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Since we’re all looking at a holiday weekend without our typical friends and family and BBQs and pool parties, WhichCraft is here to help with the one thing we can still do safely at the moment: help you stock up on plenty of beers to drink this weekend! We’ll do so by offering a buy-more-save-more promo Thursday through end of day Sunday, effective both in-store and online for curbside.

Spend $50 on your entire purchase to save 5%, spend $100 to save 10% and spend $150 to save 20%. You may as well stock up – we all know y’all aren’t going anywhere this weekend! Everything we sell is eligible (minus gift cards).

We also welcome a new Brewery of the Month, one of our favorites as well as yours: Saint Arnold! Texas’ oldest craft brewery will be coming to the table with $7.99 six packs all month long. Enjoy Summer Pils (arriving Friday), Art Car IPA and Headliner blonde this week, and next week we’ll be getting a fresh shipment of Guten Tag marzen to add to the mix.

Back in stock – Buffalo Bayou Thin Mint Stout, Odd Side Cat in the Wall NEIPA, Odd Side Thunder Gun Express, Avery BBA Vanilla Bean Stout, Deschutes Abyss Port Barrel, Einstok Lime & Juniper Pils.

512 Whiskey Barrel Pecan Porter – Ale brewed with pecans and aged in oak whiskey barrels. 9.5%ABV

Austin Beerworks Cold Glory – Hoppy lager. 5.6% ABV

Martin House Parker County Peach – This peach beer has a mostly wheat base, with a slight addition of Columbus hops for bittering. 5.2%ABV

Martin House Sour Parker County Peach – Sour Peach Beer. 5.2%ABV

Armadillo Cosmic Yacht IPA – Brewed with Galaxy, Strata, Simcoe, Apollo, Comet, & Ekuanot hops. ABV 8.8%

Fair State Jinx Electro-lyte Lager  – A pilsner with Gatorade powder added; an electro-lyte lager. 4.5% ABV

Blue Owl Little Gose Salty Dog – Gose with Grapefruit and juniper berries, modeled on a Salty Dog cocktail. 3.4% ABV

B-52 Fruit Tart Sour IPA – Sour IPA with cherry, mango, marshmallows and lactose. 6.5% ABV

B-52 Taeda IPA – DDH HAZY IPA – This batch was brewed and dry-hopped with Azacca, Idaho 7, and Cashmere hops. 6.5% ABV

Tupps Full Grown Hombre – Imperial stout with coffee, chocolate, vanilla and ancho chiles. 11.9%ABV

Great Divide Margarita Gose –  Partially aged in tequila barrels and enhanced with lime puree, makrut lime leaf and Himalayan pink salt, the end result is tart and dry with an abundance of citrus notes. ABV: 5.8% 

Real Ale DDH Axis – A double dry-hopped version of Real Ale’s popular Axis IPA. 7% ABV

No Coast Crazy Beaches – Crazy Beaches is a Hazy Coconut IPA heavily hopped with dank tropical goodness and coconut flavor. ABV 7.2%

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

What is this, a second WhichCraft newsletter in the same week?? Typically, we send one and only one email a week letting you know about all the new beers we’ve received in the past week. Suffice it to say this is not a normal week. Given Gov Abbott’s announcement this morning that bars and tap rooms must again close for on-premise consumption, we’re right back where we were two months ago, and that just plain sucks.

All Texans are sad, frustrated, angry and everything else about having to go backwards. Particularly as us and thousands of other small businesses have been trying to reopen safely and cleanly, providing a place for our employees to work and our customers to visit. Yet we’re going in reverse.

Our plan is to yet again revert back to off-premise-only sales, which includes coffee, crowlers/growlers, and packaged beer/wine/cider to-go.

We’ll do modified hours of 9am until 8pm Monday through Saturday and noon until 8pm on Sundays for the foreseeable future.

So that this email isn’t all bad news, we’ve also received a handful of new beers in the last 24 hours, so I’ve posted those below for online purchase and curbside pickup. You can still of course visit the store for take-away sales during business hours if you feel comfortable.

We love our customers and we look forward to serving you again.

Jody Reyes

Founder & CEO, WhichCraft

Einstok Lime & Juniper Pils – A unique blend of Icelandic Juniper berries and a dash of lime, combined with Noble hops and Munich malt, evoke classic Gin & Tonic cocktail-inspired flavors that make this a refreshing craft beer like no other. The senses are greeted with a vibrant citrus aroma, crisp mouthfeel, and dry bitterness on the finish that result in a naturally sessionable Icelandic beer truly inspired by the famous tipple. 4.8% ABV

Spindletap High Knees NEDIPA – Azacca and Zythos, 8% ABV

Brazos Valley Watermelon Weather – To celebrate the season of fresh watermelon, BVB infused this slightly tart and salty gose with a fruit grown in abundance throughout Brenham and all of Texas. 5.2% ABV

