Tag archive for ‘real ale’

  • Over a Pint wt Austin Beerworks

    6/30/11 • (0)

    I remember back when we used to number these. Like we thought someone might create a catalogue or reference guide for them. Wow. Pie in the sky. So we recently spent some time out at the Austin Beerworks brewery with the ABW boys, Will, Mike, [...]

  • Austin Beer Guide Summer Issue Release Party Wednesday at Draught House

    6/20/11 • (0)

    The headline says it all. We’re celebrating the launch of the second issue of the Austin Beer Guide (www.austinbeerguide.com) this coming Wednesday at Draught House. There will be brewers present, maybe some special beers, and NEW MUSTACHE GLASSES! Buy any beer from a brewery featured [...]

  • Big Texas Beer Tweetup

    3/07/11 • (0)

    Come meet, tweet, greet, drink, with us and a fair share of the Internet on Thursday at Opal Divine’s Freehouse. We’re teaming up with our frienemy Craft Austin and our Pacific Northwest buddies at Taplister to pull together some of the greatest tweeters/drinkers (twinkers? twunkards?) [...]

  • Fun with Homebrewing and Freebies

    11/30/10 • (1)

    So we’re making this beer from about 90% donated ingredients. We’re calling it the 90% Deniability Ale. Via the Austin Zealots we acquired some Real Ale Sisyphus second runnings. We then gave the gents at Jester King a ring and scored some of their inoculated house [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Knockin’ em Back at Thunderbird Coffee Part FOUR

    4/13/10 • (3)

    YEAH! SHIT YEAH! Welcome to our final episode of Knockin’ em Back at Thunderbird Coffee Koenig podcast. And boy is it a doosey. Check out the other THUNDERBIRD COFFEE Knockin’ em Back episodes here, here, and here. JIB, Shawn, Josh (Little Beard) and I finish out [...]

  • Austin Homebrew (re)Opening Party Wrap up/Video

    3/28/10 • (4)

    Saturday, March 13th, Austin Homebrew celebrated the grand opening of their new location at 9129 Metric Blvd with beer, music, food and good times. It was a great party. I’m pretty sure the first “hot” day this year… and it barely capped over 85. Geeze. [...]

  • Real Ale Bottling Phoenixxx

    12/29/09 • (0)

    We knew this was coming… but now it’s real. Real Ale… (er, sorry) From their Facebook wall: “Phoenixx ships today, but not sure when it hits the market.” So that’s the good news… the bad news: “We will not be brewing any more Coffee Porter [...]

  • Jester King Craft Brewery

    11/01/09 • (8)

    Jeff and Mike are brothers. Jeff used to be an attorney. Mike, an investment banker. Now they’re homebrewers. Spring 2010 they will be head brewers and owners of Jester King Craft Brewery. This is what freedom’s made of. This is why we support the troops. [...]

  • Over a Pint Episode 8 LIVE at Opal Divine’s for Go Texas Beer Week

    9/28/09 • (3)

    This, our eighth episode of Over a Pint, we filmed LIVE. As in there was less than a 2 second delay from when the awesomeness that spewed from our mouths penetrated your ears. Yup. We went to Opal Divine’s for their Go Texas Beer Week. [...]