Top 10 Best Austin Breweries

Top Breweries in Austin

Austin is no exception when it comes to brewing up some delicious beer. Next to Colorado, we like to think of Austin as a prime destination for any avid beer connoisseur. Brewing up hops is no joke, and there are literally close to a hundred local breweries in and around the Austin area. So how do we choose the best Austin Breweries? This list was certainly not easy to pick only ten. We tasted, and may have gone back and tasted some more, from these local Austin breweries. We love beer! Some of Austin’s all-time favorites are listed below – Some have been around a while and are now available in the local grocery store. Some on the list are just keeping it purely local and only available in the taproom. We picked a variety of breweries – some breweries using traditional methods and some use fruits or other flavors to enhance the richness of the taste. 

Suds Monkey Brewing Company

12024 US-290
Austin, TX 78737
(512) 222-3893

Suds Monkey tops our list because they are just so damn cool. Suds Monkey Brewing Company was created to be a family-focused neighborhood brewpub. Suds Monkey is a family-owned and operated NANO brewery. Suds was started as life long goal of the owner and head brewer, Greg Plummer. If you enjoy craft beer, hot rods, sports, and friends to share wonderful experiences with, then Suds Monkey is worth the trip. They recently added  NY Style Pizzas, Stromboli’s, Wings, Garlic Knots, and Desserts to the lineup. Suds Monkey is located near Dripping Springs and has a great selection of beers. Delicious beers and nostalgic games make Suds Monkey a must. Stop by and get their  Hazy IPA – you won’t be disappointed. Laidback atmosphere. Indoor & outdoor seating. Dog and kid-friendly…  a playroom and outdoor play area to keep the kids happy. – sudsmonkeybrew.com

Austin Beerworks

3001 Industrial Terrace
Austin, TX 78758
512-821-2494

Austin, these are the folks who brew your beer. We’ve got backgrounds ranging from military, hair styling, pro disc golf, corporate finance, and some it’s probably best not to discuss publicly. The one thing we all have in common? A deep love and knowledge of craft beer. That and seeing people trip. We know it’s mean, but it makes us laugh. – austinbeerworks.com

Hops and Grain Brewing

507 Calles St. #101
Austin, TX 78702
512-914-2467

Community involvement should be at the heart of any small business. At Hops & Grain we are committed to being a good neighbor, not only to our planet but also to our neighborhood community. At both of our breweries we connect with other local businesses and non-profits to bring attention to what makes central Texas great, the creative men and women that live and work here! Each year our staff volunteers their time to work with our non-profit partners. In addition we donate our space and our product to help bring awareness to the great work that these partners are doing. After all, beer tends to bring out a crowd! – hopsandgrain.com

St. Elmo Brewing Company

440 E St. Elmo Rd. G-2
Austin, TX 78745
737-300-1965

Bar, brewery & beer garden with rotating craft taps & an on-site food trailer for mostly Asian fare. St Elmo Brewing Company is dedicated to brewing Exceptional beer for our neighbors. We love all styles of beer and people. You’ll find both in our beer garden. – stelmobrewing.com

Zilker Brewing Company and Taproom

1701 E 6th St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-712-5590

Our industrial taproom is nestled in the heart of the brewery, showcasing every aspect of our brewing process. It’s here we’ve created a community-focused experience, with our family-sized tables, drinks, food, conversation, local art, and music as the foundation. Our brewers take a collaborative approach to bring new techniques, ingredients and styles to the table and keep our seasonal selection fresh. Our high standards for every pint served starts with quality control and cleanliness, but most importantly our success has come from the curiosity and passion we put into our craft. – zilkerbeer.com

Lazarus Brewing Co.

1902 E 6th St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-394-7620

That’s what our friends kept asking. Once the idea sprouted there was no turning back. Now we’ve built our own – a 10 barrel system with a cozy little taproom for you and your friends – right here in the heart of East Austin. Where you ask? How about East 6th & Chicon, right across from Whisler’s? (Yeah, we thought you’d like it.) We’re not trying to change the world, but we are trying to change here – to make our little neighborhood even better than it already is. Coffee, beer and tacos can help. – lazarusbrewing.com

Oasis Texas Brewing Company

6650 Comanche Trail Suite #301
Austin, TX 78732
512-284-9407

We are a Brewery and fast casual restaurant, producing iconic, rustic session beers. Our restaurant creates delicious, well-crafted food using the best ingredients available. Sitting at the very top of the Oasis Texas Development, we provide breathtaking views of Lake Travis and the Texas Hill Country to enjoy over a cold one. Since opening in 2014, OTXBC has won two medals at the Great American Beer Fest for their year-round beers. Our beers can be found throughout Texas and are now available in Alabama and Florida. – otxbc.com

