Hit Brewery Row to Choose Your Own Austin FC Home Match Beer Adventure

How to get a little matchy-matchy with the city's first top-tier sports club and its many superb beer options

"...itself is still finding its legs athletically, Austin’s own Brewery Row is tasked with tracking back to cover the..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Puga

Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020

It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings

"...for most – if not every – Central Texas brewery was to go full steam ahead into SXSW season..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

Top 25 Austin Breweries of 2021

Our annual list of Central Texas’ top beers returns

"...the last year (“What’s New”). We considered how a brewery maintains its quality of product, particularly with its mainstay..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Food Post by Eric Puga

Discovering (and Creating) Austin’s Best Self-Guided Beer Tours

Crawl before you ball

"...up the night at rising stars Nomadic Beerworks, a brewery with limited taps but unlimited potential...."

Oct. 4, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Top 10 Beer Things to Look Forward to in 2016

"...Founded by two former Austin Beerworks pros, this brewery and taproom will feature three perennials: Chico Pale Ale,..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...America is one giant brewery mill. It's the place where they made one brewery..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Explore Texas and beyond in 2022

"...prehistoric cave paintings, a cold beer fresh from the brewery, or one of the many events around the state...."

Jan. 6, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Top 10 Overlooked Central Texas Breweries of 2019

Grab a beer off the beaten path

"...Tap tends to get buried beneath the goliaths of brewery row, like Austin Beerworks and Oskar Blues, but what..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Holy Smokes

Stiles Switch and Thirsty Planet pair up for craft beer collaboration

"...thing. Marrying craft beer and craft barbecue, Thirsty Planet Brewery has partnered with Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew to..."

March 10, 2014 Food Post by Anna Toon

Q2 Stadium's Food and Bev Offerings Big and Local

From brisket tacos to bao, craft beer to Crown Royal, Verde fans have options

"...Of course, there is beer, beer, everywhere, because for..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Jessi Cape

Top 10 Austin Breweries of 2018

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...rankings, citing our federal offense of omitting their favorite brewery – that makes just. the. best. Candied Horseflesh Grissette..."

March 16, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Top 15 Austin Breweries

Our semiannual power ranking of local brewhouses

"...at the Chronicle we'd love to just make every brewery in the city (or breweries just outside the city..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...working branches of their business plan to choke the growth of small beer in Texas. Despite that, there have..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Oral History of ABGB

Pils to wake, pils to sleep

"...simplicity is the dominant practice at this South Austin brewery, which triples as a community mess hall and impromptu..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Austin’s Mexican-Style Lagers Are Coming in Hot

Livin' la vida lager

"...makes American-made Mexican-style lagers a testing ground for a brewery's ability to reflect something as abstract as "sunny porch-time..."

July 12, 2019 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Is Austin the Pilsner Capital of America?

Czech your privilege

"...says Dusan Kwiatkowski, head brewer at Live Oak, a brewery nationally regarded for its crisp German-style lagers, including their..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Austin Beer Guide Announces Lager Jam 6's List of Drafts and Cans

Thirsty beer lovers, your weekend just got more interesting

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July 23, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Sustainable Beer

The secret about sustainable brewing is that it exists.

"...Jester King, the first brewery to be certified organic in Texas, looks like the..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Food Feature by Ivy Le

Day Trips

The Real Ale brewery tour in Blanco is a beer lover's dream come true

"...The Real Ale brewery tour in Blanco is a beer lover's dream come..."

July 30, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Hot Springs NP, Ark.

Oldest national nature preserve still a hot destination

"...the eight NPS-owned former bathhouses along the historic Bathhouse Row, only two offer hot mineral water baths. The former..."

May 4, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

10 of Austin's Best Bars

Looking for a new place to drink, dance, or eat? We got you.

"...just flocks to the source of the action, the brewery taproom, out of sheer convenience. But Burnet Go To..."

June 25, 2022 Food Post

Boozy New Local Collaborations for 2020

Local creators have been busy brewing nitro coffee ale and uni-wine

"...two. Independence Brewing Co. and Alamo Drafthouse Debut Hop Brownie Ale..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Food Post by Emily Beyda

A Disaster Brewing

Hops shortage squeezes local-beer makers and drinkers

"...balance the sweetness of malt. In America, they are grown principally in the Yakima Valley of the Pacific Northwest...."

March 21, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

News and events from Corpus Christi to Fort Davis

"...from France. This is the second year in a row the pair was awarded first place in Masters Duo..."

May 4, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

21 Super Bowl LIII Watch Parties in Austin

Pluckers Wing Bar is taking reservations, y’all

"...fancies, a VIP package gets you tables with front row viewing, cocktail service, and buckets of beer and snacks..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Drunk on a Train

Four friends bar crawl their way down the Capital Metro Red Line

"...was a solid start, though. The 7-year-old North Austin brewery has expanded their menu from mid-table ABV beers, to..."

July 13, 2018 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Kernel to Cup

Blacklands Malt harnesses water, time, and fire to create the perfect beginnings for your beer

"...of, 'Where does malt come from? Where does barley grow?' Right away, I realized, this is it, this is..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Beer Flights: Guys, I'm Sorry I Ever Doubted You

Twisted X makes jalapeño beer a reality

"...The light lager was anything but flavorless. Made with two-row barley and corn from Richardson Farms in nearby Rockdale,..."

May 20, 2011 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Slouching Toward Happy Hour

East Sixth & Thereabouts

"...copper-topped bar and exposed stone walls, draws a subdued crowd of regulars who come for moderately priced wines by..."

March 19, 1999 Food Feature

Day Trips

"...Root Beer, made by Kendall Garrison at the little brewery in Waco, is the most full-flavored soft drink on..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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