The People of Craft Beer
The Texas Craft Brewers Guild recently launched an Instagram series called #BehindTheBeer featuring the people behind the scenes working hard to bring you excellent Texas craft beers. As you can imagine, in an industry that has a $4.5 billion-dollar impact on the Texas economy, there are a variety of jobs that extend beyond the brewing process including packaging, laboratory technicians, quality assurance, marketing and much more. Craft Beer Austin has partnered with the Texas Craft Brewers Guild […]
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The largest beer festival in the US, the Great American Beer Festival, has passed once again. For those who have never been, it has turned into a week long party for craft brewers and fans in Denver that ended Saturday. While most articles locally will talk about how Texas did, I decided to take a deeper look into the numbers of all of this. This year, there were 5 new categories to bring the total […]
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The Texas Craft Brewers Guild recently launched an Instagram series called #BehindTheBeer featuring the people behind the scenes working hard to bring you excellent Texas craft beers. As you can imagine, in an industry that has a $4.5 billion-dollar impact on the Texas economy, there are a variety of jobs that extend beyond the brewing process including packaging, laboratory technicians, quality assurance, marketing and much more. Craft Beer Austin has partnered with the Texas Craft Brewers Guild […]
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The Texas Craft Brewers Guild recently launched an Instagram series called #BehindTheBeer featuring the people behind the scenes working hard to bring you excellent Texas craft beers. As you can imagine, in an industry that has a $4.5 billion-dollar impact on the Texas economy, there are a variety of jobs that extend beyond the brewing process including packaging, laboratory technicians, quality assurance, marketing and much more. Craft Beer Austin has partnered with the Texas Craft Brewers Guild […]
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Texas Republicans, Democrats Support Beer-to-Go Sales from Craft Breweries in 2018 Party Platforms At State Conventions, Parties Show Bipartisan Support For Granting Manufacturing Breweries the Same Rights as Breweries in 49 Other States AUSTIN, Texas (June 25, 2018) — As the 2018 Midterm Elections and 2019 Legislative Session approach, Texas Democrats and Republicans have included planks in their party platforms supporting expanded rights for Texas craft breweries. As the only state in the country to […]
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The Texas Craft Brewers Guild recently launched an Instagram series called #BehindTheBeer featuring the people behind the scenes working hard to bring you excellent Texas craft beers. As you can imagine, in an industry that has a $4.5 billion-dollar impact on the Texas economy, there are a variety of jobs that extend beyond the brewing process including packaging, laboratory technicians, quality assurance, marketing and much more. Craft Beer Austin has partnered with the Texas Craft Brewers Guild […]
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#texas_beer_project is on a mission to help “fix Texas’ broken beer laws,” a call-to-action raised earlier this year by the Texas Craft Brewers Guild and their new political action committee, CraftPAC. As an ardent craft beer enthusiast, Gabriela saw this as an opportunity for the wider data community to rally and support a cause that impacts many in Texas and beyond. The Texas Beer Project Brewing the Project Inspiration Independent craft breweries in Texas were dealt a hard blow […]
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Frontyard Brewing Normally when I write a brewery profile, I segment the article into sections to give you an idea of who the people behind the beer are, what type of beer they serve and finish with all the details about the brewhouse and the taproom. However, the folks over at Frontyard Brewing have a story like none I have written before due to their unique approach to starting a brewery. While technically open for business, […]
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Hopsquad Brewing Company Located at 2307 Kramer Lane, Austin Texas Hopsquad Brewing Company plans to join the north Austin brewery district sometime late summer or early fall with a stand-alone brewery taking over the space previously occupied by Texas Office Products and Supply at the corner of Kramer and Braker Lane. The founders Alex Limon and his cousin Cesar Limon are planning to completely revamp the space by adding an outside patio deck, replacing the loading […]
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The TABC is definitely not one of the most popular government agencies among beer fans in Texas. While their laws can be quite restrictive against beer in general (but for some reason, much looser for things like distilleries and wineries), it does provide us with some interesting data. Thanks to the system in place, I can access all of the label approvals over the last decade. This is an updated article from one that I […]
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A new festival took over Hops and Grain Brewing back in early April that aims to bring new meaning to the Mexican slang word “Chingona”. Denise Hernandez and her fiancee Krista Cottingim cofounded Hustle for the Cause to highlight and promote LBGTQ women of color, “It’s hard to find social innovation spaces and support for LGBTQ women of color. In fact, less than 10% of all venture capital deals go to women, people of color, and LGBTQ […]
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Update: 2018 Winners Announced Congratulations to the following Austin-area breweries who took home medals this year: Pinthouse Pizza (Burnet): Gold Medal in American Style Strong Pale Ale Category for Green Battles, and Silver Medal in Fresh or Wet Hop Category for This Year’s Crop Wet Hop Pinthouse Pizza (Lamar): Bronze Medal in American Style IPA Category for Bailing Room See the full list of 302 Award Winners from All Styles from from All Countries represented […]
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