Exclusive Reveal: Texas Craft Brewers Fest Rotating Tap List
Limited tickets remain for 25+ rare brews only available Sept. 28
By Eric Puga, 1:35PM, Tue. Sep. 17, 2019
Brewers of the Lone Star State will once again decamp to Fiesta Gardens in east Austin this month to showcase a phalanx of triple hazy goat lactose gluten implied IPAs (and more!) during the annual Texas Craft Brewers Festival, the largest beer event focused entirely on in-state brews.
This outdoor fiesta is the Texas Brewers Guild’s bread-and-butter showcase of border-to-border brewing talent. But it also serves as a way for visitors to crack the code on the styles of beer they prefer the most (it’s pilsers, by the way) by lining up over 200 of them to sample across this lakeside plot. It absolutely WAILS. (Texas Brewers Guild is coming in hot fresh off its surprise legislative Beer-to-Go thumping of Big Distro – you can read all of our Beer-to-Go coverage here.
But wait, there’s more. Roughly every half hour, participating breweries will release a rare, small-batch brew with ingredients that their head brewer undoubtedly pilfered from their mom’s basement kitchenette. We have that exclusive rotating tap list just for you and you can feast your eyes on it below before feasting your palates on them Saturday, September 28.
On a final note, the Texas Craft Brewers Festival has sold out in advance the last several years, so you’d probably be best served reading this list greedily, then making your way over to their ticket site. It’s a UT football off-weekend, so everyone’s gonna be looking for something to do besides converting their front lawns to gravel.
| BREWERY | BEER | DESCRIPTION* | TAPPING TIME |
| Armadillo Ale Works | Brunch Money | Imperial Golden Stout | 12:30pm |
| True Anomaly Brewing | Daisy Explorer | Cherry Wild Ale | 12:30pm |
| Astral Brewing | Mango Passion Project | Gose | 1pm |
| The Brewtorium | Little Ivan McGregor | Barrel-aged Wee Heavy/Imperial Stout hybrid | 1pm |
| (512) Brewing | Wood Aged Peach Sour | 1:30pm |
| Circle Brewing | Razzé All Day | Brett-Barrel-Aged Blonde with Raspberries | 1:30pm |
| Lakewood Brewing Co | Melon Baller | Hazy IPA with Melon | 2:30pm |
| Red Horn Coffee House and Brewing Co. | PopTart Ravioli | Kettle-Soured Wild Berry Milkshake IPA | 2:30pm |
| TUPPS Brewery | DDH IPA Series 2 | New England-Style IPA | 2:30pm |
| Real Ale Brewing | Santa Poco | Tequila Barrel-Aged Gose with Passion Fruit | 3pm |
| 8th Wonder Brewery | Viet Irish | Jameson Irish Whiskey Barrel-Aged Imperial Vietnamese Coffee Porter | 3pm |
| Vista Brewing | Glen Rose | Wine-Barrel-Aged Lambic-Style Ale | 3pm |
| Oskar Blues | Blacklands Barrel-Aged Barley Wine | 3:30pm |
| Jester King | Nocturn Chrysalis | Barrel-Aged Beer Refermented with Blackberries | 3:30pm |
| Weathered Souls Brewing | Cavernous Imperial Stout with Coconut | 3:30pm |
| Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling | Bourbon Barrel Wee Heavy | 4pm |
| Blue Owl Brewing | Wild Boss Barrel-aged Sour Beer with Fredericksburg Peaches | 4pm |
| Austin Beer Garden Brewing | YSB #16: Kitten Mittons | Sour Ale | 4pm |
| Texas Beer Company | Hoppy Clouds | Peach IPA | 4:30pm |
| Austin Beerworks | Sakuma | Sour Brown Ale with Cherries | 4:30pm |
| Ingenious Brewing | Fruit with Friends: Blackberry Cobbler a la Mode | Berliner Weisse | 4:30pm |
| Hops & Grain | Volumes of Funk | Mixed Culture Saison | 5pm |
| Pondaseta Brewing Co. | Tūtū Pele | Fruited Sour (Piña Colada) | 5pm |
| Roughhouse Brewing | Friend and Berry | Farmhouse Ale with Strawberries and Agarita Berries | 5pm |
| Saint Arnold Brewing | Bishop's Barrel 23 with Oranges | Dopplebock aged in rye barrels | 5:30pm |
| Black Star Co-op (brewed in collaboration with Out Youth) | Wish You Were Queer | Peach and Passionfruit Ale | 5:30pm |
| Lazarus Brewing Company | Second Nature Gose | 5:30pm |
For more information:
Website: www.texascraftbrewersfestival.com
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-texas-craft-brewers-festival-tickets-62595390498
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