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Bramble On Through Summer’s Dog Days With Brazos Valley

Tired of 100-degree scorchers? Keep it cool with our friends, Brazos Valley Brewery this Thursday, August 15th from 5pm-8pm. Sample their refreshingly crushable Bramble On, a sour wheat ale made with blackberries and raspberries. Bought the beer? Keep the glass!

Also, our Brewery of the Month deal now features Zilker’s Coffee Milk Stout! Take home a six-pack of this local favorite for only $7.99 — also on sale: sixers of Parks & Rec Pale and Marco IPA. Stock up, deals this good don’t last forever.

 Special Events at WhichCraft Tap Room

Thursday, August 15th
5-8pm Brazos Valley stops by to sample Bramble On, a fruited sour ale perfect for the dog days of summer.

New Beers This Week

Back In Stock: Roughtail’s Everything Rhymes With Orange IPA

Adelbert’s Change My Attitude – Tart and slightly salty, this key lime gose is quite the refresher. 5.1% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Good

Armadillo Dapper Apple – A “well-groomed” amber ale featuring apple juice and a touch of spices to match (contains lactose). 5.5% ABV /  Denton, TX / Availability: Decent

Blue Owl Plum de Plume – Sour Harvest Ale with plums and spices. Blue Owl has picked rich malts with a lot of caramel and dried fruit notes to give a balance to this slightly higher sour ale (68 SUs). Some hops were added to balance sweetness and sourness, but the real focus was fruit and spices, including 1275 lbs of plum puree as well as bitter and sweet orange peel, dried sage, and vanilla.  5.4% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Good (Friday)

Clown Shoes Double Burnt Caramel – Bourbon barrel-aged imperial brown ale with notes of caramel, toffee, and subtle roasted malt flavor. 11% ABV / Boston, MA / Availability: Decent (Friday)

Destihl Funkengruven – New England IPA. A fusion of beer styles. Destihl brews half the batch normally and kettle-sours the other half. Summit & Simcoe hops, along with added grapefruit, produce a funky harmony of tart, citrus flavors & aromas. 7.2% ABV / Normal, IL / Availability: Good (Friday)

Jester King Pattinson Porter –  Pattinson Porter was brewed with Texas Hill Country well water, Weyermann Munich, Caramunich, Carafa III, Blacklands Brownfield, and Liberty hops. Fermented for a little over 6 weeks in stainless steel, then let condition in its bottle vessel for an additional 11 weeks. Brewed with Jesterking’s mixed culture containing several strains of Brettanomyces. 8.4% ABV / Austin, Texas / Availability: Limited (Friday)

Martin House Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer – Martin House’s beloved Salty Lady gose, spiked with Best Maid pickle juice. Like drinking straight from the jar! 5.5% ABV / Fort Worth, TX / Availability: Good (Friday)

Martin House Pachuco – The tequila barrel-aged version of Martin House’s agave and guava sour ale, El Chuco. This beer was aged in tequila barrels for four months. The aging results in a blend of tart and sweet flavors with a little heat and oakiness from the tequila barrels. 8% ABV / Fort Worth, Texas / Availability: Decent

Roughtail Everything Rhymes With Orange DDH Galaxy – Roughtail gives their Everything Rhymes With Orange IPA a huge shot of Galaxy dry hops in addition to the normal dry hops, resulting in a ridiculous 7+ pounds of dry hops per barrel. 7% ABV / Midwest City, OK / Availability: limited

Tupps DDH Series 12 Key Lime – This tasty milkshake IPA is brewed with key lime, vanilla lactose, and graham crackers (not to mention copious amounts of El Jefe, Huell Melon, and El Dorado hops).  7% ABV / McKinney, TX / Availability: Good

Zilker Spacewolf Hazy IPA – A collaboration with Oddwood Ales. The combination of pilsner, oats, barley and chit malts creates a full-body brew with a clean finish. Galaxy hops, complemented by Simcoe cryo and azacca cryo result in a ripe pineapple flavor. 6.8 ABV% / Austin, TX / Availability: Decent