Blue Owl Brewing

2400 E Cesar Chavez St. #300
Austin, TX 78702
512-593-1262

Welcome to your all sour brewery! We’re dedicated to the craft of sour-mashing your favorite beer styles into new experiences. Dedicated to the craft of sour-mashing your favorite beer styles into new experiences. You will find us in cans, on tap, and in our own tasting room in East Austin. Everything’s coming up Blue Owl! – blueowlbrewing.com

Celis Brewery

10001 Metric Blvd.
Austin, TX 78758
512-524-2377

When Pierre Celis started brewing his beloved beer, he created a craft beer that changed everything. Come be part of the legendary magic of Celis in our one-of-a-kind Copper Kettle Taproom. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Pierre’s original witbiers and Christine’s new ones in an Old World-inspired tasting room that’s unlike any other in Austin. – celisbeers.com

Oskar Blues Brewery Austin

10420 Metric Blvd. Ste. 150
Austin, TX 78758
512-243-7054

Oskar Blues Austin started brewing Dale’s Pale Ale in June 2016 and we’ve been pumping out the freshest OB beer ever since. We brew the full core line-up along with Austin-only specialties at our 50,000 square foot facility. Since beer pairs really nicely with groovy sounds, we’ve got a stacked live music calendar for ya, with tunes every weekend. See upcoming events at the Austin taproom. Taproom featuring beers, on-site food trucks & live music in a large, industrial space. – oskarblues.com

The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co.

1305 W Oltorf St.
Austin, TX 78704
512-298-2242

Our philosophy: Beer Makes It Better. We believe our beer has the power to make everything better. A fresh, hot pizza. A nice big Muffaletta sandwich. A great band on Saturday night. And hanging out in the shade of our beer garden with your pup, friends, and fellow Austinites. We also believe our beer has the power to make our entire community better. We strive to take beer’s innate goodness and put it into action improving our neighborhood, city, and the lives of lots of folks. – theabgb.com


About Beer

All beers are either ales or lagers, and that is dictated by the sort of yeast utilized amid the maturation procedure. Ales are made with yeast that matures at the base of the brew blend, and beers are made with yeast that ages at the top. There are likewise suddenly maturing yeasts, which make wild or acrid beers.

Once you’ve figured out if your beer is an ale or lager, there is further separation dictated by the flavor, shading, and smell of the lager. These figure out what style of family a given lager falls into. Inside that style of family, there are assortments, which have considerably more particular qualities.

BEER TYPES

Ale is a kind of beer brewed utilizing a warm fermentation strategy, bringing about a sweet, full-bodied and fruity taste. Verifiably, the term alluded to a drink brewed without jumps.

Similarly, as with most beers, ale normally has a bittering specialist to adjust the sweetness of the malt and go about as an additive. Ale was initially bittered with gruit, a blend of herbs or flavors bubbled in the wort before fermentation. Afterward, bounces supplanted gruit as the bittering specialist.

Beer: Ale

Ale, alongside bread, was a vital wellspring of nourishment in the medieval world, especially little beer, otherwise called table beer or gentle beer, which was exceedingly nutritious, contained quite recently enough alcohol to go about as an additive, and gave hydration without inebriating impacts. The little brew would have been expended daily by almost everyone, including children’s, in the medieval world, with higher-alcohol ales filled for recreational needs. The lower cost for proprietors joined with the lower charges exacted on little beer prompted the offering of lager marked “solid beer” that had really been weakened with a little beer. The alcohol hops and few ingredients in gruit used to safeguard some ale may have added to their lower heap of pathogens when contrasted with water. However, ale was a great extent more secure because of the hours of bubbling required underway, not the alcoholic substance of the completed drink.

Brewing ale in the middle Ages was a neighborhood industry principally sought after by ladies. Brewster, or alewives, would brew in the home for both residential utilization and a little scale business deal. Brewster’s gave a significant supplemental salary to families; in any case, just in a select couple of cases, similar to the case for dowagers, was preparing viewed as the essential wage of the family.

Varieties of Ale

Brilliant ale: Created in any expectation of winning the more youthful individuals far from savoring ale support of barrel ales, it is similar to pale beer yet there are some prominent contrasts—it is paler, brewed with ale or low-temperature ale malts and it is served at colder temperatures. The quality of brilliant ales shifts from 3.5% to 5.3%.

