2018 Beer

[CooterBrown 17907]

Sorry, meant the Beto Beer.

Standard IPA but with a ton of citrus up front. Not overly hoppy.

[HenryJames 65890]

Westvleteren, imo.

[Okie State 3788]

I love how your kid's always in the background. Teaching them young. Cheers.

[HenryJames 65890]

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

3 hours ago, Okie State said:

I love how your kid's always in the background. Teaching them young. Cheers.

That kids gonna be 12 still sitting is that high chair.  

[Dark Horse 2263]

23 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

That kids gonna be 12 still sitting is that high chair.  

2028 is the year Texas is back baby. 

[shnsajax 3589]

The Westy, Rochefort, Abt 12 taste test is always fun.

[shnsajax 3589]

Bottled 5/9/2014

[Bottlecap 1522]

Here's the 2018 Texas Craft Brewers Fest beer list for those of yall going ... with a shot-out to Surly pals, Great Heights.

[mdleast 8262]

Guy from my office will be heading down to Austin later this week. Any good and recently released Austin-only beers (not available in Dallas) he should be looking for in stores (and that he can bring back to me)? Is Hi-C brewery only? On a related note, is ABW releasing Heavy Machinery cans these days? Seems like it’s been a while since I’ve seen them (I go down to Austin every few months or so). He’ll also be going by JK so hoping they have some decent releases this weekend. TIA

[HenryJames 65890]

Drink more and more German beers in the fall.

[deft 6800]

If there is an abw HM release coming, it’d be wet hop.

[Bottlecap 1522]

Sounds like Hops & Grain is flaming out of austin. Quality got really bad, lost a ton of really good staff/brewers. seems like they just gave up and are going all in on San Marcos.

Edited September 11, 2018 by Bottlecap

[utee94 15745]

WTH?

That sucks. That's been my 2nd favorite brewery in Austin.

 

[CooterBrown 17907]

Seriously, WTF.

I will say I noticed a huge discrepancy between the Haze County on tap at H&G which was phenomenal and a sixer I picked up a week later. It was like a completely different beer...looked like Shiner Bock and tasted like ass.

 

Edited September 11, 2018 by CooterBrown

[stc 1452]

that's definitely not true. yes, san marcos will be the major production facility because it's huge...but they aren't pulling out of austin. 

[Bottlecap 1522]

weird, because that's how i interpret this: https://discussions.probrewer.com/showthread.php?77905-Turnkey-brewery-in-Austin-TX

And by leaving austin, I mean taproom/production facility. Obviously, they will still be distributed here. But maybe i'm reading "HEY, buy our facility in East Austin" wrong.

Edited September 11, 2018 by Bottlecap

[Bottlecap 1522]

 

[HenryJames 65890]

34 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Seriously, WTF.

I will say I noticed a huge discrepancy between the Haze County on tap at H&G which was phenomenal and a sixer I picked up a week later. It was like a completely different beer...looked like Shiner Bock and tasted like ass.

 

Did you get the sixer at Target?

[CooterBrown 17907]

San Marcos appears to be taking off with a lot of businesses. A Blue Owl brewer is opening Rough House Brewing there. I guess we’ve reached the tipping point on affordability for starting up a business in Austin.

[stc 1452]

10 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

weird, because that's how i interpret this: https://discussions.probrewer.com/showthread.php?77905-Turnkey-brewery-in-Austin-TX

And by leaving austin, I mean taproom/production facility. Obviously, they will still be distributed here. But maybe i'm reading "HEY, buy our facility in East Austin" wrong.

obviously that's what you meant by "flaming out of austin". it's such an obvious term i don't know how else it could be interpreted. yes, they are moving production to san marcos...but hasn't that been known for a while now? i also suspect the brewery will be sold pretty quickly after that facility is up and running. 

[utee94 15745]

4 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

San Marcos appears to be taking off with a lot of businesses. A Blue Owl brewer is opening Rough House Brewing there. I guess we’ve reached the tipping point on affordability for starting up a business in Austin.

Not too bad as long as you buy land out by the airport with lots of leftover construction debris featuring exposed rebar!

Edited September 11, 2018 by utee94

[HenryJames 65890]

Surly should buy it.

[Bottlecap 1522]

5 minutes ago, stc said:

obviously that's what you meant by "flaming out of austin". it's such an obvious term i don't know how else it could be interpreted. yes, they are moving production to san marcos...but hasn't that been known for a while now? i also suspect the brewery will be sold pretty quickly after that facility is up and running. 

