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Top Craft Beer Destinations to Watch Soccer

By / / Event Listings and New Releases, Soccer

Top Craft Beer Destinations to Watch Soccer Soccer fans are enjoying a mini-World Cup with both the Euros and Copa America happening over the next few weeks. At CraftBeerAustin.com, we are big soccer fans, so here are our top picks for where to catch each match. As always, our picks include spots that meet these three criteria: Enthusiasm for the game. These folks love soccer and it’s evident by the crowds they draw and the electric […]

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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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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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Craft Beer & Crawfish | 2024

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Event Listings and New Releases

Craft Beer & Crawfish | Where to Find the Best Boils in Austin 2024 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. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ULdZOJX7V/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link     Oakwood BBQ & Beer Garden Crawfish, Blues, and Brews | Begins Saturday, Feb. 24th Nolan Creek Brewery

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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

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

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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5 Brand New Breweries Just Opened in Central Texas

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

New Breweries: Autumn, 2023 Published 10/5/23 Updated 10/7/23 to add a sixth new one – Fat Ass Brewery Updated 1/3/24 to note that Power is not open, but Obsidian and Prost are Did you know that a bunch of new breweries opened last month? While some places open with a lot of fanfare (like the expectedly popular Fast Friends Brewery), other places tend to open quietly with nothing more than a few Instagram posts. But

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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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Austin Ale Trail Passport Review (2023-2024): The Best Brewery Perks to Collect This Year

By / / Austin Breweries, CBA, Guide

Austin Ale Trail Passport Review (2023-2024): The Best Brewery Perks to Collect This Year As a reader of Craft Beer Austin, you’re likely already familiar with the Austin Ale Trail passport (we wrote about it last week).  Sales began Saturday at the Blue Owl launch party; if you missed it, you can collect your passport this upcoming Saturday, Sep 23rd at Nomadic, or on Sunday, Sept 24th at Vacancy.  And if this weekend doesn’t work

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Austin Ale Trail Passports Available Now

By / / Austin Breweries, Beer Travel, CBA

Austin Ale Trail Passports Available Now Austin’s craft beer scene is booming and shows no signs of slowing down. With so many breweries to choose from, visiting them all can be a daunting task. That’s where the Austin Ale Trail comes in as your guide to the coolest breweries, cideries, brewpubs and bottleshops in Austin and beyond. Let the passport lead you to the latest and trendiest taprooms. Explore breweries, collect stamps, and get perks.

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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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