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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2024

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2024 With the spring beer festival season already over, it’s time to reflect on the crazy first three months of 2024.  So far this year, we’ve had: Breweries making beer Some other stuff So let’s celebrate that first bullet point by taking a look at the best beers made so far this year.  As a reminder, we use Untappd data to list the highest rated […]

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The Best Beers of 2023

By / / Austin Breweries, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

The Best Beers of 2023 Welcome to the first annual The Best Beers of the Year, presented by Craft Beer Austin!  You read, you drank, you voted, and now we’re here to present the results.  If this is the first of our data-driven articles you’ve seen, please keep in mind that we are using Untappd data to determine the highest rated beers, and as such this data is crowdsourced, not the preferences of the CBA

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Style Breakdown 2: The Best Imperial Stouts Ever Made in Central Texas

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Guide, Style Breakdown

Style Breakdown 2: The Best Imperial Stouts Ever Made in Central Texas Welcome back to Style Breakdown, where we have a jolly good time looking at the best beers ever made in Central Texas.  The first article was about Pilsners, and while I wanted to pick wintery beers for this one, I had a tough time deciding if it would be porters, stouts, or strong ales.  But let’s be honest, you want to see the

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2023

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2023 Welcome to the third edition of The Best Beers of the Year (So Far).  Since the previous edition, we’ve released a few spin offs – Style Breakdown: Pilsners, and Best Beers at TCBF (expect more festival based articles in the future, and style breakdowns during lulls of other newsworthy content).  All of these articles are using Untappd data to determine the highest rated beers,

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Going to TCBF? Here are the beers to get.

By / / Austin Breweries, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

The Best Beers (Maybe?) at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2023 This is the article that you’ve always wanted.  You’ve likely already looked over the beer list at TCBF and thought, “So many beers!  I’ll just figure it out when I get there I suppose.”  That’s a bold strategy; what if you miss the best one?  Well, readers of Craft Beer Austin, we’re here to reward your continued support by literally telling you what the best

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Style Breakdown 1: The Best Pilsners Ever Made in Central Texas

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Guide, Style Breakdown

Style Breakdown 1: The Best Pilsners Ever Made in Central Texas Welcome to a new CBA series: Style Breakdown.  In each issue, we’re going to take an in-depth look into a single beer style and compare every one of these beers ever released in Central Texas.  This is a companion series to The Best Beers of the Year (So Far), in which we will use Untappd data to measure the highest-rated beers and find out

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2023

By / / Austin Breweries, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2023 Welcome to the second edition of The Best Beers of the Year (So Far).  I’ll skip the super long intro this time, please refer to the first article for all details on methodology.  Instead, let’s get right into the results! Here are the top beers released in Central Texas from April to June, 2023! Lager: Pilsner: Pale Ale: IPA (New England / Hazy): IPA

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2023 Edition

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2023 Edition Have you ever looked at a “best beers” list and been disappointed that all of the winners were only available on the other side of the country? Even a local list could show beers that were available nearby, but they’re long gone and you just didn’t know what you were missing at the time. We need a list that highlights the best new

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