TABC Label and Brewery Approvals February 26 2016

For this week’s TABC label approvals it looks like the heavily delayed Cantillon now has their second approval. Along with that, we have a lot of new cans showing up. Independence made a good decision and is now canning their Austin Amber (with a solid choice of can art). Blackwater Draw (in College Station) is also looking at canning their IPA. They recently opened a second location that will focus on production in Bryan, which I am assuming is why they will start canning.

4th Tap is going to start canning their orbital series, but I hear that the Brick Top likely won’t be the first one that we see (even though it is the first approval). It sounds like it came in too late to actually can it.

Northeast of Austin is Taylor where the Texas Beer Company received their brewpub license to start making beer in their downtown location. If you are out in that area, you can also drive 10 miles to the north of Taylor, to the even smaller town of Granger, where there now is Granger City Brewing Company.

This week’s TABC Label Approvals:

K = Keg
B = Large format bottle
bb = 16oz format bottle
b = Small format bottle
c = Small format (12oz) can
cc = 16oz format can
C = Larger format can

4th Tap – Long Walk Grapefruit IPA (c)
4th Tap – Brick Top Porter (cc)
5 Stones – Mr Nibbles (B, K)
Alesmith – Double Red IPA (K)
Alltech – Kentucky Race Day Session IPA (b)
Bitter Sisters – Barrel Aged Knockout Irish Red (B, K)
Bitter Sisters – Winter Bush Imperial Stout (K)
Bitter Sisters – Barrel Aged Family Trip Belgian Tripel (K)
Blackwater Draw – Timber Snake IPA (c, K)
Boston Beer Company – Samuel Adams Ella Blanc IPL (b, K)
Boston Beer – Traveler Shandy IPA (b, K)
Boulevard – Rye on Rye on Rye (K)
Brasserie Cantillon – Kriek Lambic (B, K)
Collective Brewing Project – Urban Funkhouse (bb)
Collective Brewing Project – Mr Green (K)
Colner Hofbrau – Fruh Kolsch (b)
Deschutes – The Abyss 2015 (B, K)
Dogfish Head – Beer To Drink Music To (b, K)
Dogfish Head – Romantic Chemistry IPA (b, K)
Dogfish Head – Head Squall IPA (B. K)
Ettinger Fischerbrau – Freigeist Geisterzug Gose (bb, K)
Ettinger Fischerbrau – Freigeist Geisterzug Quince Gose (bb)
Four Bullets – English Pub Ale (K)
Freetail – Spirulina Wit (K)
Full Sail – Amber (b)
Full Sail – Classic IPA (b)
Full Sail – Blood Orange Wheat (b, K)
Full Sail – Hop Pursuit (b, K)
Funkwerks – Apricot Provincial (b)
Goose Island – Gosse Experimental Summer (b, K)
Goose Island – Goose Summertime Kolsch (b, K)
Grapevine – Monarch Pilsner (c, K)
Guadalupe – River Ride Session Blonde (c)
Independence – Austin Amber (b, c, K)
Infamous – Camacho All American Stout (b, K)
Infamous – Sweep The Leg Peanut Butter Stout (b)
Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg – Kolster Anno 1050 (b, bb, K)
Lazy Beach – Rapter EyePA (K)
Lazy Magnolia – Heirloom Ale (B)
Maui – Halekala Sunryes (c, K)
Nebraska – Attach of the 50 Foot Brunette (B, K)
Nebraska – Responsibly (B)
New Belgium – Mothership Wit (b)
New Belgium – Lips of Faith Golden Ale (B)
New Belgium – Heavy Melon Watermelon Lime (b, c K)
Ninkasi – Easy Way IPA (b, K)
Noble Rey – Harder One Light Lager (K)
Noble Rey – Boss Bitch Porter with Pecan Cherry and Raspberry (K)
Oak Highlands – Guavagood Guava Kolsch Ale (K)
Sixpoint – C.R.E.A.M (c, K)
Sixpoint – Hi-Res (c, K)
Ska – Bump N Grind (B)
Smuttynose – East Coast Common (K)
Staatliches Hofbrauhaus – Winter Spezial (b)
Tupps – Full Grown Man (K)
Uinta – Ready Set Gose (c, K)
Woodcreek – Black Gold Imperial Chocolate Stout (K)
Woodcreek – Dog’s Bollocks ESB (K)

Brewery Approvals:

Note: I have only been putting new brewery approvals here – anything that is just getting reapproved, I do not list. Along with this, any macro brewery that is approved, I do not put. An example of this would be things like a South Korean macro brewery.

(For TX breweries: B = Brewery, BP = Brewpub)

Texas Beer Company – Taylor (BP)
Sleeping Giant Brewing – CO