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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
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Check out Jackie’s first pour of Drye Tears, a 16.9% rye barrel aged imperial stout from 11 Below Brewing Company Visit the taproom for this limited time release, starting Saturday 9/2/2023 📍11 Below Brewing Company – 6820 Bourgeois Rd, Houston, TX 77066 📸 Steve Fraga Photography
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A new and unique brewery is opening in the Lazybrook/ Timbergrove area named Craft Culture X Brewing. Craft Culture X is a joint brewery consisting of two partner breweries: For the Culture Brewing and Ovinnik Brewing. For the Culture is the first Black owned brewery in the city of Houston, while Ovinnik is a predominately
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With the celebration of the anniversary of America’s independence behind us, our very own Senate Avenue Brewing has reissued a 2022 favorite, their Red, White and Blueberry cream ale to celebrate this important holiday. This smooth Cream Ale comes in at 6.2% alcohol by volume (ABV) and 19 IBU . This year’s offering was created
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Photo collaboration for this story courtesy of Marcus Cain (@visualsbywest) and photos edited by Sofia Panda (@panda.sofia) Pride Month unofficially kicked off on Saturday, June 3rd at Counter Common Beerworks and Kitchen. Counter Common hosted the release of a new collaboration beer between the brewery and Houston beer scene mainstays Cole Wehner and Brett Chynoweth
