These are all 65 of the active breweries that represent the Greater Houston Area and a few that don’t, but they hope to soon. If you’re unsure of anything – hours, food, etc., please call first. You can also view them in map form here.
Houston’s big – REAL BIG. If you’re from out of town looking to brewery hop, you’ll realize just how big. As the largest city in the US (geographically) there’s a lot of ground to cover, and this list even extends a bit beyond Houston.
We’ll continue to visit each and every brewery below to find out a bit more about their history, what makes them unique and what sort of beers they offer. We’ll document it here. If you know something we don’t, hit us up on IG, Facebook, or shoot us an email here.
We’ll also be writing reviews of their beers and our experience at the brewery. Beers to you, Houston!
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🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite (Nearly all Have Food Trucks)
Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Inside the Loop – Near Northside
Founded: June 1994
Known For: Texas’ Oldest Craft Brewery
Beer to Try: Ale Wagger, Art Car IPA, Icon Series, 5 O’Clock Pils, Pub Crawl Pale Ale
One of the Houston Breweries that started it all. Our first keg of beer was shipped on June 9, 1994. Founded by Brock Wagner and Kevin Bartol, we chose Houston because, other than living here, this was the largest city in the country that did not have a microbrewery. Brock was a longtime homebrewer and had considered opening a brewery as far back as college, although that was quickly dismissed as a silly idea. Seven years after graduating, Brock revisited the idea, enlisted Kevin’s help and the brewery was off and running. Kevin has since left the business after a bitter battle. (Just kidding – but don’t you wish people wrote that when it was the truth?).
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
8th Wonder Brewery
Inside the Loop – EADO
Founded: February 2013
Known For: Being Houston’s most Houston brewery
Beer to Try: Dome Faux’m, Weisstheimer, and Rocket Fuel
In 1965, the doors to the Houston Astrodome opened for the first time. Dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”, this first ever air-conditioned domed stadium coincided with Houston’s launch into the global spotlight. We are proud to announce that Houston is home to yet another 8th Wonder.
We are applying our craft in a dome-like warehouse located in the shadow of the Houston skyline in East Downtown.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co.
Inside the Loop – Washington Ave./Memorial Park
Founded: December 2011
Known For: Houston’s most creative brewery
Beer to Try: Great White Buffalo Wit, Saigon Sunset, Buzz Nutz, Buffalo Sunset, Big Black Cowbell
Buffalo Bayou Brewing Company is a new twist on an old craft. With creativity as our main goal, we subscribe to our own definitions regarding brewing parameters and guidelines, without sacrificing flavor or consistency.
Combining cutting-edge technology and technique with wildly sourced flavors, our innovative offerings create new narratives for how we think about beer. From grain to glass Buff Brews tell a story, invoking traditional and balanced flavor symmetry in our “Heritage Series,” as well as revolutionary and radical palates in our “Secessionist Series,” that break all the rules and alter the beer landscape.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite With Houston’s Own Arash Kharat
Whole Foods Market Brewing Company
Inside the Loop – Galleria
Founded: 2014
Known For: Creating dozens of hazy IPAs that don’t disappoint and making use of a produce section when needed
Beer to Try: DL Double, Steady Sippin’, Post Oak Pale Ale, Hop Explorer
Whole Foods Market Brewing Company is nestled away in the Post Oak Whole Foods in the Galleria. With an unlimited array of fresh ingredients on site, the beer and food menus feature an exciting array of local and seasonal flavors.
Our Head Brewer loves to incorporate local produce, fresh herbs and innovative flavor combinations that reflect the diverse and beloved tastes of Texas.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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🌮 It’s Located in a Grocery Store
Holler Brewing Co.
Inside the Loop – Sawyer Yards
Founded: Late 2016
Known For:
Beer to Try: Looyah Milk Stout, Dollar Pils Y’all, IPA
Our brewery is our name. Some call us uncreative, some call us egomaniacs. We prefer “committed”. Our name is on our product, so we take it seriously.
We used to make other things — lesson plans, TPS reports, Excel sheets that ruled the world — but none of these gave us as much pleasure, or as much alcohol, as making beer. So in January, 2015, we abandoned our adult lives in favor of the much less practical pursuit of beer making.
John got his training from the Siebel Institute in Chicago and Doemens Academy in Munich, and Kathryn brewed and served at Two Henry’s Brewing in Plant City, FL.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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Urban South Brewery HTX
Inside the Loop – Sawyer Yards
Founded: 2016
Known For: Being the largest brewery in New Orleans, starting a satellite location right here in Houston, TX, and hiring Dave Ohmer to run it. B52’s Marin and Justin Slanina would later join Dave, completing the trifecta that’s required of a R&D brewery in Houston.