903 Blueberry Lemon Gose – A light & tart fruited gose with prominent berry flavor. 6.5% ABV / Sherman, TX /Availability: Good

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

Austin Beerworks Amber Vision – Easy drinking amber ale. Nice and malty with a slightly bitter finish. 6% ABV / Austin, TX

Stone Pomma Said Knock You Out Pomegranate Red IPA – Red India Pale Ale w/ pomegranate made by Pink Boots Society. 7.5% ABV / Escondido, California

American Solera Terpy Citra  – This Single Hop Double IPA brings the tart, hoppy goodness straight to your palate. Juice heads — this one’s for you! 8% ABV / Tulsa, OK

This Week’s Specials

  • Brewery of the Month! Zilker‘s Parks & Rec Pale, Marco IPA, and Coffee Milk Stout, each just $7.99. Grab a six-pack and start the school year off right. 
  • 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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Break out the Parachute Pants with Two Wheel Brewing

We’re popping and locking this Saturday from 4-7pm as Two Wheel comes in to feature their Parachute Pants haze pale ale. Buy the Beer, Keep the Glass…it’s too legit to quit.

And we’re keeping Zilker as our Brewery of the Month rolling. Their Parks & Rec, Marco IPA, and Pilsgnar will be $7.99 all month! Perfect price to grab a six pack for the river or hanging out with friends.

 Special Events at WhichCraft Tap Room

Saturday, August 10th
4-7pm: We welcome in Buda’s Two Wheel Brewing to have a pint night of their Parachute Pants haze pale ale.

Thursday, August 15th
5-8pm: Don’t miss Brazos Valley coming in to feature their Bramble On and Good Vibrations, their lemon ginger radler. 

New Beers This Week

Back In Stock: Saint Arnold Lawnmower, Founders Mosaic Promise, Bruery Offshoot Relax, 

Martin House Melted – Strawberry and waffle cone ice cream ale. 5.5% ABV / Fort Worth, TX / Availability: Limited

Jester King Snorkel – Farmhouse ale brewed with alderwood smoked sea salt and oyster mushrooms grown by their neighbor Logro Farms. 4.5% ABV / Austin, TX / RateBeer 88 / Availability: Decent

Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen – Lightly sweet with a malty nose balanced with floral hops. Its medium to big body and alcohol is not overpowering. The soft dryness comes from long maturation. 5.8% ABV / Bavaria, Germany / RateBeer 92 / Availability: Good

Avery Grapefruit Shandy – Light lager with grapefruit. 4.6% ABV / Boulder, CO / Availability: Good

Paulaner Oktoberfest – The glass is full of October sunshine, strong and golden. The perfect balance of a light taste of hops and a strong note of malt. 6% ABV / Munich, Germany / Availability: Good

Saint Arnold Oktoberfest – A full bodied, malty, slightly sweet beer celebrating the Autumn harvest. This rich beer has a round malt flavor and an above average alcohol content perfect for a cool fall evening. 6.6% ABV / Houston, TX / Availability: Good

Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest – Collab with Bitburger Brewery. A festbier whose rich amber color, secret hop blend, and smooth malty flavor bring the Munich tents to you. 6% ABV / Chico, CA / Availability: Good

Prairie Pirate Bomb! – Prairie Bomb! aged in rum casks. The flavor from the casks helps impart more vanilla and coconut flavors to the beer while helping to add more body and smoothness to the already explosive and expressive flavors of Bomb! 15% ABV / Tulsa, OK / RateBeer 100 / Availability: Very Limited (Limit One) (Arriving Friday)

Prairie Pirate Noir – Jamaican rum barrel-aged imperial oatmeal stout. This beer takes their already delicious Prairie Noir and adds intense notes of vanilla, coconut, and rum to the beer. 12% ABV / Tulsa, OK / RateBeer 99 / Availability: Very Limited (Limit One) (Arriving Friday)

Austin Beerworks Super Awesome – Easy-drinking helles. 4.5% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Decent

