Announced today on their Facebook page.

Das Wunderkind! Sour Saison labels have arrived. We can’t wait for you to try our first unpastuerized, unfiltered, bottle conditioned wild ale aged in oak barrels with native, Hill Country wild yeast and souring bacteria.

This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. If you were among the lucky folks to get some of this last fall at the Texas Craft Brewers Fest or one of the few locations it was on during Austin Beer Week, then you know this beer is the real deal.

“We’re pretty proud to now have bottled a wild ale from our barrel room,” said founder Jeffery Stuffings. Awesome. Looking forward to seeing this on shelves around town. No word on where to find it yet, but in light of the TABC lawsuit ruling, I’d expect to get word from the brewers themselves as soon as it’s available.

The brewers also announced new beer Mad Meg, a farmhouse provision ale.

From the horses’ mouth:

Also known as “Dulle Griet” or “Dull Gret”, Mad Meg is a peasant woman from Flemish folklore who leads an army of women to pillage hell. She’s famously depicted in Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s 1562 painting by the same name.
Mad Meg is simple in terms of ingredients with French pilsner malt, wheat, a touch of caramunich and acidulated malt, Czech Saaz hops and our farmhouse yeast. It is golden colored and quite strong at over 9% ABV (we can tell you the strength now!). The palate intertwines delicate farmhouse esters with earthy, spicy hops and clean malt flavors.
Mad Meg will be available beginning this week on draught at select locations around Austin, followed by a statewide bottle release once the beer has conditioned through re-fermentation in the bottle, label approval has been received, and the labels have been printed.

Alright. Exciting stuff. Go get it.

FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: Spec’s Brodie sold out a few minutes after they opened. The guy on the phone told me they only had 18 bottles for sale for customers. Called Whole Foods, they don’t have it yet, but said they should have it before 1 pm.

Good luck, and save me a bottle, please!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Just confirmed that Whole Foods Downtown will have FOUR cases going on sale TOMORROW (FRIDAY) MORNING SOMETIME. Limit one bottle per.

More info HERE.

UPDATE: Most of you know the bottles released yesterday evening and the only “known” location selling them was Whipin, which promptly sold out by 7:30pm.

I have confirmed that Spec’s on Brodie will get a few cases and will be selling them FRIDAY (TOMORROW) MORNING.

Also, Whole Foods Downtown told me they will be getting four cases and will be selling either THIS AFTERNOON OR TOMORROW MORNING.

I’ll post more info here as I get it.

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Made a trip out to the brewery this afternoon to get it straight from the horse’s mouth.

Here’s what I got:

This is a small run limited release of 15 cases of 750 ml bottles that will be available “soon” in smaller accounts.

I expect these to go like hotcakes. Like really really popular hard to find hotcakes.

Nate told me he spent about nine hours bottling these bad boys by hand. I saw the bottler, I’m surprised he didn’t get blisters.

Kevin told me he will make an official announcement about the release date and other info on the (512) blog soon.

ALSO they had some extra 2X Pecan Porter and they put it back in the barrels for a second run of this amazing beer!

PLUS Nate said he’s got two barrels set aside with a TOP SECRET experiment living within. Didn’t sound like this was

something that would be available to buy, more as a test run for future barrel aged goodness.

IN ADDITION to that great info, the guys told me they brewed the first batch of the (512) Alt yesterday and it should be on tap March-ish as the Spring seasonal.

OH AND ONE MORE THING, they are currently in the process of moving their offices upstairs above the cold room to make an additional cold room and will be adding two more fermenters soon.

Ok. That’s it.

Here’s a pic of the barrels.

I was sent this photo tonight.

Here is the accompanying explanation:

It was at the brewery. Feel free to retweet, no word yet on when it will hit the market

Looks like 750 ml in a capped bottle.

No other info. Maybe I’ll see if I can get something from Kevin or Nate tomorrow.

Worst case scenario, we’ll see it show up on the shelves soon-ish.

Win, win.