Beer Town Austin

Welcome to another episode of Over a Pint. The tenth.
If Over a Pint were commandments this one would be “Thou shalt not covet”… and it’s about the Draught House and their 41st Birthday soiree. Think about it. It fits. Sort of.

This week we had the great privilege of sitting down with Josh Wilson (brewer/manager) and Constance (beer slinger) of Draught House. If you’ve had any of their housebrews, you have Josh to thank for that. If you’ve gone more than once you probably have Constance to thank for pouring your tasty beverage.

The Draught House has been dispensing beers for 41 years. Think about how long that is.
Think about how long you’ve been legally drinking beers.
41 yrs is long. That’s serious stuff. Check out that viking in the flyer. Not joking around. He has that huge hammer for a reason.

Josh dishes out a few versions of the history of the Draught House (did it come from a travceling dancer, a sordid character, or just a guy who likes good beer?), clears up the Draught Horse confusion, talks about his brews, and mostly the 41st party.

There will be music by DJ Jubal (if you’ve gone for the free brats on Saturday he most likely served you), lots of special beers (WTF- 3 YR OLD LIVE OAK TREE HUGGER!?!), a plush (yeah I said “plush”) selection on cask (Bear Republic Hot Rod Rye$!@# and Saint Arnold Christmas!@#$%@#$), plus some food and other stuff you can read about on the flyer below. I lazily copied and pasted a list of the beers Josh sent out on an email, the descriptions are his. It’s posted below the video.

I went last year, it was great.
Plus I heard from good sources that the New Belgium Tart Lychee is one of the best things New Belgium has made in a while.

We are drinking the Publication from Russian River. It’s got a good story. It’s not served at the Draught House.

So crack open a cold one and join us over a pint,

Enjoy!

[We're in the market for a microphone sponsor... we'll have better sound next time, sorry. Also, thanks to JIB for doing the editing and filming and working so hard for only some free beer!]

[All these beers are great, but I linked to the ones I'm really excited about]

Draught-
Our own House made Double IPA,as fresh as it gets with 3 pounds per barrel of American Hops.
Stone Cali-Belgique- a Belgian IPA hybrid
Stone Sublimely Self Righteous- a Black IPA
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid- big ‘ol Imperial IPA
Dogfish Head 120- the biggest IPA of all time?
Live Oak Treehugger- the 3 year old Barley Wine that we all miss…
New Belgium Tart Lychee-3 year old, aged in oak, blended sour ale with lychee and ceylon cinnamon.

Cask-
Brooklyn Pennant- classic English Pale Ale
New Belgium Hoptoberfest- hopped up blond ale
Green Flash Hop Head Red- Red IPA?
Green Flash West Coast IPA- the pinnacle of American IPA’s
Allagash Curieux- bourbon barrel aged Triple
Saint Arnold Christmas Ale- probably my favorite SA beer. Very rich and great on cask
Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye- excellent rye IPA only made better on cask.
Real Ale Firemans #4- this beer rocks out of the firkin.

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