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Jingle Beers: WhichCraft Advent Calenders Now on Pre-Sale!

Beer Advent Calendars at Whichcraft

Hoppy Holidays y’all! It may only be October, but we’re already planning our incredibly popular WhichCraft Advent Calendars! Don’t miss your chance to enjoy a unique, 24-beer assortment– hand-picked by our knowledgable staff and guaranteed to inspire cheer all December long!  Don’t forget, when calendars are available for pick up mid-November, two lucky (completely random) customers will receive deluxe calendars, featuring an assortment of beers worth over DOUBLE the sales price of $100. Pre-order your calendar in-store or via phone (payment accepted upfront and credit card can be taken over the phone). Order now, spots will fill up fast!

Our latest Brewery of the Month is Real Ale!  Enjoy six-packs of Hans Pils, Devil’s Backbone Tripel, Axis IPA, and Fireman’s #4 Blonde, each just $6.99 throughout October.

WhichCraft is a featured retail partner of The Austin Ale Trail – a passport booklet that includes all 45 breweries with taprooms in the greater Austin area in one novelty guide. The passport features information on the brewery and interactive journaling options as well. Visit more breweries and collect more stamps in your passport and then redeem for merchandise. Stop into Whichcraft to purchase the $5 passport or visit www.atxaletrail.com.

New Beers This Week

Back in stock: Oskar Blues Death by Coconut stout, Odell Isolation winter warmer, Adelbert’s Scratchin’ Hippo Amber, Lagunitas Born Again Yesterday  IPA

Odell DDH Imperial IPA – Double dry-hopped Imperial IPA. 5.8% ABV / Fort Collins, CO / Availability: Good

The Light Cide – A session cider, easy on the ABV, calories, sugar, and carbs, but big on flavor. Only 97 calories in all! 4 % ABV / Dallas, TX / Availability: Good

Dogfish Head Suddenly Comfy – Brewed with fresh apple cider, Saigon cinnamon, and Madagascar vanilla beans, this Imperial Cream Ale is made with all the fixings of an apple pie. 6.9% ABV / Milton, DE / Availability: Decent

903 Elderberry Gose – Crisp, easy-drinking gose with a splash of Elderberry. 5.4% ABV / Sherman, TX / Availability: Good

903 Cloud 9 – An IPA that showcases the hops’ flavors while purposefully curtailing their bitterness, resulting in a juicy IPA with a soft mouthfeel. 8.7% ABV / Sherman, TX / Availability: Good

Bayou Teche Tart Side of the Teche –  American sour style ale brewed with tart cherries 7.5% ABV / Arnaudville, LA / Availability: Good

Prairie Screenshot–  Imperial stout with Hazelnut roasted coffee. 11% ABV / Krebs, OK / Availability: Good

Clown Shoes El Hombre Sin Nombre – Imperial stout with Texas rye malt aged in Balcones rye whiskey barrels. 10% ABV / Boston, MA / Availability: Decent

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

Celis White –  Celis White is a light and hazy yellow wheat beer, ideal for sipping during the hot summer months.  4.9% ABV / Austin, TX

ABW Black Thunder –  Starts with a roasted, bread-like complexity but finishes dry and clean like a pilsner. It’s dark, distinctive, and dry. 5.3% ABV / Austin, TX

Tupps Full Grown Beast – Chocolate Coffee Imperial Stout. 15.3% ABV / Mckinney, TX

Saint Arnold Honey Agave Cider – The agave and Burleson’s honey combine to create a nice sweetness, complementing the tart apple flavor and delivering a balanced finish. 5.9% ABV / Houston, TX

Saint Arnold Guten Tag – A traditional Bavarian-style lager with a crisp and clean flavor. 5.8% ABV / Houston, TX

ABW Wet Hopped Centennial –  IPA made with fresh Centennial from Crosby Hop Farms. 7% ABV / Austin, TX

Pinthouse Pizza Electric Jellyfish – Electric Jellyfish is filled with a bright tropical citrus character along with notes of orange, mango, lychee, and a floral backbone. 6.5% ABV / Austin, TX

This Week’s Specials

  • It’s our October Brewery of the Month! Six-Packs from Real Ale, including their Devil’s Backbone, Axis IPA, and Fireman’s #4, are just $6.99 throughout October.
  • WhichCraft Happy Hour: Mueller’s favorite afternoon activity, 4-6pm. Check the big board for our latest specials.

