Andrew Schwab

Twitter: @andrewlschwab Untappd: aschwab My craft beer journey started sometime in university when light beer just was not cutting it anymore. I started venturing out to the beer store and buying any 6 pack that I had not had before. This has now continued for ten years. You will see me visiting almost any and every brewery that I can. I have a passion for travel, craft beer, and college football. When I am not drinking craft beer, I work as a manufacturing engineer in Austin.

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 28 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 28 2017

Check out this week’s TABC label and brewery approvals. Here is a double dose of the label approvals as I missed last week due to being out of town. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format (12oz) can cc = 16oz format can C = Larger format can A L Brewing Company – A L […]

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 14 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 14 2017

Check out this week’s TABC label and brewery approvals. This week we have 4th Tap, Adelbert’s, Austin Beerworks, Friends and Allies, Hops and Grain, Jester King, Pinthouse and more. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format (12oz) can cc = 16oz format can C = Larger format can 4th Tap Brewing Cooperative – 4th Tap

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 9 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Nov 9 2017

A little bit late on this week’s edition. We are starting to see cans from a couple of new breweries to canning – 5 Stones, Flying Man, Texas Beer Company, Good Neighbors, and Revolver. Oh, and Founder’s CBS is approved in Texas. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format (12oz) can cc = 16oz format

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Upland Brewing coming to Texas

Indiana’s Upland Brewing Is Coming To Texas

Indiana’s Upland Brewing will be coming to Texas Working with Flood Distributors, Upland hopes to start making an appearance throughout Texas before the year’s end. They are currently working their way through TABC approvals, which could mean they will have their license before the end of September. If everything goes as planned, we can expect to see the first of their beers rolling out sometime in October. The distribution footprint should include most major cities

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 31 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 31 2017

This is probably one of the longer weeks for actual brewery approvals. Four new Texas breweries were approved, along with another brewery getting approval for a location change. To go along with that, FiftyFifty Brewing (California) now has approval to come into Texas. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format (12oz) can cc = 16oz

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 24 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 24 2017

Looks like 5 Stones is starting to get label approval for their new location in New Braunfels (which will be a huge improvement over their original location). We are continuing to see some new approvals from places about to open like Frontyard (Austin), Ingenious (Houston area) and the recently opened Flying Man (Austin). This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format

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FiftyFifty Brewing, out of Truckee, California, is Expanding their distribution into the Texas market.

FiftyFifty Brewing is Expanding to Texas

FiftyFifty Brewing, out of Truckee, California, is Expanding their distribution into the Texas market. Working with Flood Independent Distribution, FiftyFifty hopes to start making an appearance in Texas by March of 2018. They are currently working their way through TABC approvals. The distribution footprint will include Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio to begin with. FiftyFifty’s starting offerings will include their lineup of 22oz bottles of Eclipse. For those who do not know the

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 17 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 17 2017

It looks like De Garde/Jester King’s collaboration Elements of Composition finally has label approval. You may notice the black square and a couple of words censored. Those are the Jester King logo and Jester King’s name….thanks to obscure TABC rules, Jester King cannot be listed on the label. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 10 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 10 2017

More labels for you to enjoy. Looks like we are starting to see Abyss variants showing up in bottles…which is always nice. We have a first can from Texas Beer Company (in Taylor) as well. And, what appears to be a 6L bottle of a Wild Ale from Lakewood Brewing Company. If you wanted a breakdown by numbers of what happened at GABF for Texas (and how we did against other states), I wrote a

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Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2017

Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2017

The largest beer festival in the US, the Great American Beer Festival, has passed once again. For those who have never been, it has turned into a week long party for craft brewers and fans in Denver that ended Saturday. While most articles locally will talk about how Texas did, I decided to take a deeper look into the numbers of all of this. This year, there were 2 new categories to bring the total

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 3 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Oct 3 2017

We are starting to see some beers showing up from Humble’s new Ingenious Brewing. They are not quite open but have already heard good things about them. Along with them, I just hope some of these St. Arnold beers make it beyond the taproom. This week’s TABC Label Approvals: K = Keg B = Large format bottle bb = 16oz format bottle b = Small format bottle c = Small format (12oz) can cc =

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Sept 26 2017

TABC Label and Brewery Approvals Sept 26 2017

Well, I missed another week. Not due to laziness this time, but just due to there only being 30 or so last week…and felt it would be better just to leave them for another week. With that said, we seem to have been overloaded with keg approvals from brewpubs this week. Braindead, St. Elmo, El Paso Brewing, along with a couple of newer places like Flying Man. We are also seeing the first can approvals

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