Beer to Try: ?
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
Eureka Heights Brew Co.
Inside the Loop – Heights
Founded: January 2016
Known For: Having a great sense of humor
Beer to Try: Nuke the Whales, Mini Boss IPA, Buckle Bunny, Space Train, Moo Caliente
Eureka Heights Brewing Company was forged in the dark depths of the Eureka Heights fault line and the hellfire of Houston summer. Once emerged we spent years on a spirit quest that guy at the gas station recommended. Then we decided we wanted to make some beer.
Our name comes from the Eureka Heights fault system, which runs under our brewery. The fault was important during the development of Houston and even has a railroad tower named after it, and we’re pretty sure we don’t need to tell choo how awesome we feel about that.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
Great Heights Brewing Company
Technically just outside the Loop – Garden Oaks/Oak Forest (GOOF)
Founded: 2016?
Known For:
Beer to Try: Fruity Pellets NEIPA, Bam Bam NEIPA, So Inclined Saison, Covhefe Hefeweizen
We’re just a couple of guys living the dream of quitting desk jobs and ditching long hours at the office for even longer hours at the brewery—we couldn’t be happier. Swing by our neighborhood taproom and say hi and cheers with us!
Constantly rotating experimental beers in a clean, AC’d taproom make for a great time at Great Heights.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
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Sigma Brewing Company
Inside the Loop – EADO
Founded: 2009?
Known For:
Beer to Try: Murry Chrimmus Imperial Porter
At Sigma, we are just regular dudes that have all lead different lives, and over the years the one thing that always kept us connected was our passion and love for beer and home brewing. As we started brewing not-so-shitty beer at home, we started to wonder if one day we could make beer our jobs and not just our favorite pastime. From there, “The Brewery,” as it became known, was something that we all fantasized about.
About 7 years ago, we decided to stop fantasizing. We took a hard look at ourselves and knew that we didn’t have what it took to start and run a brewery, so we rubbed our hands together and got to work. We did our research, we (drank) did our homework, and we convinced not only ourselves, but others, that we (sort of) knew what we were doing, and if nothing else our passion and drive could make “The Brewery” a reality.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
True Anomaly Brewing
Inside the Loop – EADO
Founded: 2019
Known For: Drinking Boldly
Beer to Try:Small Giant Grisette, Ben’s House IPA
True Anomaly is what happens when a bunch of rocket scientists become brewery owners.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
❄️ AC
Moon Tower Inn Sudworks and Cookshack
Inside the Loop – Second Ward-ish
Founded: 2013-2014-ish
Known For: Collaborating with 8th Wonder on Dome Faux’m Cream Ale
Beer to Try: Panther Hawk Pale Ale, Amber Alert, Liquid Thigh Relaxant Blonde
A metal-centric brewpub with handcrafted pub faire and specialty hotdogs. Moontower has several of their own beers on tap including, but not limited to, collaborations with several of Houston’s most well-known breweries as well as dozens of other craft options. This isn’t the kind of place you want to bring your kids, but it’s a great spot for an evening out with adult friends.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Brash Brewing Company
Technically just outside the Loop – Northside/Independence Heights
Founded: 2015
Known For: The biggest, boldest, darkest, and most BAMF stouts in town, and a metal motif to match
Beer to Try: Abide, Black Masses Double Coffee’d Stout, EZ-7 APA
Originally, Fullelove started Brash as a contract brewing company in Massachusetts, but changes to Texas beer laws allow him to obtain a brewpub license and maintain his interest in Petrol Station, the Oak Forest bar that’s become a hotspot in Houston’s burgeoning craft enthusiasm. Fullelove tells CultureMap that he consulted with Jeff Stuffing from Austin’s Jester King Brewery and Scott Metzger from San Antonio’s Freetail Brewery before he brought Brash home.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
Platypus Brewing
Inside the Loop – Washington Ave.
Founded: 2016
Known For: Australian Influence
Beer to Try: The Ranga Red Ale
After home brewing for years, and moving back and forth from Houston to Australia, they decided to open up a brewery in Houston.
The concept evolved as the three Platypi discussed venture possibilities and realized that all of the things that they loved about both Australia and Texas were one and the same, a cultural overlap so-to-speak. The passion of crafting great beer, while creating a friendly and relaxed neighborhood environment for people to come together and enjoy good drink and food, started to take shape. The dream quickly became a reality.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Baileson Brewing Company
Inside the Loop – Rice Village
Founded: 2017
Known For: Loving dogs
Beer to Try: ?