Parking at WhichCraft Mueller. The garage behind us on McBee is free to use.

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Keep It Real With $6.99 Real Ale Six-Packs

Here at WhichCraft, we believe there’s a beer to suit all tastes, just ask our October Brewery of the Month, Real Ale Brewing Co.– who have graced us with FOUR delightful $6.99 six-pack options! Looking for a light porch pounder? Look no further than either the crisp Hans’ Pilsner or classic Fireman’s #4 Blonde. More of a hop head? We have the Axis IPA’s bright, citrus flavors in abundance. Want to take your craft game to the next level? Try the demonically delicious Devil’s Backbone Tripel (at 8.1%, this sixer ain’t for the faint of heart). Think you’re up to the challenge? Stop by our Mueller Taproom and find out–and grab a pour of something tasty while you’re at it.

WhichCraft is a featured retail partner of The Austin Ale Trail – a passport booklet that includes all 45 breweries with taprooms in the greater Austin area in one novelty guide. The passport features information on the brewery and interactive journaling options as well. Visit more breweries and collect more stamps in your passport and then redeem for merchandise. Stop into Whichcraft to purchase the $5 passport or visit www.atxaletrail.com.

New Beers This Week

Back in stock: Brazos Valley 7 Autumn Angels, Odell Isolation

Martin House Peanut Butter Pretzel Stout – Martin House’s beloved Pretzel Stout, now with peanut butter. 6.5% ABV / Fort Worth, TX / Availability: Good (Friday)

Austin Beerworks Black Thunder– If a stout and a pilsner had a lovechild, it would be Black Thunder. This miniature powder keg starts with a roasted, bread-like complexity but finishes dry and clean like a pilsner. It’s dark, distinctive, and dry. 5.3 % ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Decent

TUPPS DDH IPA Series 14– TUPP’s hazy, juicy IPA is back with 35% Calypso, 35% Bravo, and 30% Amarillo hops. 7.1% ABV / McKinney, TX / Availability: Good

TUPPS DDH Horchata – New England style milkshake IPA, double dry-hopped with Calypso, Bravo, and Amarillo hops. Cinnamon, lactose, and vanilla added. 7.2% ABV / McKinney, TX / Availability: Good

903 OME Pecan Porter – A robust porter infused with a classic southern ingredient, pecans. Full-bodied and a little sweet. OME’s bold flavor comes from roasted malt, generous hop additions, and toasted pecans.  8.5% ABV / Sherman, TX / Availability: Good

Einstock Wee Heavy –  This Wee Heavy is rich and hearty, with a touch of smokiness that remains incredibly balanced. 8% ABV / Akureyi, Norðurland Eystra Iceland / Ratebeer: 83 / Availability: Good

Einstock Icelandic White–  Crafted clean and crisp, the balanced addition of orange peel, coriander, and rolled oats ensure this beer remains incredibly flavorful and refreshingly drinkable. 5.2% ABV / Akureyi, Norðurland Eystra Iceland / Availability: Good

5 Stones Sleepy Hollow – Ale handcrafted with smoked pumpkin and traditional pumpkin pie spices. 7.7% ABV / New Braunfels, TX / Availability: Decent

Texas Keeper Heirloom  –  A cider blended from classic American heirloom apples. Rhode Island Greening is the second oldest apple grown in the U.S., dating from around 1650, and lends notes of grapefruit and white pepper. Rome Beauty (~1817), contributes notes of strawberries and light floral aromas. 7.9% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Decent

Locust Cider Dark Maple Cider –  Washington apples blended with maple, dates, and brown sugar. Complex, yet smooth and balanced with a maple finish. 6.9% ABV / Woodinville, WA / Availability: Decent

Roughtail Hail Juicifer (2019) – This juicy IPA features Citra, Amarillo, and Mosaic Hops. 6.66%  ABV / Midwest City, OK / Availability: Decent

