Beer Data and Statistics
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2024 It was a year of change at the Great American Beer Festival. After nearly forty years of breweries setting up in identical blue-and-yellow booths sorted alphabetically or geographically, planners for the Brewers Association shuffled booths into six stylized areas: “Fright” (Halloween theme), “Prost” (Oktoberfest theme), “Score” (Sports theme), “Blast Off” (Space theme),”Chill” (live music theme), and the traditional “Meet the Brewer” area. In addition to a […]
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 […]
Style Breakdown 3: The Best Berliner Braunbiers Ever Made in Central Texas July 2024 Update: While the original April Fools article is below, we wanted to provide an important update – Fitzhugh Brewing now has an authentic Berliner Braunbier on tap! Go get it! Welcome to the third edition of Style Breakdown, where we look at the top examples of a specific beer style. The first edition was on Pilsners, the second was about Imperial […]
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.) […]
Texas World Beer Cup Winners Las Vegas 2024 The World Beer Cup 2024 awards were held once again on April 24th in Las Vegas, NV at the closure of the 2024 Craft Brewer’s Conference. This is the 15th such competition and broke down as follows: Total Breweries – 2,060 (2,376 in 2023) Total Countries – 50 (51 in 2023) Total Beers Entered – 9300 (10,213 in 2023) Categories – 110 (172 styles) (103/176 in 2023) […]
Barks for Beers Returns for 2024 Updated 4/23/24 – The first version of this article completely missed 2014! This has been updated, 2014 is now recognized in the data below. Popular fundraising event Barks for Beers, operated by local charity Divine Canines is returning to Central Texas for their 10th 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 […]
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 […]