Obviously that is what i meant. They are unexpectedly closing up shop in Austin and leaving. No, that was not "known for a while now". The plan was to have both facilities open, and more than that, open up a far eastside barrel room. No one said anything about closing down the austin facility and selling that taproom as a turnkey facility. This is a pretty big splash as far as Austin brewery news goes.  

[stc 1452]

1. post vague insider information, wait for people to wonder what the fuck you're talking about.

2. post the link you were dying to post in the first place that contains clear, concise information from 2.5 months ago. 

3. link to austin chronicle article announcing big shake up in austin brewing scene. 

meanwhile everyone continues buying h&g beer at their local heb as if nothing ever happened.  

[Bottlecap 1522]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[HenryJames 65890]

8 minutes ago, stc said:

1. post vague insider information, wait for people to wonder what the fuck you're talking about.

2. post the link you were dying to post in the first place that contains clear, concise information from 2.5 months ago. 

3. link to austin chronicle article announcing big shake up in austin brewing scene. 

4. meanwhile everyone continues buying h&g beer at their local heb as if nothing ever happened.  

5. surly joke about heb being open.

[utee94 15745]

6 Profit?

[mdleast 8262]

7. Earn badges

[Bottlecap 1522]

8, 8 I forgot what 8 was for

[GreenspointTexas 9566]

 

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[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

Bring back pale dog and brew more porter culture.   Thanks.

[deft 6800]

Brew and can whatever experimental ipa you can before switching out the hop bill every two weeks and make sure that they’re only labeled with a batch number and you can only buy one sixer during that time before they’re gone and the next batch is in.

Profit.

[4th&Five 41461]

20 hours ago, Bottlecap said:

 

Just purchased at Escarpment HEB (open). Might be my favorite ABW offering. 

[4th&Five 41461]

i picked up a jolly russian too.  good?

[HenryJames 65890]

57 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Just purchased at Escarpment HEB (open). Might be my favorite ABW offering. 

What is the hop(s)?

[Mr.Hovis 70]

57 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Just purchased at Escarpment HEB (open). Might be my favorite ABW offering. 

I did as well. Beer was cold though stacked on the floor by an end cap. Targety style I guess.

[GreenspointTexas 9566]

That new Shiner Barrel Aged Oktoberfest looks legiiiiiiiiit

[mdleast 8262]

[utee05 9]

To make a rebuttal on bottlecap thinking hops n grain leaving

Hops & Grain update:
Just to clear up any rumors that anyone has, Hops & Grain Brewing is not shutting down Austin operations. Earlier this year we had an opportunity to purchase a property that we've been leasing in east Austin for the past year, just a few miles east of our current location. The space is awesome, has around 4 acres of land and plenty of warehouse space. We have made no final decisions, just merely entertaining all options. We're incredibly excited about our expanded production capacity with our new San Marcos brewery and look forward to cranking up our R&D projects in Austin.

[patrickdrinksbeer 788]

Here's the 2018 Texas Craft Brewers Fest beer list for those of yall going ... with a shot-out to Surly pals, Great Heights.

appreciate the nod bottlecap. wish i could make the festival, but i’ll be in yakima valley that weekend. we are sending our assistant brewer to austin.

[Bottlecap 1522]

Shit, thats a bummer. Was hoping to catch you during the 12-2 session.

and the full line was "and finally, Houston’s Great Heights Brewing who are undoubtedly sick and goddamned tired of absorbing Postal Service puns, but also make such a juicy-ass IPA, it makes Beyonce’s look like Ke$ha’s."

But it got edited out because the AC proofers love to hate fun.

[The Maestro 749]

Wasn't there someone that worked at Hops & Grain that used to post on the old site?

[HenryJames 65890]

Hi-C, imo.

[deft 6800]

Wasn't there someone that worked at Hops & Grain that used to post on the old site?

 

Yes there was. Don’t remember who. So instead, here’s a picture of me drinking beer out of a prosthetic in that taproom.

 

[Incredulity 11564]

Edited September 13, 2018 by Incredulity

[stc 1452]

3 hours ago, The Maestro said:

Wasn't there someone that worked at Hops & Grain that used to post on the old site?

UTCCHsomething, he doesn't work there anymore. 

[utee94 15745]

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Hi-C, imo.

Good beer, good bar.

 

[Bottlecap 1522]

Goddam ABW fresh hop is fuckin sex

[deft 6800]

Right!? Glad I was able to pick some up at Whole Foods today.