Lagunitas Hazy Memory (2019) – Hazy Memory is a cloudy IPA full of oats and smooth wheatly-esque-ish-ness, packed with some of the murkiest, juiciest, turbid Loral 291, Hallertau Blanc, Galaxy, and Citra Hops. 7.7%  ABV / Petaluma, CA / Availability: Good

Zilker Friends With Benefits (collab with Southern Heights Brewing) –  All your favorite hops provide a bright citrus flavor punch, and new late fermentation dry-hopping techniques take the aroma to the next level. An extra smooth mouthfeel is achieved due to extended conditioning time and a higher finishing gravity. 7% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Limited

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

Lakewood Meon Baller IPA –  Melon Baller is a 6.9% ABV Hazy IPA brewed with Loral, Citra, Bravo and Huell Melon hops as well as fresh cantaloupe.  6.9% ABV / Garland, TX

Lakewood Peanut Butter Temptress –  Lakewood’s rich and dreamy Temptress milk stout,  made with chocolate, peanuts, and a touch of sea salt. 9.1% ABV / Garland, TX

Whitestone Velvet Nunchucks – Classic British Brown Ale. 6.8% ABV / Cedar Park, TX

(512) Whiskey Barrel Aged Pecan Porter (2018) – (512) Double Pecan Porter is a robust porter accented by organic Texas-grown roasted pecans and subtly enhanced by aging in recently emptied oak whiskey barrels. Notes of chocolate, coffee, and pecan marry with the subtle flavors of vanilla and whiskey to make this a wonderful warmer worth sharing and savoring. 9.5% ABV / Ratebeer: 97 / Austin, TX

Zilker Scooter Wasteland – NEIPA brewed with oats and a touch of lactose for a silky, full mouthfeel that perfectly balances the ridiculous amount of Galaxy, New Zealand Wakatu, Strata, and Citra Cryo hops. 6.8% ABV / Austin, TX

Pinthouse Pizza/ABGB Pizza Party Pils -Two award-winning Austin brewpubs have teamed up to create the Pizza Party Pils. This pilsner combines the intergalactic champion pils knowledge that ABGB possesses, along with the hop obsessed style of Pinthouse Pizza, and it results in an obscenely crushable and palate-pleasing beer. 5.2% ABV / Austin, TX

Pinthouse Pizza Wet Hopped Green Battles – Gold Medal winner at the GABF! Mosaic, whole-leaf Chinook & Amarillo hops in this juicy IPA provide mouth-watering stone fruit, citrus, and mango notes throughout along with a nice crisp and dry finish. 6.3% ABV / Austin, TX

Hedgehog Happy Place – Farmhouse ale fermented and aged in barrels with peaches added. Fermented with 100% wild yeast and bacteria from the Hill Country. Bright, dry and deliciously peachy. 7% ABV / Ceder Park, TX

This Week’s Specials

  • It’s our October Brewery of the Month! Six-Packs from Real Ale, including their Devil’s Backbone, Axis IPA, and Fireman’s #4, are just $6.99 throughout October.
  • WhichCraft Happy Hour: Mueller’s favorite afternoon activity, 4-6pm. Check the big board for our latest specials.

Parking at WhichCraft Mueller. The garage behind us on McBee is free to use.

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Fall Into Stout Season with Lakewood’s Peanut Butter Temptress

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for craft fans, at least). That’s right…STOUT SEASON. On Saturday, October 5th, join our friends at Lakewood Brewing Co. as we tap a keg of Texas’s favorite nutty brew, the famous Peanut Butter Temptress Milk Stout! We’ll also be pouring pints of their Melon Baller IPA for all you hop heads out there. Get a free commemorative Lakewood glass when you buy a pour of either beer. (Draft only, bottle date TBA).

Cider fans, this one is for you! Stop by Bishop’s pint night TONIGHT, Thursday, October 3rd for a taste of something truly wild. Take the ever-popular Crackberry & ferment it on toasted coconut and you’ve got this cider company’s latest — Tiger’s Blood. We’ll be featuring pints of this delicious concoction as well as 6pks to go. Buy the cider, keep the glass.