Scotch ales: While the full scopes of ales are created in Scotland, the term Scotch ale is utilized globally to mean malty, solid ale, golden-to-dark red in shading. The malt might be marginally caramelized to grant toffee notes; naturally, Scottish lagers have a tendency to be fairly sweeter, darker and less hoppy than English ones. The exemplary styles are Light, Heavy and Export, additionally alluded to as 60/ -, 70/ – and 80/ – (shillings) individually, going back to the 19th-century strategy for invoicing beers as indicated by their quality.

Grain wine: Grain wines range from 10% to 12%, with some stored for long stretches of time, around 18 to 24 months. While drinking grain wine, one ought to be set up to taste “gigantic sweet malt and ready product of the pear drop, orange, and lemon sort, with darker organic products, chocolate, and espresso if darker malts are utilized. Hop rates are liberal and deliver sharpness and peppery, green and flower notes”.

Gentle ale: Gentle ale initially implied an unaged ale, the inverse of an old ale. It can be any quality or shading, although most are dull darker, and low in quality, ordinarily between 3 and 3.5%. A case of a lighter-hued mellow is Banks’ Mild.

Beer: Lager

Lager (German) is a kind of lager that is molded at low temperatures, ordinarily at the brewery. It might be pale, brilliant, golden, or dark.

Although one of the most characterizing elements of lager is its development in frosty stockpiling, it is additionally recognized by the utilization of a particular yeast. While it is conceivable to utilize lager yeast in a warm fermentation procedure, for example, with Canadian steam beer, the absence of a chilly stockpiling development stage blocks such lager from being named lager. Then again, German Altbier brewed with top-fermenting yeast at a warm temperature, yet with an icy stockpiling completing stage, are named obergariges Lagerbier (beat-fermented lager beer).

Preceding the approach of refrigeration, German brewers would burrow basements for lagering and fill them with ice from close-by lakes and streams, which would cool the lager amid the late spring months. To additionally shield the basements from the late spring heat, they would plant chestnut trees, which have to be spreading, thick coverings yet shallow roots that would not interrupt the natural hollows. The act of serving beer at these destinations advanced into the cutting edge lager plant.

The ascent of lager was laced with the improvement of refrigeration, as refrigeration made it conceivable to brew lager year-round (brewing in the late spring had already been restricted in numerous areas crosswise over Germany), and productive refrigeration additionally made it conceivable to brew lager in more places and keep it chilly until serving.

Lager beer utilizes a procedure of cool fermentation, trailed by development in chilly stockpiling. The German word “lager” implies storeroom or distribution center. The yeast for the most part utilized with ale fermenting is Saccharomyces pastorianus. It is a nearby relative of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast utilized for warm matured lagers.

Varieties of lagers

Pale lager: The most widely recognized ale beers in overall creation are pale lagers. The kind of these lighter ales is generally mild, and the makers frequently prescribe that the beers be served refrigerated.

Pale lager is an extremely pale to brilliantly shaded ale with a very much weakened body and respectable bounce severity. The brewing procedure for this beer created in the mid-19th century when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale beer preparing systems back to the Spaten Brewery in Germany and connected it to existing lagering fermenting techniques. This approach was gotten by different brewers, most remarkably Josef Groll who created in Bohemia (today Czech Republic) the principal Pilsner beer—Pilsner Urquell. The subsequent pale-colored, lean, and stable beers were extremely effective and step by step spread far and wide to wind up noticeably the most well-known type of beer expended on the world today.

Vienna Lager: Particularly golden shaded Vienna lager was produced by brewer Anton Dreher in Vienna. Vienna Lager is a rosy dark-colored or copper-hued brew with a medium body and slight malt sweetness. The malt fragrance and flavor may have a toasted character. In spite of their name, Vienna lagers are for the most part extraordinary in Canada, where it is frequently called pre-Prohibition style golden ale (regularly abbreviated to “pre-Prohibition lager”).

Beer : Porter

The name porter was given on account of the notoriety of the drink among porter around Canada. The characterizing qualities of current porters appear to be that they have to a greater extent a malted and full-bodied flavor. This separates them from the more typical hefty brews, which for the most part highlight to a greater extent an intense, broiled flavor and less sweetness.

Porters started as a mixture of a few distinct periods of beer. It was a routine with regards to adding more up to date ale to a more established darker ale. These conceal any defects. Some of the time fresher new pale ale was added to the mix. Brewers took the insight and started to mix another assortment of beer with a similar flavor and character of the well-known brew. This new beer acquired the title of Porter.

