TABC Label and Brewery Approvals January 15 2016

A long list this week for label approvals. I guess it makes up for the last two weeks of slow approvals? This week sees a shift from kegs (over last week) to a bunch of can approvals. There were over 20 can labels approved this week for various Texas and national breweries.

Now, we are also seeing the recent ~~AB-InBev~~ purchases of 10 Barrel and Elysian showing up on approvals. That is no real surprise, they were bound to show up at some point. Along with that, ~~Budweiser~~, being the main sponsor of SXSW, got their SXSW can approved. Definitely keeping things independent there, SXSW!

On that note, please support groups like Open The Taps to help fight unfair laws that craft breweries are facing in Texas. Lawsuits by Cuvee Coffee against the TABC just to be allowed to sell Crowlers should not have to happen. The TABC brought 5 lawyers to the first hearing to fight it. For what purpose? It shows you that every unfair law will take a lot to bring down. Being able to buy beer directly from breweries would make the Texas beer industry much more competitive and allow breweries to actually make the money they deserve.

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

10 Barrel – Joe IPA (b, K)
10 Barrel – Apocalypse IPA (b, K)
10 Barrel – Apricot Crush (K)
11 Below – Oso Bueno Amber (c)
11 Below – 7-Iron Session Ale (c)
Alaskan – Headwind Pale Ale Rough Draft Export Series (b, K)
Audacity – Nemesis IPA (c)
B-52 – Bourbonator Barrel Aged Doppelbock (b, K)
Backcountry – Pilsner (b)
Blue Owl – Dapper Devil Sour Raspberry Belgian Style Strong Ale (K)
Boston Beer Company – Illusive Traveler Grapefruit Shandy (b)
Boston Beer Company – Forbidden Traveler Apple Ale (b)
Boston Beer Company – Samuel Adams Nitro White Ale (bb, K)
Boston Beer Company – Samuel Adams Rebel Cascade IPA (c)
Boston Beer Company – Samuel Adams Nitro IPA (bb, K)
Boston Beer Company – Jack-O Traveler Pumpkin Shandy (b)
Boston Beer Company – Curious Traveler Lemon Shandy (b)
Boston Beer Company – Jolly Traveler Winter Shandy (b)
Buffalo Bayou – Blackberry Lenin’s Revenge (B, K)
Busted Sandal – El Despierito Coffee Porter (K)
Copperhead – Red Ale (K)
Copperhead – White (K)
Dead Beach – Vaquero Lager (K)
Dead Beach – Abuela Imperial Stout (K)
Dead Beach – Brown Bonnie Brown Ale (K)
Deschutes – Ehop (B, K)
Deschutes – The Abyss 2015 (K)
Elysian – Break Beat IPA Manic IPA Series (B, K)
Elysian – Dragonstooth Stout (B, K)
Elysian – The Immortal IPA (b, K)
Elysian – Space Dust IPA (b, K)
Epic – Son of a Baptist (K)
Epic – Santa Cruz Brown IPA (B, K)
Firestone Walker – DBA Double Barrel Ale (c)
Firestone Walker – Walker Pale 31 California Pale (c)
Foolproof – Peanut Butter Raincloud (c)
Founders – Mango Magnifico (K)
Friends & Allies – Noise Cricket Session IPA (K)
Goose Island – Four Star Pils (K)
Grapevine – Brewers Reserve Wee Heavy (K)
Grapevine – Brewers Reserve Double White (K)
Green Flash – Dia De Los Serranos Double Stout with Chiles (B, K)
JW Lees – Harvest Ale (b, K)
JW Lees – Harvest Ale in Lagavulin Whiskey Casks (b, K)
Jester King – Figlet (K)
Kinematic – Meridian Wit (c, K)
Kinematic – Declination Pale Ale (c, K)
Kinematic – Umbra Imperial Porter (c, K)
New Belgium – Rampant Imperial IPA (b, c, K)
New Belgium – Fat Tire Amber Ale (b, c, K)
New Belgium – Cache La Foeder NBB Love Cherry Oscar (K)
New Belgium – Cache La Foeder Peach Barleywine (K)
NXNW Parkside – Two Tickets Wee Heavy (K)
NXNW – Oktoberfest (K)
NXNW Parkside – Sanguine Dare Blood Orange Gose (K)
NXNW Parkside – Red Zeppelin (K)
NXNW – Voodoo Child (K)
North Coast – Pranqster Belgian Style Gold (K)
Oasis – Technicolor Motorhome: Formerly Known as Black Currant Porter (K)
Peticolas – Pick Hammer Ale Red Ale (K)
Prairie – Coffee Okie (b)
Rogness – Schoppe Private Stock Heller Weizenbock (B, K)
Smuttynose – Rocky Road (K)
Sprecher – Grapefruit Radler Wheat Ale (c)
Sweetwater – Whiplash White IPA (b, c, K)
Texas Beer Refinery – Gulf Coast Gose Holiday Edition (K)
True Vine – Sanctimonium Ale (K)
True Vine – Galactic Minotaurt Ale (K)
TUPPS – McKinney Red Rye Ale (c)
TUPPS – Texas Shade Hefe Wheat Ale (c)
TUPPS – Black Ale (c)
TUPPS – Northbound 75 Poblano Pale Ale (c)
TUPPS – Cotton Mill Gold Pale Ale (c)
TUPPS – IPA (c)
Twin Peaks – Gold Digger American Golden Ale (c)
Twin Peaks – Knotty Brunette American Brown (c)
Twin Peaks – Dropdead Redhead IPA (c)
Uinta – Pale Ale (b, c, K)
Upslope – Christmas (K)
Upslope – Oatmeal Stout (c, K)
Victory – Golden Monkey Belgian Style Tripel (c)
Victory – Java Cask Coffee Stout (K)

Brewery Approvals:

Note: I have only been putting new brewery approvals here – anything that is just getting re approved, 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)

No brewery approvals this week.