Best Beers
The Best Beers of 2025 (By the Numbers) Welcome to the end of 2025. There was a lot of movement in the Central Texas craft beer industry this year, and it’s looking pretty good – our comprehensive openings and closings list counts fifteen brewery openings (plus one cidery, two meaderies), and six brewery closings. Compare that to 2024’s seven openings, and the closings to 2024’s twelve. That’s a pretty sizable increase! Most of the new […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2024 Welcome to the end of summer edition of TBBotY(SF)! This time, we are asking for your feedback: This series takes a decent amount of time to put together each quarter, so with that in mind, I created a survey to find out which parts of this article are being utilized by readers. Please take a minute to fill this out whether or not you […]
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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2024 Welcome back to TBBotY(SF), the series that tells you what beers you should go run out and drink right away. I mean it. As soon as you get to the bottom of this article, put down your device and go to one of these breweries and have a beer. You’ve been warned. (Click here to find out more about how this data is gathered.) […]
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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2024 With the spring beer festival season already over, it’s time to reflect on the crazy first three months of 2024. So far this year, we’ve had: Breweries making beer Some other stuff So let’s celebrate that first bullet point by taking a look at the best beers made so far this year. As a reminder, we use Untappd data to list the highest rated […]
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The Best Beers of 2023 Welcome to the first annual The Best Beers of the Year, presented by Craft Beer Austin! You read, you drank, you voted, and now we’re here to present the results. If this is the first of our data-driven articles you’ve seen, please keep in mind that we are using Untappd data to determine the highest rated beers, and as such this data is crowdsourced, not the preferences of the CBA […]
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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2023 Welcome to the third edition of The Best Beers of the Year (So Far). Since the previous edition, we’ve released a few spin offs – Style Breakdown: Pilsners, and Best Beers at TCBF (expect more festival based articles in the future, and style breakdowns during lulls of other newsworthy content). All of these articles are using Untappd data to determine the highest rated beers, […]
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