After some time, as with all beers, brewers started brewing diverse Porters with differing measures of dull malts and levels of alcohol. These darker more grounded Porters were basically known as Stout Porters. In spite of the fact that for comfort they were just called “Stout”.

Irish brewers started preparing stouts and by one means or another chosen to begin adding simmered grain to the formula. This is the place stout started to develop into another style of beer. With the introduction of Guinness, the stout by which all others are judged, Ireland authoritatively turned into the expert on Stout. After some time Stouts came to be fermented more for their solid flavor and dark shading instead of alcohol substance.

Stouts today, in spite of the name, commonly have a lower alcohol content among different beers.

Despite the fact that Stouts came to eclipse other dark beers, Porters endured. Not at all like stout which has spread the world over. A genuine Porter, due to its history will dependably be particularly English and made with English fixings.

Types of porter beers

Brown: These porters are for the most part thought to be made in the conventional English style with a maltier fragrance and normally a chocolate, toffee, or nutty flavor profile. This is an exceptionally drinkable type of porter as it is normally somewhat sweeter than the others with a milder vibe and lower levels of alcohol. You can by and large hope to taste a greater amount of the malt than the hops in a dark colored porter brew.

Robust: Most beer specialists would state that hearty porter has more American attributes than whatever else. Hearty porter will more often than not have a darker shading with an insight or red or maroon radiating through. The froth head ought to be decently firm and velvety tan shading. When you take a drink, you’ll get significantly a greater amount of the dark malt taste in a powerful than you’d find in a darker porter. The run of the mill cooked malt kinds of espresso, toffee, and chocolate mix with a decently smooth complete to make an intricate mix of dark malt and dish.
Baltic

Made in the Baltic Sea district, this porter begun as an English porter before the impact of Russian Imperial stouts got to it. The final product is a beer with high alcohol content and a ton of layered flavors. Most Baltic porters are lighter in shading with a copper dark-colored tinge to them. The head froth is tall and solid, for the most part remaining on top of the beer until it is done. Baltic porter utilizes dark-colored or golden malt, not dark malt, so the malted taste is not as “burnt” and rich as you may discover in a different porter, despite the fact that there is a distinct taste of the lighter flavors when you drink it. Shockingly, in spite of the abnormal amounts of alcohol this porter goes down rather easily and leaves a warm vibe in the mouth. The fragrance is similarly as unpredictable as the tastes in this porter.

Beer: Cream ale

Cream ale is a style of and Canadian beer, of which cases are regularly light in shading and are very much constricted. To start with made in the mid-1800s at different Canadian breweries works, for example, Sleeman, cream beer remained an extremely confined shape with various styles until the mid-20th century.

Cream ale is identified with a pale lager. They are for the most part brewed to be light and invigorating with a straw to pale brilliant shading. hop and malt flavor is generally repressed however like all beer styles it is interested in individual translation, some brewery’s works give them a more decisive character. Regardless of the name, cream ales don’t regularly contain any dairy.

While cream ales are best-fermented brews, they normally experience a broadened time of chilly molding or lagering after essential maturation is finished. This decreases fruity esters and gives the beer a cleaner enhance. A few cases likewise have an ale yeast included for the chilly molding stage or are mixes of lagers and ales. Assistants, for example, corn and rice are utilized to help the body and flavor, albeit all-malt cases are accessible from many craft brewers.

Beer: IPA

India Pale Ale, more formally known as IPA is a kind of beer that is high in hop content than some other beer. Years late this specific kind of beer has taken each one in the Canadian by the tempest. It abandons denying that beer is a drink that takes the most noteworthy significance at a gathering, at any event with respect to that matter. Wedding gatherings, social occasions, and office parties, all request chilled beer. India Pale Ale is taken to be one of the best brew sorts in Canadian and is being considered by many individuals in get-togethers.

The drink has, under some subtypes like Alaskan IPA, Ale smith IPA, Avery IPA, and Anderson Valley Hop Ottin IPA. The shading of IPA exclusively relies on upon the measure of malts utilized. The shading can be from brilliant to dark golden. India Pale Ale has the solid fragrance of hops. The fragrance too relies on the measure of hops utilized. The fragrance is both of a sweet citrus bloom or of pine. Talking about which in Canadian breweries works Cascade and Chinook hops are extremely mainstream. Indeed the impact of the smell in an IPA will be founded on the types of malts utilized as well.

To the extent the taste is concerned, India Pale Ale for the most part has a solid astringent hop taste. However, much the same as the fragrance even the taste can shift enormously. The flavors are that of citrus and pine as well as of different tastes. Regularly brewery works can utilize both hop and malt to upgrade the taste.

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