Bruery Offshoot Retreat – This hazy DIPA is brewed with a simple malt bill and hopped heavily with fruit-forward Mosaic, Cashmere and El Dorado. Laced with delicate and aromatic tropical notes along with a bright berry medley and a crisp mouthfeel. 8.6% ABV / Placentia, CA / Availability: Decent (Arriving Friday)

Bruery Frucht Cucumber – Frucht gets its complexity from a blend of Brettanomyces yeasts and Lactobacillus bacteria. They add Cucumber to give it a refreshing coolness, and age it in Oak foeders, making it as complex as it is light. 4.3% ABV / Placentia, CA / Availability: Decent (Arriving Friday)

NOLA Lagniappe – Coffee saison collaboration between NOLA Brewing and Left Hand Brewing. 6.1% ABV / New Orleans, LA / Availability: Good (Arriving Friday)

NOLA Blood for the Brood – Blood orange NEIPA. 7% ABV / New Orleans, LA / Availability: Good (Arriving Friday)

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

Armadillo Yacht Club #2 – Double Dry-Hopped Milkshake IPA with Pineapple, Orange, & Guanabana. Hopped with Lemondrop, Cascade, Simcoe, & Amarillo hops. 7.6% ABV / Denton, TX

Martin House Kokytus – Rye whiskey barrel-aged imperial stout with cocao nibs. 14.4% ABV / Fort Worth, TX

Texas Keeper Cider Weizen – Their goal was to marry the underlying citrus and green apple notes of the Goldrush and Crispin apples with the lightly hopped and spiced character of old world wheat beers. They used select yeast strains to accentuate the right fruit characters and dry hopped and dry spiced the cider to finish. 7.4% ABV / Austin, TX

Two Wheel Parachute Pants – Double Dry Hopped Hazy Pale Ale packed with tropical fruit juiciness. 6% ABV / Buda, TX

St. Elmo Carl – What? It’s Carl, yo. Get this kolsch in your mouth hole stat! 4.6% ABV / Austin, TX

Whitestone Keyboard Gangsta – A fusion of West Coast and Hazy IPAs. This beer has a floral, tropical and resiny hop-forward nose. Mouthfeel is full and soft on the front of the palate but finishes resiny and dry with a substantial lingering bitterness that takes time to fully unfold. 6.5% ABV / Cedar Park, TX

Live Oak Smoked Gose – Salty and lime with a hint of smoke to elevate the flavors. 3.2% ABV / Austin, TX

Live Oak Kleines Bier – Kleines Bier is a small beer with a sizable hop bouquet combining our favorite noble Czech and German hops, a lager beer that is as light as it is flavorful. 3.2% ABV / Austin, TX

Dinkelacker Hefeweizen – Traditional German hefeweizen. 4.8% ABV / Stuttgart, Germany

This Week’s Specials

  • Brewery of the Month! Zilker‘s Parks & Rec, Marco IPA, and Pilsgnar for $7.99. All month! Grab a six pack for grilling out or floating down the river!
  • WhichCraft Happy Hour is now every flipping day from 4-6pm. Come and check the big board for current specials.

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

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Merchant du Vin Sampling & Hedgehog Brewing Bottle Release Back to Back

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Wanting to take your beer game up a notch? Hilda from Merchant du Vin will be here next Thursday, August 1st from 5-8 pm. We’ll have FREE samples of Ayinger Brau-Weisse, Samuel Smith’s Yorkshire Stingo, Orval, Traquair Jacobite, and Blanche de Namur!

Looking for a new farmhouse ale to take home? Hedgehog Brewing will be here for their bottle releases of Hop & a Skip and Happy Place next Friday, August 2nd from 5-8 pm. We’ll have their Hop & a Skip, dry hopped farmhouse ale on draft. 

Our Brewery of the Month is Zilker. Their Parks & Rec, Marco IPA, and Pilsgnar will be $7.99 all month! Perfect price to grab a six pack for the river or hanging out with friends.

