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It’s American Craft Beer Week | #GiveCraftBeer Today

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Charity, Craft Beer News, Event Listings and New Releases

Normally, we would be celebrating American Craft Beer Week by attending one of several events around town to drink local craft beer. This year things are a little different. OK, a lot different. However, the Brewers Association created a new campaign to make this year’s event special by giving the gift of craft beer through the #GiveCraftBeer campaign. Here’s how you can participate: Commit to giving the gift of Craft Beer here. Buy beer-to-go, merchandise, or […]

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Believe in Beer | The Craft Brewery Relief Fund

By / / Austin Breweries, Charity

Donate HERE Press Release: The craft beer industry needs your help. Craft breweries have announced an average of 65% drop in sales since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic almost 2 months ago. Many have had to lay off or furlough the majority of their staff. 46% of breweries anticipate they can only survive 1-3 months given the current operational restrictions. These are scary and sobering statistics. But we don’t want dwell on the negative. We want to inspire hope. And we’re

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Austin Craft Beer Weekly Beer Releases & Openings

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA

Austin Craft Beer Weekly Beer Releases & Openings Howdy Austin! Check out Austin craft beer releases and openings that are happening around town this week. Austin Area Brewery Map While, sadly, I cannot write an events article as of late, I am going to try to keep of list of new beer releases that are happening around town. I think we all would like to be able to eventually meet up with friends at our local

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Five Austin Area Breweries Opening During the Pandemic

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Craft Beer News

Many businesses are struggling to some degree during Covid19. Maintaining a consistent stream of clientele whilst having to implement new rules and constantly adapt can be daunting. Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a new endeavor where you are planning for scenarios of every potential kink in the system. No surprise, opening during a pandemic is not typically in anyone’s realistic contingency plan.  I reached out to five breweries that are defying great odds

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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Fresh Lager

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Features

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a fresh lager from one of your favorite breweries. Feature written by Brian Trivitt One of the best things about being a beer writer is that most of the topics you write about are for the most part, positive, upbeat, and entertaining, especially if you are a beer lover. Even with my business like writing style that tends to be geared towards thoroughly analyzing a wide range of topics, generally

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals May 1st, 2020

By / / Beer Data and Statistics, Craft Beer News

These label approvals cover most of April. It seems like the shelter in place has not slowed down the TABC as far as putting out label approvals, and approving brewpubs. A couple of new breweries are getting their first approvals – like Hold Out Brewing in Austin, along with some new out of state breweries getting their first approvals – like Maine Beer Company. Recent Brewery Approvals: Note: I have only been putting new brewery

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Banger’s May Growler Club

By / / Austin Breweries, Craft Beer News

UPDATE: Banger’s has temporarily shut down all operations in order to put a reopening plan together. Here’s a statement from Banger’s regarding the Growler Club: For anyone who purchased from the Growler Club in May, we are offering a punch card to redeem the remaining 21 growler fills when we reopen. We have called all of the people personally who had signed up, but please reach out to us at info@bangersaustin.com if you purchased and have not

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Beer-to-Go | Austin Ale Trail #Beeringo

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA

Welcome to our new series “Beer-to-Go” aimed at highlighting all of our wonderful local breweries and bars that have fresh beers for you to enjoy during the quarantine. Our beer-to-go photo contest gets published weekly, thank you to everyone who participated! This week we are partnering with the Austin Ale Trail to play beer-to-go bingo! Here’s how to play: visit the Austin Ale Trail on Facebook, and download a picture of the bingo card of your choice. Post

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Beer-to-Go | #GreatTexasBeerRun Edition

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Pink Boots Society, Women in Beer

Welcome to our new series “Beer-to-Go” aimed at highlighting all of our wonderful local breweries and bars that have fresh beers for you to enjoy during the quarantine. Our beer-to-go photo contest gets published weekly, thank you to everyone who participated! This week we have a very special feature brought to you by the creative minds at the Texas Craft Brewers Guild, encouraging you to put on your mask and make a #GreatTexasBeerRun this weekend and pick up beer-to-go

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TABC Label and Brewery Approvals April 15th, 2020

By / / Austin Breweries, Beer Data and Statistics

What better time to jump-start the TABC label approval post than when being stuck at home during quarantine? So, I had to start somewhere, which in this case, is from the beginning of March to now. Note: due to the number of label approvals coming in now, I am turning the focus of this more onto local beers, and more interesting out of state ones. There are just too many beers coming in now that

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Beer-to-Go | Pink Boots Collaboration Beer Edition

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Pink Boots Society, Women in Beer

Welcome to our new series “Beer-to-Go” aimed at highlighting all of our wonderful local breweries and bars that have fresh beers for you to enjoy during the quarantine. Our first installment of the beer-to-go photo contest was a success, thank you to everyone who participated! This week we have a very special feature, we are asking you to get out there and pick up some Pink Boots Austin Collaboration beers! In case you don’t know, our local Pink

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Show Us Your Beer-to-Go Pictures!

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA

Welcome to our new series “Beer-to-Go” aimed at highlighting all of our wonderful local breweries and bars that have fresh beers for you to enjoy during the quarantine. For this first installment, we are asking you to show us your beer-to-go photos! Simply snap a pic when you are picking up your favorite local beer, post it on social media and tag CraftBeerAustin.com. If you also tag the brewery or bar and add the hashtag

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