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May is National Photography Month. To celebrate that, Houston Beer Guide has turned the cameras around on a handful of local photographers that are integral to the Houston beer community as digital media content creators for several local area breweries. Others have found a calling for photographing beer and have turned this into something more
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The Texas Craft Brewers Guild issued a press release announcing a new initiative called ‘Brew City, Texas’, with the goal of recruiting cities and municipalities with craft breweries to promoting the state and its rich craft beer tradition as a tourism focus. “We are thrilled to launch the Brew City, Texas program, which represents a
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The greater Houston area came back from 2024 Texas Craft Brewers Guild Brewers Cup with enough awards to fill up a large trophy case. Among the litany of gold, silver and bronze Bolo ties signifying the excellent craft beer brewing in our own backyards were two issued for special achievement in the State. Senate Avenue
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Early this afternoon, Elder Son Brewing has announced they have completed a buyout of Southern Yankee Beer Company, located off of FM1960, between I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road. The sale was finalized earlier today. Robert Frye, owner and brewer at Elder Son, has stated that the addition will serve as the breweries primary production
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Just over a year ago, Bad Astronaut Brewing opened in a large warehouse just north of Downtown Houston. Founded by Chris Fall and Craig “Rocky” Keener, the pair of former Karbach employees set their sights on opening their own venue that produces high quality and easy to enjoy beer. The brewery had distribution to area
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Nestled in the middle of the Sawyer Yards area, just northwest of Downtown, resides Holler Brewing. Founded by Kathryn and John Holler in 2016, the brewery has become a popular Houston hangout ever since. Well known for their award-winning beers Dollar Pils Y’all and their namesake Extra Special Bitter (ESB), John decided to sell the
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On Saturday, November 18, Nomadic Beerworks in Austin released a new collaboration beer named Velour Jumpsuit with Darnell Gardner and Chris Washington, jointly known in the Houston and Austin beer community as the Crafty Brothas. The release, Velour Jumpsuit, is a 10.6% alcohol by volume (ABV) Imperial Spiced Peach Blonde Ale that is flavor forward
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On Sunday, November 5th Star Sailor held their very first Fallfest Brewfest at the establishment. The festival featured nine Greater Houston and Galveston area breweries as well as local vendors. The weather outside was perfectly warm, creating the perfect opportunity to try beer, cider and spiked root beer samplings while enjoying some of the house
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On Saturday, September 30th, the gates opened at Fiesta Gardens in Austin for the 2023 Texas Craft Brewers Guild Craft Brewers Festival. The festival, which is a one-day event, is a chance for Guild Member breweries from all across the state to gather and either introduce themselves to first time patrons or catch up with
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The celebration of Mexican Independence Day started off on Saturday, September 16th with a collaboration beer drop at Big Owl Craft Brew House. Turkey Forrest Brewing, the Big Owl in-house brewing tandem of Louie Espinoza and Oscar Gonzales, teamed up with Houton area craft beer stalwarts ‘The H-Town Craft Sippers’ to brew a beer fitting