Baileson Brewing Company is a brewpub located in the neighborhood of Boulevard Oaks, just on the outskirts of the Rice Village area. We are a husband and wife team that loves craft beer and focuses on brewing hand-crafted ales that we love to drink. We like hops, we like stouts, and we enjoy some other beer styles in between.
Our brew system is relatively small which allows us to brew new beers on a monthly basis, while keeping most of the crowd favorites up on the tap wall as well. Previously we brewed these beers in our garage at home, and one summer day in 2015 we said to ourselves, “You know what? Houston needs more neighborhood brewpubs!” So we started working on a plan to add just such a place in a part of town that we know well, and 2 years later Baileson came to life.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Under the Radar Brewery
Inside the Loop – Midtown
Founded: 2016
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: ?
Under the Radar Brewery has humble beginnings, similar to many of the excellent brewers listed on this page. Founders Ned Davis, Herb Garcia, and Mike Norfleet had been homebrewing for 7-some-odd years each, sharing their beer with friends and families at tailgates and weddings.
They started to build a little buzz around their brews, and began to take it to the next level with Under the Radar Brewery in Midtown.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
Astral Brewing
Inside the Loop – Garden Oaks/Oak Forest (GOOF)
Founded: 2016
Known For: Doubling down on the hazy IPA craze that’s stolen the hearts of beer nerds around the nation
Beer to Try:
Astral Brewing is a new brewery coming soon to Houston Texas. Our specialty is hoppy ales including hazy north east IPA’s and clean and crisp west coast IPA’s. We will also offer roasty porters for the winter months, and light refreshing ales for the heat of the summer.
New Magnolia Brewing
Inside the Loop – Shady Acres
Founded: ?
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: ?
The Phoenix on Westheimer
Inside the Loop – Montrose
Founded: ?
Known For: Sports bar vibe
Beer to Try: The Phoenix on Westheimer Stout, The Phoenix on Westheimer Eat Your Wheaties
The Phoenix is a neighborhood brew pub with a relaxed and jovial atmosphere. We want to be your home away from home, a welcoming place to meet your friends for a pint, some fine food and a good time. We offer a wide selection of bottled and draught beers as well as wines and cocktails. Our extensive menu includes traditional pub favorites. We also provide a number of other different ways to unwind including darts and billiards.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Walking Stick Brewing Company
Technically just outside the Loop – Garden Oaks/Oak Forest (GOOF)
Founded: 2018
Known For: Portland concept, English-inspired beers, with a Colorado theme
Beer to Try: ESB
With a hyper-local focus in Garden Oaks, Owner Andrew Dunn will be one of one Houston brewers delivering kegs on a bicycle with a trailer. The brewery got its name from Andrew’s son. He makes custom walking sticks.
Their beers will have an English focus, but will represent Andrew and his team’s home of Colorado.
B-52 Brewing Co.
Conroe, TX
Founded: 2013
Known For:
Beer to Try: Payload Pilsner, Wheez the Juice Hazy APA, Tart Frenchie, RAAAAAAAANDY Hoppy Ale, Blueberry Pie Berliner
This family owned brewery owned by the Daniel’s family (mom, Pam, Dad, Ron, and sons Ben and Brent). The Conroe brewery, opened in 2013, is named for their love of the post-WWII jet-bomber. This classic woodsy location is great for an afternoon hangout with beer, food and a great atmosphere.
B52 has made quite the name for themselves extending beyond their base beers like Payload Pils and Breakfast Stout. With hazy IPAs, milkshake varieties, crazily adjuncted beers, and heavily-fruited Berliner and Saison releases nearly every weekend, B52 is becoming a leading destination for Houston’s beer nerds.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
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✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Copperhead Brewery
Conroe, TX
Founded: 2015
Known For: A snake motif complete with some of the craziest, most metal-looking labels on the shelves
Beer to Try: Striker IPA, Kangaroo Killer Pale Ale, Black Venom Imperial Stout, King of Terrors
This Conroe craft brewery is owned by Mark Earnest and his son, Seth, the head brewer. Seth interned with Saint Arnold Brewery for four years before opening up this cool space in Conroe. Located only a few blocks from Downtown Conroe.
They chose the copperhead snake because it’s local to Conroe, where Seth grew up. They focus on Belgain styles that are less-attempted by Houston area brewers, but he’s also a hop fiend that’s always tinkering.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Southern Star Brewing Company
Conroe, TX
Founded: July 2007
Known For: First craft brewery in Texas to offer canned beer
Beer to Try: Bombshell Blonde, Garden State Heff, Pine Belt Pale Ale, Half Nelson IPA, Spring Pils, Winter Warmer
Located in Conroe, Texas, Southern Star Brewing Company was founded in July 2007. We were the first craft brewery in the great state of Texas to offer canned beer. We are also pleased to announce that we have just broken ground on a brand new facility expected to open late 2015.
