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Bottlecap

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  1. For being two of my favorite breweries in town, SH being top class bitter beer knowers, and Zilker riding high off of 3rd Space NEIPA, i thought FWB 1 was kinda average. Someone tell me I need to spend the money on this new version ASAP.
  2. Hahaha this is amazing. Which one of you dipshits is Bill Metzger?
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    Grammy's 2019

    fuck yeah gimme some annie clark
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    Grammy's 2019

    that travis scott album was great whats this shit? ok go ahead and give it to her just for saying she'd dog walk tomi lahren
  5. I mean, it was a full service scratch restaurant with forks and knives and a waitstaff and cooks and everything. I imagine that has to cost something to operate. They're probably locked into a lease that they're unwilling to break and making due with the production/manufacturing side. I don't really know, just what i've heard.
  6. I heard they're still brewing/canning there, just shutting down the retail part of the biz
  7. Brewer's Table happy hour is fuckin great. IIRC, its $7 for a sangwich + a beer at their outside bar.
  8. maybe the six year old who constructed that tweet didn't understand the gravity of the situation. anyway, celis is denying it of course.
  9. Sounds like its the real deal. Goddammit, i was a regular coffee porter buyer and celis is an iconic beer. Dumbasses. I hope someone smarter than an idiot can rescue it.
  10. unconfirmed but i heard about celis too. Pretty sure I called that back when they decided to be a global brand and not a regional (or smaller brewery) and focus on their OG beers, which they've undermarketed IMO. Expanding to SK and Japan, i mean, just some woefully stupid shit like that. And all those goofy beers and taking on all that contract brewing, I'm not surprised at all. Christine will find a way to make this float a little longer, but i hope someone buys the brand. MILLER TIME BABY!
  11. I still vouch for 4th tap. i like several of their beers and their taproom is cool enough. but their branding is so bad. so so fucking bad. i don't buy it out on the market because i'm legit bitchass about buying such an awful looking beer. surely they have to know that 98% of craft beer idiots drink with their eyes first. (and i've seen that their re-brand has actually reached the mainstays -- and are can wraps too. the fuck is going on over there?). Anyway, 4th tap is alright. I would have said Treaty Oak was the worst, but they've killed their program for now pending a re-boot. I've never had a good beer from strange land. I'll say Lazarus has been the worst of the popular breweries. Zilker and Oddwood are the most underrated. Skull Mechanix is on the cusp on being good enough to be underrated.
  12. Cannot fuuuukkin wait til the full side gets together at some point. Hopefully this summer.
  13. speaking of weah, he had a bit of a match today
  14. There are like 20 or so different breweries in various stages of opening in austin alone, so I dunno. Theres still a lot of market room if you aren't complete trash.
  15. so we like berhalter or nah?
  16. Pastry Beer Dorks flex on ABW
  17. I heard that Adelbert's has limited time left
  18. because of the three tier system, manufacturing breweries have to be on a their own tier apart from wholesale distributors, so forming a co-op would be illegal. Manufacturing brewers ARE able to self-distribute, but their 250 BBL/yr distro cap would go down to 40K. Guess what happens if a brewery in TX goes over the 250K cap and also sells on-premise in Texas? The brewery would have to sell it to the wholesaler only to buy it back for onsite sales, even if the beer never leaves their brewery in the first place. There are only a handful of breweries in texas like this, including Karbach (owned by AB-Inbev), Revolver (Miller/Coors), and Independence (Heineken, sorta). They are somehow grandfathered in (whoa, wonder why, maybe because BIG DISTRO is basically in bed with BIG BEER?) and don't have to do that. But there is one craft brewery who falls in this category: Oskar Blues in Austin. Brewpubs are considered retail and can sell to-go and also self distro up to 1K barrels, so they are on that 3rd tier.
  19. where is that? Bangers maybe?
  20. If you want to read up about the massive dipshittery by the Texas Beer Wholesalers and their fight against craft brewer for every day normal beer shit that every single other state except Texas enjoys (including this year's BEER-TO-GO bill), then here you go: https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2019-02-01/the-battle-of-small-beer-vs-big-distributors-rages-on-with-texas-to-go-beer-bill/
  21. it me.
  22. Fuck yeah. TWO dates for Austin. The only town getting two BTW
  23. As mentioned, Last Stand was VERY close to buying it, deal fell through due to some sort of licensing I think. I might me making that part up. Anyway, SM is still going through back of the house permitting, but buildout is done, just a few details to wrap up. They wanted to open up the taproom last year and distribute from 6th street to SM, but some local or county rule prevented that. They still have their barrel "room" thats housing a bunch of SM shit in far east austin. I think once they clear that out, they might move there or open up that barrel program they've been talking about for a while. "Either move or expand" is a pretty hilarious spectrum. Circle was all but gone to open a farmhouse (hahahahaha) brewery until McKalla Place was announced. Now they think their brewery can be sustainable. Not sure it makes it to 2021 in its current iteration though ... although lots of people love em out in the market. Their taproom is awful though, so not sure they are really capitalizing on their potential. I hope they stick around just to siphon off some of the gameday brewery foot traffic. Also, hope more breweries open in that area. Its a blank slate for austin brewing culture with all the shit going on there within the next 2-3 years.
  24. for PR purposes and image rebuilding, this season could not have gone better for RL ahead of Tokyo.
  25. NX-south closing
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