The Definitive Guide to Austin Hop Water

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The Definitive Guide to Austin Hop Water Published: December 5, 2023 Austin breweries are no strangers to the national trend of better for you beers and beer alternatives. While few local breweries have the capability to make non-alcoholic beers, another booze-free beverage has taken off in Central Texas: hop waters. Hop waters are made by dry-hopping cold water or steeping hot water with hops, optionally adding flavoring to the brew, then carbonating. What emerges from […]

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The Best Beers of 2023

By / / Austin Breweries, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

The Best Beers of 2023 Welcome to the first annual The Best Beers of the Year, presented by Craft Beer Austin!  You read, you drank, you voted, and now we’re here to present the results.  If this is the first of our data-driven articles you’ve seen, please keep in mind that we are using Untappd data to determine the highest rated beers, and as such this data is crowdsourced, not the preferences of the CBA

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events Dec. 29th

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events  Check out Austin craft beer releases and events that are happening around town this week. Austin Area Brewery Map New offerings from breweries that are releasing this week, or offerings that are now returning to the menu after a hiatus. We cannot promise they will still be in stock by the time the weekend comes around, so check the online ordering systems first! As always, check their hours as well.

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The Beerists | 598 – Blind Holiday Spectacular 2023

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The Beerists | 598 – Blind Holiday Spectacular 2023 The Beerists podcast is recorded in Austin, TX and each week we will be featuring the latest episode. The content below is an excerpt from the latest Beerists podcast release: 598 – Blind Holiday Spectacular 2023 It’s our annual Blind Holiday Spectacular! Listener Andy Richter has once again delivered 4 wrapped beers for us to taste blind! We also talk about something wild that happened when the

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Style Breakdown 2: The Best Imperial Stouts Ever Made in Central Texas

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Guide, Style Breakdown

Style Breakdown 2: The Best Imperial Stouts Ever Made in Central Texas Welcome back to Style Breakdown, where we have a jolly good time looking at the best beers ever made in Central Texas.  The first article was about Pilsners, and while I wanted to pick wintery beers for this one, I had a tough time deciding if it would be porters, stouts, or strong ales.  But let’s be honest, you want to see the

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events Dec. 22nd

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events  Check out Austin craft beer releases and events that are happening around town this week. Austin Area Brewery Map New offerings from breweries that are releasing this week, or offerings that are now returning to the menu after a hiatus. We cannot promise they will still be in stock by the time the weekend comes around, so check the online ordering systems first! As always, check their hours as well.

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The Brewers Association’s 2023 Year in Beer Report

By / / Beer Data and Statistics, CBA, Craft Beer News

The Brewers Association: 2023 Year in Beer Challenges continue in a mature and competitive market    Boulder, Colo. • Dec. 11, 2023—As 2023 draws to a close, the Brewers Association—the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers—recaps a year that proved challenging for many small and independent brewers facing a mature, competitive marketplace. Its midyear survey indicated a production dip, with all signs pointing to production being down in 2023, the first time outside

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Downtown Pflugerville Gets its First Brewery with Prost Alehouse

By / / Austin Breweries, Brewery Profile, CBA, Craft Beer News

Downtown Pflugerville Gets its First Brewery with Prost Alehouse Updated December 2023: Prost Alehouse announced its soft opening on December 19, 2023, starting at 3 p.m. with $5 “Haus” beers through Thursday and Garbo’s Lobster ATX food truck onsite. The beer lineup features Haus beers brewed by the new brewer, Kevin Decoud including a Pilsner, Schwarzbier, Schwarz on Nitro, Bavarian IPA, Hefeweizen, and a Cherry Sour. Decoud has a formal brewing education and over 6

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The Beerists | 597 – Wheatland Spring

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The Beerists | 597 – Wheatland Spring The Beerists podcast is recorded in Austin, TX and each week we will be featuring the latest episode. The content below is an excerpt from the latest Beerists podcast release: 597 – Wheatland Spring Waterford, VA’s Wheatland Spring is up, thanks to listener Justin Berlin! Next week is our last show of the year, our annual Holiday Blind Spectacular, and we’ll be taking 2 weeks off, and our winter

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events Dec. 15th

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Austin Weekly Beer Releases and Events  Check out Austin craft beer releases and events that are happening around town this week. Austin Area Brewery Map New offerings from breweries that are releasing this week, or offerings that are now returning to the menu after a hiatus. We cannot promise they will still be in stock by the time the weekend comes around, so check the online ordering systems first! As always, check their hours as well.

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Rockabilly Brewing Announces Renovations

By / / Austin Breweries, Brewery Profile, CBA, Craft Beer News

Hutto’s Rockabilly Brewing announces temporary closure to begin renovations Originally published 12/14/23 Update 4/15/24: The renovations were successful, and they are now open again! Rockabilly Brewing, a craft microbrewery located at 1133 CR 137, Hutto, Texas, announced that Dec. 17 will be its last day open in 2023, and it will reopen in early 2024 with some much-anticipated changes. Upon its opening, the microbrewery assured guests that, while they are still a very rustic spot,

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Big Country Organic Brewing Co. Releases Two New IPAs

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Big Country Organic Brewing Co. Releases Two New IPAs This is a sponsored post Big Country Organic Brewing Co. recently released two new USDA Organic-certified beers as they continue to build out their portfolio. Big Country West Coast IPA is an homage to the decades-long history of the bright, bitter, clear IPAs from California that launched a category and opened the door to a new era of craft beer. At 7.7% it packs a punch

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