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A Comprehensive List of Brewery Openings and Closures Updated 3/29/2024 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 2024 Open Now: Belly Up Brew Pub (Fredericksburg) 2024 (Pending) The Alright Brewing Co. Old Gregg Beer Company Austin […]
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Dripping Springs Brewers Festival Returns The Dripping Springs Brewers Festival originally debuted in 2022 and is returning in 2024. Tickets and more information can be found here. From the website: When: March 23, 2024 Where: 311 Old Fitzhugh Road, Dripping Springs Time: 11 AM – 5 PM Tickets: Purchase a wristband online and pick it up at the festival entrance (tickets will be available Monday, Feb 13th). Additional tasting tickets may be purchased on-site. TICKETS MUST BE PRINTED FOR […]
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Hill Country Craft Beer Festival Buy Tickets From the website: Join us for a beautiful day of beer at the Historic Stelzenplatz at Wurstfest Grounds. A festival known for quality beer – in a city known for quality fun. 30 Texas Hill Country breweries and wineries. 150+ craft beers and wine. 1 great day. Presented by the Rotary Club of New Braunfels and benefiting local charities and non-profits. April 13, 2024 2:00 pm VIP Gates […]
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The Craft Beer Marketing Awards started as a nationwide competition and the very first awards program in the U.S. to focus exclusively on retail beer marketing efforts and is now a global competition. The 2024 Global Judges Panel includes over 700 beverage and beer industry professionals worldwide, making the CBMAS the largest awards program of its kind in the world. Per the press release, well-known Judges who have returned or joined include Ralph Steadman, David […]
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Why Choose Drinks and Alcoholic Beverages Delivery for Your Next Party Planning a party is usually quite fun, but it also involves a lot of moving parts that need to be accounted for in order for the party to be successful. From deciding on a theme to organizing the guest list, there are many details to consider. Arguably one of the most important elements of party planning is deciding on drinks and alcoholic beverages to […]
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This edition of Six Things You Need to Know covers various craft beer topics in the Austin area. Thirsty Goat Reappears On Tap Thirsty Planet shuttered suddenly this summer affecting multiple businesses. Recently, Thirst Goat popped up on tap walls across town, leaving many thinking that distributors were offloading old kegs. However, Thirsty Planet is working with Austin Beerworks to produce the beer, similar to the Hops and Grain brand, with Josh Hare’s consulting company […]
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Power Brewing Project Faces Unexpected Permitting Issues Power Brewing Project, the second brewery scheduled to open in Hutto, TX in 2023, was forced to delay its opening due to unexpected permitting issues with the Williamson County Health Department. David Power, owner and brewer, provided Craft Beer Austin with the specific issue at hand: “I was going through my Williamson County Health Dept permitting process (which I thought was my last hoop to jump through) a […]
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The Definitive Guide to Austin Hop Water 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 this […]
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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 […]
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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 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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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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