Flying Saucer: American Craft Beer Week-wise

Tuesday: Breckenridge Brewery 3-4-5 $3 Avalanche Pints, $4 471 IPA Snifters, $5 Agave Wheat Pints

Wednesday: Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale Fire Sale, Witte and Rare Vos Glass giveaways starting at 7 (Dont be late) and a special Ommegang/La Chouffe Collaboration "Gnommegang"

Thursday: Left Hand Polestar Pilsner for $3 all day and a TNT (Black Tea Weizenbock) tapping at 6pm

Friday: Ranger Creek OPA for $3 all day and a Cabernet Barrel Aged La Bestia Aimable tapping at 6pm

Whip In is 25

And they are throwing a 4 day party. Sounds right. Plenty of music and this:

w/ $2.50 draft BREW SPECIALS from
(512) BREWING
FRANCONIA
INDEPENDENCE
JESTER KING
LIVE OAK
RANGER CREEK
REAL ALE
SAINT ARNOLD
THIRSTY PLANET

Ranger Creek Sippy Cup Homebrew Competition

Beertown Austin, this is all you buddy. Feel free to call me for recipe ideas. Check it out:

. . . The winning beer will become our fall seasonal AND our Pro-Am entry for the 2011 GABF. The winning brewer will come to Ranger Creek to brew the commercial batch that will be released this fall . . .

Styles: IMPERIAL versions (minimum ABV of 7%) of the following categories:

Category 10- American Ale
Includes 10A. American Pale Ale, 10B, American Amber Ale, 10C. American Brown Ale

Category 12- Porter
Includes 12A. Brown Porter, 12B. Robust Porter, 12C. Baltic Porter

Category 13- Stout
Includes 13A. Dry Stout, 13B. Sweet Stout, 13C. Oatmeal Stout, 13D. Foreign Extra Stout, 13E. American Stout, 13F. Russian Imperial Stout

Category 14- India Pale Ale
Includes 14A. English IPA, 14B. American IPA, 14C. Imperial IPA

READ FULL DETAILS HERE.

Ranger Creek La Bestia Bottles Being Delivered

This beer but in 750ml bottles kids. Next week.

Ranger Creek Grand Opening Events

RC's Oatmeal Pale Ale is in town. It's really good. A solid ale. Try it. Next week, they have a couple of events to celebrate their Grand Opening (they are both in San Antonio, obviously):

Ranger Creek's Lineup

Looking good. Can't wait to grab them all. And drink them.

My First Pint

I stole yr banner Rob, now we are even.

Have you seen Rob Landerman's (Ranger Creek Brewer) bog? Check it out.

I'm on their too, cluing you in on My First Pint.

Testing Batches at Ranger Creek

As I mentioned earlier, Ranger Creek has started brewing. If you are not following their progress on Twitter or Facebook, you may not have seen that their power was knocked out during a storm, which ruined their first batch of South Texas Lager. Bummer. But they made a new batch and it is in the fermenters. And today they are brewing Mesquite Smoked Porter.

Ranger Creek is Brewing

It's on. I think this calls for a beer.

Taking Shape

Ranger Creek is coming together. Stay posted here. And here.

Ranger Creek, Part 2

This is the part where I tell you about their beers. Again, I feel like I have to say this: These notes, scribblings, whatever are based on the beers Rob has now and do not represent complete, fully actualized, production beers from Ranger Creek. They are the roadmap of the highways to come, or some shit like that.



South Texas Lager. This is their light-keeping-on-beer (maybe, you never know, look at (512)'s Pecan Porter, things happen). It is a Dortmunder Style lager. A good one at that. I really enjoy this style. Unfiltered. Nice spiciness, hop bite. Refreshing for sure.



Oatmeal Pale Ale. A little bit of different twist on the classic standby. Made with 17% oats. Centennial hops give it a nice bitterness. Fruity finish.



Mesquite Smoked Porter. Oh yeah, beer geeks rejoice. Made with 35-40% mesquite smoked malt, this one is hella smoky and black as night. Loved it. Everything you would expect from a great smoked porter.



The Dark Belgian Ale. Well a couple batches. Obviously you can see they look completely different. Rob is going for a combination of the two. Experimentations are still ongoing. Rob was trying to get the perfect mix of dryness, color and body. I guess we will have to come back down when he has it pinned down.



Rob was kind enough to bust out this beauty. Delicious.

Thanks guys for having us out. It was fun.

Ranger Creek, Part 1

A little over a week ago, Ranger Creek had us out to visit their evolving brewery/distillery.



Sofia was going to come down with me, but she backed out because she did not want to be the only girl. I said she was nuts. But I guess she was right.





Some stuff to make drinks.



Rob's homebrew setup, where he is tuning his recipes.



Bottling line.



Cold room: here.



German spaceship or still?



Beertown Austin shooting a video.



Also, check out My Last Pint #16 with Rob.

Part 2 will feature tasting notes, well tasting scribblings at least . . .

Some Stuff from Ranger Creek

First, they have released info on their beer lineup.

Also, they've received tons of brewing and distilling equipment. Three of many photos:

Ranger Creek's Got a Home

From Ranger Creek:

Ranger Creek HQ is now official! We signed a lease on a great property that we're excited about. Can't wait for you guys to see it. Pictures coming soon.

Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling's Equipment

Ranger Creek put up some photos of their unfinished equipment. It's not a huge development, but it's something right? As always, we are waiting and hoping for the best.....

h/t: twitter tweeters