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Texas Craft Brewers Festival Returns To Austin on November 14, 2026 Buy Tickets Today! You can see the full beer list here. See the rotating list below. Tickets are on sale for the Texas Craft Brewers Festival, the state’s largest beer event focused exclusively on Texas-brewed craft beer, returning to East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens on November 14, 2026. This year’s event will feature more than 80 Texas craft breweries serving samples of approximately 200 independent […]
Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2026 The Great American Beer Festival invites industry professionals from around the world to sit together in small groups and, without knowing the brand name, taste beer and cider in each specified style category. The ultimate goal of the GABF judge panel is to identify the three entries that best represent each style category as described and adopted by the Great American Beer Festival. Judges are assigned […]
The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2026 Welcome to TBBotY(SF), and you already know that Cactus Master is #1. Batch’s anniversary IPA put up a good fight, but Pinthouse’s first quadruple 12% IPA was always going to top the list this time around. Aside from that, it was Oktoberfest season as you’ll see in the first table below. I agree that Katie’s Pride was my favorite this year, which was yours? […]
Howler Fest Returns to Suds Monkey Brewing Company on October 24th Suds Monkey Brewing Company, located on US-290 about halfway between Austin and Dripping Springs, will be hosting their third annual Howler Fest on Saturday, Oct 24th. Tickets come with 8 pours and a souvenir tasting glass (additional tasting tickets are available), and there will be at least 15 breweries in attendance, along with several wineries and distilleries. This is a great opportunity to sample […]
Don’t Miss the Largest Beer Fest in Texas: The 21st Annual San Antonio Beer Festival Benefiting the San Antonio Food Bank Saturday, October 17, Noon – 6 p.m., Hemisfair Tickets are available here – Use code CRAFTBEERATX for $10 off! Long-running fall tradition will bring hundreds of craft, seasonal and specialty beers to downtown San Antonio while benefiting the San Antonio Food Bank SAN ANTONIO — One of San Antonio’s longest-running fall fests returns […]
Published 9/24/2026 Turnstile Rebrands as Hold Out Bar & Grill Back in March, the team behind Better Half, The Brew & Brew, and of course Hold Out Brewery acquired the location and brand for Turnstile on North Burnet. While no major changes occurred in the following months, the team has recently decided to sunset the Turnstile branding and officially open as the Hold Out Bar & Grill, with the coffee shop and kitchen being given […]
A Comprehensive List of Brewery Openings and Closures Updated 9/25/2026 This is a complete list of all brewery openings and closures since 2020. We also maintain a table of all Central Texas breweries that you can view any time here (or from the navigation bar above, under “Beer Guides”), which can be filtered by region. Openings 2026 Open Now Ceremony Botanical Brewing (Austin) Crest Brewing Company (McMahan) 2026 (Pending) Beer Ranch Project (Wimberley: Open, Beer […]
Raise a Glass! Tickets on Sale for the 2026 Great American Beer Festival Experience thousands of craft beers, ciders, cocktails, and more this October 10-11 in Denver Press Release Crack one open, it’s official. The Brewers Association (BA) has announced that tickets are now on sale for a reimagined Great American Beer Festival ® (opens in new tab)(GABF™), happening at Levitt Pavilion in Denver on October 10 and 11, 2026. GABF has been the heartbeat of […]
Pinthouse is expanding to Cedar Park with its biggest project yet Why it matters: Texas’s top brewpub by volume is betting big on Williamson County by adding more brewing capacity and its first-ever beer garden. The details: New facility at 1605 E. New Hope Dr., opening second half of 2027 Full Pinthouse Pizza menu + dedicated outdoor beer garden (a first for the brand) Boosts production for cans/kegs across Central Texas Co-located with Jack Allen’s […]
Austin’s Best Air-Conditioned Tap Rooms Updated August 2026 2026 was trending as a relatively cool year for Central Texas, then came August and 11 straight 100+ degree days as of 8/12. So, with 6 or so weeks of temperature and humidity misery to go, we asked ourselves once again, “What breweries in Austin have the perfect inside air-conditioned oasis to get out of the heat with a local craft beer?” For this list, I am […]
Red Horn Restructures Operations, Names New Head Brewer Red Horn Coffee House and Brewing Co. 1615 Scottsdale Dr. Building 1 Suite 110, Leander, TX 78641 By Jackie Von Panda One recent night, I was relaxing with a cold beer and watching some streaming show. I did not have a care in the world after a long day of work—at least until an unexpected notification popped up on my phone. I lazily reached over, assuming it […]
The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2026 Apologies that this is a few weeks late – I simply forgot. Enjoy! Standard disclaimer: This data comes from Untappd and is not our personal opinions. Click here to find out more about how this data is gathered. Here are the top beers released in Central Texas from April to June, 2026! https://www.instagram.com/p/DaDXHx5k8rj/?img_index=1 Lager: Pilsner: Pale Ale: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZNfI7skcfl/?img_index=1 IPA (New England / Hazy): IPA […]