vgidc @g^Z` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sour/Lambic 9jX`VWjh] 6bWZg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Cdgi]Zgc A^\]i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pilsner D`VcV\Vc 7aVX` 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black Ale En_^c\d EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

Pyjingo Pale Ale, Barton Kriek

Pinthouse Pizza INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4729 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78756 DRINKING HOURS . . . . .Sun–Wed 11am–11pm, Thu–Sat 11am–12am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.pinthousepizza.com

Pinthouse Pizza opened to much anticipation in the fall of 2012, on the cusp of Austin Beer Week. Following California’s Pizza Port model, the brew pub slings beers from the bar, and pizzas from the counter in the beer hall-esque atmosphere. Head brewer Joe Mohrfeld brews a solid line up of staple beers, along with a series of special releases and his Fallen Cask IPA series. Go for the pizza, stay for the beer.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING 7a^cY ?V`Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Porter 8VabV BjZgiV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Session Ale ;VaaZc 8Vh` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IPA Series >gdc <Zccn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale BVc DÉ LVg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Blind Jake, Man O’ War, Fallen Cask Series

You know those epic days that start with an idea, turn into a dare and end with a great story to tell? This is the beer for those days. Crisp and refreshing like any respectable session ale, but a bit more hop-forward and flavorful than some. Perfect for going with the flow.

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The Barber Shop Bar INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207 Mercer Street Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.barbershopbar.com

The Barber Shop is another testament to the iron will of homebrewers. With an emphasis on the “bar” in Barber Shop, they left the historical building’s name the same, while sprucing up the inside with a lush wood bar, rustic amenities and a strategically occupied tap wall. Brewer John McIntosh intends to focus on English pub ales.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

;adnY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA DVibZVa Hidji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oatmeal Stout BjaaZi B^aY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mild Ale EVcYZb^X EdgiZg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter

Floyd, Mullet Mild

Double Horn Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208 Avenue H Marble Falls, TX 78654 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . www.doublehornbrewing.com

Double Horn, the ﬁrst and only brew pub in Burnet County, is seated right off 281 in Marble Falls. Frustrated by the lack of quality beer, food, and atmosphere to enjoy it in, owner Dusty Knight opened Double Horn last May. Knight and head brewer Eric Casey have made it their mission to supply residents with quality house beers and local craft brews.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Güero, Scout Stout

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Flix Brewhouse INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 2200 South IH-35, Suite B1 Round Rock, TX 78681 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.ﬂixbrewhouse.com

How many movie theatres have a brewhouse in their front window? Not many. You might even catch brewmaster Justin Rizza brewing up something tasty as you rush in for the latest 300 ﬂick. Drink from their four regular and two seasonal house taps or one of many guest taps.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING AjcV GdhV L^i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witbier Ajejajh >E6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA HV^hdc YZ LVai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saison HViZaa^iZ GZY 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Ale

WE RECOMMEND Saison de Walt, Lupulus IPA

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Infamous Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4602 Weletka Drive Austin, TX 78734 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fri 4pm–8pm, Sat–Sun 1pm–5pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.infamousbrewing.com

Zack Perry, Josh Horowitz, and brewer Matt Bitsche left various career backgrounds to start Infamous Brewing Co. in Austin and got the wheels rolling for Infamous in June of 2012. In less than a they year got their brewhouse up and running. Infamous came on the scene in spring 2013 with their take on a cream ale and an IPA, with other seasonal and special releases coming soon after. They began canning their year-round beers in late 2013.

BEER SAMPLING >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA =^_VX` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cream Ale 7j\hnÉh ;^gZ 7gjh] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale HlZZe i]Z AZ\ . . . . . . . . . . Peanut Butter Stout

WE RECOMMEND IPA, Sweep the Leg

Jester King Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13187 Fitzhugh Road Austin, TX 78736 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . .Fri 4pm–10pm, Sat & Sun 12pm–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . www.jesterkingbrewery.com

Ambitious from the start, the brothers made their commercial debut with a session beer, wearing the moniker Commercial Suicide. It was anything but. They have since transitioned this beer, along with their original lineup, to farmhouse versions, followed by a very popular series of sour barrel-aged creations, and most recently ventured into sour beer and fermented fruit blends starting with the raspberry Atrial Rubicite and the current strawberry Omniscience & Proselytism. Their tasting room at the brewery is most often the best place to ﬁnd and grab their latest beers.