We started production March 2008. Contrary to popular belief, the first beer we ever brewed was our Pine Belt Pale Ale. Shortly after, we added Bombshell Blonde and Buried Hatchet Stout to the list of year round releases.
Our Seasonals, such as our Le Mort Vivant and our Walloon, were based on beer styles that were all but extinct, and portions of the proceeds from our Red Cockaded benefit an endangered woodpecker native to our region.
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
❄️ AC
Southern Yankee Beer Company
Houston, TX
Founded: 2015
Known For: One of only a handful of female brewers in Houston, a real comforting family vibe, and nearly 3 decades of homebrewing experience
Beer to Try: Dope Village Altbier, Who’s Paul Pale Ale, Mole Mole Mole Imperial Stout
We’re passionate beer nerds that answered a call to brew for Houston, Spring, and Conroe. For years Jess developed a stock of home brewing equipment while moving from coast to coast in the Navy, evolving his brewing skills from nose-pinching bad batches to delicious brews. He turned us into a beer family: Christina, his partner and recent beer convert, Alex, the equal opportunity beer lover, and Sydney, self-described beer snob with a soft spot for PBR.
Alex and Sydney didn’t grow up with a crawfish boil pot or a turkey frying pan in the front driveway — but the brew rig on Saturdays. Mixing the mash and throwing hops are just part of our family life; making and sharing good beer with friends is what we love to do.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️ Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
🌮 Food Trucks Often
Cycler’s Brewing
Montgomery, TX
Founded: January 2012
Known For: Known for a cycling motif, private reservations and private water well, and having a keen nose for spices
Beer to Try: Palmares RIS, Derailler Scotch-Porter, Ryed Hard Rye IPA, Bonked Imperial Pumpkin Ale (yes, a pumpkin beer!)
Cyclers Brewing came about by friends who enjoy varied taste elements in food. Food is social. It has been, and it always will be. This transferred over into our varied creation of ales along with their different taste elements that we enjoy.
Their genesis spawned from a love of cycling, and apparently cycling and craft beer go hand in hand – who knew?
After a long ride years ago, the owner and head brewer Clay, was handed his first craft beer and it changed his world. Ever since then, he’s been on the hunt for new and varying beer.
Applying his beer knowledge from being an area manager for Coors, Clay, his wife Tina, and the Cycler’s team have been brewing great beer on a piece of land with picturesque scenery.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🌮 Kitchen Onsite – Ask Ahead
Stesti Brewing
Lovelady, TX
Founded: 2015
Known For: Known for bending the rules with Czech styles of beer in a quaint, off-the-beaten-path location
Beer to Try:Blueberry Lager, Pivo Pils, Peach Ginger Chili
Dennis Gore’s dedication to the craft of brewing beer saw him travel to Plzeň (Pronounced “Pills”), Czech Republic to study under the brew-masters of the world-renown Pilsner Urquell Brewery, home of the world’s first-ever pilsner-type blond lager.
Combining the Czech and American brewing traditions led to the creation of the Stesti Brewing Co.’s three signature beers: the Stesti Pivo Pils, Stesti Authentic Bohemian Lager and Stesti Dark Lager.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
❄️ AC
Brigadoon Brewery
Ren Fest Grounds, TX
Founded: 2008
Known For: Known for having a secondary facility in Pasadena to accomodate demand outside of Ren-Fest
Beer to Try: The Black Plague RIS, Green Ogre DIPA
Brigadoon Brewery & Brew School is a unique brewpub and teaching facility located on the grounds of the Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd Mission (Plantersville), Texas. Brigadoon Brewery and Brew School was born from a desire to bring our love of brewing beer and our love of the Texas Renaissance Festival together.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🌮 Food vendors all around in Rennaissance Festival grounds
Spindletap Brewery
Aldine, TX
Founded: 2014
Known For: Having an oil & gas motif, winning Houston’s Most Valuable Brewery voting for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, and huge Harvey recovery efforts including a collab with Parish Brewing
Beer to Try: Boomtown Blonde, Houston Haze, Honeyhole ESB, Hop Gusher IPA, Hops Drop IPA, Aceite Crudo RIS
Combining the (2) brewmaster’s love of art and science to make delicious, painstaking-attention-to-detail beer, SpindleTap has grown really quickly in their first year. They’ve experienced a “boom” of their own, you could say.
