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Hops for Houses, Benefitting Habitat for Humanity Hops for Houses Craft Beer Festival, supporting Williamson County Habitat for Humanity February 22, 2025 – Williamson County Expo Center, 5350 Bill Pickett Trail, Taylor, TX Tickets are on sale NOW! Hops for Houses Craft Beer Festival fundraiser is back this February to raise funds for Williamson County Habitat for Humanity and raise a bunch of beer toasts to fun while they’re at it! Austin-area breweries do not shy […]
Doom, Stouts, and Fire: Jester King’s Most Epic Doom Forge Day Yet Updated 2/8 with the guest beer lineup (see below). If you like your beer dark, your music heavy, and your events packed with chaos and creativity, then mark your calendar—Doom Forge Day at Jester King is back and bigger than ever! On Saturday, February 15th, from 11 AM to 9 PM, the famous local brewery is turning up the volume (and the flames) […]
Texas Craft Brewers Cup 2025 Celebrating its first year in 2022, the Texas Craft Brewers Cup is the premiere professional beer competition run and organized by The Texas Craft Brewers Guild to showcase the outstanding quality and variety of Texas craft beer and the brewers that make them. The awards ceremony was held on the evening of Saturday, February 8 at the COTA Event Center as the closing event for the Texas Craft Brewers Guild’s […]
Austin Beerworks Hosts the Ultimate Brewery Chili Cookoff Austin Beerworks is at it again—bringing their signature quirky fun to the world of chili cookoffs! On Saturday, February 22nd, from 11 AM to 3 PM, nine Austin breweries will go head-to-head in a battle for chili supremacy at the first annual Austin Beerworks Invitational Chili Cook Off. “I’ve always wanted to host a chili cook off event around National Chili Day, which is February 27th this year. […]
Year in Preview: Craft Beer Stories to Watch Out For in 2025 Originally published 1/2/2025 2024 was a tempestuous year for craft beer in Central Texas and across the country. What will 2025 hold? Below are some of the local and national developments that the Craft Beer Austin team will be watching for: Tariffs could drive up costs for craft brewers… In December, President-Elect Trump announced his intention to place a 25% percent tariff on […]
Black Star Co-op Announces Closure Located at 7020 Easy Wind Dr., Ste. 100 After fourteen years of serving craft beer as the first the world’s first cooperatively owned and worker self-managed brewpub, Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery has announced it’s closure effective Sunday January 12, after regular business hours. The announcement was made public on social media and privately earlier this week to member owners, with a notice currently posted on its website. While […]
Craft Beer Austin Staff Picks | Best of 2024 Welcome to the end of 2024 edition of Staff Picks! We asked the team what their favorite local beers were that they drank this year, and here are the results! Drop us a comment on Instagram, Facebook, or Reddit to let us know your top choice of the year. Aaron Acopon Brewing | Aunt Kan | Best Bitter One of my biggest blind spots as a […]
The Best Beers of 2024 Happy Holidays! We hope your Christmas stout was rich, sweet, and full of adjuncts, and that your New Years stout will be richer, sweeter, and contain even more adjuncts. Welcome to our best beers of 2024 article, where we use your check-ins to rank the community’s favorite brews of the year. Before getting into the results – in the last article, I posted a survey asking how much you interact […]
Austin Ale Trail Passport Review (2024-2025): The Best Brewery Perks to Collect This Year Updated 9/18/24 – Passports are now available everywhere! It’s that time of year again: The Austin Ale Trail has returned with their fifth annual brewery passport for the 2024-2025 season. If you’re raring to go, you can get your passport early at the two launch parties this weekend – Vacancy Brewing on Saturday 9/7, and Blue Owl Brewing on Sunday 9/8. […]
Beer with Gin | Winter Warmer Photo courtesy of the Beer Museum Welcome to our series “Beer with Gin” where we hear from local beer expert Virginia (Gin) Benavidez, co-founder of The Beer Museum, to discuss the origin of the Winter Warmer. By Feature Writer Gin Benavidez This article was originally published in January 2020 Winter warmers are a bit odd because, as a beer style, they’re not very well-defined. In fact, the Beer Style […]
10Best | Austin’s Most Iconic Beers Updated December, 2024 What are the most iconic, well known craft beers in Central Texas regardless of style? While having a beer with some friends, we spent quite a bit of time going down the rabbit hole of what we identify as the Mount Rushmore (plus 6) of Austin Area beers. These are the beers that everyone has tried and almost everyone respects (obviously I would never expect consensus […]
10Best | Bottle Shops Published January 29, 2024 Updated October 9, 2025 – Replaced two closed places with new options Looking to stock your fridge? Sure, you could pick up a decent 6 pack at any grocery or convenience store nowadays, but if you’re a reader of Craft Beer Austin then you likely have more specific tastes in beer. Below is our list of the 10 Best Bottle Shops in Central Texas based on quality, […]