BEER SAMPLING 6ig^Va GjW^X^iZ . . . . . . . . .Raspberry Sour Beer 7aVX` BZiVa . . . . . . . Farmhouse Imperial Stout AZ EZi^iZ Eg^cXZ . . . . . . Farmhouse Table Beer CdWaZ @^c\. . . . . . . . . . . . Hoppy Farmhouse Ale LniX]bV`Zg . . . . . . . . . . . . Farmhouse Rye IPA

WE RECOMMEND Le Petite Prince, Atrial Rubicite

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Middleton Brewing INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

CURRENT LOCATION. . . . .9595 Ranch Road 12 Wimberley, TX 78676 FUTURE LOCATION . . . . . . . 101 Oakwood Loop San Marcos, TX 78666 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . Mon–Fri 2pm–9pm, Sat 12pm–9pm, Sun 12pm–5pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . www.middletonbrewingtx.com

The owners, the Middletons, hail from the sunny state of California. They brought with them, like many other West Coast brewers, a love for the HOP. In addition to hoppy monsters, they specialize in subtle Belgian-style ales. They have plans this year to move to a much larger facility.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING FjVgio^iZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Belgian-Style Blonde <VgcZi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Amber 9g^[ilddY EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Garnet, Driftwood Pale Ale

Pecan Street Brewing INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 East Pecan Drive Johnson City, TX 78636 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . .www.pecanstreetbrewing.com

Pecan Street resides in a space formerly occupied by the town hardware store, in Johnson City’s historic town square. Owners Tim and Patty Elliott, with their head brewer and son Sean, aim to make the brew pub the town gathering center that the hardware store once was. Their house beers and guest taps are complimented by head chef John Yachimski’s eclectic brick oven pizza, salad, and burger menu.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING AVYnW^gYÉh Lî. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witbier IZc EZccn CVâ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale 8djcin ?Vâ EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . American Pale Ale ?d]chdc 8în AV\Zg . . . . . . . . . . . . . Light Lager

WE RECOMMEND Ladybird’s Wit, County Jail Pale Ale

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Real Ale Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 San Saba Court Blanco, TX 78606 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . Fridays 2–5pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.realalebrewing.com

One of the oldest breweries in central Texas, Real Ale has been in operation since 1996. The brewery originally operated out of a basement of an antique shop in Blanco (50 minutes outside Austin). In 1998, current owner Brad Farbstein took over. Real Ale moved just outside the downtown area in 2006 to a new facility, where they are currently located.

BEER SAMPLING )"HfjVgZY . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale (Squared) 9Zk^aÉh 7VX`WdcZ . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Tripel ;^gZbVcÉh ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale =VchÉ E^ah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German Pilsner G^d 7aVcXd EVaZ 6aZ . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Hans’ Pils, 4-Squared

Hamrick's Market

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BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Rogness Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . 2400 Patterson Industrial Drive Pﬂugerville, TX 78660 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . Fri & Sat 4–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.rognessbrewing.com

Rogness has been pumping out beers in Pﬂugerville ever since this project was kickstarted in 2012. And they do it without too much concern over style guidelines or popular “safe bet” beers. With the ethos of a homebrewer, Rogness aims to change it up—and keep it interesting—while delivering high quality brewed beers. Year-round and seasonal beers are on draft or in 22 oz bottles around town, but if you swing by their tours you’ll get to try out the latest small batch concoctions they’re testing.

BEER SAMPLING 7ZVgYn <jVgY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biere de Garde 7ZaaV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Golden Ale 7ddbhaVc\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . India Pale Lager GViiaZg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale Nd\^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chai Spiced Amber

WE RECOMMEND Bella, Boomslang, Rattler

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Smoke’n Hops INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3799 U.S. 290 Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Mon–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat 11am–10pm, Sun 11am–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.smokehops.com

Smoke’n Hops is Dripping Spring’s newest brew pub, bringing more BBQ and fresh beer to our Hill Country playground. They boast pit style BBQ, fresh craft beer, and a welcoming outdoor atmosphere complete with picnic tables and a playscape for the kids (extra points!). They currently have a pale ale and porter brewed on their one barrel pilot system which they hope to upgrade to a seven barrel system soon.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Canyon Pale, Smoke’n Blonde

8Vcndc EVaZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale ;^io]j\] EdgiZg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter HZhh^dc 6aZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Session Ale Hbd`ZÉc 7adcYZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale L]^gaVlVn >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

Solid Rock Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2214 Bee Creek Road Spicewood, TX 78669 DRINKING HOURS . . At time of press they have no current tap room hours GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.solidrockbrewing.com

Like so many breweries, Solid Rock is born out of a passion for homebrewing. Solid Rock was established in 2013 by three homebrewing friends: Curt Webber, Steve Jones, and Stephen McCarthy. They are shooting to create beers that are drinkable, refreshing, and even familiar. As they say in their mission statement, “We brew our beers to ﬁt like your favorite pair of jeans.”

