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FROM THE EDITORS You should be reading this in a bar. Perched on a stool, holding down a table and waiting for happy hour cohorts, or sweating yourself clean on a patio, the Beer Guide is a great bar companion. Near/far, small/big, old/new, clean/dirty… Long live the beer bar (and ABG)! But, if you’ve flipped through these pages recently, you’ve noticed a lot of talk about drinking at breweries. “Tap Rooms are the New Bar” and #hyperlocal breweries, specifically. But, we love bars. Sure we’ve featured them in pretty listicles on “dive bars,” “gastro pubs,” and “bars with burgers” (sorry about that last one), but here we mean beer bars in the larger sense. They were our first love as we dipped our toes in the craft beer waters, have selfishly hosted plenty of great release parties, and are always there when the tap room kicks us out so they can go home. Sorry for the recent neglect, we’re here to make it up to you with our expertly curated list of “61 Best Beer Bars in Austin.” (p.25). We’ve actually put a lot of thought into it, and for better or worse, printed our opinion editorially (p.32). We’re so hot on bars right now that we also knocked back a few with the guys from Workhorse/Back Lot to talk bar culture in 2018 (p.18). In fact, this would be a great “bar” themed issue! But alas, we lack the foresight. Have no fear, these pages are still jam-packed with the stuff you’ve come to love to skim. Releasing after Memorial Day, we got advice from your favorite brewers on how to take advantage of all your maxin’ and relaxin’ (or chasing kids 24/7 and telling yourself this is better than work) on this year’s summer vacation (p.08). We can’t be all fun and games, though, so we asked CraftPAC Board Chair, Austin Beerworks co-founder and flipflop enthusiast Adam DeBower to take the reins for a Brewer’s Brain and educate us on outdated beer laws, advocacy and how you can help (p.12). And make sure you make it to the back half; you’ll find almost 10 new breweries that have opened their doors since the last issue. Go check ‘em out. We’ll meet up at the bar afterwards. –JS Chris Troutman Aaron Chamberlain Josh Spradling Shawn Phillips

Contents NEWS & BREWMORS .......................................02 SEASON'S DRINKING .......................................08

BREWER'S BRAIN .......................................12 OVER A PINT .......................................18

61 BEST BEER BARS .......................................25

RAISING THE BAR .......................................32 TAPROOM SCHEDULE .......................................36

CENTRAL AUSTIN .......................................39 SOUTH AUSTIN .......................................51 NORTH AUSTIN .......................................59 GREATER AUSTIN .......................................69 OTHER CEN TX BREWERIES .......................................82 CIDER AND MEAD .......................................82

LAST CALL .......................................84 PROOFREADER...........Soﬁa Chamberlain

Cover design: Sophie Roach

NEWS & BREWMORS

This is the News OPEN THE BEER GATES You know whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opened so far this year? Everyone. Back in February we had four new breweries alone. Just after the ďŹ rst of the year out in Bee Caves/Dripping Springs, Family Business Beer Co. started pouring beers for thirsty parents of both little kids (see: huge-ass playscape) and #spnfamily teens seeking a good Ackles â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gram. Prodigal son Nate Sealeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brewing up a wide variety of accessible beers so even if no one gets that celeb sighting, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be happy you made the drive. In February, Brewtorium opened the doors to their expansive brew pub/vast parking lot across from the old Highland Mall. Grab a group and head over for small bites, pizzas, salads, and other fare paired with their wits, lagers, and hoppy

offerings. And if you need to walk any of it off mid-trip, just make a few visits to the beer garden doooooown the hall. Down south, Skull Mechanix, helmed by veteran Austin brewer Michael Waters, opened off St Elmo Road with a clean tap room and strong opening lineup ready to bring more legitimacy to the Highway 71 brewery tour. Over on the east side at Manor/Airport, the highly-anticipated opening of Oddwood Ales rounded out the month. The cozy pub provides a more-than-adequate menu of pizzas and strombolis to keep you around a while why you work your way through a constantly rotating selection of pales, IPAs and saisons (along with well-curated guest taps) and hit up the free arcades and classic console games. Somewhere in there, nano-type brewery Front Yard

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Blockchain enthusiasts and craft beer nerds rejoice as Oskar Blues announces they are launching a new craft cryptocurrency called Oskoin. The new cryptocurrency will be entirely beerbased, for easy liquidation.

Austin thrilled to be chosen by PBS to be home to new branded brewery, Hop Squad, to compliment their popular kids programming, Odd Squad. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not really sure what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about, but our kids are STEM AF.

New East Side brewery, Oddwood to begin piloting revolutionary new 32oz wooden â&#x20AC;&#x153;canâ&#x20AC;? to-go vessel. At press time they were debating between naming it the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Widdler,â&#x20AC;? the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woodlerâ&#x20AC;?, or the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carrel.â&#x20AC;?

Not to be outdone by their wilder neighbors Jester King, Last Stand purchasing fez of baby armadillo to graze their property and intermingle with guests. Note, the brewery does ask visitors to drive carefully and â&#x20AC;&#x153;look twiceâ&#x20AC;? when on the property.

Thirsty south Austin throngs wait with baited breath for the Uncle Piereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beer factory to announce the reissue of the much loved Evel Ale brand. When reached for comment the factory only said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slapping other successful dudesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names on cans to sell our beer, so why not?â&#x20AC;?

Vista Brewing announces purchase of Kaho'olawe (Hawaii's smallest island) to further boost "destination brewery" cred.

NEWS CONTINUED . . . started canning their offerings. They don’t have a taproom, or website, yet, but you can ﬁnd them packaged at Exxon on Cuernavaca Drive and a few draft spots around town. Keeping the momentum going, Caracara Brewing Co. opened up their mom and pop brew pub in BBQ capitol Lockhart. In addition to your standards, look for braggots (honey beers), tea beers, and (if they want to go all in) smoked beers. Grab some ‘que to go and head over for a few and stay a while. Jake Maddux’s longawaited Brewer’s Table is now all dressed up and ready to go. With a beautiful space and all-star team, including Live Oak vet Drew Durish heading up the woodfermented brewhouse, it’s ready to take your brew pub expectations to the next level. And if you’re looking for a little space while you eat and drink, set your sights on destination brewery Vista in Driftwood. Experience the Hill Country while sipping on one of their wild ales or experimental brews (don’t worry, they have an IPA and a kolsch, too). And if you feel like you’re just not ready to return to reality, don’t worry— they have on-premise cabins coming soon. Hitmaker Brewing, running out of the old Thirsty Planet facility, opened at press time and too late to be in the back guide. The production brewery is owned by the same group behind MugShots, The Hideout Pub, Bender Bar and Grill, Pour House Pub, Pour House Pints & Pies, and Violet Crown Social Club so expect to ﬁnd their IPA and more at any of these bars. The team that brought you hits like Brew & Brew opened their all-day cafe Better Half on west 5th street. Serving up a small, but excellent, tap and packaged list of beers, the space also offers a full bar with draft cocktails, food from sun up to sun down, and will be next to their upcoming brew pub Hold Out (as unceremoniously announced in the Winter ‘17/’18 issue) Not really beer, but at a beer place, Austin Beerworks is now running their

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own food truck - the CANTina. Soak up your Double IPA, Gold Fist or Sputnik with little bites, ﬂautas, or sausage (plus, a kids menu). Expect Torchy’s, P. Terry’s, and Dominos' $5.99 mix & match to-go orders to take a hit. COMING SOON (OR LATER) Did you know we were blogging again? It was short lived (read: one post), but it was to announce the kolache/beer kings from Batch purchased the building just south of them to build out a 3-5 barrel brewhouse. The new brewery operation will be helmed by Jester King vet John Snyder as de facto “Beer Cook” and “Barrel Keeper.” Look for between 4-8 house beers at a time to be on once they are fully up and running. Davy Pasternak, former head brewer at Blue Owl, and his wife Alex are in the process of building their barn for Roughhouse Brewing in San Marcos. Watch for farmhouse ales to hopefully be pouring early next year. Back in Austin, Central Machine Works is a brew pub in planning on far east Cesar Chavez. They're planning an outdoor beer garden and indoor beer hall on two acres, complete with a full bar and house-made pizzas inside and rotating food trucks out. Hopsquad Brewing is working towards a fall opening in North Austin just a stone’s throw from Circle, pushing the limits of what the “Brewery District” can sustain. SO LONG, FAREWELL Plate enthusiasts shed a tear as Flying Saucer closed after 10 years in the

NEWS CONTINUED . . . Triangle. We’ll have fond memories of throwing back Avery, Allagash, and (512) on the patio 2008–10. Will there be another UFO sighting in Austin again? Only time will tell. Idle Vine, we hardly knew thee. The Pﬂugerville/Round Rock brewery sadly announced they were closing after just over year. The space is up for sale so keep an eye out for anyone new looking to give it a go in the ‘burbs. The guys at Thousand Oaks gave it a good run at the industrial park in Cedar Park, but it looks like they've closed up shop. Will anyone break the curse of the Twisted X starter home? Closed at their original location but not dead, Pedernales Brewing and their brewer were acquired by Uncle Billy’s and will continue to offer Lobo and REK brands through the north Austin location. WHAT DO WE WANT? BEER TO GO! The Texas Craft Brewers Guild recently launched a political action committee, CraftPAC, to support legislation, legislative candidates and other political initiatives that beneﬁt the craft industry (and us!). Did you know Texas is the only state in the U.S. that doesn’t allow its breweries to sell beer directly to consumers to drink off-site? Yup. #Sad. Learn more on p.12. PETICOLAS VACATION, ALL I EVER WANTED Dallas’ Peticolas, an award-winning, wife of #beerpedaler and crowd favorite brewery, will expand beyond its 39 mile radius on July 1 for a “beer Vacation” in Austin. It only lasts the month, so don’t drag your feet. Watch all the socials for details. LAND KINGS Jester King purchased the remaining 107 acres of Ceres Ranch, including Stanley’s Pizza and an event center to bring the total acreage to 165. Don’t expect a lot of visible changes as they don’t plan to develop much of it and instead use it for their agricultural endeavors. They will eventually

“slowly evolve” the pizzeria to ﬁt their philosophy, which has led to 85 comments on a certain Facebook craft beer group. GRODZ IN CANS Live Oak’s smokey, sessionable Grodziskie is now in cans. We just wanted to make sure you were aware of this awesome development. HOPPIN' THE SUBURBS Taking full advantage of their ABG Best of the Rest "Hoppin' the Suburbs" nod, Cedar Park's Redhorn is throwing a hop-heavy party of the same name on June 23rd. Get ready to wade through the haze and IBUs from (almost) exclusively Austin-metro breweries. TEXAS SHOWS OFF AT WORLD BEER CUP Hot off the heels of a record-setting GABF in the fall, Texas breweries brought home a new high of 11 medals at the World Beer Cup in Nashville. Most impressive were three awards for Pinthouse Pizza for their renowned IPAs and Pale Ales. GOLD Honey Please, Armadillo Ale Works, Anodyne, Revolver Brewing Thunder Hug, Wild Acre Brewing Co. National Park Hefeweizen, Big Bend Brewing Co. Weedwacker, Saint Arnold Brewing Co. Green Battles, Pinthouse Pizza — Burnet SILVER This Year’s Crop Wet Hop, Pinthouse Pizza — Burnet Double Barrel Knotty, Twin Peaks Brewing Co. BRONZE Altstadt Alt, Altstadt Brewery Lux Mundi, Save the World Brewing Co. Bailing Room, Pinthouse Pizza — South Lamar

SEASON’S DRINKING

Holiday Road SUMMER IS UPON US. GAS UP THE RV AND HIT THE ROAD. BUT DON'T FORGET THE BEER. Chances are, this summer you will be traveling to some sunny destination with friends and family. Maybe you will be renting out a house at the beach. Or possibly you will journey to far away mythical theme park. Or maybe you are looking to caravan out west. Will any of these holidays doubly serve as beercations? Good luck selling that to your family. Well just like you, brewers take summer vacations too. So we asked them all the important vaca questions that needed answers.

What’s your favorite Texas beer (that’s not yours) to “beat the heat”? JOHN STECKER 4th Tap Brewing Co-op Hans’ Pils. WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks Carbonated Gatorade! Just kidding, I love a good River Beer! JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing Yes Chef (cream ale) from Black Star Co-op. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing Pinthouse Pizza Island Kitty Painkiller-Inspired IPA. JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery Live Oak Pilz. JOE MOHRFELD Pinthouse Pizza River Beer.

WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks Tequila. Believe it or not, I love a good west coast or bitter forward IPA! JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing I’ll have to say Little Gose on this one with Thai basil and oranges. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing Coors Original and whiskey. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company Real Ale’s Hans’ baby! I’ve also found that Karbach’s Hopadillo is fantastic for thoroughly rinsing sandy feet. What’s the most you would pay for a beer at a theme park? JOHN STECKER 4th Tap Brewing Co-op Depends on how many screaming children are running around me.

BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company Saint Arnold’s Lawnmower. It’s the best beer to sit back and sip after a long day of xeriscaping the yard.

WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks Depends on how my kids are behaving, Good=$7 poorly= king’s ransom.

What’s the best beer to drink on the beach? To pair with salt water up your nose?

JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing I’d go up to $10 per pint... but ~only~ if it’s Miller GENUINE DRAFT. Not that fake draft bs.

DREW DURISH The Brewer's Table One Buffalo nickel. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company ‘Enter Inﬁnity joke’ because theme parks suck. What’s the best method to sneak beer into a theme park? JOHN STECKER 4th Tap Brewing Co-op CamelBak. JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing Consecutive shotguns in the parking lot. Carb load. DREW DURISH The Brewer's Table I mean, any public park can have a theme if you put your mind to it. Bring a six-pack, wear an eye patch, and sit on the swing. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing CamelBak, obviously. What is this, amateur hour? JOE MOHRFELD Pinthouse Pizza Inside your liver. What’s your favorite beer to get through a 10 hour road trip?

WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks If it’s longer then 6 hours, I’m flying. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing Rainer. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company 12 pack of Lonestar. The cops in west Texas will definitely give you a ticket if they catch you drinking some big-city "craft-crap.” What’s your favorite song to kick-off a summer road trip playlist? Bryan Adams or Kenny Loggins? JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing Summer of ‘69... and give knowing looks to my parents in the front seats. BEN SABEL Circle Brewing Co. Open Road Song by Eve 6. And definitely Bryan Adams. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing Personally I like to throw on the Dub Remix version of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose.” BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright. Do you order your first beer before or after you check in at your hotel? WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks Yes. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing After checking in but before heading to the room to drop bags. I’ve seen Fear and

Loathing in Las Vegas enough to know better than to make that mistake. JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery Take the bags straight to the bar. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company Both. Number of times you’ve had to slam a beer at the airport because your luggage was 51 pounds at check-in? WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks More than I have ﬁngers and toes! DREW DURISH The Brewer's Table No reason to bring beer home, just drink it already… ﬁve times. JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery I’ve taken to giving a surprise gift to the airport vendors. JOE MOHRFELD Pinthouse Pizza Once… the other time was at 6am so I offered three Crowlers to the person behind me in line and they happily took them to their destination. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company None. I take my time and savor it as long as possible, in front of everyone. Don’t break eye contact. Beercations: Yea or That’s So 2010? If yes, what’s your favorite beercation? JOHN STECKER 4th Tap Brewing Co-op Heck yes.

WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks I have young kids. This is not an option for another 10 years! JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing Always Beercation! I like to go to European countries and blether on endlessly about how they’re copying ~American~ brewers now. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing I always drink beer on my vacations, the idea of vacationing any other way gives me a headache. What’s a beercation? JEFFREY STUFFINGS Jester King Brewery I really like the Bay Area with Sante Adairus, Rare Barrel, Almanac, Russian River and Cellar Maker. What’s the best beer to pair with masquerading around with your dead boss’ corpse for a fun-ﬁlled weekend at his beach house where you discover he actually has ordered a hit on you to cover up his embezzlement scheme in a fun way? WILL GOLDEN Austin Beerworks Tequila/cocaine. JEFF YOUNG Blue Owl Brewing I’m self-employed... so this question becomes meta... so Meta Modern. I’m clever. JOSH HARE Hops & Grain Brewing Pinthouse Pizza Island Kitty Painkiller-Inspired IPA. BRYAN WINSLOW St. Elmo Brewing Company I ﬁnd that the subtle funk of Jester King’s Amicis Mortis is the best to pair with a dead corpse.

NOT SO FUN FACT: TEXAS RANKS 46th IN BREWERIES PER CAPITA

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BREWER’S BRAIN

I LOVE BEER. I LOVE DRINKING IT, TALKING about it, sharing it with friends and family, and yes, I love making it. I love beer more than nearly anything else in life, so much so that 11 years ago I decided to make it my career, and indeed my life’s work. I have dedicated myself to constant improvement, not only because I want to make the best beer possible, but because I believe that the craft brewing industry is unique in the world and its future depends upon its members—all of us—to do everything within our power to advance it. Advancing our industry is accomplished in various ways. Many of us attend educational conferences and participate in professional growth opportunities offered by organizations like the Brewers Association (BA), the Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA), and the Texas Craft Brewers Guild. Many of us create collaborative beers with other brewers and industry members that further push the boundaries of what Craft Beer is and what it can be. And many of us choose to advance Craft Beer through volunteer service. Now, it’s true that no one volunteers his time for purely altruistic reasons. Volunteer service provides immediate personal and professional benefits no doubt, but the benefits gained often extend far past the individual and to the greater community. This is a central tenet of servant leadership. When asked if I would run for a seat on the Board of Directors of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild at the end of 2014, I was hesitant because I didn’t believe that I was necessarily the best man for the job. But I ran despite my initial misgivings and was elected to my first term in 2015,

then reelected to a second term in 2017. I now serve as Vice-chair of the Board, the Legislative Committee Chair, and the Chair of the Guild’s newly formed political action committee, CraftPAC. I'll be the ﬁrst person to admit that when I got into brewing I had zero interest in ever becoming politically active. But shortly after opening Austin Beerworks in May 2011 we got schooled on the complexity and irrationality of Texas’ beer laws by some of the elder statesmen of Texas Craft Brewing, and we knew that we could not simply sit idly by. The stakes for our (then) newborn business and our families were simply too great, and we were instantly compelled to join the efforts of the Guild’s Legislative Committee.

Photo: Tyler Malone

From the Mind of Adam DeBower

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The New Indy Double IPA Highboy is a head-on collision between the old school West Coast IPA and the East Coast haze craze.

Souped up body flaked Hopped up with 4 types of hops, late addition hops, cryo hops, and experimental hop extract.

barley powers a body that roars like a pre-1977 Ford F-250, also known as the Highboy.

My partners and I were a party to the efforts of the 2011 session (HB660) that ultimately failed, as well as the much more successful 2013 session which legalized taprooms for manufacturing breweries and sales through wholesalers for brew pubs. However, included in the 2013 package of bills were new restrictions placed on the rights of craft brewers. Those restrictions were backed by only one group of alcohol industry participants: beer wholesalers. Due to their considerable lobbying efforts the restrictions inserted into the 2013 legislation became law, but they were almost immediately challenged in court and the case is still currently pending before the Texas Supreme Court. It’s no secret, nor has it ever been one, that beer wholesalers stand unilaterally opposed to any measures that increase the rights of manufacturers or retailers, unless of course, they see some kind of upside for themselves. Beer wholesalers in Texas are legislated middlemen; they owe their entire existence and subsequent power to the will of the Texas Legislature. And so it should come as little surprise that over the last 80 years wholesalers have used the profits earned from their statutorily protected status to ensure that their existence is not only perpetually guaranteed, but also that their influence over the upper and lower tiers—manufacturers and retailers— is strengthened. It’s been a brilliant business strategy, really: wholesalers have funneled millions of dollars into the campaigns of nearly every legislator, Lt. Governor, and Governor who has served in office since the end of Prohibition. The access this strategy has afforded wholesalers inside the Capitol has been nearly unmatched. To illustrate this point it should be noted that the Chairman of Governor Abbott’s election campaign is John Nau, the owner of the nation’s #1 Anheuser Busch wholesaler and largest overall distributorship in Texas, Silver Eagle Distributors. Barry Andrews, owner of the 3rd largest distributorship in Texas, Andrews Distributing, sits on Lieutenant Governor Patrick’s Advisory Council.

All of this background leads to the point of my little story, here. It all sounds like advancing Craft Brewers’ rights is a hopeless cause, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not, and I’ll tell you why: enter CraftPAC. After all of the hard work put in during the 2017 session to combat legislation that ultimately resulted in further erosion of brewers’ rights, it became clear to the Texas Craft Brewers Guild Board of Directors that simply being on the right side of the issues and having public support at our backs wouldn’t be enough to affect the kind of real and lasting legislative change that our industry requires to become the greatest in the United States, and that it was time for a new strategy. We recognized that we would need to play the same game as the wholesalers and on the same ﬁeld, and that it would require monetary contributions to legislators with a greater level of organization than our previous advocacy efforts and individual giving strategy had contemplated. So we created CraftPAC and began raising money in late January. The entire purpose of CraftPAC is to mutualize contribution dollars from Craft Brewers, craft beer fans, and anyone else who believes that economic opportunities shouldn’t be reserved only for those already in power, and to spread those contributions across both sides of the aisle and throughout the House, Senate, Lt. Governor, and Governor. With a concerted advocacy and political contribution strategy, we are convinced that CraftPAC and the Guild will be able to move the needle on modernizing Texas’ antiquated and Byzantine laws, even in spite of distributor inﬂuence. Now, we’re not so naive as to think we can counteract 80 years and millions of lobbying dollars spent by our adversaries just because we started a PAC. Nor do we believe we can change all of the hearts and minds we need to by simply giving dollars to every legislator out there. But we do know that we can change the narrative and that there are far more craft beer fans in Texas than there are fans of the wholesalers. You may be wondering, dear reader, what modernization of the beer laws looks

like, and to be honest the list of legislative priorities is extensive. But the top item on that list is one that has been sought for more than 10 years and in 5 consecutive legislative sessions: to legalize to-go sales from manufacturing breweries. It just needs to happen, especially since Texas wineries can sell wine to-go, Texas distillers can sell spirits to-go, and Texas brew pubs can sell beer to-go. Texas breweries are the only alcohol industry members denied the right to sell their products to-go. What’s more, 49 other states as well as the District of Columbia already allow sales for off premise consumption. There is just no legitimate reason for Texas to be dead last in this category. Our opposition ﬂippantly suggests that brewers should simply change their licenses from a manufacturing brewery to a brew pub license, which in fact many small Texas Craft Brewers have already done. The problem with this suggestion, however, is that the state has placed an incredibly low cap on how large a brew pub can ever be—10,000 bbls—which may seem like a lot of beer until you look at the actual beer production numbers in Texas: 10,000 bbls

accounts for just .0005% of the overall beer market in Texas. In 2017 there were more than 20,000,000 bbls of beer and ale produced in Texas. Of that, right around 1 million bbls was Craft Beer, and out of that volume Shiner accounted for more than 50% of that total. So the sum of the production from all 249 other Guild member breweries accounts for only 2.5% of the beer produced in Texas. There is so much opportunity for Texas Craft Brewers, but only if the state will just get out of their way! Which leads me to the final conclusion: for Texas Craft Brewers to attain the kind of success that brewers in nearly every other state enjoy, we need to raise more money and we need to spend it on legislators who are right on craft beer. If you've read this far then I ask that you go to www.craftpac.org and make a contribution TODAY. We have to fight fire with fire, and with your help we can build a brighter future for Craft Beer in Texas. Adam DeBower is the CraftPAC Board Chair and a Co-Founder and glorified janitor at Austin Beerworks.

Photo: Tyler Malone

2018 TEXAS CRAFT BREWERS GUILD CONFERENCE

OVER A PINT

Workhorse and Back Lot RECENTLY WE DRAINED A FEW PINTS WITH BRENT BROYLES AND STEVE ETTLE, OWNERS OF WORKHORSE AND BACK LOT WHILST TALKING BARS, NEIGHBORHOODS, LEGACY, AND LOCAL BEER DRINKING TRENDS. HOPEFULLY YOU’RE READING THIS BY DIM BARLIGHT, KILLING YOUR EYES, AND SATIATING YOUR TASTE BUDS WITH A COLD FROTHY ONE.

