Beer Data and Statistics
A Comprehensive List of Brewery Openings and Closures Updated 11/25/2025 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 2025 Open Now Star Republic Brewing (Spring Branch) Lost Horizon Cider Mill (Dale/Lockhart) [Events only] Buchanan Brewing Co. (Buchanan […]
Read More
The Best Beers (Maybe?) at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2025 We’re back for the third year of TCBF beers by the numbers. Last year, we saw thousands* of attendees walking around the festival with this article on their phone, using it as a guide to target the most sought after beers. Will you join their ranks this year, or will you be normal? Disclaimer: just like TBBofT(SF) and Style Breakdown series, this article is based […]
Read More
Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2024 The Great American Beer Festival invites industry professionals from around the world to sit together in small groups and, without knowing the brand name, taste beer and cider in each specified style category. The ultimate goal of the GABF judge panel is to identify the three entries that best represent each style category as described and adopted by the Great American Beer Festival. Judges are assigned […]
Read More
The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2025 As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of work into the Location Spotlight series recently – but I also know that it’s time for the quad-annual best beers rankings. There’s a consistent theme between the two series though: the breweries in the greater Central Texas area are making some fantastic beer. You’re going to see a lot of breweries outside of Austin […]
Read More
The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2025 It’s the middle of 2025, and we can’t believe how many new breweries have opened in the last six months. How many have you been to? I’ve been to 8 of them from this list, with an upcoming trip to Llano to check out a few more. It may be difficult to open a new spot in the city among competition, but these new […]
Read More
Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival 2025 The fourth annual Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival and Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Fredericksburg Rotary Club, occurred on June 13th and 14th. On Friday night, hundreds of brewers met at Altstadt for dinner, drinks, and celebration of the brewing community in Texas. The party continued on Saturday with the festival in downtown Fredericksburg, featuring a record 30 breweries, along with live music, food, and German stylings. Competition Results There were […]
Read More
Texas World Beer Cup Winners Indianapolis 2025 The World Beer Cup 2025 awards were held once again on May 1st in Indianapolis, IN at the closure of the 2025 Craft Brewer’s Conference. This is the 16th such competition and broke down as follows: Total Breweries – 1,761 (2,060 in 2024) Total Countries – 49 (50 in 2024) Total Beers Entered – 8375 (9,300 in 2024) Total Medals – (349) (329 in 2024) New Breweries – […]
Read More
Barks for Beers Returns for 2025 Popular fundraising event Barks for Beers, operated by local charity Divine Canines, is returning to Central Texas for their 11th year. Starting on May 1st, visit any of the 30 breweries listed below to pick up a pint glass and Pawsport for $30 + tax. Then, you can use that Pawsport at all 30 breweries throughout the month of May to receive one pour at each. Divine Canines provides […]
Read More
The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2025 Welcome back. I want to start off this article by providing a statistic that I looked at for the first time today: There were a total of 558 beers added to Untappd in the greater Central Texas region during this quarter… and of those, 283 of them had less than 10 check-ins. That’s more than half. It’s possible that the best beers of the […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
The Best Beers (Maybe?) at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2024 This is the article that you’ve always wanted. You’ve already looked over the beer list at TCBF and thought, “So many beers! I’ll just figure it out when I get there.” That’s a bold strategy – what if you miss the best one? Good news, readers of Craft Beer Austin, we’re here to reward your continued support by literally telling you what the best beers […]
Read More