The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2026 Apologies that this is a few weeks late – I simply forgot.  Enjoy! Standard disclaimer: This data comes from Untappd and is not our personal opinions.  Click here to find out more about how this data is gathered. Here are the top beers released in Central Texas from April to June, 2026! https://www.instagram.com/p/DaDXHx5k8rj/?img_index=1 Lager: Pilsner: Pale Ale: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZNfI7skcfl/?img_index=1 IPA (New England / Hazy): IPA […]

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2026 It’s table time! Please enjoy the below tables. Standard disclaimer: This data comes from Untappd and is not our personal opinions.  Click here to find out more about how this data is gathered. Here are the top beers released in Central Texas from January to March, 2026! Lager: Pilsner: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVkEQGBkU5N/?img_index=1 Pale Ale: IPA (New England / Hazy): IPA (West Coast / Other): Porter &

The Best Beers of 2025 (By the Numbers) Welcome to the end of 2025.  There was a lot of movement in the Central Texas craft beer industry this year, and it’s looking pretty good – our comprehensive openings and closings list counts fifteen brewery openings (plus one cidery, two meaderies), and six brewery closings.  Compare that to 2024’s seven openings, and the closings to 2024’s twelve.  That’s a pretty sizable increase!  Most of the new

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2025 As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of work into the Location Spotlight series recently – but I also know that it’s time for the quad-annual best beers rankings.  There’s a consistent theme between the two series though: the breweries in the greater Central Texas area are making some fantastic beer.  You’re going to see a lot of breweries outside of Austin

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2025 It’s the middle of 2025, and we can’t believe how many new breweries have opened in the last six months.  How many have you been to?  I’ve been to 8 of them from this list, with an upcoming trip to Llano to check out a few more.  It may be difficult to open a new spot in the city among competition, but these new

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2025 Welcome back.  I want to start off this article by providing a statistic that I looked at for the first time today: There were a total of 558 beers added to Untappd in the greater Central Texas region during this quarter… and of those, 283 of them had less than 10 check-ins.  That’s more than half. It’s possible that the best beers of the

The Best Beers of 2024 Happy Holidays!  We hope your Christmas stout was rich, sweet, and full of adjuncts, and that your New Years stout will be richer, sweeter, and contain even more adjuncts. Welcome to our best beers of 2024 article, where we use your check-ins to rank the community’s favorite brews of the year.  Before getting into the results – in the last article, I posted a survey asking how much you interact

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2024 Welcome to the end of summer edition of TBBotY(SF)!  This time, we are asking for your feedback: This series takes a decent amount of time to put together each quarter, so with that in mind, I created a survey to find out which parts of this article are being utilized by readers.  Please take a minute to fill this out whether or not you

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2024 Welcome back to TBBotY(SF), the series that tells you what beers you should go run out and drink right away.  I mean it.  As soon as you get to the bottom of this article, put down your device and go to one of these breweries and have a beer.  You’ve been warned. (Click here to find out more about how this data is gathered.)