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Craft Beer Austin Staff Picks | Best of 2025

Craft Beer Austin Staff Picks | Best of 2025 Welcome to the end of 2025 edition of Staff Picks! We asked the team what their favorite local beers were that they drank this year, and here are the results! Drop us a comment on Instagram, Facebook, or Reddit to let us know your top choice of the year. David Acopon Brewing Company | Gaspipes | Ordinary Bitter This was the benchmark beer of the year […]

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Austin Beer News | Six Things You Need to Know | December 2025

Published 12/24/2025 Barking Armadillo Brewing Opens Second Location A Christmas gift to all: Barking Armadillo Brewing out of Georgetown has successfully opened their second location in… still Georgetown, but closer to Round Rock.  The new spot, dubbed Barking Armadillo Social, is sharing a space with Bahler Street Pizza, which previously operated a popular food truck often seen at breweries in North Central Texas.  The brewpub is the first expansion for Barking Armadillo, who opened their

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Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2025 – Beer List Out Now!

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Returns To Austin on November 15, 2025 Tickets On Sale Now! Tickets are on sale for the Texas Craft Brewers Festival, the state’s largest beer event focused exclusively on Texas-brewed craft beer, returning to East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens on November 15, 2025. This year’s event will feature more than 80 Texas craft breweries serving samples of approximately 200 independent craft beers, as well as live music and onsite food options. The

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ATX Beer Party Celebrates Two Years with a Week of Unique and Charitable Beer Events

ATX Beer Party Celebrates Second Anniversary with a Week of Unique and Charitable Beer Events A week-ish of charitable events at area taprooms with bikes, movies, dice and MORE to celebrate the second anniversary of ATX Beer Party Tuesday October 28 through Sunday November 9, 2025. The collection of beer-centered events around town all benefit local charities and serve to highlight Central Texas’ notable brewing community 🎉Who: ATX Beer Party is an Austin promotion group

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The Great American Beer Festival Returns in 2025

Raise a Glass! Tickets on Sale for the 2025 Great American Beer Festival  Experience thousands of craft beers, ciders, cocktails, and more this October 9-11 in Denver   BOULDER, Colo. —Tickets to the Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) are officially on sale! Hosted by the Brewers Association, the trade organization representing small and independent craft brewers, GABF will return to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, on October 9-11, 2025. Following last year’s buzzworthy debut of ready-to-drink cocktails (RTDs) and beyond-beer

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Craft Beer Austin Staff Picks | Summer 2025

Craft Beer Austin Staff Picks | Summer 2025   Welcome back for the Summer 2025 edition of Staff Picks. We once again polled the team to see what they recommend during the dog days of summer in Central Texas. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to let us know your favorite beers of the moment on our social platforms.    Aaron The Brewtorium | Canyonero | Texas Imperial IPA The Brewtorium has been

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RESULTS: Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival 2025

Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival 2025 The fourth annual Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival and Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Fredericksburg Rotary Club, occurred on June 13th and 14th.  On Friday night, hundreds of brewers met at Altstadt for dinner, drinks, and celebration of the brewing community in Texas.  The party continued on Saturday with the festival in downtown Fredericksburg, featuring a record 30 breweries, along with live music, food, and German stylings. Competition Results There were

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Austin Beer News | Six Things You Need to Know | June 2025

In This Edition: Breweries are opening, expanding, and making some crazy decisions. Published 06/09/2025Edited 06/12/2025: Handsome Dan’s actually did release their beer last week!  Whoops.  Updated below. The Debuts: Witcher Brewing Company, Black Chapel Brewing, and Highway 71 Brewing Opening Soon If you’ve read our 9 New Breweries in Central Texas earlier this year (and if you haven’t, go read it!), here’s a small update.  Handsome Dan’s, after selling sandwiches for a few months, has

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Celebrate American Craft Beer Week

The Brewers Association’s annual salute to craft beer kicks off May 12 with American Craft Beer Week, a spring celebration of local beer and breweries. “Small and independent American craft breweries are a vital ingredient to the health and wealth of our communities as they support growers, distributors, supply partners, retailers, and beer lovers,” said Ann Obenchain, vice president of marketing and communications at the Brewers Association. “Craft beer is more than a beverage, it’s

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Round Up of Austin Area World Beer Cup Winners – 2025

Texas World Beer Cup Winners Indianapolis 2025 The World Beer Cup 2025 awards were held once again on May 1st in Indianapolis, IN at the closure of the 2025 Craft Brewer’s Conference.  This is the 16th such competition and broke down as follows: Total Breweries – 1,761 (2,060 in 2024) Total Countries – 49 (50 in 2024) Total Beers Entered – 8375 (9,300 in 2024) Total Medals – (349) (329 in 2024) New Breweries –

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The Definitive Guide to Austin Brewery Tours

The Definitive Guide to Austin Brewery Tours Updated April 2025 The City of Austin is home to over 45 different breweries within a 326 square mile footprint, plus an additional 71 breweries spread across the 4,285 square miles of the greater Austin area. This vast landscape is conducive to brewery experiences of all shapes and sizes. From the chic, tiny brewpubs of downtown Austin to the sprawling farmstead breweries of the Hill Country and the

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10Best | Kid Friendly Breweries

Top Eight Kid-Friendly Breweries in Austin By Gin Benavidez In a society where controversy could be an Olympic sport, one topic that will get any avid brewery-goer debating is whether or not kids should be taken to breweries. I’ve yet to meet any beer drinker who doesn’t have a fully-formed opinion on this matter, and most are of the mindset that the presence of children at a brewery is either completely fine or a total buzzkill.

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