What’s Consistent: Beerburg’s shady beer garden is one of the best in the region with its Ashe juniper trees providing the merciful shade during Austin’s unreasonable summer days. Their barbacoa birria tacos with consommé are petite works of art. Beerburg has long had an evolving, in-house, scratch kitchen concept, but landing on Taqueria la Violeta, Beerburg’s Mexican-style kitchen, has been a smash. The 3.5% Mugwort ESB is a low-octane fist bump to a classic pub ale. What’s New: The Mother Earth-doting, 15-acre-having Beerburg Brewing has expanded the breadth of their beer program while you were away on pandemic, growing from three core beers at their debut in January 2020 to over 15 offerings, including their foraged-ingredients “Wildcraft” program. Looking for previous Power Rankings? See 2020, 2019, 2018 (Part I), 2018 (Part II), and 2017.Ĭourtesy of Beerburg 25 | Beerburg Brewing GREEN indicates a brewery moved up in the rankings RED indicates a brewery moved down and BLUE indicates a new entry or no movement. Trend Tracker: The “AC Power Rankings Trend” move from oldest to newest. Where’s the beer?ĭropped from Rankings: Yokefellow Beer (18), Nomadic Beerworks (20) Indy’s branding is clutch and Convict Hill oatmeal stout is still a big, fun bastard Nomadic Beerworks Peak Season Juicy Tropical IPA slaps, brewery has it dialed way in 4th Tap Add Sound Check Crispy Boy to the upper totem of Austin’s highest quality lagers Frontyard Brewing Most entertaining beer garden in Austin, Coffee Milk Stout is a rated rookie Yokefellow Beer Absolutely love Garrett Crowell’s delicately handcrafted beers and minimalist vibe, but perhaps too minimalist. Others Receiving Votes: Independence Brewing Co. These are Austin’s best 25 breweries, POWER RANKED! Finally we noted the accolades a brewery has collected in 20-21 (in the year of a darkened Austin Beer Guide Awards, no less!), what the brewery provides culturally for the Austin beer scene, and any other important intangibles, like a notable food truck, great branding, live music, live art, or heck, live animals (“What’s Unique”). We considered how a brewery maintains its quality of product, particularly with its mainstay beers and the quality of experience in its taprooms and beer gardens (“What’s Consistent”). Our rankings are based on breweries' commitment to evolving as local legends as based on their seasonal, rotational, and specialty beers, along with interesting brews that have been pushed out to market within the last year (“What’s New”). Per usual, we rated Austin(ish) breweries within the county and the counties that immediately border Travis according to Google images (we’re beer knowers, not geographers). Because those breweries worked so hard to get back up and running through a sweeping pandemic and a paralyzing winter storm, we had to match their tough as nails energy.
Sure, it’s a challenging task to drink a crispy boy in the cold, but not an impossible one! And all of those photos up on the ‘Gram of temporarily snow-shuttered Austin breweries with cans of beer smooshed into fresh powder like wholesomely dressed neighborhood kids experiencing it for the first time inspired us to create a more elevated power rankings.
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Recently, the French and the Italians have entered the local lager chat, but we’re still processing how to integrate them, so be on the lookout for future historical columns like this one.Īnyway, all of that is to say that Austin began as a lager town and it remains a lager town. It’s a beautiful history of melding cultures, really. Fully anticipating midnight lager munchies, kolaches and tacos were created, and that’s how Austin’s famous food trucks came about so that they could get delicious lager-friendly cuisine to the settlers. Later, the Czechs brought their spicy lagers to the region, along with the Mexicans who brought their own biscuity amber lagers. We’re of the Lagerpeople, which, back in the founding days, ended up being like a 25-letter compound word in German, so the leaders just decided on “Austin,” a shorthanded tribute to Sam Adams’ famous Boston Lager. Then wash ’em down with one of Austin’s magnificent lagers being brewed right here in the capital city.
That’s right, the corollary here is that brewing is a game tough as nails – so tough, you can eat the nails. And this is the year, at long last, that brought us a true Top 25, just like in SPORTS! You hear the latest Austin Chronicle Power Rankings dropped? You’re looking right at ’em, pal.
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