If that weren’t enough, we have another treat in store for y’all. On Wednesday, October 9th, the kindly folks at Pinthouse Pizza stop by with a wet-hopped version of their award-winning Green Battles IPA in tow. These are hops so fresh, you’d swear they were picked just yesterday! On the lighter side, we’ll be pouring pints of their refreshing Lo Brau Lager, and Pizza Party Pils (an inspired collaboration with ABGB).

NEW BREWERY OF THE MONTH ALERT! Join us in welcoming WhichCraft’s October BOTM, Real Ale!  Enjoy six-packs of Hans Pils, Devil’s Backbone Tripel, Axis IPA, and Fireman’s #4 Blonde, each just $6.99 throughout October.

WhichCraft is a featured retail partner of The Austin Ale Trail – a passport booklet that includes all 45 breweries with taprooms in the greater Austin area in one novelty guide. The passport features information on the brewery and interactive journaling options as well. Visit more breweries and collect more stamps in your passport and then redeem for merchandise. Stop into WhichCraft to purchase the $5 passport or visit www.atxaletrail.com.

Lastly, we’re looking for a part-time beer lover to join the WhichCraft team. Do you love geeking out over coffee and beer? Well, here is your chance to get paid for it! Please send resumes to Jody[at]whichcraftbeerstore.com

 Special Events at WhichCraft Tap Room

Thursday, Oct 3rd

5-8pm Go wild with pints of Bishop’s tasty new cider– Tiger’s Blood. Bought the cider? Go ahead and keep the glass.

Saturday, Oct 5th

4-7pm Stout are in the house! Enjoy pints of Lakewood’s Peanut Butter Tempress Milk Stout,  as well as the Melon Baller IPA (on draft only).  If you buy the beer, we might just let you keep the glass. 

Wednesday, Oct. 9th

5-8pm 5-8pm The light and the dank collide when Pinthouse Pizza stops by to sample their Pizza Party Pils (a collaboration with ABGB), Lo Brau Lager, and Wet-Hopped Green Battles. Guess what you get to keep when you buy the beer?

New Beers This Week

Back in stock: Stone Ghost Hammer, Stone Xocoveza , Devout Imperial Milk Stout, Real Ale Coffee Porter, Celis Grand Cru

Bell’s Double Two Hearted Ale – Resinous hop aroma, pine & citrus. Rich malt character. First year as a bottle release. 11% ABV/ Comstock, MI / RateBeer: 94 / Availability: Decent

New Belgium Hop Avenger – Experimental IPA from New Belgium. Pineapple and Chinook Hops. 7.7% ABV/ Fort Collins, CO/ Availability: Good

Boulevard 30th Anniversary (2019) – A blend of eight barrel-aged beers to celebrate Boulevard’s 30th anniversary. 12.5% ABV / Kansas City, MO / Availability: Decent

Oskar Blues One-Y – 100-Calorie Hazy IPA dry-hopped with El Dorado, Comet, and Citra hops.  4% ABV / Longmont, CO / Availability: Good

Friends and Allies Govalle – Tropical IPA with Azacca hops, Mango, and Tajin.  6.8% ABV / Austin: TX / Availability: Good

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

ABW Sun Shovel – Wheat ale made with kveik yeast and dry hopped with citra lupulin, strata, mosaic, and saphir hops. (similar to 3 Floyds’s Gumballhead). 4.5% ABV / Austin, TX

ABGB Industry Pils – 2016 GABF GOLD (German-style Pilsener).  7% ABV / Ratebeer: 98 Austin, TX

Martin House Best Maid – The famous salty lady Gose brewed with Best Maid pickle juice. Like drinking straight from the jar!  5.5% ABV / Austin, TX

Lakewood Meon Baller IPA –  Melon Baller is a 6.9% ABV Hazy IPA brewed with Loral, Citra, Bravo and Huell Melon hops as well as fresh cantaloupe.  6.9% ABV / Garland, TX

This Week’s Specialsj

  • Brewery of the Month! Six-Packs from Real Ale, including their Devil’s Backbone, Axis IPA, and Fireman’s #4 are just $6.99 throughout October.
  • WhichCraft Happy Hour: Mueller’s favorite afternoon activity, 4-6pm every day. Check the big board for our latest specials.

Parking at WhichCraft Mueller. The garage behind us on McBee is free to use.