Cheers. What’s everybody drinking? Brent: Doing the Flavor Country [Austin Beerworks]. Steve: O’Dells Rupture, delicious. Flavor Country and Live Oak Pilz. Cool. We’re sitting in the... is this the front lot of the Back Lot? Brent: The patio. Steve: Well we have two, exactly. Brent: The front lot of the Back Lot. It’s more in front than it is behind it, so yes. We’re here to talk about beer bars with these guys. So I know we’re at Back Lot but I want to go back a little bit to the start. We first met you probably five years ago. Y’all were working on Workhorse. I know we walked through and saw everything. Steve: That’s 6.5, 7 years ago. Can you take us back a little bit about what got you guys into wanting to open a bar and kind of the journey that started with opening your first place? Steve: I think we had just both kind of wanted a shot at doing something that was ours. Where we could kind of make the call. If something is working or not working you can change it on the fly without having to go through a bunch

BACK LOT OWNERS STEVE ETTLE, MILES RYERSON, AND BRENT BROYLES

of managers and owners or GMs or whatever. And Austin doesn’t seem to have a saturation point for booze. And we met Sophomore year in college, going to the Draft House, playing darts and drinking. Probably at that time a lot of Live Oak or whatever it was. Just kind of something that we bonded over initially. Brent: I know that my sister posed probably the cheesiest question she could possibly pose whenever I was, well, I was basically was in the service industry since I was 18. And she said, “If you had a million dollars and you didn’t need to work for money but you had to work, you had to go in everyday, what would you do? What would you go into work to do?” And I literally told her I would open a bar with this guy. So I told him one day when we were probably playing darts and drinking beer at his house in his game room. Probably a year later he came back to me and said you still wanna open that bar? I said, yeah. So that’s just generally how we got here. So what year was that when you ﬁrst started planning Workhorse? Steve: We started planning it probably Brent: I think it was almost three years before it happened. Steve: Yeah, we had like a business plan for like a year and a half just to make sure we were still excited about it at the end of all the number crunching and little bit of fundraising efforts. And then we started, naively, thought it’d be

Photo: Workhorse/Back Lot

ABG: Alright, so we’re here with Brent and Steve from Workhorse/Back Lot, Back Lot/ Workhorse. Thanks guys. Steve: Cheers.

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easy to get a spot, a property to lease. And that was definitely not the case. So we looked for another year. Brent: We were also picky. Steve: Well, we were being picky. Brent: Everything had to like fit. We had a set of standards and it had to fit at least like, of the four standards we had to get three of the four basically. Steve: We had like patio, full bar and 2am. And with Workhorse we got the patio and the full bar, no 2am. That’s how we started to have this place cause we have all three. Yeah, we looked for like a year, year and a half maybe before we got the Workhorse lease from the original Parlor. So that was more arduous than we thought it would be. But I would say three years of planning and searching and getting money together. And then another eight months of building out and permitting and all that crap before we got day one of Workhorse open. ABG: So you mentioned Parlor, tell us about taking over the Parlor. Steve: They shut down in like June or something. I literally signed our lease in mid-July. And then we didn’t open until April. So we had 9 or 10 months of dead time, whatever that is. I mean Parlor definitely had its own thing going but more music focused. But Pam at Tigris, I would say, established a real neighborhood kind of feel already before we got there. She was up in a couple years before we got open. And before drink.well. was opened. So I think a little bit of that was already planted as far as just a calm, neighborhood vibe where you can walk in and you knew there wasn’t gonna be like a trivia night or a karaoke night or live music blasting in your face in a small atmosphere. But yeah, I think those three bars that are there now, drink.well., us and Tigris complement each other really well in that neighborhood vibe. Brent: I think also when we signed the lease we were just so hungry. Like we had like probably 12 leases sat in front of us. And a couple of them we actually turned down for our own reasons. But most of them we actually just didn’t get it. We didn’t get the lease that we wanted. I could list you all these amazing bars around town that are in buildings that we wanted. And good for them. But so when the Parlor happened we weren’t thinking like oh my god, we’re stepping into the shoes of the Parlor. We were just like oh we got a building. Let’s do this. Let’s see what happens. It was all a gamble. This place has more of like a... Nasty’s, are you kidding me? What led you to take over Nasty’s? I say take over, resume that spot. And what was your goal here? Was it any different than Workhorse? Steve: Going back to kind of the big three

parameters that we wanted to have a place. Again, patio, full bar, 2 am, Brent used to live across the street on 34th. And so we would come here for DJ Mel on Monday nights and stuff. So we knew this spot pretty well. And when we got an idea that it might be up for grabs yeah we were all in. Brent: But still, I mean so it’s really tough like nostalgia-wise to walk into a building like Nasty’s and be like I want a place that’s clean. I want a place I can keep clean. I want a place that has nice bathrooms. And like so you walk into a place and you’re like well, how do I respect nostalgia and get those things? And it’s near impossible. I mean, our standards as far as like what we want almost keep us from keeping a lot of the history of the building. But there’s a lot of cool stuff too. The rafters are burned from like an old ﬁre. We burned a lot of the wood to get that cool grain pop in the wood here. That kind of goes with like the history of the ﬁre that happened here. There’s some things that we tried to keep. Once we started peeling off some of the paneling, it was a little dusty from Nasty’s. We saw the cool cinder block walls. And maybe that even goes beyond Nasty’s to another time. And we really liked it and we kind of ran with it. And we took the wood off of the beams and the high beam across. Just seeing the cold metal and just the supports of this building, the bones, we loved it. And we went with that. That looks great but it was very hard to kind of respect the nostalgia of it. Steve: And at some point I think you’ve got to just let it be what it was and create the place that you want to go to. We’re very hands on owners. We want to create a place that we want to go to that we would drink at four times a week or whatever. And knowing that we didn’t want hip hop Mondays anymore or live music in the space, we kind of made it our own. And then while paying respect to what it was. Brent: The other thing like we talked about patio, late night and full bar. But the other thing we look at when we go look at a place I mean we just kind of scan out in front of the building and do a 360 turn and say like how many people live here? Can we make this a neighborhood bar? Cause that’s kind of where we started with Workhorse. And we said it from the beginning, we want to be a neighborhood bar. I mean we do have 50 taps (at Workhorse) and people call us a draft bar. But like we like to think of ourselves as like we’re there for the people that live in this area. And we feel the same way about this one. We’re not far, so maybe we share a little bit of the same bubble. So when we came into this we weren’t thinking how can we be like Nasty’s. We were thinking about how do we serve, you’ve got cool apartments and old houses and a little bit of college. But there’s people that live here every day. They’re walking to work, walking to school. This is where they live their lives. We just want to be down the street for those people.

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And you have a nice tap wall here. And you mentioned the 50 taps at Workhorse. So you opened in the craft boom and all of that. How have you seen things shift in the time between you opened Workhorse and then taking this over and the industry trying to serve people’s interests and needs and wants and a changing Austin in five years? Have you noticed anything? Does the neighborhood feel kind of negate some of that? Steve: No, I mean we definitely try and pay attention to what’s going on with beer. The easiest one is when we were in college you’d always see like Fat Tire and some of those kind of beers on draft. That’s hard to locate now. Because Austin has caught up to Colorado and California and all that. Brent: Sierra Nevada. Steve: Yeah, all those other ones. Brent: Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Steve: No, they’re all good breweries. It’s just if it’s closer and local, people like that. So we’ve definitely seen that trend. That was like one of the easiest ones to spot. And that was probably already well into happening when we opened Workhorse. But I think now you’re starting to see a little bit of, there have been a couple breweries that have come and gone. You’ve kind of seen a little bit of that. Which I thought the success rate was probably higher when we were opening Workhorse. Brent: It seemed like no one could fail almost. And now this place you’re kind of aware and you’ve got your eyes open to be like are you guys gonna make it? Whatever, you gotta keg, you already paid for it. You could probably sell it eventually. But still kind of, you don’t want to buy into a company that’s on their way out. Steve: Well you don’t want to, under-represent or just have the market pegged wrong. I mean we have rotating taps at both bars to throw a brewery on and see if it catches fire. I would say that’s the biggest change we’ve seen besides the West Coast stuff being pushed out a little bit by Texas things is just seeing breweries locally kind of come and go in the time that we’ve been open. Brent: Yeah, we definitely don’t consider ourselves, I mean we’re not very particular on beer. We do like our IPAs and like maybe a little bit local stuff. But we’ve played college games drinking all night long and we’ve floated the river and we’ve gone to baseball games. Bud Light, Miller Lite taste pretty good. They’re pretty good at what they do. But it was crazy when we first opened Workhorse to see we’re gonna put a lot of local on this wall. But we felt like we had to have Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coors Light on tap. And it was definitely eye opening to see our worst movers being Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Lite. And we kept one on draft just to say we have one national...

That guy that like... Brent: Yeah, for that one guy. We still have bottles and cans, bottles and cans you can kind of inventory a little differently. They’re unopened, they’re untouched. Steve: Also we saw on the tap wall, especially at Workhorse, that we had to have the Belgian styles represented, the porters represented. Kind of more of an even pace as opposed to having 30 or 35 IPAs on or whatever. Which the amount of pales I never thought that would be sustainable. Brent: I almost feel like we’re an IPA bar but we’re only trying to satisfy the clientele. And our goal is not to just alienate anybody. But when we have a Belgian sitting on the wall and not moving and then you have 15 IPAs and they’re all cruising you’re gonna tap it. That’s all there is to it. Especially when you’re getting, you have 15 IPAs that are cruising and somebody is saying, “Are you guys gonna get O’Dell in here? Are you guys gonna get like Bells? Have you heard about them? They’re great.” Steve: All the while clamoring for an Electric Jellyﬁsh. Brent: Absolutely. Steve: That was another eye opening thing. And to us as maybe we’re not, I mean we like craft beer. We like hoppy beers. We like Belgian beers. But we’re ﬁne with drinking a Miller Lite or something. Or drinking cocktails, whatever. So that kind of took us by surprise. Just seeing that sustainability with IPAs across the board, you know? So tap rooms. Have you noticed a shift, have you seen any shift in customer base now that tap rooms are a bigger thing now? Steve: I feel like with Workhorse and again, this is our very early Back Lot career. But with Workhorse because we’re so small and because we are a full bar, I would say 30, 40 percent maybe of our customer base are hard liquor drinkers in some form or fashion. And if there is a decline, we haven’t seen a tremendous decline in draft beer sales. And I don’t know if that’s because we were already a couple years again when that law changed or because we do have enough cocktail drinkers that it didn’t affect us as much. So maybe some other places that were more beer, even beer club oriented. I really, Workhorse had it’s busiest month we’ve ever had in March this past year. So I would say we haven’t seen it hardly at all. Well thanks guys. Empty glasses, so we’re gonna have another beer. Thanks for sitting down. Cheers. Steve: Nice to see you guys.

THE 61 BEST BEER BARS

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THAT’S CORRECT, YOU READ IT RIGHT. NOT 5, 10, 15, 20, NOT EVEN A FUCKING “group” acceptable number. Sixty-fucking-one BEST beer bars in Austin, give or take a few but who’s counting. Sure, there may be a few missing [send emails to DONOTREPLY@austinbeerguide.com], a few that are not EXACTLY “beer bars,” per se, and even some that may sway more on the dive bar side of the scale, but the point is, good beer and bars that serve it are abundant and not going anywhere. And specifically, these bars, each their own sticky floor snowflake, possess their own unique personality worth a night out.

THE JACKALOPE

61 BEST BEER BARS DRAUGHT HOUSE

WORKHORSE BAR

4112 Medical Parkway Austin, TX 78756 “It’s a dive bar” - Chris A Troutman. “It’s not a dive bar”- The rest of ABG/ World. And cold craft beer.

100 East North Loop, #B Austin, TX 78751 Gettin’ the job done on North Loop since 2013. And cold craft beer.

THE WRIGHT BROS. BREW & BREW 500 San Marcos Street, #105 Austin, TX 78702 Great for uppers and downers, both in steins. And cold craft beer.

CROWN & ANCHOR PUB 2911 San Jacinto Boulevard Austin, TX 78705 Best place to pair a burger with your pitcher. And cold craft beer.

SPOKESMAN 440 East St Elmo, A-2 Austin, TX 78745 Best curation by a cyclist. Plus, free hugs. And cold craft beer.

HOPFIELDS 3110 Guadalupe Street, Suite #400, Austin, TX 78705 “Can I take you out to dinner tonight, honey?” And cold craft beer.

BILLY’S ON BURNET 2105 Hancock Drive Austin, TX 78756 These fried delights have violent ends. And cold craft beer.

BACK LOT 606 Maiden Lane Austin, TX 78705 Nasty’s cleaner cousin. Clear glasses, full pints, can’t lose. And cold craft beer.

CRAFT PRIDE 61 Rainey Street Austin, TX 78701 Saves a Rainey day/night. And cold craft beer.

BANGER’S SAUSAGE HOUSE & BEER GARDEN 79 Rainey Street Austin, TX 78701 Because your out-of-town old college roommate saw it on THE OTHER GUY’s best bars in Austin list. And cold craft beer.

HI HAT PUBLIC HOUSE 2121 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Proving you can keep the beat in mixed use. And cold craft beer.

