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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Beerists | 596 – Here Today Brewery & Kitchen 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: 596 – Here Today Brewery & Kitchen We’re reviewing 4 hoppy brews from Seattle’s Here Today Brewery & Kitchen! We talk about the bad behavior of our youth, old lore, an unfortunate bunk bed situation, and […]
Friends and Allies Announces Closure After weeks of speculation and rumors, Friends and Allies Brewing has announced it will be closing permanently after eight years in a social media post. Rumors began spreading around the end of summer that the brewery was already closed, those rumors mainly coming from other social media platforms like Reddit. Members of the CraftBeerAustin.com team visited several times over the past few months and things appeared to be operating normally. […]
The Beerists | 595 – Best IPA Ever? 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: 595 – Best IPA Ever? We’re super excited to get these Ohio beers from listener Joey Borders– mainly because it’ll be the 1st time in a long time we’ve had Fat Head’s Head Hunter on the show– which […]
Red Horn Brewing Welcomes New Head Brewer By feature writer Jackie Von Panda As a native Houstonian, Red Horn Coffee House and Brewing has become a personal favorite and frequent hangout when I am in Austin. Over time, Red Horn has grown from the original location on Parmer and FM1431 to include a second and much larger facility at Scottsdale Drive. Chad Misner, Co-Founder of Red Horn offered me an opportunity to come tour the […]