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Beer Festivals to Attend in 2025 The Spring festival season is upon us with many unique craft beer festivals across the Austin area. Click on each to read more about the festival, ticket sales, and volunteer opportunities. Some links below are to our 2024 articles, which will be updated as we get closer to each event. Hillhops | January 23, 2025 https://craftbeeraustin.com/hillhops Beyond Booze Fest | January 25, 2025 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-booze-fest-tickets-1069940363429 Doom Forge Day | February […]
9 Brand New Central Texas Breweries – Spring 2025 Published 2/27/25 Edited 2/28/25: Marion Brewing sent us a comment, which has been added below! This article was originally titled “9 Central Texas Breweries You Had NO IDEA Existed”, but we’re above clickbait here. The truth is, you’ve probably never heard of most of these breweries before today. We updated our brewery openings and closures list last week with two new spots, and then this week […]
Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival Come see what’s on tap at the fourth annual Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival Saturday, June 13-14 • 11 AM – 6 PM | Marktplatz (Market Square) Downtown Fredericksburg, TX This is a sponsored article The Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival is coming back for a fourth year on June 13 and 14, brought to you by the Fredericksburg Rotary Club, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on improving the community and the world. The […]
Craft Beer & Cask Ale Fans Rejoice: The Central Texas Pinvitational is returning for 2025! A celebration of Cask-Conditioned Ales & Lagers from across the great state of Texas and beyond. Better Half Coffee & Cocktails / Hold Out Brewing March 1st, 2025 3:00pm Tickets on sale NOW! Hold Out Brewing, Acopon Brewing, and Dutchess Ales are proud to present the Second Annual Central Texas Pinvitational, a celebration of the glory that is Cask-Conditioned Beer. […]
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 […]