RADIO COFFEE & BEER 4204 Manchaca Road Austin, TX 78704

#78704. And cold craft beer.

GROWLER USA 609 West 29th Street Austin, TX 78705 The one by campus. And cold craft beer.

THE GROWLER BAR 1300 Farm to Market Road 685, Pﬂugerville, TX 78660 The one in Pﬂugerville. And cold craft beer.

BB ROVERS CAFE & PUB 12636 Research Boulevard, B101, Austin, TX 78759 Don’t judge a book by it’s awning cover. And cold craft beer.

THE DIG PUB 401 Cypress Creek Rd, #600 Cedar Park, TX 78613 Suburban O.G. And cold craft beer.

CUVEE COFFEE BAR 2000 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Raise one for the Crowler! And cold craft beer.

WHICHCRAFT TAP ROOM, BOTTLE SHOP & CAFE 1900 Simond Avenue, #200 Austin, TX 78723 Post-Thinkery beer run. And cold craft beer.

BILLY'S ON BURNET

RADIO COFFEE & BEER

61 BEST BEER BARS BETTER HALF COFFEE & COCKTAILS

WALLER CREEK PUB HOUSE

406 Walsh Street Austin, TX 78703 Because you can’t drink all day without an all-day cafe. And cold craft beer.

603 Sabine Street Austin, TX 78701 Best place to ﬁnd your local beer rep. And cold craft beer.

THUNDERBIRD COFFEE KOENIG

EASY TIGER

1401 West Koenig Lane Austin, TX 78756 Good for “working from home.” And cold craft beer.

WHIP IN 1950 S IH 35 Frontage Road Austin, TX 78704 I mean… And cold craft beer.

MORT SUBITE

308 Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701 Downtown parking is still cheaper than a trip to Belgium, now with a patio! And cold craft beer.

THE JACKALOPE 404 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78701 God bless you. And cold craft beer.

THE WHEEL 1902 East Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard B Austin, TX 78702 Take a spin on the east side. And cold craft beer.

709 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78701 Hurry up and open that Linc location, already. And cold craft beer.

BENDER BAR 321 West Ben White Boulevard, # 300 Austin, TX 78704 Craft Austin’s favorite bar, 2009-10. And cold craft beer.

BLACK SHEEP LODGE 2108 S Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX 78704 Best beer and a view (of the indoor mural). And cold craft beer.

HAYMAKER 2310 Manor Road Austin, TX 78722 Soccer, sandwiches and suds. And cold craft beer.

THE BRASS TAP ROUND ROCK 204 East Main Street Round Rock, TX 78664 Best post ghost hunt beer. And cold craft beer.

BRASS TAP - DOMAIN 10910 Domain Drive, #120 Austin, TX 78758 The brassiest taps south of 45. And cold craft beer.

MISTER TRAMPS 8565 Research Boulevard Austin, TX 78758 Sports under the shade of 183, acceptable 9am drinking. And cold craft beer.

RED’S PORCH SOUTH LAMAR 3508 S Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX 78704 All the bar games. And cold craft beer.

RED’S PORCH QUARRY LAKE 4200 B Braker Lane Austin, TX 78759 The better northern happy hour. And cold craft beer.

LITTLE WOODROW’S - ALL OF THEM All over Most consistent, and turtles too. And cold craft beer.

STAR BAR 600 West 6th Street Austin, TX 78701 Holding down W. 6th. And cold craft beer.

EUREKA! 200 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78701 Beer! And cold craft beer!

RED'S PORCH

EASY TIGER

61 BEST BEER BARS STOUTHAUS COFFEE 4715 South Lamar Boulevard, #102 Sunset Valley, TX 78745 Yup, more coffee and beer. This time, south. And cold craft beer.

SCHOOL HOUSE PUB 2207 Manor Road Austin, TX 78722 The 13th Grade. And cold craft beer.

DRAFT SHACK (WHOLE FOODS DOMAIN)

Best place to carb load (you haven’t heard that one, right?). And cold craft beer.

THE HIDEOUT PUB 12164 MoPac Expressway Austin, TX 78757 We see you. And cold craft beer.

VIOLET CROWN SOCIAL CLUB 1111 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Where Detroit-style pizza was born in Austin. And cold craft beer.

11920 Domain Drive Austin, TX 78758 Cause you needed another reason to forget something on your grocery list. And cold craft beer.

GOURMANDS

BATCH CRAFT BEER & KOLACHES

GRACKLE

3220 Manor Road Austin, TX 78723

2316 Webberville Road Austin, TX 78702 The Earl of Beer. And cold craft beer.

1700 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Shot and a beer, please. And cold craft beer.

THE WHITE HORSE 500 Comal Street Austin, TX 78702 Craft cowboys butts drive us nuts. And cold craft beer.

BUZZMILL 1505 Town Creek Drive Austin, TX 78741 Who knew that lumberjack trend had legs? And cold craft beer.

GIBSON STREET BAR 1109 S Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX 78704 Not afﬁliated with the guitar, we think, maybe. And cold craft beer.

YELLOW JACKET SOCIAL CLUB 1704 East 5th Street Austin, TX 78702 Now this is a bar. And cold craft beer.

EASTSIDE TAVERN 1510 East Cesar Chavez Austin, TX 78702 Come for the brisket, stay for the beer. And cold craft beer.

THE LIBERTY 1618 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Don’t ever change. And cold craft beer.

THE GINGER MAN THE HIDEOUT PUB

12700 Hill Country Blvd Bee Cave, Texas

The third best Ginger Man in Austin history. And cold craft beer.

POUR HOUSE PUB 6701 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78757 RIP the old farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market. And cold craft beer.

YARD BAR 6700 Burnet Road Austin,TX 78757 Dogs and beer off the leash. And cold craft beer.

YARD HOUSE 11800 Domain Boulevard, #700, Austin, TX 78758 Domanians and beer off the leash. And cold craft beer.

DRINK.WELL. 207 E 53rd Street Austin, TX 78751 eat.well., too. And cold craft beer.

ZAX RESTAURANT & BAR 312 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 Pints & Plates. And cold craft beer.

SHANGRI-LA 1016 East 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 Best craft jukebox. And cold craft beer.

CHERRYWOOD COFFEEHOUSE 1400 East 38th 1/2 Street

Austin, TX 78722 Good to the last drop. And cold craft beer.

THE BEER PLANT 3110 Windsor Road Austin, TX 78703 Veg out, drink up. And cold craft beer.

OPAL DIVINES MARINA/AUSTIN GRILL 12709 North Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX 78727 2200 South IH 35 Austin, TX 78704 Old skool Texas beer love. And cold craft beer.

WORKHORSE BAR

RAISING THE [BEER]BAR WORDS BY CHRIS TROUTMAN PHOTOS BY SHAWN PHILLIPS

WE INITIALLY HAD THIS CRAZY IDEA, after several beers, to print an email or text chain between us and our buddies discussing when and where to go out and using it as a high concept platform to comment on the taproom vs beer bar climate our city currently rests in, but sober minds prevailed and we pivoted to a classic op-ed. So here it is. It’s about taprooms and bars and our city’s fragile beer ecology. With the unexpected closing of the Austin Flying Saucer, a semi-national beer bar chain, in late 2017 unceremoniously announced via a press release throwing blame on the 2013 law changes that laid the groundwork for the brewery taproom fresh beer frenzyf we now all enjoy, it’s not hard to armchair QB the future of the beer bar. When I ﬁrst starting pursuing and enjoying better beer Austin had two main places in town to go: Draught House and Ginger Man, with Opal Divine's, Dog and Duck, Crown and Anchor, and Billy’s on Burnet (remnants all of the 90s brew pub bust) bringing up the rear. But mainly Draught House (or Horse if you needed to announce your Austin legacy) and Ginger Man kept our adventurous glasses ﬁlled and curious palates satiated for years, serving up outof-state one-offs, casks, and the rare Texas Shiner or Saint Arnold special release. Tuesday–Thursday they provided reasons to “go out,” even though we’d been the night before, because we dare wouldn’t be the only one on Untappd not to tick that new beer nor have an unique insight or opinion for the throngs of the Southwest forum on BeerAdvocate, the platform we all loved

and loved to hate. We’d go out to cask nights and choke down craft mud from whichever new out-of-state brewery one of our large benevolent distributors deemed we needed that week. We filled cupboards with glasses we’d never drink from, ultimately doomed to be regifted or dumped on Goodwill. But we loved every minute of it. And it wasn’t just the special, rare or one-off beers; it was the community we found there. Before taprooms became the monstrous personalities they are today, the beer community mostly gathered at a beer bar or online, with mass meetings at homebrew events, Independence’s first Saturday tours, and the rare anniversary party, which wasn’t as much of a given as it is today. Around 2010-2012ish, Austin, along with most of the country, hit it’s craft beer puberty. With hair growing where it shouldn’t and other surprising growth changes, we were suddenly a swell in beer, both local and out of market. With new Austin breweries opening as often new out-of-market ones entered our area, craft beer bars were the center of the movement. While local breweries were still relegated to the archaic “buy the glass, get the beer” model, they were still dependent on and holding solid relationships with craft beer bars to deliver their latest brews to the increasingly girthy craft beer market. They hoped their respective tap handles stood a little taller or brighter against the sea of national taps fighting for our craft cash. It felt like each week was a celebration for another “new to Texas” whalez brewery to establish their $10 six packs on our shelves or a new local

[33] brewery to hang their shingle and fight the good fight. Of course, this meant we needed more craft beer bars, and the existing ones obviously needed more taps. So growth beget growth and suddenly, the craft beer meccas were decentralized as consumers opted to drink closer to home or find better beer where there used to be only swill, and these various new establishments made their own relationships with various breweries spreading the specialness around. Most everybody was happy. Then in 2013, that mean old Guild and some other guys in suits, and some in flip flops, changed the laws and taprooms became a thing. Some breweries tried to find the balance between taproom promotion and keeping their draft accounts happy, while others blew out the taproom and rode the wave of direct-to-consumer profits, out doing themselves month after month. We, along with the majority of the craft beer market, celebrated our city’s breweries’ liberation and bellied up to their respectable taproom bars night after night as they expanded open hours and eventually built out proper taprooms doubling, or more, their ass-to-glass ratio. Pretty soon most seasonal, special, one off, and other releases shifted to the taprooms, along with a lot of consumers’ dollars. Now I’m not suggesting breweries plotted to replace our city’s beer bars, I am theorizing that the fact our state’s laws handicapped breweries for so long, the beer bars

stepped in as a proxy for taprooms for several years during the big beer boom in the early aught-tens. And with the law changes, breweries have moved so quickly to catch up with taproom culture other states have enjoyed for years, we’ve seen a speedy evolution on our scene’s drinking dynamic. With breweries shifting into high gear, craft beer bars are forced to shift into a lower gear, and that’s where we are now. Please note, I said a lower gear, not park. I think it’s petty, short sighted, and just a pathetic attempt to cover up other factors that have made a beer bar irrelevant or out of business to blame their poor business performance on taprooms. If that were the case, why have Hops & Grain, Lazarus, and Zilker not shut down east 6th street bars completely by now (other than the fact they can’t serve liquor)? You can’t take a piss from one of those east 6th breweries without sprinkling on a successful nearby bar. Nah, taprooms are not to blame for failing beer bars, it’s poor foresight and business savvy. So what’s the future look like? Well, we can take a look at our sister-in-weird city Portland. Or Denver, or San Diego, or any other major city that’s bloomed-in-beer years ahead of us due to friendlier laws. Beer bars still hold their own, but perhaps not as many focused solely on being a “beer bar.” Like we’ve suggest before, they’ve cut the “craft,” and are just a bar serving good beer while offering numerous experiences where brewery taprooms fall short.

