If there’s one factor you’ll be able to depend on from craft brewers, it’s that they’re at all times keen to take a threat. In August, a Hill Nation model is betting on a second New Braunfels beer backyard and a revered Texas beer maker is teaming up with a feisty Alabama star. Learn on for extra important beer information from San Antonio and past.
New adventuresIt’s been an adventurous 14 years for Seth Weatherly, proprietor of 5 Stones Artisan Brewery. After opening a nanobrewery in a small Cibolo industrial park, he’s now working a a lot bigger brewhouse and beer backyard simply exterior Backyard Ridge.
Now, he’s rising the enterprise once more. Weatherly will launch Braunfelser Beer and Wine Backyard on the former Faust Brewing Co. spot (499 S. Castell Ave.) in mid-August, borrowing the title of one in all his hottest beers.
In an Instagram put up, Weatherly stated he had been pondering of a near-downtown brewery for years. He thanked Vance Hinton, the previous proprietor of Faust, for the prospect to return the house to life.
“We owe an amazing quantity of gratitude to Vance, a really beneficiant man who’s given us a shot down right here,” Weatherly stated. “We hope we honor y’all by doing it effectively with the title that we’ve chosen for it.”
Weatherly acknowledged the rocky setting for Texas’ craft breweries, which has prompted a string of closures and bankruptcies. Nonetheless, he teased huge future plans for the house.
“It’s a little scary, actually, beginning it nowadays of the beer business, however we felt like, ‘Hey, if we do not take this shot, it might not come once more,” Weatherly stated.
Ella Langley has teamed up with Shiner Beer on a brand new kölsch.Ella Langley/ Fb
Nation kölschShiner is launching a brand new beer with some assist from a breakout nation star. Ella Langley is collaborating with the well-known Texas model on the sweetly floral Dandelion Honey Kölsch, impressed by her gritty sophomore album, Dandelion.
Native followers can have fun the brand new brew from 6-9 pm on August 13 at a Dandelion and Denim Nation Night time held at Otto’s Ice Home at Pearl. Whereas the Alabama singer-songwriter received’t be in attendance, the occasion will characteristic a neighborhood distributors market, a social media raffle, and a deejay enjoying Langley’s best hits. Awards seasonAltstadt Brewery was one of many 5 San Antonio-area breweries to gather medals and honors on the 2026 U.S. Open Beer Championships in July in Oxford, Ohio. The nation’s third-largest beer competitors attracts entries from breweries world wide with beers judged throughout 180-plus classes and subcategories.
The Fredericksburg brewery was the realm’s greatest winner, incomes a rank as one of many nation’s high 10 breweries, and taking dwelling Brewery of the Yr honors within the 5,001-15,000 barrels bracket. Different native winners embrace Flix Brewhouse, Save the World Brewing Co., Roadmap Brewing Co., and Cibolo Creek Brewing Co.
