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  • Free Hops & Grain Beer at Rogue Raffler Running Event

    8/16/10 • (1)

    For those of you whom have not had the pleasure of sampling any of Hops & Grains fine fine craft beers, lace up your running shoes because now is your chance. (Or just show up after the run and hang out… like I’ll prolly do.) [...]

  • Update: Sitings of Weedwacker in Austin & Other Saint Arnold Stuff

    8/16/10 • (3)

    Weedwacker sitings: So far we only know of it being on at Billy’s on Burnet and Draught House. Leave any other siting locations in the comments! Anyone had it yet? How is it? Holla! More bold text and exclamation marks!!!!! UPDATE: Just got word from [...]

  • Jester King; Brewers, Visionaries, Rain Wranglers

    8/12/10 • (1)

    This popped up this morning. From the JK blog: We are excited to announce that Jester King will begin harvesting rain water for use in its brewing process. We recently purchased 3,000 gallon rain water collection tanks from Tank Town in Dripping Springs, which is [...]

  • HomeField Grill Beer Pairing Dinner

    8/09/10 • (0)

    Round Rock’s HomeField Grill will be hosting their first ever beer pairing dinner August 19th. Seems like these beer dinners are popping up all over the place these days. Fine by me. Looks like they have a pretty solid line up of beers. I’ve never [...]

  • Sam Adams Tasting/Pairing at Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek Hosted by Bob Cannon

    8/06/10 • (0)

    Yikes stripes. This looks pretty great. Some hard to get Sam Adams’ treasures presented by none other than brewmaster extraordinaire, Bob Cannon (the guy in the coveralls wt the huge red beard in the commercials), sounds good to me. It’s this coming Tuesday, the 10th [...]

  • July, the Buddy System Month; Black Star Co-op/Thirsty Planet, Parkside/Independence, Freetail/Real Ale, and 24 Diner/Avery

    7/15/10 • (0)

    Wow. Lots of beer stuff going in the next few weeks. Lots of “With our powers combined”s being duo-shouted. It’s a good time to be in this area and like beer. And it’s looking like lots and lots more people are doing their bestest to [...]

  • (512) Open House, Saint Arnold Pub Crawl, Great Austin Beer Fest, etc.,

    6/16/10 • (3)

    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, [...]

  • Real Ale to Brew German Style Pilsner

    6/04/10 • (0)

    Via the Real Ale Facebook. Brewing our first ever German-style Pils Context clues from the comments… The Pils will be draft only. German malt and hops. 60 barrels. Very nice. I look forward to trying it. I’m also pleased with their music selection via the [...]

  • Jester King Acquire Wine Barrels from Dry Comal Creek Winery

    5/26/10 • (1)

    Wow. Jester King has acquired Cabernet Sauvignon wine barrels from Dry Comal Creek Winery. From the horse’s mouth: We headed out to the Hill Country this morning to pick up some wine barrels and came home with fourteen Cabernet Sauvignon barrels that had been recently drained [...]

  • Jester King Ground Breaking

    5/24/10 • (0)

    This is old news, but these are new photos, so here goes. The good fellas at Jester King had us out for their ground breaking party a little over a month ago. It wasn’t an official media event, but we still got some nice photos, so [...]