DRAUGHT HOUSE

[34] Be it an elevated food game (fuck me for typing that), more beverage variety [read: bourbon], better location, higher attention to atmosphere, lack of kids, beer curation, or simply later hours, beer bars who once relied singularly on suckling thirsty craft masses from their foamy tit will soon be forced to work some of their other assets. Because frankly, as far as we’ve ventured into the taproom wilderness, they’ll never be able offer all the amenities a proper bar can. Sure, we’ll line up like the good Austinites we are when they drop a fresh IPA or 750ml fruit aged sour on a Friday or Saturday, but come 9pm or later on a Thursday, our session addicted asses will find their most comfortable home planted firmly on a barstool or patio picnic table with no plans to leave any sooner than midnight. Our Texas beer bars had an extra long good run and need to pivot now that our state’s laws have caught up with the market. It’s not going to be as easy going, but the good ones will stay good as they double down on what made them actually good in the first place, cause there’s a reason we don’t all just only drink at home, and it’s not just the relief of escaping spouse/kids. There’s a reason we’d circle the old warehouse district blocks for 30 minutes to find parking for Texas Tuesdays at the Ginger Man, or pull in and drop down the tailgate at Draught House pre-taproom era

SPOKESMAN

besides the gatekeeping of good beer, they are just fucking cool places to drink. We’ve been savoring the guilty pleasure burgers and pitcher culture patios at Crown & Anchor and Billy’s on Burnet before taprooms became the main show, and will continue to for years to come. We have and will continue to precede or conclude our brewery crawls with respites or rejuvenations at coffee/beer slingers Brew & Brew and Spokesman. Or ﬁnd solace and safe place at craft outposts, Easy Tiger and Craft Pride, amongst the worst of Austin’s visitors/undergrads. Or take a study break and turn off our decisionmaking-brain letting the beer DJs at Hopﬁelds or the newly remade Nasty’s/Back Lot serve up mind numbing goodness from a walkable weeknight slayer. Better beer serving bars doing well today are ones that lean into their core personality. Whether it’s prime 6th street location, old Austin legacy, walking the line between coffee and beer, stepping into the curation/ beer DJ pole position, outposting as a Texas beer showcase, working a kitchen to support the beer lineup, or just dimming the lights, keeping the kids out, and holding a liberal last call, I believe we’ll begin to see the bars that formerly built their personalities around “serving the best beer in town” either evolve into a blank-AND-good-beer joint, or shutter. And if they do, it won’t be due to taprooms.

TA P RO O M S C H E D U L E Last Stand Brewing Co. (p.74) Live Oak Brewing Co. (p.44) New Braunfels Brewing Co. (p.82) NLand Brewing Co. (p.75) Oasis, TX Brewing Co. (p.75) Oskar Blues Brewery (p.67) Rentsch Brewery (p.77) Real Ale Brewing Co. (p.76) Ruggedman Brewing Co. (p.82) San Gabriel River Brewery (p.77) Skull Mechanix Brewing (p.56) Southern Heights Brewing Co. (p.46) St Elmo Brewing Co. (p.56) Strange Land Brewery (p.78) Suds Monkey Brewing Co. (p.78) Treaty Oak Brewing (p.79) Twisted X Brewing Co. (p.80) Two Wheel Brewing Co. (p.82) Whitestone Brewery (p.81) Zilker Brewing Co. (p.48)

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1. Better Half 406 Walsh Street 2. Crown and Anchor Pub 2911 San Jacinto Boulevard 3. Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches 3220 Manor Road 4. Waller Creek Pub House 603 Sabine Street 5. Haymaker 2310 Manor Road 6. School House Pub 2207 Manor Road 7. Little Woodrow’s 520 West 6th Street 8. The Liberty 1618 East 6th Street 9. Alamo Drafthouse, Mueller 1911 Aldrich Street 10. The Wheel 1902-B East MLK Boulevard 11. Frank 407 Colorado Street 12. Hopﬁelds 3110 Guadalupe Street

13. Contigo 2027 Anchor Lane 14. Hopdoddy Burger Bar, Triangle 4615 North Lamar Boulevard, #307 15. Hi Hat Public House 2121 East 6th Street 16. The Brew Exchange 706 West 6th Street 17. Banger’s Sausage House & Beer Garden 79 Rainey Street 18. Jackalope 404 East 6th Street 19. Star Bar 600 West 6th Street 20. Gourmands 2316 Webberville Road 21. Austin Ale House 301 West 6th Street 22. Yellow Jacket Social Club 1704 East 5th Street 23. Spider House 2908 Fruth Street 24. Thunderbird Coffee, Manor 2200 Manor Road 25. Violet Crown Social Club 1111 East 6th Street

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26. The Grackle 1700 East 6th Street 27. The White Horse 500 Comal Street 28. B.D. Riley’s, Mueller 1905 Aldrich Street, Suite 130 29. Mort Subite 308 Congress Avenue 30. Easy Tiger Bake Shop and Beer Garden 709 East 6th Street 31. Craft Pride G 61 Rainey Street 32. Salt & Time 1912 East 7th Street 33. Wright Bros. Brew & Brew G 500 San Marcos Street 34. Cuvee Coffee Bar G 2000 E 6th Street

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37. Hops & Grain Brewing G 507 Calles Street 38. Live Oak Brewing Co. 1615 Crozier Lane 39. Blue Owl Brewing Co. 2400 East Cesar Chavez Street G 40. Zilker Brewing Co. 1701 East Sixth Street 41. Friends & Allies Brewing 979 Springdale Road 42. Lazarus Brewing Co. G 1902 E 6th Street 43. Hi Sign Brewing G 1201 Bastrop Highway 44. Southern Heights Brewing Co. G 6014 Techni Center Drive, Suite 2-101 45. Brewer’s Table 4715 E 5th Street

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OTHER 56. Austin Eastciders 4007 Commercial Center Drive, Suite 700 57. Moontower Cider Co. 3008 Gonzales Street, Suite 300

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Blue Owl Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . 2400 East Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . .Wed & Thu 3–10pm, Fri & Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.blueowlbrewing.com

Jeff Young, former brewer of Black Star Co-op, opened Blue Owl Brewing in the fall of 2015. With a focus on keeping their beers approachable and affordable, Young and co. aim to make their canned beers the ﬁrst “afterwork” sour beer for the everyman.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Little Boss, Czech Czech

Czech Czech . . . . . . . Sour Czech-Style Pilsner Little Boss . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sour Session Wheat Spirit Animal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sour Pale Ale Professor Black . . . . . . . . . . .Sour Cherry Stout

The Brewer’s Table INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4715 East 5th Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . .Mon–Sun 11am–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www. thebrewerstable.com

The Brewer’s Table was a dream in the works for many years for Jake Maddux. In 2018 it has ﬁnally come to pass. Brewer’s Table’s brewhouse is helmed by ex-Live Oaker Drew Durish and Zach Hunter is master and commander in the kitchen. At the Brewer’s Table it is all about beer AND food. And wood, don’t forget the wood.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

* At press time beers were unavailable for tasting, but as you are reading this they most likely are.

Common Lager. . . . . . . . . . California Common Beets by Drew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Smoked Lager Baltic Hash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baltic Porter

Draught House INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . .4112 Medical Parkway 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

The Draught House brewhouse is back online with a new seven-barrel custom made, direct ﬁred, single infusion brewhouse. Brewer and manager Josh Wilson heads up a random program that includes the return of some old favorites, plus barrel-aged beers and the occasional lager.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

Any Lager They Do, Hop School

WE RECOMMEND

Blotz Lager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . India Pale Lager Red Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Ale Hop School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Sunshade Gose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gose

Friends & Allies Brewing INFO LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979 Springdale Road Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . .Mon–Thu 4–10pm, Fri 2pm–12am, Sat 12pm–12am, Sat 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.friendsandallies.beer

BEER SAMPLING

BREWERY SNAPSHOT The crew, made up of Devon Ponds, Ben Sabin, and Nathan Crane, started out brewing their beer at 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op, but in early 2017 they moved into their new brewery and taproom on Springdale Road. In the space they will brew four core beers and a host of seasonals.

WE RECOMMEND Fresh Coast, Urban Chicken

Fresh Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Springdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Ale Urban Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saison

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Hi Sign Brewing INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . .1201 Bastrop Highway Austin, TX 78742 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . .Wed & Thu 2–10pm, Fri & Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.hisignbrewing.com

Growing tired of drinking beers at Live Oak with airplanes flying over you? Well, you are in luck. There is a new brewery in town to drink at with planes flying overhead: Hi Sign. After a previous life as a US Marine, Mark Phillippe turned his attention towards opening a brewery in Austin. Then with a brewer, Andrew Shelton from Revolver, he opened the doors of Hi Sign in early 2017. With four core beers, including a double New England-style IPA, and slew of others, you now have two places to get sauced before your flight out of town.

BEER SAMPLING The Astronaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Double IPA Blond Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blond Ale The Fiddler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irish-style Red Ale Pale Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND The Astronaut, The Fiddler

Hops & Grain Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .507 Calles Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . Mon–Sun 10am–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hopsandgrain.com

Bringing his Colorado beer knowledge and inspiration to Austin, Josh Hare opened one of Austin’s ﬁrst east side breweries. They offer year-round and rotating beers canned for easy use during your outdoor drinking endeavors and a handful rotating series: Dispensary, Volumes of Oak, Volumes of Funk, as well as a plethora of hoppy vehicles like Lupulin Rodeo, Pellets & Powder, Terrapin Dream, and the new year round Haze County. In 2016 they announced plans to open a second location in San Marcos.

BEER SAMPLING A Pale Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Greenhouse IPA . . . . . . . . . .Rotating IPA Series River Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lager The One They Call Zoe . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Lager

WE RECOMMEND A Pale Mosaic, River Beer

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Lazarus Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1902 E. 6th Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . .Mon–Wed 730am–11pm, Thu & Fri 730am–12am, Sat 10am–12am, Sun 10am–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.lazarusbrewing.com

Lazarus Brewing came alive in late 2016, with an eye towards the holy trinity: beer, tacos, and coffee. A pastor by trade, Christian Cryder, opened up with a solid crew, including brewer Matt Couch (formerly of Victory Brewing) and GM Marcus TenHarmsel (formerly of Hopﬁelds). The handsome, wellappointed brew pub hosts 16 taps of in-house beer, showing off an eclectic, worldly beer theory. But don’t forget about the food—the tacos and tortas here are ﬁne fare.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING 20 Pound Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . .India Brown Ale 40 Days & 40 Nights. . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Amandus . . . . Belgian-Style Strong Golden Ale

WE RECOMMEND 40 Days & 40 Nights, Amandus

Live Oak Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1615 Crozier Lane Austin, TX 78617 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . .Sun–Thu 12–9pm, Fri & Sat 12–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.liveoakbrewing.com

Built by hand by Chip McElroy in a small 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. in 2016 they moved to their new brewery near the airport and started canning their beer. It became a new Austin “must visit.”

BEER SAMPLING Gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German-Style Pilsner Grodziskie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grodziskie HefeWeizen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen Pilz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Czech-Style Pilsner

WE RECOMMEND Grodziskie, Gold

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Oddwood Ales INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3108 Manor Road Austin, TX 78723 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . .Tue–Thu 4–11pm, Fri 3–11pm, Sat 1130am–11pm, Sun 1130am–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.oddwoodales.com

Started as side project at Adelbert’s, Oddwood Ales opened it’s doors in early 2018. The brothers Ziebarth (Taylor and Brett) founded Oddwood upon the“love of experimental brewing, oak barrels, and wild yeast.” The menu of pizza, salads, etc. will give you something to munch on while you slug down some saisons and play their carefully curated lineup of arcade games. Leave the quarters at home, because games are on the house.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Fast Learner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Life Skills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saison Wolf Shirt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Fast Learner, Life Skills, Wolf Shirt

Southern Heights Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . 6014 Techni Center Drive Austin, TX 78721 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . Thu & Fri 4–10pm, Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–7pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . www.southernheightsbrewing.com

Tucked in a small pocket of east Austin, near 183, Chris Rich and Austin Russell are brewing up something special. They spent the last few years making this dream come to fruition and in November of this year they opened their doors to Austin’s thirsty hordes. They are focused on honing their takes on American craft beer styles, old and new, all to be enjoyed in their modern, airy taproom.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

Classy AF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Dave’s Not Here Man. . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Where’s My Flannel . . . English-Style Mild Ale

Dave’s Not Here Man, Where’s My Flannel

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Zilker Brewing Co. INFO LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1701 East Sixth Street Austin, TX 78702 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . .Tue–Thu 4–10pm, Fri & Sat 12pm–12am, Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.zilkerbeer.com

BEER SAMPLING Coffee Milk Stout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Coffee Stout Honey Blonde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Marco IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Parks & Rec Pale Ale. . . . . . American Pale Ale

BREWERY SNAPSHOT Zilker Brewing was born of two brothers and their home brewing buddy out of a love of crisp, dynamic, drinkable beers. The three craft their brand using quality malt, fresh hops, and a Belgian Trappist yeast to create surprisingly interesting, yet easy drinking beers. Pop into their urban brewery on East 6th for the latest and freshest, and look for Zilker on draft and in cans now.