Co-Founders Brody Chapman, David Miller, Shaun Ebersole, Cameron Banks and Adam Wright worked together for a logistics company. Initially their intentions for the brewery were small. They wanted to create a tiny, humble, yet fun place to bring customers to entertain them. Golf course? Old news. Fishing trips? Done that. How about a brewery!? Hell. Yes.
But like all good things, when combined with passion and a couple of dudes with a “get the job done” attitude, the humble goals of SpindleTap Brewery grew into big, lofty ones that had them reconsidering everything.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Back Pew Brewing
Porter, TX
Founded: March 2016
Known For: Shameless use of church rhetoric, painstaking attention to detail, a unique Saints/Sinners approach to communicating about heavy and light beers.
Beer to Try: Blue Testament Pils, Sweet Salvation Brown Ale, Satyr’s Swill Bock
For many years, the building that occupied 26452 Sorters McClellan Rd in Porter, Texas was a very different type of establishment. Though today the brewery bustles with machinery and fills with the aromas of beer, this old church building used to house a congregation and fill with the sound of prayers.
Though church folk are known for following tradition, we beer guys aren’t so easily defined. We seek inspiration from sources strange and fantastic, and we passionately brew our beers with creative characters and daring twists.
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🍻 Beer to GO
Megaton Brewery
Kingwood, TX
Opened: 2019
Known For: A slow start that’s got Houstonians pining in anticipation and making full use of that brewpub license with killer taps and packaged options from other breweries on site
Beer to Try: Mango Kölsch Mass Appeal, Pineapple Sweettart Nuka Shine, Bunker Buster
Megaton’s Master Brewer, affectionately known as Captain Pint, began his journey of crafting his own brews in the early 1990’s. His brewing experience and culinary training led to years of experimental brewing well outside the boundaries of traditional beer styles. Jered then began to hone his craft, he collaborated with others in the craft beer community, in addition to teaching local courses in advanced brewing techniques. Jered graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston, and holds a Master of Science degree in Hospitality Administration from the Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management.
Ingenious Brewing Co.
Humble, TX
Founded: 2017
Known For: Small batches, one-off batches, and lots of adjunct brewing
Beer to Try: Made in Texas IPA, FroYo IPA,
Ingenious Brewing is the brainchild of Mike and Justin. Mike is a multi-award winning home brewer turned professional brewer who has been honing his brewing technique for over 10 years in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Justin, originally from Houston, began brewing with Mike 7 years ago while on station in Pennsylvania for work. Both holding degrees in science, they enjoyed tinkering with recipes by applying knowledge of the chemical properties found in the ingredients of beer.
Over time this process led to exceptional and inventive beer. “Ingenious” perfectly symbolizes our philosophy that brewing beer is equal parts science and creativity.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
City Acre Brewing
Aldine, TX
Founded: 2016
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: Hitchcock Blonde
Matt Schlabach has been brewing beer for over twelve years, and is a certified BJCP beer judge. The combination of an engineer’s precision and a German’s love of beer combine to make Matt a one-two punch of brewing savvy.
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Galveston Island Brewing
Galveston, TX
Founded: June 2014
Known For: Galveston.com Best Bar of 2015
Beer to Try: Tiki Wheat, Citra Mellow IPA, Island Haze
Stop into Galveston’s premiere local brewery. Located on the west end of Galveston Island, and just a block from the beach, Galveston Island Brewing is a great stop on your tour of the island. All beers on our 11 tap, tap wall are brewed right on site.
A craft brewery in the Galveston – Houston area featuring onsite tap room showcasing classic beer styles from around the world!
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Bakfish Brewing Co.
Pearland, TX
Founded: 2015
Known For:
Beer to Try: Defying Gravity DIPA, I Tell You Wit, Razzlesnake, Mooring Line Amber, Circle Hook IPA
BAKFISH Brewing started when a couple of good friends who shared a passion for quality craft beer decided to take a leap of faith, quit their jobs and pursue their dream.
BAKFISH Brewing Company is a Pearland brewery committed to serving our direct local community. We have a great property and location in Pearland, where Brian grew up and went to school. This property is located on the main thoroughfare (FM 518) on the east side of Pearland near Friendswood.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Texas Beer Refinery
Dickinson, TX
Founded: 2013
Known For:
Beer to Try: Tex’s Blonde, Catalyst IIPA, Mexican IPA
Texas Beer Refinery is a micro-brewery in the Clear Lake area between Dickinson and Kemah. We look forward to serving you the best beers around. Cheers!
