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The Best Beers of the Year (So Far): Quarter 1, 2025

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 […]

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Craft Beer & Crawfish | 2025

Craft Beer & Crawfish Where to Find the Best Boils in Austin Crawfish season is gearing up. There are already a few events planned. Here are our top picks for where to get your crawfish boil fix while enjoying local craft beer in Austin. Note: we’ll update this list as events are announced. Oakwood BBQ & Beer Garden Crawfish, Blues, and Brews | Saturday, April 5th to May 25th St. Elmo Springdale Crawfish Boil |

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SXSW Austin Craft Beer Guide

SXSW Austin Craft Beer Guide Downtown for unofficial #SXSW events and looking for something more than PBR? Well, maybe I can help. I put together a list of breweries and bars that are easily accessible to the unofficial SXSW action. I will start off by saying that 6th Street is generally NOT where many of the Austin beer drinkers hang out. Luckily, that does not mean there are not some good beers to be had.

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9 Brand New Central Texas Breweries – Spring 2025

9 Brand New Central Texas Breweries – Spring 2025 Published 2/27/25 Edited 2/28/25: Marion Brewing sent us a comment, which has been added below! This article was originally titled “9 Central Texas Breweries You Had NO IDEA Existed”, but we’re above clickbait here.  The truth is, you’ve probably never heard of most of these breweries before today.  We updated our brewery openings and closures list last week with two new spots, and then this week

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The Best Beers of 2024

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

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Austin Ale Trail Passport Review (2024-2025): The Best Brewery Perks to Collect This Year

Austin Ale Trail Passport Review (2024-2025): The Best Brewery Perks to Collect This Year Updated 9/18/24 – Passports are now available everywhere! It’s that time of year again: The Austin Ale Trail has returned with their fifth annual brewery passport for the 2024-2025 season.  If you’re raring to go, you can get your passport early at the two launch parties this weekend – Vacancy Brewing on Saturday 9/7, and Blue Owl Brewing on Sunday 9/8. 

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The Best Beers at Texas Craft Brewers Festival 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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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