WE RECOMMEND Coffee Milk Stout, Marco IPA

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BARS & RESTAURANTS 1. Zax Restaurant & Bar 312 Barton Springs Road 2. Hopdoddy Burger Bar, SOCO 1400 South Congress Avenue 3. Odd Duck 1201 South Lamar Boulevard 4. Black Sheep Lodge 2108 South Lamar Boulevard 5. Red’s Porch 3508 South Lamar Boulevard 6. Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden 121 Pickle Road 7. Spokesman 440 East Saint Elmo, Suite A-2 8. Stouthaus Coffee Pub 4715 South Lamar Boulevard 9. The Buzz Mill 1505 Town Creek Boulevard 10. Gibson Street Bar 1109 South Lamar Boulevard

11. Jackalope, South Shore 1523 Tinnin Ford Road 12. Radio Coffee & Beer 4204 Manchaca Road

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS 13. Uncle Billy’s G 1530 Barton Springs Road 14. Pinthouse Pizza-South Lamar G 4236 South Lamar Boulevard 15. Austin Beer Garden Brewing G 1305 West Oltorf Street 16. (512) Brewing Co. 407 Radam Lane, F200 17. Independence Brewing Co. 3913 Todd Lane 18. Orf Brewing 4700 Burleson Road, Unit F 19. St Elmo Brewing Co. G 440 East Saint Elmo Road, Suite G-2 20. Skull Mechanix Brewing G 1005 East Saint Elmo Road, Building 2

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(512) Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407 Radam Lane Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sat 12–4pm 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. They will break ground on a new facility in south Austin in 2018(?).

BEER SAMPLING (512) IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA (512) Pale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale (512) Pecan Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter (512) Wit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witbier

WE RECOMMEND Pecan Porter, IPA

*$12 = 6 samples and a logo glass to keep

Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . 1305 West Oltorf Street Austin, TX 78704 DRINKING HOURS . . .Tue–Thu 1130am–11pm, Fri 1130am–12am, Sat 12pm–12am, Sun 12–10pm 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 2013 and have been steadily supplying their south Lamar hood and beyond with tasty brewed beverages and pies like old pros. And that’s because this 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. And they are currently celebrating their second victory lap of being named Best Large Brewpub in America at the Great American Beer Fest for two years running.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German-Style Pilsner Rocket 100. . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Prohibition Pilsner Superliner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Industry, Rocket 100

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Independence Brewing Co. INFO

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LOCATION. . . 3913 Todd Lane, Austin, TX 78744 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . .Thu & Fri 4–10pm, Sat 1–10pm, Sun 2–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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 Oklahoma Suks bottles every fall for the UT vs. OU game. They have recently expanded to a 60-barrel JV Northwest brewhouse and expanded their regular lineup.

BEER SAMPLING Power & Light. . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale Red Bud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berliner Weisse-Style Stash IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Power & Light, Red Bud

North by Northwest, Slaughter INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 5701 West Slaughter Lane DRINKING HOURS. . . . Mon–Thu 11am–930pm, Fri & Sat 11am–1030pm, Sun 10am–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nxnwbrew.com

North by Northwest is Austin’s oldest brew pub and offers a complete menu, with the restaurant itself driving many people to the establishment. This, their second location, opened in 2015, offering a similar food menu, atmosphere, and beer portfolio.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Black Hop Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black IPA O(double)G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gose Porch Time Pilsner . . . . German-style Pilsner Sunbreak IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Porch Time Pilsner, Sunbreak IPA

Pinthouse Pizza, South Lamar INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . .4236 South Lamar Boulevard 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.pinthousepizza.com

With great fanfare Pinthouse Pizza’s second

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Electric Jellyﬁsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Fluttershy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saison This is Juice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

location opened in 2015 on South Lamar Boulevard. Right out of the gate, Electric Jellyﬁsh was an instant Austin classic. No beer has ever garnered more Instagram photos and Facebook posts in its ﬁrst month of existence as this one. But they did not rest there. They continued pumping out distinct ales and lagers, while still sailing in the well-loved waters of its older sibling up north.

WE RECOMMEND Electric Jellyﬁsh, This is Juice

Orf Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . 4700 Burleson Road, Unit F Austin, TX 78744 GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.orfbrewing.com

They said it couldn’t be done. They said it would never happen. Well now they need to shut up, because Chris Orf’s Orf Brewing is now open for business. We knew it would happen. We always believed. 11 years and 11 tshirts later, Orf Brewing is cooking up their unique hybrid styles in south Austin. Patience is a virtue kids!

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WE RECOMMEND

Salutation Ale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Golden Ale Hoprocker I.R.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Ale Honey Roast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brown Ale Oocheenama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Ale

Hoprocker I.R.A., Honey Roast

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St Elmo Brewing Co. INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . .440 East Saint Elmo Road Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . Tue–Thu 4–11pm, Fri 12pm–12am, Sat 11am–12am, Sun 12–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.stelmobrewing.com

Bursting from the loins of ex-Austin Beerworkers, Bryan Winslow and Tim Bullock, St Elmo birthed in late 2016. The ATX scene was quite proud of the fresh, young brewery. They opened with a delicious handful of brews. Grab a beer and grab a seat inside their clean taproom or head out back to lounge in their airy beer garden. All this goes great with the tasty grub being cooked out back from Soursop. Get the La Koreanita burger and thank us later.

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WE RECOMMEND

Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stout Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kölsch-Style Ale Chico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale Darrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

Carl, Darrell

Skull Mechanix Brewing INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . .1005 East Saint Elmo Road Building 2, Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS. . .Mon–Wed 3–11pm, Thu & Fri 3pm–12am, Sat 1pm–12am, Sun 1–11pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.skullmechanix.com

Owner, Jeff Willis, has been working in the craft beer industry for many years, here and in Boulder, CO. With all this real world experience his next step was to open a brewery of his own. Skull Mechanix was born. To handle the brewing side of the business he brought on another industry veteran, Michael Waters, formerly of Independence, Uncle Billy’s, and most recently Real Ale. Opened in early 2018, they are helping further develop the growing south Austin hyperlocal scene.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Best Bitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bitter Gully Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English-Style Pale Ale Rock of Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . Czech-Style Pilsner

WE RECOMMEND Holmes, Rock of Ages

Uncle Billy’s Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 1530 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . .Sun–Thu 11am–12am, Fri & Sat 11am–1am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.unclebillys.com

Texas is BBQ heaven. Austin is Texas Craft Beer heaven. Put them together and you get Uncle Billy’s Brewery and Smokehouse. Uncle Billy’s is the ideal spot after a day of festivaling at Zilker Park or cooling off at the springs. Brewers keep on the Austin staple Green Room IPA while mixing in a constant rotation of beers with an emphasis on hoppy ales and sessionable lagers.

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WE RECOMMEND

Barton Springs Pale Ale. . . American Pale Ale Freakadella Amber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Green Room IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Lazy Day Lager. . . . . . . . . . . . . American Lager

Green Room IPA, Lazy Day Lager

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BREWERIES & BREW PUBS 11. Pinthouse Pizza G 4729 Burnet Road 12. North By Northwest (NXNW) G 10010 N Capital of TX Highway 13. Black Star Co-op G 7020 Easy Wind Drive 14. Circle Brewing Co. 2340 West Braker Lane 15. Austin Beerworks 3009 Industrial Terrace 16. Adelbert’s Brewery 2314 Rutland Drive, Suite 100 17. 4th Tap Brewing Co-op 10615 Metric Boulevard 18. Oskar Blues Brewery 10420 Metric Boulevard 19. Celis Brewery 10001 Metric Boulevard 20. The Brewtorium G 6015 Dillard Circle, Suite A

STORES 21. Specs, Arbor Walk 10515 N Mopac Expressway 22. Sunrise Mini Mart 1809 West Anderson Lane 23. Specs, Airport Boulevard 5775 Airport Boulevard 24. Austin Homebrew Supply 9129 Metric Boulevard 25. King Liquor 5310 Burnet Road 26. Growler Room G 6800 Burnet Road, Suite 2 27. Whole Foods Market, Domain G 11920 Domain Drive

OTHER 28. Meridian Hive 8120 Exchange Drive, Suite 400 29. Fairweather Cider Co. 10609 Metric Boulevard, Suite 108A

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4th Tap Brewing Co-op INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . .10615 Metric Boulevard Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . Sun–Wed 4–7pm, Thu 4pm–12am, Fri & Sat 12pm–12am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.4thtap.coop

Opened in 2015, 4th Tap Brewing Co-op is the ﬁrst 100% worker-owned cooperative brewery in Texas. No, it is not the same as Black Star. Black Star is member-owned, 4th Tap is worker-owned. If the difference is lost on you, no worries, you can still enjoy their beers. Similar to Black Star, they started with a handful of unique beers, like a tamarind wheat ale. Founded by a handful of native-Austinites along with a few transplants from around Texas, 4th Tap was built around a simple motto: Brew, Share, Party, Repeat.

BEER SAMPLING Can You Dig It?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Highland Scoundrel . . . . . . . . . .Scotch-Style Ale Kung Fu Robot IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Can You Dig It?, Kung Fu Robot IPA

Adelbert’s Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . 2314 Rutland Drive, #100 Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . Wed–Fri 5–10pm, Sat 1–10pm, Sun 1–7pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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 (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 Belgianstyle bottle and keg conditioned brewery, aptly named after his older brother.

BEER SAMPLING Naked Nun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Witbier Philosophizer . . . . . . . . . . Belgian-Style Saison Travelin’ Man . . . . . . . . . .International-Style IPA Tripel B. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Belgian-Style Tripel Ale

WE RECOMMEND Naked Nun, Travelin’ Man

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Austin Beerworks INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . 3009 Industrial Terrace Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . .Mon–Fri 11am–10pm, Sat 12–8pm, Sun 1–7pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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 2011. With their regular lineup of four beers the four friends have come storming out of the gates and onto the Austin beer scene. Their newish taproom is now open.

BEER SAMPLING Bloodwork Orange . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Fire Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Flavor Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoppy Pale Ale Pearl Snap German Pils. . . . . German Pilsner

WE RECOMMEND Flavor Country, Pearl Snap

Black Star Co-op INFO

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LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . .7020 Easy Wind Drive Austin, TX 78752 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mon 4–11pm, Tue–Thu & Sun 11am–11pm, Fri & Sat 11am–12am GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . Yes, limited draft URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.blackstar.coop

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 Self Esteem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Vulcan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Recalcitrant Dockhand . . . . . . . . Robust Porter

WE RECOMMEND Vulcan, Recalcitrant Dockhand

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The Brewtorium INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . 6015 Dillard Circle, Suite A Austin, TX 78752 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . Tue–Thu 4–10pm, Fri 2–11pm, Sat 12–11pm, Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.thebrewtorium.com

The Brewtorium is open. They are another one many people around the city are glad to see serving food and beer. From the minds and hands of Chris Rauschuber and Whitney Roberts, Brewtorium is now serving up tasty pub grub and beyond.

WE RECOMMEND Iron Belly, SHA... Right

BEER SAMPLING Deeper Shade of Sol . . . . . . . . . . . . Session IPA Dubbel Nutz . . . . . . . . . . .Belgian-Style Dubbel Iron Belly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter SHA Right... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

Celis Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . .10001 Metric Boulevard Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . Tue–Thu 3–10pm, Fri–Sun 12–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.celisbeers.com

Everyone has that uncle who will never shut up about how good Celis White was back in the day whenever you bring over a six pack of your current fav beer. Maybe you are that uncle. Good news for him (you): Celis is back baby! Relive the old days sipping on their Pale Bock or revel in the modern era as you chug their Citrus Grandis. Their new home is on Metric Boulevard, along with half the other breweries in town.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

Raspberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fruit Beer Pale Bock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bock Citrus Grandis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witbier

Pale Bock, White

Beers, Bikes, Brats & Barks NOW OPEN across from ACC Highland! Your bikeable, walkable neighborhood brewpub & dog-friendly beer garden serving hand-crafted food, beer & guest libations Tuesday - Sunday. We nap on Monday. thebrewtorium.com

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Circle Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . 2340 West Braker Lane, Suite B Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS. . . . Thu 5–9pm, Fri 5–10pm, Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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.” You can now ﬁnd their year-round beer in cans and others in bottles. They hold a brew pub license now (beer to go!).