Every beer we brew achieves that elusive, craft-defining balance. You are family when you are here, so kick back, relax and enjoy yourself. Your beer, engineered.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Saloon Door Brewing
Webster, TX
Founded: April 2016
Known For:
Beer to Try: Pie in the Sky Pecan Porter, Catty Corner Vanilla Cream Ale, Peanut Butter & Choc Milk Stout
Centrally located in Webster, TX, Saloon Door has a 10-barrel system that allows us to serve our popular tasting room as well as distribute to brew pubs, bars, and restaurants around the Houston and Galveston County areas. We opened our doors in early April 2016 and celebrated our official grand opening April 29, 2016.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
Gordon Street Tavern
Alvin, TX
Founded: December 31, 2011
Known For: Located in a 100+ year old building directly next to the train tracks. Possibly the smallest commercial brewery in the Houston area.
Beer to Try: Gordon Street Hefeweizen, Gordon Street Amarillo IPA
Henry and Chef Jay came together in summer of 2013 to up the game of craft beer and food in Alvin. Gordon Street Tavern is a full service restaurant, tavern, and brewpub. The Tavern has 34 craft taps featuring house brews, staple taps, and rotator taps.
Few thought that craft beer could thrive in a semi-rural city. In 2014, the game of craft beer was accelerated once again when Gordon Street Tavern became a Brewpub and once again in 2017 by beginning a limited distribution pipeline.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
❄️ AC
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Fetching Lab Brewery
Alvin, TX
Founded: 2012
Known For:
Beer to Try: Blue Mischief Blueberry Cream Ale, Bound and Determined Chile Stout
The Fetching Lab Brewing Company was founded in 2012 with a goal of producing high quality great tasting beer that can be enjoyed by a wide range of palates. It has taken us several years to turn our dream into a reality and are finally ready brew for you in early 2015. Just like the Labrador Retriever we have a strong desire to please our customers with a blend of hard work and intelligence.
We take pride in every offering we produce and live by the motto “Smart dogs making great beer for hard working people.”
🍻 Beer to GO
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
Vallenson’s Brewing Company
Pearland, TX
Founded: May 27, 2017
Known For: Being a nano-brewery with rotating styles
Beer to Try: Settler’s Oatmeal Stout, The Depot Pale Ale
Vallensons’ Brewing Company was envisioned by Valle Kauniste and embraced by and, through much feedback over the years, enhanced by his wife Lori and other family members as well as many dear friends. The Vallensons’ (pronounced Valle-N-sons) name was created based on the Brewmaster himself and his two sons with hopes and dreams of his sons, Valle and Konner, later working with dad at the brewery.
It all started about 17 years ago when Valle decided to experiment with crafting his own beer out of his garage. He was originally driven by his desire to have better craft beer options that didn’t exist at the time.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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Galveston Bay Beer Company
Galveston, TX
Founded: 2013
Known For:
Beer to Try: Blueberry Blonde, Watermelon Wheat, Sunny Day IPA, Ghostship Gose
Galveston County has a rich history of brewing beer dating back to 1895 with the purchase by Adolphus Busch of property at Post Office and 34th on Galveston Island. The Galveston brewery (Named Galveston Brewing Company) was under construction in 1896 and completed in February of 1897.
The building changed hands, and brews, half a dozen time in the last century. The building is rundown but still stands, operational for almost 100 years as a beverage production facility. It survived the great hurricane of 1900, two world wars, prohibition and the Great Depression. All things that would have been made a little easier with a nice cold brew.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Devil and the Deep Brewery
Galveston, TX
Founded: 2017
Known For: Being the brewery formerly known as The Free State of Galveston Craft Brewery
Beer to Try: ?
Pet and kid friendly!
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Beerfoot Brewery
Dickinson, TX
Founded: 2012
Known For: 33 taps, over 100 cans and bottles, and making use of their in-house brewing system to let home-brewers take a crack at it
Beer to Try: Island Kolsch, Easy Money IPA, Hazy Hayes IPA
Beerfoot was established in 2012 to enjoy all things beer. We want to share with our guests our appreciation for the great creation of craft beer, because we love to drink. There are some amazing local crafter breweries in our area and we love sharing their beers to the public.
Not your regular ale house… We are hoping to find the next great craft brewer and say “we knew him when…” Homebrewers are invited to use our top of the line brewing system to produce their best for you to try and critique. Every cycle we will have a new brewer and a new flavor. These beers will be the freshest most unique in all of Texas.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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Texas Leaguer Brewing
Missouri City, TX
Founded: September 2017
Known For: Being baseball fanatics
Beer to Try: 2 Hopper IPA, Airmail Blonde
The TXL Beerpark is the perfect place for you to relax and enjoy our craft beer. Come watch a game on our big screen, play games, or hear some live music. We will always have a food truck parked outside when we are open. Whether you come out for our year-round brews, Farm System Fridays (small batch releases), special releases, or even our Little Leaguer Root Beer, there’s something for everyone.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Running Walker
Richmond, TX
Founded: November 2014
Known For:
Beer to Try: Texas Reserve IPA
Our brewing philosophy is based upon seeking perfection. By utilizing top of the line malts and hops, our team is dedicated to providing the most exceptional hand-crafted beer you will ever experience. Our German-trained and accredited Brewmaster, with more than 20 years of brewing experience, and our entire team of expert brewers are dedicated to providing you a most incredible beer experience.