B-52 Eryngo – Brewed with wheat, oats, and barley. Double dry-hopped with Comet, Loral, and Kohatu hops. Medium body with intense citrus, piney aroma. Soft mouthfeel with juicy flavors of tropical fruits. Pours a beautiful opaque bright orange. ABV 9%

B-52 Banana Stand – A decadent double mash Imperial Stout inspired by the classic dessert, Bananas Foster. Rich and flavorful with a creamy, vanilla finish. This beer is guaranteed to satisfy your craving for dessert. ABV 11.3%

B-52 Table Tart – A sour Table Beer dry-hopped with Comet & Ella hops. Brewed with wheat, oats, and barley. Low ABV, light-bodied, light in color, high in carbonation. There is no wrong situation for this table beer. It is light enough to enjoy all day with enough flavor to be savored. Aromas of light floral notes followed with the flavor of juicy grapefruit. ABV 3.5%

Hopworks Golden Hammer – Organic NW and German ingredients bring notes of honey malt, herbaceousness, and floral hops to this Munich-style Helles. 4.8% ABV

Tupps DDH IPA #22 – Tupps’ rotating double dry hopped series, 50% nelson sauvin and 50% galaxy. Sounds fantastic. 7% ABV

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

We have a bunch of new hops in stock this week… see below for details!

You may have seen last week, we’ve expanded hours earlier in the day and also slightly later. We’re finally making morning coffee again! Unfortunately we won’t be doing Tacodeli tacos going forward. We’d love to see your smiling masked faces: Mon/Tues/Wedn 9am til 9pm, Thurs 9am – 10pm, Fri/Sat 9am – 11pm, Sun noon til 9pm.

Last week for Zilker as our Brewery of the Month, so grab the Coffee Milk Stout, Icy Boys, Marco IPA and Parks & Rec pale ale for $8.99 and Heavenly Daze hazy IPA for $9.99. See the whole lineup and order online here.

Back in stock –  Maine Beer Co Lunch (limit 2 per person), Fair State Mirror Universe.

Odd Side Cat in the Wall NEDIPA – NE Style DIPA. 7%ABV

Odd Side Citra Radler – Not a true IPA, but a radler made from their Citra IPA with grapefruit soda & grapfruit juice. 3.8%ABV

Odd Side Thunder Gun Express – A hazy American DIPA brewed with oats and lactose with loads of late addition Citra, Amarillo, El Dorado, and Mosaic hops. 8%ABV

Odd Side Tangerine Dank Juice – NEIPA brewed with tangerine 6.75%ABV

Octopi Hop Rocket IPA – All Citra & Mosaic Hopped DDH IPA 6.5%ABV

Octopi Forest IPA – This West Coast IPA is brewed with Simcoe and Mosaic hops, the Forest IPA finishes cleaner and clearer than its counterpart (East Coast IPA) as more of the attention was shifted back towards a malt-based IPA. 6%ABV

Fair State Crankin’ Foamers – A premium corn lager brewed the old fashioned way, with a cereal mash and an extended lagering period. Modern Times collaboration American Corn Lager. 4.5% ABV

Fair State Pils – German-style pilsner with a grassy hop aroma and a crisp finish 4.9%ABV

Fair State Party Forward Hazy IPA – An IPA brewed with wheat, oats, and Citra hops. Super fruity, soft, and tropical. 6%ABV

Odd Side Strawberry Banana Fruitsicle – Juicy, fruity, slightly tart ale brewed with lactose, strawberries and bananas added. 4.5% ABV

Maine Beer Co Peeper Pale Ale – Lemon, Grapefruit and fresh cut grass, with delicate notes of raspberry, strawberry and pine. 5.5%ABV (limit 1 per person)

Maine Beer Co Another One IPA – Pineapple, mango and guava with notes of orange and grapefruit. Undertones of earthy, woody pine. 7% ABV (limit 1 per person)

Tripel Karmeliet – This beer uses a recipe based on one created in the 17th century by the Carmelite monks of Dendermonde. It calls for three types of grain—wheat, oats, and barley. Pours medium gold and clear with a creamy white head; the mix of grains gives a dry, crisp and refreshing flavor, with aromas of citrus and spice. A restrained hop bitterness balances flavors of toffee and malt. 8.4% ABV

Hopworks Powell IPA – Our flagship IPA celebrates our Powell Blvd brewery. Powell IPA brims with melon, tropical fruit, and a touch of dank with a perfectly balanced bitterness. 6.2% ABV

Hopworks Upstream Salmon Safe IPA – Brewed with Salmon-Safe barley and hops from Mainstem and Roy Farms, this PNW IPA has notes of fruit and spice with pine, grapefruit, and pineapple flavors. 7% ABV

New Draft Beers/Crowlers This Week

Austin Beerworks Sour Cherry Einhorn – Sour cherry Berliner weisse, 3.5% ABV

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