BEER SAMPLING Archetype Historical IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IPA Alibi Blonde. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Blur Texas Hefe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen Fanny Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kölsch-Style Ale

WE RECOMMEND Archetype, Fanny Pack

North by Northwest, Stonelake INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. .10010 Capital of TX Highway North Austin, TX 78759 DRINKING HOURS . . . . Mon–Thu 11am–11pm, Fri 11am–12am, Sat 10am–12am, Sun 10am–11pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nxnwbrew.com

North by Northwest is Austin’s oldest and 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. They have recently branched out and opened NXNW2 in south Austin with a similar food menu, atmosphere, and beer portfolio.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Bavarian Hefeweizen . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen Black Jack . . . . . . . . . . . .Barrel-aged Black Ale Prost Pilsner. . . . . . . . . . German-style Pilsner

WE RECOMMEND Black Jack, Prost Pilsner

Pinthouse Pizza, Burnet 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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. Director of brewing Joe Mohrfeld oversees a solid line up of staple beers, along with a series of special releases and experimental IPA series. Go for the pizza, stay for the beer. Their second location on South Lamar is now open and crackin’.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Best Coast IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Blind Jake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Porter Training Bines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Blind Jake, Training Bines

Oskar Blues Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . .10420 Metric Boulevard Austin, TX 78758 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . .Sun & Mon 12–8pm, Tues–Sat 12–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . www.oskarblues.com/brewery/austin

We know what you are thinking, “I think they made a mistake. These ABG morons included a Colorado brewery in their magazine about Austin.” If you haven’t been living under a rock, you know Oskar Blues opened a brewery here in Austin (their third in the USA). While you may feel it is not technically “local beer” as most of their recipes were originally born in CO, they are now brewing here and operating a taproom in north Austin (the Tasty Weasel). And for that reason, here it is, in the guide. In the words of Charlie Papazian, “relax, don’t worry, have a fresh Dale’s.”

BEER SAMPLING Dale’s Pale Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pale Ale Mama’s Little Yellow Pils. . . . . . . . . . . . Pilsner Old Chub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scotch Ale Pinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Session IPA

WE RECOMMEND Old Chub, Pinner

FRESH AIR We celebrate the beauty and bounty of the Texas Hill Country by sharing fresh beer and hyper-local cuisine in an immersive 21-acre, ƋųååěĀĬĬåÚ ÚåŸƋĜĹ±ƋĜŅĹ just southwest of Austin. Come explore with us!

FRESH BEER Our award-winning brewmaster uses traditional European techniques for our beer garden and collaboration brews and a growing wine barrel aging program. Beers are on tap and ready to go.

NOW OPEN

13551 FM150

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512-766-1842

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CEDAR PARK

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HUDSON BEND

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31 AUSTIN

OAK HILL

36 BARS & RESTAURANTS 1. Alamo Drafthouse, Slaughter Lane 5701 West Slaughter Lane 2. The Dig Pub G 401 Cypress Creek Road, Cedar Park 3. Opal Divine’s, Marina 12709 Mopac & Parmer Lane 4. BB Rover’s Cafe & Pub 12636 Research Boulevard 5. Leander Beer Market G 106 West Willis Street, Leander 6. Alamo Drafthouse, Lakeline / Glass Half Full Taproom 14028 U.S. 183 7. The Brass Tap 204 East Main Street, Round Rock

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS 8. Flying Man Brewing Co. G 2400 Patterson Industrial Drive 9. NLand Brewing Co. 4836 East Highway 71, Del Valle 10. Double Horn Brewing Co. G 208 Avenue H, Marble Falls 11. Acopon Brewing Co. G 211 West Mercer Street, Dripping Springs

AUSTINBERGSTROM INT. AIRPORT

43 39 23 12 13 16 26 27 37 12. Wimberley Brewing Co. G 9595 Ranch Road 12, Wimberley 13. Middleton Brewing G 101 Oakwood Loop, San Marcos 14. Pecan Street Brewing G 106 East Pecan Drive, Johnson City 15. San Gabriel River Brewery 500 Chaparral Drive, Liberty Hill 16. Faust Brewing Co. 240 S. Seguin Ave., New Braunfels 17. Red Horn Coffee House and Brewing Co. G 13010 West Parmer Lane, Suite 800, Cedar Park 18. Solid Rock Brewing 2214 Bee Creek Road, Spicewood 19. Jester King Brewery 13005 Fitzhugh Road 20. Thirsty Planet Brewing Co. 11160 Circle Drive 21. Infamous Brewing Co. 4602 Weletka Drive 22. Twisted X Brewing Co. 23455 West RR 150, Dripping Springs 23. Altmeyer & Lewis Brewing Co. 15898 TX-123, San Marcos

24. Real Ale Brewing Co. 231 San Saba Court, Blanco 25. Save The World Brewing Co. 1510 Resource Parkway., Marble Falls 26. New Braunfels Brewing Co. 180 West Mill St, New Braunfels 27. Guadalupe Brewing Co. 1580 Wald Road, New Braunfels 28. Oasis, TX Brewing Co. 6550 Comanche Trail 29. Bluebonnet Beer Co. 1700 Bryant Drive, #107, Round Rock 30. Bull Creek Brewing Co. 7100 FM3405, Liberty Hill 31. Strange Land Brewery 5904 Bee Cave Road 32. Rentsch Brewery 2500 NE Inner Loop, Georgetown 33. Whitestone Brewery 601 E Whitestone Boulevard, Cedar Park 34. Flix Brewhouse G 2000 S IH-35, Round Rock 35. Barrow Brewing Co. 108 Royal Street, Salado

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36. Vista Brewing G 13551 FM150, Driftwood 37. AquaBrew G 150 South LBJ Drive, San Marcos 38. Treaty Oak Brewing 16604 Fitzhugh Road, Dripping Springs 39. Two Wheel Brewing Co. 535 South Loop 4, Buda 40. Suds Monkey Brewing Co. G 1032 Canyon Bend Drive, Dripping Springs 41. Family Business Beer Co. G 19510 Hamilton Pool Road, Dripping Springs

STORES 42. Hamrick’s Market 401 Cypress Creek Road, Cedar Park

OTHER 43. Texas Keeper Cider 12521 Twin Creeks Road, Manchaca 44. Argus Cidery G 12345 Pauls Valley Road #2

G = growler and/or Crowler ﬁlls

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Acopon Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . .211 West Mercer Street Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wed 3–6pm, Thu & Fri 3–9pm, Sat 12–9pm, Sun 12–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.acoponbrewing.com

For Acopon, like with the Barber Shop before it, brewer/owner John McIntosh intends to focus on English ales as well as America craft styles. Two doors down from Barber Shop, Acopon is keeping downtown Dripping Springs buzzing. And if you miss the Barber Shop, just bounce on over. They will have Acopon brews on the tap wall.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

Gaspipes, Merrie-Go-Down

WE RECOMMEND

Homunculus . . . . . . . . . . English-Style Mild Ale Gaspipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bitter Merrie-Go-Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Pesta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Oatmeal Stout

Bluebonnet Beer Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . 1700 Bryant Drive, #107 Round Rock, TX 78664 DRINKING HOURS . . . . Fri 5–8pm, Sat 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . www.bluebonnetbeerco.com

Bluebonnet Beer Co., owned by David and Clare Hulama, started brewing in Round Rock in late 2014. This was after they quit their jobs at Dell. When you have homebrew cred like David and Clare do, it is a pretty safe bet to Ofﬁce Space it and peace out. Like the OG Twisted X, they built their brewery in a small industrial park. Their taproom is open on Fridays and Saturdays— serving up their four year-round beers and one or two seasonal/special beers.

BEER SAMPLING American Amber Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale American IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Cream Ale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cream Ale Texas Pecan Brown Ale . . . . . . . . . . .Brown Ale

WE RECOMMEND American IPA, Texas Pecan Brown Ale

Bull Creek Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7100 FM 3405 Liberty Hill, TX 78642 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sat 12–5pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.bullcreekbrewing.com

Bull Creek has been brewing small batches since 2011 and distributing in small amounts. In 2014 they began a major brewery expansion so they could eventually distribute to a larger area. They are located in Liberty Hill, outside Georgetown and are currently only doing taproom hours on Saturdays. Grab the kids and get out of town.

BEER SAMPLING Iron Balls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Imperial Stout Longhorn Blonde. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Tommy Raj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA

WE RECOMMEND Iron Balls

Family Business Beer Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . 19510 Hamilton Pool Rd Dripping Springs, TX, 78620 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . Wed–Fri 3–10pm Sat 11am–10pm, Sun 11am–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . www.familybusinessbeerco.com

Family Business was Instagram famous before they even opened their doors. No, not because their clean, pretty taproom or their lush beer garden, complete with playscape. It turns out if you want a big SoMe following it helps if you are already famous IRL, as are the owners of Fam Biz (Jensen and Danneel Ackles and fam). Their celeb cred needed a brewer with some real brewing cred. Nate Seale ﬁt the bill. Nate returned to Austin to create more great Austin brews. Welcome back Nate.

BEER SAMPLING Hamilton Pale . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale The Fox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rye IPA King Biscuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESB The Ocelot . . . . . . . . . . . New England-Style IPA

WE RECOMMEND The Fox, King Biscuit

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Flix Brewhouse INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2200 South IH-35 Round Rock, TX 78681 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See website for showtimes 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? Just one. You might even catch lead brewer Carlo Garcia brewing up something tasty as you rush in for the latest Star Wars ﬂick. Drink from their six year-round and four seasonal house taps or one their 30+ guest taps.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND Luna Rosa, Lupulus IPA

10 Day Scottish Ale . . . . . . . . Scottish-Style Ale Luna Rosa Wit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Witbier Lupulus IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Umbra Chocostout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stout

Flying Man Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . 2400 Patterson Industrial Drive Pﬂugerville, TX 78660 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thu 430–9pm, Fri 330–10pm, Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–7pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . www.ﬂyingmanbrewing.com

Flying Man is the latest brewing operation to swing open its doors in Pﬂugerville. They missed a great opportunity to call themselves Pﬂying Man, but whatever. Guess they will have to get by on their beer alone. Try one from their everchanging lineup at Rogness’ old space, which has been transformed into something wholly different.

BEER SAMPLING

Air Racer IPA, Cofﬁn Corner Porter

Air Racer IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Cofﬁn Corner Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter Weedhopper Honey Wheat . . . . . . . Wheat Ale

WE RECOMMEND

Front Yard Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . 1607 Cuernavaca Drive North, Suite 202, Austin, TX 78733 GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No* BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.frontyardbrewing.com

Front Yard, located in the Cuernavaca area of Austin, is the brain child of Kevin Jones, Chad Worner, and Bryan Russell. Out of the gate they were on the tap walls of 10 spots and had cans in few stores around town. They plan to have a taproom in the future, but for now you can enjoy their beers wherever you can ﬁnd them.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

Belgian Blonde Ale . . Belgian-Style Blonde Ale Coffee Milk Stout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Milk Stout Oatmeal Stout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oatmeal Stout Rye IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rye IPA

Coffee Milk Stout, Rye IPA

*Front Yard is not currently open to the public

Infamous Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4602 Weletka Drive Austin, TX 78734 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Wed 5–9pm, Thu & Fri 11am–9pm, Sat 1–9pm, Sun 10am–5pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.infamousbrewing.com

Josh Horowitz got the wheels running in Infamous Brewing Co. in Austin in June of 2012. In less than a year they 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 Bugsy’s Fire Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Hijack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cream Ale IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Sweep the Leg . . . . . . . . . . Peanut Butter Stout

WE RECOMMEND IPA, Sweep the Leg

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Jester King Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13187 Fitzhugh Road Austin, TX 78736 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fri 4–10pm, Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–9pm 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, Jester King 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 (and re-fermented) fruit blends starting with the raspberry Atrial Rubicite, the strawberry Omniscience & Proselytism, La Vie en Rose, Provenance, Detritivore, and the oyster mushroom and sea salt Snorkel. The tasting room at the brewery is most often the best place to ﬁnd and grab their latest beers.

BEER SAMPLING Atrial Rubicite . . . . . . . . .Raspberry Sour Beer Black Metal . . . . . . . Farmhouse Imperial Stout Le Petite Prince . . . . . . Farmhouse Table Beer Noble King. . . . . . . . . . . . Hoppy Farmhouse Ale Spon . . . . . . . . . .Spontaneously Fermented Ale

WE RECOMMEND #greenbottles, Spon

Last Stand Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. .12345 Pauls Valley Road, Building I Austin, TX 78737 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 4–7pm, Fri –Sun 12–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.laststandbrewing.com

Kerry and Mandi Richardson quit their day jobs to chase their homebrew dreams. The end of that rainbow led them to a pleasant lot in Driftwood, near Argus, Revolution Spirits, and Jester King, where they brew their clean, balanced, well made take on American style craft beers. Go for the beers, but stay for the outdoor beer garden. They recently celebrated their second anniversary.