We select the finest domestic and imported ingredients available, and blend the crushed malt with water, resulting in what is known as mash. After mashing, the wort is separated from the husk and brought to a boil before we introduce hand-selected hops to the process. Finally, we chill our unique Texas brew and let specially selected yeast indulge in the malt sugars, thus creating a masterfully-designed style of beer.
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Fulbrook Ale Works
Richmond, TX
Founded: 2017
Known For: Taking over Texian’s taproom when they decided to close it down
Beer to Try: ?
Jeremiah Ivey, head brewer and owner, is a veteran with 10+ years experience in the beer industry, and he worked for OKC’s Coop Ale Works before venturing out on his own. Fulbrook Ale Works will likely be open to the public winter of 2017.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Baa Baa Brewhouse
539 Fm. 359 Rd. S, Ste 7, Brookshire, TX 77423
Founded: 2014, Public Taproom 2016
Known For: Nationally-Acclaimed Award-Winning Hazy IPA’s, Heavily Fruited Sours, Traditional Styles, and Sheep Puns
Beer to Try: Father Goose West Coast IPA, Big Sheep Kölsch, Cow Jumped Over the Moon NEIPA, Ennie NEIPA, SNOG – Hazy IPA (2020 Gold Medal, NY International Beer Comp.), PS I Love Ewe – Hazy IPA (2020 Bronze Medal, NY International Beer Comp.), rotating fruited sourse and Berliners.
Marcus and his wife Kinga want their small establishment to be family friendly, so the name of their brew house is a take on the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Blacksheep.
Since brewing their first NEIPA, they haven’t looked back. They still keep a few standards on deck, but they’re canning hazy IPAs every other week and killing it on the secondary market.
Open Saturdays from 2-8pm. Dog friendly, kid friendly, everybody of every race, gender, and faith friendly. They’re just friendly.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
🍻 Beer to GO
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🌮 Food Trucks on-site
No Label Brewing Co.
Katy, TX
Founded: Spring 2009
Known For:
Beer to Try: Sittin’ Sidehaze NEIPA, Mango Milkshake NEIPA, Ridgeback Ale, Don Jalapeño Ale, Elda M. Milk Stout, El Hefe Weizen
No Label Brewing Co. truly began one sunny Saturday afternoon in the spring of 2009. The Royo family was sitting on the back porch enjoying some of Brian’s homebrew. After many pints, the conversation turned to the possibility of opening our own brewery. Although none of us had any experience running a brewery, we decided to give it a try.
No Label Brewing Co.’s first home was an old rice silo sitting empty in Old Town Katy. We signed the lease and after many months of sweat and tears our brewery was ready. We started holding small tastings for family and friends, who told their families and friends, and the numbers began to grow.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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4J Brewing Company
Spring Branch, TX
Founded: ?
Known For:
Beer to Try:
4J is a women-owned and family-operated craft brewery in the Houston/Spring Branch area.
The family, including previous generations, has lived in Spring Branch for nearly 100 years. The name 4J comes from the four “J” siblings – Jessica, Jackie, Joanna, and Jennifer. Having four girls whose name all start with a J made it tough on poor dad. He would refer to each of the girls by order of birth.
The youngest, #4, and Dad started home brewing together years ago, living by the motto “makin’ some and drinkin’ some.” The beer was always a hit at family events so one day, #4 and Mom decided to “steal” Dad’s hobby and shape it into a business. Dad, the official taste tester and brewmaster, quickly warmed up to the idea because he always has enough beer to drink.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
Battle Hops Brewing
Katy, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: Board game cafe + brewery = Battle Hops, and previously being named something sheep-related and changing their name
Beer to Try: ?
Ruba Brewing
Richmond/Fondren
Founded: ?