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

7^\ 9gdj\]i Hidji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dry Stout 8]dÉHZc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hybrid Ale 8dgcZghidcZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cream Ale 9VjciaZhh >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA GdjcY]ZVY GZY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irish Red Ale

Roundhead Red, Dauntless IPA

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Thirsty Planet Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11160 Circle Drive Austin, TX 78736 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . .Saturdays 11am–3pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . Yes (basically) BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.thirstyplanet.net

Following college graduation, Brian Smittle moved to Colorado where he volunteered at the Hubcap Brewery in Vail at night. He soon became a paid employee and full-time brewer. Through his work there, he met some college students who offered him an ownership piece of a brew pub in Oklahoma. They opened in 1993 and grew to include a brewery and four satellite stores. Later he decided to escape the restaurant side of things and open a full production brewery in Austin—Thirsty Planet Brewing Co.

BEER SAMPLING 7jX`Zi]ZVY >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA I]^ghin <dVi 6bWZg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale NZaadl 6gbVY^aad L]ZVi . . . .American Wheat

WE RECOMMEND Buckethead IPA, Thirsty Goat

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Twisted X Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . 23455 West Ranch Road 150 Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . .Mon–Thu 1–8pm, Fri–Sat 11am–10pm, Sun 12–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.texmexbeer.com

Established in 2011 by Jim Sampson and Shane Bordeau in Cedar Park, Twisted X are now situated in Dripping Springs. With a Tex-Mex theme they are bound to quench the thirsts of a large swath of Austin beer drinkers. Austinites love Tex-Mex. Austinites love beer. Tex-Mex beer? Forget about it, a match made in heaven. Could a pico-de-gallo beer be in the works? Let’s hope so. Mole Porter—that’s the ticket!

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

8dl 8gZZ` . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vienna (Dark) Lager 8]jeV]degV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA ;jZ\d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jalapeño Pilsner HZ dg K^Z_d . .Barrel-aged Imperial Schwarzbier

Fuego, Señor Viejo

Wimberley Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9595 Ranch Road 12 Wimberley, TX 78676 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Varied, check website GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . .www.wimberleybrewingcompany.com

The real name for this place is Brewster’s Pizza and Wimberley Brewing Company. That is a mouthfull. As you walk into Wimberley you will notice there are a lot of kids running around. Actually, they are not running around, they are working. This is a true family business, run by the Collies. The beers are good here and the pizza is surprisingly fantastic. Try the spinach pizza.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

9gde i]Z GVWW^i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scottish Ale =Z[ZlZ^oZc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen >E6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA EZ\\nÉh 8gZVb 6aZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cream Ale

Hefeweizen, Drop the Rabbit

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5 STONES CRAFT BREWING CO. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cibolo ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.5stonesbrewing.com

PEDERNALES BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fredericksburg ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.pedernalesbrewing.com

ALAMO BEER COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Antonio URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.alamobeer.com

PETICOLAS BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.peticolasbrewing.com

BRANCHLINE BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Antonio ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.branchlinebrewing.com CEDAR CREEK BREWERY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seven Points ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.cedarcreekbrewery.com COMMUNITY BEER COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.communitybeer.com DEEP ELLUM BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.deepellumbrewing.com FRANCONIA BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKinney ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2008 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.franconiabrewing.com GUADALUPE BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Braunfels ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.guadalupebrew.com LAKEWOOD BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Garland ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.lakewoodbrewingcompany.com LONE PINT BREWERY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Magnolia ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2012 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.lonepint.com NO LABEL BREWING COMPANY LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katy ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nolabelbrew.com

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LAST CALL BEER RECOMMENDATIONS Very low ABV beer. CLOSING TIME SONG When necessary, SPK’s “Emanation Machine R. Gie 1916.” Once cleared a full bar in 20ish seconds. YouTube that shit.

$83. Meh. Scam.

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