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Texas Craft Brewers Festival Collaboration Beer Lineup Buy Tickets Here Want to go for free? The volunteer link is live! The Texas Craft Brewers Festival, featuring more than 85 craft breweries, returns October 23, 2021, to Fiesta Gardens in Austin, TX. The event, which is organized by the Texas Craft Brewers Guild is the state’s largest beer event focused exclusively on Texas-brewed craft beer. This year, the festival will feature three unique collaboration beer tents celebrating community and craft: […]
Texas Lambic Fest Returns If you purchased a ticket for the August event this year, your ticket is still valid. Texas Lambic Fest | Sunday, November 7, 2021 | Batch – Craft Beer and Kolaches Texas Lambic Fest is an annual event that focuses, on you guessed it, Lambic style beers. Each year Belgian beer enthusiasts gather to share their beers, share their stories, and come away with new friends. I caught up with the […]
For conference sponsorship opportunities, contact abv@craftbeeraustin.com CraftBeerAustin.com is a proud sponsor of the Beer Now Conference headed to Austin this November. Originally founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2010 as the Beer Bloggers Conference, the conference was renamed as its scope expanded to include everyone involved in communication about the beer industry. This year, the conference will be held at Vista Brewing from November 10-14 and is expected to host over 100 bloggers, writers, social media influencers, […]
Samuel Adams Brewing Hosting “How to Grow a Brewery” Workshop Exciting news for any Austin-area beverage makers looking to take their business to the next level! Samuel Adams Brewing Company alongside PeopleFund is hosting the American Dream program’s, “How to Grow a Brewery” workshop on Thursday, October 7th at 11am CST. Photo credit to Samuel Adams Brewing Post-workshop, attendees are encouraged to apply for the Brewers’ Pitch Room Competition to not only pitch their […]
Hedgehog Brewing celebrates local beer-fundraising legend Marvis ‘The Middleman’ Dixon with his own West Coast IPA In June 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests going on across the US, San Antonio TX’s Weathered Souls Brewing launched their Black Is Beautiful collaboration beer fundraising project, which swiftly became a huge international success. Here in Central Texas, the campaign to raise awareness about the Black Is Beautiful project, recruit breweries and even cideries, […]
The Trail Foundation Hosts Pop-Up Beer Garden at Sand Beach Park The Trail Foundation, an organization dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail at Lady Bird Lake, is setting up a pop-up beer garden on Oct. 9-10. The beer garden will be held at Sand Beach Park from 12-7 p.m. There will be live music from local artists as well as local beverage options. “TTF is excited to bring Trail lovers together for […]
Love it or hate it, it’s the time of year where the city of Austin gets overtaken by music fans from all over the country during the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival. After pivoting to a virtual event last year due to the pandemic, the festival returns to Zilker Park with additional safety measures in place. Of note, you do need to show your vaccine card, not a picture of it, or show a […]
Southpaw Brewing Co Announces Permanent Closure Southpaw brewing announced its closure on social media today after being open for just a few short months. The husband and wife team opened their doors in the middle of the pandemic last August. After years of planning, the Beavans did not expect to open to an empty taproom amid a global pandemic. But that’s exactly what happened and they quickly pivoted to a beer-to-go model. Read the full […]
Meridian Hive Releases Seasonal Cherry Flavor For most Austin breweries, the fall seasonal release is a Marzen, Festbier, or a pumpkin beer. Meridian Hive is taking its Autumn release in a different direction. The meadery announced the return of their popular cherry flavor on September 27th. Cherry combinations tart cherry flavor with hints of vanilla, cinnamon, and almond. While that may sound like a certain Texas-made soda, Cherry is all-natural. Like all Meridian Hive products, […]
Join the St. Jude CraftBeerAustin.com Walk/Run Team September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and this year CraftBeerAustin.com has teamed up with a seasoned organizer to create our first-ever St. Jude’s Walk/Run team! Again this year, the St. Jude team decided to hold the event virtually, meaning you can do the walk from anywhere, your neighborhood or your treadmill, using their new app (see links to download at the bottom of this page). With this flexibility, […]
St Elmo’s Spicy Ones, Round Two feat. Urban Jungle Brewing Spicy Ones is back for round two! If you missed the first go-around, St Elmo Brewing has joined forces again with Spicy Boys Fried Chicken food truck to bring the HEAT. Last go around, host extraordinaire, John Gross, interviewed guests Michael Graham and Will Golden of Austin Beerworks. Round two promises to be an exciting night featuring Shannon Harris, diversity and inclusion advocate, The Brew […]
“Beer is what brings us together, but the relationships are what make us stay.” | Sarah Eshelman, Beer Necessities Austin Founder Beer Necessities is a very casual group of Austin women and those that identify as such who get together to drink & discuss craft beer, making wonderful connections along the way. Established in September 2014, the group typically meets several times a month at various bars & breweries around Austin. Remember pre-COVID when meeting […]