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 team.  Please reference the first article for full details on the methodology, and without further ado:

Here are the top Central Texas beers released in 2023!

Lager:

Pilsner:

Pale Ale:

IPA (New England / Hazy):

IPA (West Coast / Other):

Porter / Stout (Standard):

Porter / Stout (Imperial), Strong Ale:

Sour:

Farmhouse:

Belgian:

Wheat:

Ale (Other):

Specialty:

Not Beer:

Brewery Shoutouts:

While some of the breweries on here are no surprise, I want to give a shoutout to a few of the lesser known breweries in Central Texas that are making fantastic beer, and perhaps aren’t getting the recognition they deserve.  Remember that there’s an important rule to these lists – a beer must have at least 10 ratings to be eligible.  No matter how good their beers are, we won’t hear about it unless they are visited more frequently (by Untappd users), so consider this list encouragement to go for a drive and explore the lesser known breweries.

• 602 Brewing Company [Bastrop]
• Llano Beer Company [Llano]
• Pecan Street Brewing [Johnson City]
• Phantom Warrior Brewing Company [Killeen]
• Tanglefoot Brewing [Temple]
• Yokefellow [@ Nice N Easy in Johnson City]

And while not necessarily “lesser known”: Blue Owl, The Brewtorium, Black Star, Southern Heights, and Whitestone all had a couple of beers that may have made the list with a bit more attention.  Don’t forget to check in your beers to Untappd, especially small batch releases!

And there we have it!  If you enjoyed looking at the data or have other feedback, please let us know on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or next time you see us in person.