Craft Beer News
Meridian Hive Releases Seasonal Cherry Flavor For most Austin breweries, the fall seasonal release is a Marzen, Festbier, or a pumpkin beer. Meridian Hive is taking its Autumn release in a different direction. The meadery announced the return of their popular cherry flavor on September 27th. Cherry combinations tart cherry flavor with hints of vanilla, cinnamon, and almond. While that may sound like a certain Texas-made soda, Cherry is all-natural. Like all Meridian Hive products, […]
(512) Brewing Company Introduces Canned Beer (512) Brewing Company released their newest beer on Sep. 8, the Kolsch. The 4.8% ABV crushable beer will be released as a canned beer, a new style for the brewery. The company is beginning to start the process of canning not only with the Kolsch, but other lower ABV beers. “I’ve resisted canning 512 beers since the beginning,” owner Kevin Brand said, “but, it was always an option for […]
Canworks Printing recently opened in East Austin in the Summer of 2021. Brothers, Marshall and Ryan Thompson, started their can printing company after seeing a clear and present need during the pandemic and realizing that printing quality was rapidly declining based on cost and reliable availability of aluminum cans. With large, global companies, like ABInBev, Coca-Cola, and others purchasing much of the available can inventory, many breweries were quickly becoming dependent on inferior […]
NEFF Brewing Heads to Texas NEFF Brewing, an independently-owned craft brewery located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma recently expanded distribution to Texas as Oklahoma’s only dedicated gluten-free brewery, producing naturally gluten-free beers brewed with malted millet, buckwheat, rice, and quinoa. Three award-winning beers are now available: Raspberry Pride, a fruited kettle sour with a clean, refreshing raspberry flavor Apollo Blonde, a crisp, easy-drinking American blonde ale Ignition Switch, a flavorful Belgian pale ale. NEFF is hoping […]
Celestial Spector The Beer Museum and the Brewtorium Brewery & Kitchen teamed up to brew a historical ale. From the social media post, it’s a pale Vienna Lager dry-hopped with Grungeist, “Did know that when Anton Dreher debuted the first Vienna lager in 1841, it was his response to Britain’s newly popular pale beers? The amber-colored brew was as light as they came at that time in Austria. We’ve turned up that paleness a couple […]
Brewery Travels (aka Joel Geier) pays a visit to Central Texas A substantial number of our Central Texas brewery taprooms were recently treated to a visit from a popular beer blogger and explorer known as Brewery Travels, aka Joel Geier. A native of Milwaukee WI, beer writer and full-time dad, Geier has become well-known in the beer community for his intrepid adventures across the US, so far encompassing 41 states (plus DC), 276 cities and […]
Texas winery wants to make hopped wine a thing Hops have been an essential ingredient in beer for centuries. Other beverage producers seem to be catching onto the small green flower’s potential for big aroma and flavor, and they’ve been adding it to everything from cider to sparkling water. The latest drink to get the hop treatment? A pair of wines from the Texas Hill Country. The Hoppily Ever After series produced by Wedding Oak […]
National Independent Beer Run Day kicks off again this year on July 3rd. “Ahead of summer’s biggest holiday, Independence Day, the Brewers Association—the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers— is coordinating the third annual National Independent Beer Run Day alongside craft breweries nationwide,” per the press release. Austin area breweries are still recovering from the impacts of COVID-19, as we’ve seen with the recent closure of more breweries. It’s important now […]
Cedar Park’s Red Horn Brewpub Announces Second Location Update: The second location is now open at 1615 Scottsdale Dr. Building 1 Suite 110, Leander, TX 78641 Original article published in November 2020. In early March, Red Horn Coffee House and Brewing threw its five-year anniversary party and began to plan the announcement, a long time coming, of its upcoming second location. The four co-owners had finally found the space they’d been looking for to expand […]
TABC Brewery Approvals June 11th, 2021 There are a lot of new and interesting breweries coming into Texas. Some new ones with more of a name include Drake’s, Short’s, and Ex Novo. Along with that, the number of breweries opening in Texas continue to grow. The Covid slow down of new brewery approvals has definitely ceased. Recent Brewery Approvals: For Texas, to make beer here or sell beer here, you require a brewery approval through […]
Austin Beerworks to Release Limited Edition Austin FC Cans A unique beer collaboration is on the horizon between Austin Beerworks and the original Austin FC supporter group Austin Anthem. Starting the week of Austin FC’s first home match on June 19th, Austin Beerworks will be releasing the first of 17 beer cans commemorating the inaugural Major League Soccer (MLS) season. “We didn’t realize what a huge deal having an MLS team was going to be […]
Orf Brewing Closes Permanently Effective May 30 Sunday, May 30th marked the final day in business for South Austin’s Orf Brewing. Owner and head brewer Chris Orf cited “the ongoing challenges, headaches, and hassles of running a small business in a hyper-competitive market” as reasons for the closure. One of the smaller breweries in the bustling South Austin beer scene, Orf Brewing carved out a niche with their innovative hybrid ales that combined global influences […]