A Sunday Bike Ride with Craft Austin and BeerTown Austin

I'm really sick of those BTA guys. They keep getting me involved in shit. First it was the Austin Beer Guide. Now they keep roping me into events with them for Austin Beer Week. Dudes, I just want to enjoy the week and drink some beer. LEAVE ME ALONE.

But still, you should come bike with us (and these other things):

SUNDAY 10-23 THE ULTIMATE FANBOY BIKE PUB CRAWL OFF STRIKES MFin’ BACK

Yes, the most popular event (in our opinion) of Austin Beer Week 2010 returns with a lazy, last minute, procrastinatin’, lackadaisical MFin’ attitude. And by lazy, I mean that we’ve trimmed this crawl down to only three stops, yeah, lazy. Less bike, more pub for your money!

3ish PM FLYING SACUER > 4ISH PM DRAUGHT HOUSE (for the MFin’ Beer’ Olympics!) > 6ish PM BILLY’S ON BURNET (time to replenish those calories lost to biking with MFin’ COBRAS)

Bring cash, IDs, bikes, and bad attitudes!

Buy the Austin Beerworks Keep the Mustache Glass Night at Billy’s on Burnet

Wow, is that really the name of the event? It's a mouthfull: Buy the Austin Beerworks Keep the Mustache Glass Night at Billy’s on Burnet. But it does tell you everthing you need to know:

WHAT: One of a kind cask from Austin Beerworks—with the beer you get a free moutsache glass to add to your collection. The beer is called Mr. Falcon—part Fire Eagle and part Black Thunder dry hopped with Amarillo and Centinnial hops. Folks from ABW and BTA will be on hand to celebrate.

WHEN: Thursday, August 11 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

WHERE: Billy's On Burnet

RSVP here.

ABG Printed

This from last night's Big Texas Beer Tweetup. We also used the event to launch our first issue of Austin Beer Guide. Stay tuned to the Twitter feed for drop locations.

Event: Big Texas Beer Tweetup

Don't tweet, don't worry. It will still be a fun event.

• Happy hour prices on beers and food
• Meet and great with some great Texas brewers
• Rollout of Opal Divine's new beer menu featuring 24 Texas crafts on draft
• Debut of Austin's newest print beer resource, the Austin Beer Guide

Let us know if you are coming, or not, or maybe.

#BTBTwunkards

Poster by Shelley Lai

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.

Knockin' Em Back Again with BTA

Damn, this was a long time ago. That BTA sure is on top of things.

Chris, next time let's see if we can take an even more horrible picture of me. 

Stash/‘Stache @ Black Star Coop with Independence and BTA

"FREE ‘STACHE PORTRAITS!"

WTF, those wild 'n wily guys at BTA. Oh and an Independence Stash IPA cask too. Buy a Stash keep the ('stache) glass. Monday, January 10.

Knock Knock Knockin’

Another episode of Knockin' em Back from Beertown Austin, with the voice stylings of Craft Austin, is available now. Listen to us drink Lovejoy's beers and chat with Todd Henry.

Jester King's WB Commercial Suicide @ Billy's on Burnet

(photo: BTA)

I still have not had this beer. You? Here is your shot (or pint). So you go to Billy's, walk up to the bar, order a WhiskeyBarrel Commercial Suicide and what are they going to give you....some douchbag glass. I've heard it makes the beer taste bad. Not sure about that one, I'll have to head out there and test it.

Oh, I forgot this....

This was my shirt for the BTA vs. CA Bike Pub Crawl. Get it?

Thanks for the photo BTA! You lost by the way.

ABW Today (Thursday)

Going strong in ABW. Lots of stuff tonight. You can go see (512) Brewing and Beertown Austin at Billy's if you want. Or get some Bitches Brew at Ginger Man. Or head out to Jester King for a little music and brews. That's where we will be.

ABW: (512) Brewing

And now, (512) and what they will be up to during ABW. Check out the ABW website for full listing.

Sure these guys will be there, but still, it's a can't miss.

Bruin cask, need to try that.

Draught House Anniversary Party Beer List

Beertown Austin has the scoop. For the full list go there, but these are the guys that jumped out to me:

• Jester King Commercial Suicide Cask
• Southern Star Pro-am Smoked Porter primed with agave syrup with chipotles in the cask Cask
• New Belgium Shadow of the Foeder (La Folie blended with 1554) Cask
• Draught House Grackle India Black Ale Cask
• Dogfish Head Bitch’s Brew Draught
• Deschutes Jubel 2010 Draught
• Draught House Whiskey Century Stout Draught
• Ommegang Rare Vos Draught
• Brooklyn Chocolate 2007 Draught
• Ommegang Cup ‘O’ Kyndnes Draught

Can't wait.

ABW: More Bike Pub Crawl Stuff

First, thanks to the Design Shaman for the awesome poster.

Second, these are the discounts confirmed for the crawl so far. More to come:
Billy's on Burnet: $2.75 Texas beers
Black Star Co-op: $3 Texas beers

Come join us. RSVP at Facebook and/or BeerAdvocate.

Saint Arnold DR #9 to Become Fall Seasonal

Photo from @saintarnold.

We've heard about this before, but now it's fairly official. Cool:

It was at this point that Brock made the biggest announcement of the night: This Imperial Pumpkin Stout will become a yearly seasonal release starting next year! That is great news for any beer lover.

H/T: BTA....via Barley Vine.....via Brock Wagner

ABW: More on BTA vs CA Ultimate Fanboy Bike Pub Crawl Throwdown

I told you about this already. We have a BA Event page about it. Now we also have a Facebook Event page happening. Log on and let us know yr attending, or that we are wasting our time. Either way, we want to here from you.

BTA: Knockin’ Em Back Ep 3.3 at Billy’s on Burnet

Oh lookie here, more content from BTA. Wait, this is different. It is a BTA/CA collaboration. And we know collaborations are SOOO HOT right now. Go listen and read read my brilliant write up. Well maybe you should wait, Chris is fixing all my mistakes right now....

Hop and Grain Finds Location

From BTA:



507 Calles Street.

BeerTownAustin/Craft Austin Bike Pub Crawl

This is happening. Obviously, it will be the CAN'T MISS event of Austin Beer Week. More details to follow, but go to BA and let us know if you are attending.

GABFed

We had a AntiGABF party last night at Draught House. It was killer. BTA shot this amazing video:



Don't worry GABFers, we love you and were just having a bit of fun. And crying in our beer wishing we were at GABF.