 Special Events at WhichCraft Tap Room

Thursday, August 1st
5-8pm Wanting to expand your beer palate? Hilda from Merchant du Vin will be here next Thursday. We’ll be giving FREE samples of Ayinger Brau-Weisse, Samuel Smith’s Yorkshire Stingo, Orval, Traquair Jacobite, and Blanche de Namur!

Friday, August 2nd
5-8pm Looking for a new beer to enjoy this weekend? Hedgehog Brewing will be here for their bottle their bottle releases of Hop & a Skip and Happy Place next Friday, August 2nd from 5-8 pm. We’ll have their Hop & a Skip, dry hopped farmhouse ale on draft. 

New Beers This Week

Back In Stock: Stone Enter Night

Hedgehog Brewing Hop & A Skip – Dry-hopped farmhouse ale fermented and aged in barrels. Fermented with 100% wild yeast and bacteria from the Hill Country. Balanced hop character and aroma compliment the distinctive flavors provided by our house culture. 7.5% ABV / Cedar Park, TX / Availability: Good

Hedgehog Brewing 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 / Cedar Park, TX / Availability: Good 

Flying Man Water Bomber – A light refreshing watermelon wheat that is extremely well balanced. They’ve taken the hard path to make this beer with real watermelons giving you a refreshing summer time beer! 5.2% ABV / Austin, TX / Availability: Good

Avery Double Barrel Maple Stout – No. 52 in Barrel-Aged Series: Stout aged in bourbon and maple syrup barrels with maple syrup, coffee, and cinnamon. 15.3% ABV / Boulder, CO / RateBeer / Availability: Very Limited

Stone w00t Stout – This massive imperial stout has been a favorite among their fans since its inception in 2013. As if the pecans, wheat and flaked rye weren’t enough, they went ahead and aged 1/4th of this beer in bourbon barrels. The result is a whopping, intense, superhero of a beer with profound complexity that makes it ideal for cellaring… if you can wait that long. 11.5% ABV / Escondido, CA / RateBeer / Availability: Good

Roughhouse Brewing Friends & Berry – This light-bodied ale is refermented with local strawberries and agarita berries, the latter of which were hand-picked from the Pasternak Ranch wit a group of our best-dressed, beer working friends. 5.5% ABV / San Marcos, TX / Availability: Very Limited

Great Divide 25th Anniversary Big Yeti – To commemorate 25 years of brewing excellence, we created Big Yeti, a 13.5% ABV version of our beloved imperial stout. 13.5% ABV / Denver, CO / Availability: Very Limited

New Beers on Draft at WhichCraft Taproom

Full Draft List Available on our Website

Pinthouse Pizza Bailing Room – The winner of the Bronze Medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup, in the most highly contested category, American IPA, Bailing Room is an irresistible hop bomb. Brewed with Simcoe, Mosaic, and Chinook hops, this dark tangerine hued West Coast IPA boasts citrus, piney, and resinous notes. If you want hops, come to the Bailing Room! 7% ABV / Austin, TX

Hedgehog Brewing Hop & a Skip – Dry-hopped farmhouse ale fermented and aged in barrels. Fermented with 100% wild yeast and bacteria from the Hill Country. Balanced hop character and aroma compliment the distinctive flavors provided by our house culture. 7.5% ABV / Austin, TX

Brash Cali Green  – West Coast IPA. 7% ABV / RateBeer / Austin, TX

Brazos Valley Bramble On – Sour wheat ale made with Blackberries and Raspberries. 5.3% ABV / Brenham, TX

Last Stand Fuzzieluscious – Juicy IPA brewed with Mosaic, Simcoe, El Dorado and Chinook. 6.4% ABV / Austin, TX

This Week’s Specials

  • Brewery of the Month! Zilker‘s Parks & Rec, Marco IPA, and Pilsgnar for $7.99. All month! Grab a six pack for grilling out or floating down the river!
  • WhichCraft Happy Hour is now every flipping day from 4-6pm. Come and check the big board for current specials.

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