Ice age zeke8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The evidence is tangible with the prestigious awards and accolades doled out to regional breweries from highly objective sources like the newly founded Texas Craft Brewers Cup, the World Beer Cup, and, of course, the Great American Beer Festival, among others. In turn, Austin-area breweries have recommitted to quality-driven mainstay beers supplemented by a reasonable lineup of provocative special release beers and a full calendar of wait-worthy seasonals. These days, anyone who is still passionate about craft beer is queuing up only in the 10 Items or Fewer line at H-E-B with a pack of cold, bottom fermented delights tucked beneath their arm in maximum anticipation of beating the heat with beer-flavored beer. But like the awkward middle school years, those rough moments are behind us now. Yes, the era of chasing ultra-rare, saccharine-sweet candy beer all over town, brewed one pint at a time by beerhouses that inspired their tremulous fanbase to chant EXCELSIOR into their craft beer megaphones from the parking lot at the mere suggestion of extremely limited $40 bombers of beer – that was somehow the salad days of the industry. Out are the big bourbon barrel-aged confectionary stouts, the biting quintuple IPAs, the gut-melting sours. Jester King Brewery (Photo by Jana Birchum)Ĭraft beer has begun its redemption arc. ![]()
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