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The Best Beers at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2024

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

The Best Beers (Maybe?) at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2024 This is the article that you’ve always wanted. You’ve already looked over the beer list at TCBF and thought, “So many beers!  I’ll just figure it out when I get there.”  That’s a bold strategy – what if you miss the best one?  Good news, readers of Craft Beer Austin, we’re here to reward your continued support by literally telling you what the best beers […]

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Support Asheville Breweries with Higher Calling Hazy IPA

By / / CBA, Charity, Craft Beer News

Support Asheville Breweries with Higher Calling Hazy IPA Almost fifty breweries call Asheville and the surrounding Western North Carolina area home. From production facilities for giants like New Belgium and Sierra Nevada to critically-acclaimed darlings like Fonta Flora and Burial, Asheville has one of the most robust brewery scenes in America. Unfortunately, this Mecca for beer drinkers was devastated by torrential rains and flooding from Hurricane Helene in October. Critical infrastructure, homes, and businesses are

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 3, 2024

By / / Austin Breweries, Beer Data and Statistics, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

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

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Ants Beer Cave Opens at The Yard

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

Ants Beer Cave Opens at The Yard Ants Beer Cave, a new bar/beer garden/pickleball spot, opened last weekend at The Yard between Still Austin Whiskey Co. and MADabolic Fitness, which is two doors down from St. Elmo Brewing Co. Anthony, founder of Ants Beer Cave, provides background on their website: For the past 10 years, I have been crafting the vision behind Ants Beer Cave. Initially Ants was meant to be a brewery, but as

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UPDATED – Style Breakdown 3: The Best Berliner Braunbiers Ever Made in Central Texas

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

Style Breakdown 3: The Best Berliner Braunbiers Ever Made in Central Texas July 2024 Update: While the original April Fools article is below, we wanted to provide an important update – Fitzhugh Brewing now has an authentic Berliner Braunbier on tap!  Go get it! Welcome to the third edition of Style Breakdown, where we look at the top examples of a specific beer style.  The first edition was on Pilsners, the second was about Imperial

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Uptown Sports Club & Meanwhile Brewing Co. Collaborate on Backyard BBQ Summer Series

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

Uptown Sports Club and Meanwhile Brewing Co. Bring Custom Brews and Guest Chefs for Backyard BBQ Summer Series The four-part series features pitmasters Aaron Franklin and Evan Leroy, chefs Fiore Tedesco and Davis Turner and sweets from Bésame and Tiny Pies AUSTIN, TEXAS – Austin mainstays Uptown Sports Club and Meanwhile Brewing Co. announce a four-part summer backyard barbecue series, bringing together chefs, Meanwhile brewmasters and live music to offer a laid-back, approachable culinary experience reminiscent

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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 2, 2024

By / / Austin Breweries, Beer Data and Statistics, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

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.)

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The Wait is Over: Two New Breweries are Now Open!

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

Austin Craft Brewing Company and Power Brewing Project Open This Weekend Published 6/21/2024 It’s an exciting week in Central Texas as two long awaited breweries are finally ready to open their doors. Austin Craft Brewing Company [South Austin], one of the winners of the 2023 Method Architecture and Texas Craft Brewers Guild New Brewery Grant, has been live on social channels for about a year now sharing Austin brewery news and hype with the community. 

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Pinthouse Brewing Collaborates with Artist Alannah Tiller for Juneteenth Beer

By / / Austin Breweries, Event Listings and New Releases

Pinthouse Brewing Collaborates with Artist Alannah Tiller for Juneteenth Beer For the fourth year in a row, Pinthouse Brewing is honoring Juneteenth by releasing a collaboration brew with Central Texas artist, Alannah Tiller. Released on June 15th, you can purchase 4-packs of 16oz cans of their Starlit Hazy IPA (6% ABV) at all locations. To add to the wins, a portion of the proceeds for Starlit will be donated to the African American Youth Harvest

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

By / / Austin Breweries, Beer Data and Statistics, Best Beers, CBA, Guide

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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