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Beer Bills for the 2025 Texas Legislative Session Despite it being 2025, Texas still primarily adheres to the outdated 3-tier system established at the end of Prohibition. This system mandates that breweries sell to a distributor first, rather than directly to consumers. Distributors then sell to retail outlets, which subsequently sell to consumers. This situation is ironic because wineries and distilleries in Texas can already operate differently. Although this observation seems logical, this is […]
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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 […]
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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, 2024 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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Brewers Association Releases 2024 Year in Beer Retrospective The largest trade group for craft beer reported a down year across the industry earlier in December. The Brewers Association anticipates that 2024 will likely end with a decline in sales volume and in production after a slight drop-off (-2% production) midyear and weak scan data for Q3. The national brewery opening and closing numbers also showed a slight decline, with 335 openings to 399 closures. Those […]
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Old Gregg Brewing Now Open in Pflugerville Located at 1900 E. Howard Lane, Building H, Pflugerville After two years of planning and building, Old Gregg Brewing Company is now open in Pflugerville, Texas. Backed by FBR Management — the team behind Mean Eyed Cat and Star Bar — the brewery is led by brewing veterans Kirby Kirkconnell and Matt Couch. Why it matters: Old Gregg delivers bold, approachable beers alongside house-made hard seltzers, root beer, […]
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Fairweather Cider to Relocate, Metric Boulevard Location Closing November 23rd Fairweather Cider Co. has an official last day at their longtime location on Metric Boulevard. The final service for the cidermaker and their partner food truck Spicy Boys will be on November 23rd, per an announcement on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fairweather Cider Co (@fairweathercider) Fairweather announced that they would not be renewing their lease in August, citing a […]
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Support Asheville Breweries with Higher Calling Hazy IPA Almost fifty breweries call Asheville and the surrounding Western North Carolina area home. From production facilities for giants like New Belgium and Sierra Nevada to critically-acclaimed darlings like Fonta Flora and Burial, Asheville has one of the most robust brewery scenes in America. Unfortunately, this Mecca for beer drinkers was devastated by torrential rains and flooding from Hurricane Helene in October. Critical infrastructure, homes, and businesses are […]
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Texas Craft Brewers Festival Returns To Austin on November 16, 2024 Originally published June 2024Updated October 19th – Beer list releasedUpdated October 31st – Rotating taps released Tickets On Sale Now! Tickets are on sale for the Texas Craft Brewers Festival, the state’s largest beer event focused exclusively on Texas-brewed craft beer, returning to East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens on November 16, 2024. This year’s event will feature more than 80 Texas craft breweries serving samples […]
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Austin Eastciders Collaboratory Closes, Moves Production to Michigan Posted 10/22/24 Austin Eastciders announced on instagram that the Collaboratory in East Austin is closed, effective immediately. In the carefully worded post, Eastciders states that the space “will evolve into a year-round, multi-use destination,” and clarifies in a comment reply that “the Collaboratory is closed, but a new hospitality vendor is taking over the space in the coming weeks.” Eater Austin has reported that the new tenant […]
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