BEER SAMPLING Coffee Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Coffee Porter Saaz Blonde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Blonde Ale SMaSH Citra IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA Simcoe Pale Ale. . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Coffee Porter, SMaSH Citra IPA

NLand Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4836 East Highway 71 Del Valle, TX 78617 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . .Tue–Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.nlandsurfpark.com

Surﬁng legend Duke Kahanamoku once said, “Out Of Water, I Am Nothing.” He obviously

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING American Pilsner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pilsner Fun Beer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Golden Ale NLand Pale Ale. . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale Off Leash IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA

had never been to NLand, where once you are out of the water you can be drunk. Located on the grounds of NLand Surf Park, the brewery helmed by Todd Henry is churning out quaffable suds to pair with tired arms and sore legs gained from a day in the surf. All meant to be enjoyed after surﬁng, not before, of course, or without even surﬁng at all.

WE RECOMMEND American Pilsner, Off Leash IPA

Oasis, TX Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6550 Comanche Trail Austin, TX 78732 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . .Tue–Sun 12–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . .www.oasistexasbrewingcompany.com

Oasis, TX Brewing Co. is located out in the enclave of Oasis, TX, just west of Austin overlooking Lake Travis. They brew up tasty session beers including a well-made pale ale and keller pilsner. Watch for new canned seasonal releases throughout the year. Treat your eyes and taste buds to a favor and hit up the scenic tasting room on the weekends.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING London Homesick Ale. . . . . . English-Style Ale Luchesa Lager. . . . . . German-Style Kellerbier Meta Modern. . . . . . . . . . American Session IPA Slow Ride Pale Ale. . . . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Meta Modern, Slow Ride Pale Ale

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Real Ale Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 San Saba Court Blanco, TX 78606 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . Wed & Thu 12–6pm, Fri & Sat 11am–7pm, Sun 12–5pm 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. In March 2015 they opened their new tasting room and extended their hours.

BEER SAMPLING 4-Squared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale Axis IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Fireman’s #4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Full Moon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rye IPA Hans’ Pils. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German Pilsner

WE RECOMMEND Axis IPA, Hans’ Pils

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House and Brewing Co. INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. .13010 West Parmer Lane, Suite 800 Cedar Park, TX 78613 DRINKING HOURS . . . . Mon–Thu 7am–10pm, Fri & Sat 7am–11pm, Sun 8am–10pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.redhornbrew.com

Opened in early 2015, Red Horn concentrates on fresh brewed beer and fresh roasted coffee. They are a full on brew pub now, brewing house made beer. Stop in for a pick me up or a knock me down. Anything you are looking for, they do it. A small menu of food is also available.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Beach Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Pale HapSlappy IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA TrailRunner Golden Ale . . . . . . . . . . Golden Ale

WE RECOMMEND HapSlappy IPA, TrailRunner Golden Ale

Rentsch Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2500 NE Inner Loop Georgetown, TX 78626 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . .Fri 4–8pm, Sat 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.rentschbrewery.com

Homebrewing is a great hobby. It’s even a better hobby when you can enjoy it with your family members. Andrew (son) and David (father) Rentschler were just hobbyists until Andrew’s travels in Europe. Imagine the number of brewery ideas that come from getting drunk in Europe. This father and son brewing company was not just some drunken dream though. They are now the ﬁrst brewery in Georgetown. Stop in for a beer and to compare passport stamps.

BEER SAMPLING Blonde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Hefeweizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hefeweizen IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Weizenbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weizenbock

WE RECOMMEND Hefeweizen, IPA

San Gabriel River Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Chaparral Drive Liberty Hill, TX 78642 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . Fri 4–8pm, Sat 1–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . .www.sangabrielriverbrewery.com

The brainchild of brothers Patrick and John Peck, San Gabriel River Brewery opened earlier this year. They made their ﬁrst festival appearance this past September at the Texas Craft Brewers Festival. During taproom hours they usually have food trucks serving up some tasty grub. They even have a bottle club. For $35 a month you get four bottles, three your choice and one seasonal.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

Amber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Honey Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Porter IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Texas Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Ale

Honey Porter, IPA

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Strange Land Brewery INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5904 Bee Cave Road Austin, TX 78746 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fri 5–9pm, Sat 2–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . www.strangelandbrewery.com

Like most breweries, time lines for opening are always optimistic, but bureaucracy usually gets in the way. But Strange Land is ﬁnally open for business. And thank God, because the burger brewery jokes were growing a little thin. Located behind the Hat Creek in southwest Austin (Westlake), Strange Land is brewing up an eclectic mix of brews. Stop by on a Friday or Saturday to sample their year-round and specialty beers. It’s small, but quite nice.

BEER SAMPLING Alemannia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Altbier Austinite Pilz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Czech Pilsner Entire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter Ploughshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saison

WE RECOMMEND Entire, Ploughshare

Suds Monkey Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . 1032 Canyon Bend Drive, #B Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fri 3–8pm, Sat 12–8pm, Sun 12–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.sudsmonkeybrew.net

Monkey themed beers! What else do you need to know? Suds Monkey started like so many before: homebrewing in Mom’s basement in Michigan. Work in the industry followed, then 15 years later Suds Monkey was born. Like they always say, follow your dreams and monkey...er...money will follow. Visit their fun (not fancy) taproom in Dripping Springs to fully experience their monkey business.

BEER SAMPLING Cheeky Monkey . . . . . . . . American Wheat Ale Funky Monkey IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Monkey Tail Pale Ale. . . . . . American Pale Ale

WE RECOMMEND Funky Monkey IPA, Monkey Tail

Thirsty Planet Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . .8201 South Congress Austin, TX 78745 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . No Current Hours* GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes 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. Later he met some college students who offered him an ownership piece of a brew pub in Oklahoma. Eventually he decided to open a full production brewery in Austin— Thirsty Planet Brewing Co.

BEER SAMPLING

WE RECOMMEND

Buckethead IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Pale Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pale Ale Thirsty Goat Amber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Ale Yellow Armadillo . . . . . . . . . . .American Wheat

Buckethead IPA, Thirsty Goat

*They have moved into an expanded facility in south Austin, but taproom hours have not resumed at time of press.

Treaty Oak Brewing INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6604 Fitzhugh Road Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . . . Thu & Fri 4–9pm, Sat 12–9pm, Sun 12–6pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . www.treatyoakdistilling.com

You’ve had their bourbon. You’ve had their gin. You may even have had their sweet tea vodka. Now you can drink their beer. Located on Fitzhugh Road, with those other breweries, Treaty Oak opened in late 2016. They are Central Texas’s ﬁrst brewery/distillery. For once San Antonio is ﬁrst (Ranger Creek). Don’t worry, we still got breakfast tacos in our column.

BEER SAMPLING Bright Side. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blonde Ale Fitzhugh Ale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . British Mild Lil’ Hop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Session IPA

WE RECOMMEND Fitzhugh Ale, Lil’ Hop

BREWERIES & BREW PUBS

Twisted X Brewing Co. INFO

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . 23455 West Ranch Road 150 Dripping Springs, TX 78620 DRINKING HOURS. . . . . . . .Thu–Sat 11am–9pm, Sun 12–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.twistedxbrewing.com

Established in 2011 in Cedar Park, Twisted X is now situated in Dripping Springs. They have shed the Tex-Mex theme they ﬁrst opened with. Now they are basically just Tex. Either way, you can enjoy a fresh pint at the brewery in Dripping Springs or grab a sixer of cans at your local grocery store before the big sports match.

BEER SAMPLING

Austin Lager, Chupahopra

WE RECOMMEND

Austin Lager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Premium Lager Chupahopra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American IPA Cow Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amber Lager Later Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Session IPA

Vista Brewing INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13551 FM150 Driftwood, TX 78619 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . .Thu–Sat 11am–10pm, Sun 11am–8pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.vistabrewingtx.com

Located past Salt Lick, out in Driftwood, Vista Brewing hopes to become the ultimate destination brewery, with a restaurant, farm, and tiny-house hotel cottages. Enjoy a beer in their huge outdoor beer garden or one their sprawling porches. Not too many though, because those tiny houses are still to come. Grab a bottle or a Crowler to go before heading back to civilization.

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Adair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kölsch-Style Ale Dark Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pilsner Le Saison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saison Shallow Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Table Beer

WE RECOMMEND Dark Skies, Le Saison

Whitestone Brewery INFO

BREW PUB SNAPSHOT

LOCATION. . . . . 601 East Whitestone Boulevard Cedar Park, TX 78613 DRINKING HOURS . . . . . . . . Mon & Tue 3–9pm, Wed & Thu 2–10pm, Fri & Sat 12–12am, Sun 12–9pm GUEST TAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No BEER SOLD ON-SITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER TO-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes BEER SOLD OFF-SITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes URL . . . . . . . . . . . www.whitestonebrewery.com

Whitestone opened the doors to their Cedar Park brew pub on New Year’s Day. Whitestone started like so many other brewing operations: a homebrewer’s dreams. Ryan Anglen was that homebrewer, with a background in software. He is fulﬁlling the dream with the help of Kris Gray, Whitestone’s head brewer formerly of Stone Brewing. Stop in their handsome taproom for a taste or two of their six yearround brews. They are currently distributing to a handful of spots in the area and are looking to expand that reach. Also, they have Crowlers!

HOUSE BEER SAMPLING Könverter Kölsch . . . . . . . . . . Kölsch-Style Ale Lovely Day IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American IPA Porch Daddy Baltic Porter. . . . . . Baltic Porter Siesta Saison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saison

WE RECOMMEND Könverter Kölsch, Lovely Day IPA

• Spacious taproom and dog-friendly beer garden • Diverse selection of beer styles along with local ciders, mead and wine • Live music and daily rotating foodtrucks • Crowler fills, Growler fills, six packs & more - Come take your beer on the go! • Private event space available to host parties and more • Open seven days a week!

OTHER CENTRAL TX BREWERIES Altmeyer & Lewis Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15898 TX-123 San Marcos, TX 78666 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.altmeyerlewisbrewing.com

AquaBrew LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 South LBJ Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.aqua-brew.com

Barrow Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Royal Street Salado, TX 76571 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.barrowbrewing.com

Caracara Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 A East Market Street Lockhart, TX 78644 URL . . . . . . . . . . .www.caracarabrewingcompany.com

Double Horn Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Avenue H Marble Falls, TX 78654 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.doublehornbrewing.com

Faust Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 South Seguin Avenue New Braunfels, TX 78130 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.faustbrewing.com

Granger City Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 West Davilla Street Granger, Texas 76530 URL . . . . . . . fb.com/grangercitybrewingcompany.com

Guadalupe Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1580 Wald Road New Braunfels, TX 78132 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.guadalupebrew.com

Middleton Brewing LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Oakwood Loop San Marcos, TX 78666 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.middletonbrewingtx.com

Pecan Street Brewing LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 East Pecan Drive Johnson City, TX 78636 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.pecanstreetbrewing.com

Root Cellar Cafe & Brewery LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 North LBJ Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.rootcellarcafe.com

Ruggedman Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . .7600 South Old Bastrop Highway San Marcos, TX 78666

URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.drinkthedamnbeer.com

Save The World Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1510 Resource Parkway Marble Falls, TX 78654 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.savetheworldbrewing.com

Sean Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 East San Antonio Street San Marcos, TX 78666 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.seanpatrickstx.com

Texas Beer Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 North Main Street Taylor, TX 76574 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.texasbeerco.com

Two Wheel Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 South Loop 4 Buda, TX 78610 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.twowheelbrewing.com

Wimberley Brewing Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9595 Ranch Road 12 Wimberley, TX 78676 URL . . . . . . . . . www.wimberleybrewingcompany.com

CENTRAL TX CIDER AND MEAD Argus Cidery LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12345 Pauls Valley Road, #2 Austin, TX 78737 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.arguscidery.com

Austin Eastciders LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . 4007 Commercial Center Drive Austin, TX 78744 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.austineastciders.com

Fairweather Cider Co. LOCATION . . . . . . . 10609 Metric Boulevard, Suite 108 Austin, TX 78758 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.fairweathercider.com

Meridian Hive Meadery LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . 8120 Exchange Drive, Suite 400 Austin, TX 78754 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.meridianhive.com

Moontower Cider Co. LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . 3008 Gonzales Street, Suite 300 Austin TX 78702 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.moontowercider.com

Texas Keeper Cider LOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12521 Twin Creeks Road Manchaca, TX 78652 URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.texaskeeper.com

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El Guapo (Real Ale)!

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LAST CALL CEREMONIES Call it 15 minutes until close, cut the music, and start pulling mats. Is this a trick question?

LAST CALL BEER RECOMMENDATIONS HUG$ and $ON Cold Brew and a ride share.

WEIRDEST/CRAZIEST LAST CALL EXPERIENCE Walking in on folks having “The Sex” in the bathroom, and them thinking they were home. I’ve never had three toilets in the same room, but anyways... Colorado is High man.

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