Beer Town Austin

Lots going on in the next few weekends. We’re a  blog, so we’re blogging about it. You know, taking what other people are doing and commenting on it so it looks like we’re doing something too. It makes us feel important and such. It’s 2010, just go along with it.

(512) Summer Open House

6-19-10

2-5pm

OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, June 19th, 2-5 pm
Taste your favorite (512) Ales plus
the RE-RELEASE of our Belgian Style Strong Ale
(512) ONE.2

Hell. Yes. Please.

Kevin, Nate, and co throw some nice open house parties, and they’re always nicer when they include the release (or re-release) of something new. No word on if the (512) boys tweaked the Belgian Strong ale that made us all a little buzzier than we were expecting last summer. Either way, I’m ok. I loved the last one and can’t imagine any upgrades would be bad.

Bottle it maybe, eh?

Check out our coverage of the (512) ONE release party last year (they got that whole long line thing nipped in the butt via multiple pouring stations). More info from (512) here.

Saint Arnold 2nd Austin Pub Crawl

6-19-10

6-9pm

We will be pub crawling in Austin on Saturday, June 19. We are utilizing our “open house” schedule for the first 3 stops. This means that we will be signing tickets at all three of the first three stops for three hours so people can split up between the establishments. You will get your ticket at whichever stop you decide to visit first. But, VERY IMPORTANT, we will only be handing out the tickets between 6 PM and 7 PM. Thus, you still need to start between 6 and 7. Then, at 9 PM, everybody will gather at one final stop and that is where we will award the glasses.

This was good last time, I fully expect it to be great this time.

Where the first one had problems wt overcrowding and pubs hitting capacity, this time it’s less of a mass pub crawl and more of a pub sprawl. Sounds like a great time.

Hit it up, drink lots of  Saint Arnold (responsibly…), and say ‘hi’ to Frank, Lennie, and company. Last time I even ran into Brock himself stamping punch cards. More info here and also this jerk has pretty good coverage too.

Also, When In Austin did a short podcast wt FrankTex about the pub crawl. Check it out.

Read our coverage of the last crawl here.

Great Austin Beer Festival

6-26-10

4-8pm

The Great Austin Beer Festival is our opportunity to celebrate everything we love about beer.  With so many great breweries in Austin and beyond, you will get your chance to sample some the finest local beers and explore beers from our best breweries from all over the world.  The event offers multiple opportunities to learn everything you want to know about beer.  Join us in downtown at the Austin Music Hall on June 26th.
Admission is $30 online and $40 day of event.  It includes 4oz samples throughout the event.  Food will be sold separately.

As a disclaimer I should mention we are a sponsor of the festival. That being said, I’m pretty sure this will be great and totally think you should go.

Really though, it’s very exciting. Being in the business of drinking beer in Austin and talking about beer in Austin with people we meet while drinking it, we have been in more than seven or eight conversations with people about why Austin needs a festival… again (remember that Rob and Amy of Independence put on a TX brewers fest a few years back).

We’ve met the guys putting this on and they are pretty solid. We look forward to this event.

Also, we’ll have a booth there. So if you go, come by and say ‘hi’. We’ll have some cool shit for free and some other shit too.

More info here and here.

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