Known For: Being some of the hardest beer to find in Houston – be it on draft around town or actually purchasing a keg at their brewery
Beer to Try: Anbessa Tella Brown Ale
We don’t know a whole bunch about Ruba, and we couldn’t find anybody that does. Kinda strange, but we’ll be hunting for them. We’ve read that there’s no taproom, so draft around town or possibly keg to go is the only way to taste their beer.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
11 Below Brewing
Willowbrook, TX
Founded: March 2015
Known For: Being too young to know what they’re known for, being unpretentious, and possibly being the only brewery in town wiht their own custom server rack
Beer to Try: Oso Bueno Amber, Color Blind Red IPA, Lame Duck Pale Ale, and Negative Space Chocolate Milk Stout
These guys are easily some of the most humble, down-to-earth, people in Houston, and their beer’s pretty good too.
They’ve got a great sense of humor that shines through in their branding, but when it comes time to brew the beer, all jokes are out the window. They’ve also been recognized for their efforts in the community.
They’re still young yet, and they’re not even 100% sure who they want to be when they grow up, but they’re 111% ok with that.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️ Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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The Lone Pint Brewery
Magnolia, TX
Founded: December 2012
Known For:
Beer to Try: Yellow Rose Mosaic SMaSH IPA, Neighbor of the Beast IPA
The Lone Pint Brewery is a grassroots insurrection with the true beer lover in mind. We are dedicated to creating distinctive local Texas ales that are tasty, hoppy, and quaffable. We use raw whole cone hops for bittering, flavoring, aroma, and dry hopping additions in all of our brews. However, an equally important ingredient is the renewable energy that powers our Brewery. The spent grain is fed to a local dairy farmer’s cows and the spent hops are composted.
Craft brewing is an American institution. Our brewhouse and tanks are from Nevada, our boiler from Pennsylvania, our kegging machine from California, our chiller from Oregon, and our mill from Canada (close enough, eh!). Point being, we kept the love at home, doing our part to insure that craft brewing will always remain an American institution.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
Fire Ant Brewing Company
Tomball, TX
Founded: 2009
Known For: Being at local festivals and Texans tailgates, really hanging out with the people and exposing them to various new styles of beer.
Beer to Try: Mosaic Ant APA, Antoberfest, and Working Ant German Porter
Brewmaster Kurt, brother Carl, and friend Bruce started out brewing small batches at home after being prodded by a few friends to try it out. These guys never looked back for a second.
They’ve been experimenting with a wide range of beer types and perfecting them until they’re light and drinkable, perfect for 11 months of summer in Tomball, Texas.
Their expected to open a brand new, state of the art brewpub facility on Market Street in Spring of 2017 Fall of 2018.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️ Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Craft Beer Cellar Cypress
Cypress, TX
Founded: 2018
Known For: Being the very first Craft Beer Cellar in the nation to brew their own beer in-house.
Beer to Try: Constantly rotating taps, but try some CBC when you stop by
Owner Justin Crane got his start in Colorado at Odell Brewing Company, and he immediately fell in love with the industry. Many beers and many years later he wanted to open his own brewery, but a brewpub under the Craft Beer Cellar franchise seemed like the smartest bet for the area and Houston beer landscape at large.
CBC Cypress will have draft, cans, and bottles of local and hard to find beers that you’ve come to know and love at a CBC location, but they’ll also brew their own!
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️ Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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Bearded Fox Brewing Co.
Tomball, TX
Founded: November 2014
Known For:
Beer to Try: Goat IIPA
Bearded Fox Brewing Co. is a small, craft, micro-brewery in Tomball,TX dedicated to using premium sustainable ingredients to bring our customers amazing beer.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Wicked Boxer Brewing
Cypress, TX
Founded: December 2017
Known For: A community-driven approach that’s centered around the owner’s Boxer dogs
Beer to Try: 1983 Hefeweizen
Wicked Boxer Brewing is Cypress’ first brewery, and their community-centric approach to beer focuses on the owner’s Boxer dogs and dog events.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Twisted Acre Brewery
Cypress, TX
Founded: December 2017
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: Green Card Mexican Lager
Twisted Acre Brewing Company started as a hobby project between a husband and wife that evolved into a small scale brewing operation. Our favorite thing about our beers is that we’ve never lost our authentic style of craft beer focusing on unexpected flavors that accompany a refined craft beer taste.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Klaus Brewing
Cypress, TX
Founded: December 2017
Known For: Going all-in on the German styles of beer
Beer to Try: One Helles of a Lager Munich Helles, Dirndl Dropper Marzen, Kaiser Kolsch
Klaus Brewing Company was founded by a local group of family and friends led by passionate brewer Thomas Lemke. Focused on bringing the under-served German-style beers to a wide range of consumers, from beer aficionados to new converts alike.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
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Karbach Brewing
Cypress, TX
Founded: 2011
Known For: Being Houston’s fastest-growing brewery year over year until being bought by AB Inbev
Beer to Try: Love Street Kolsch, Hopadillo IPA, Crawford Bock, Horeshoe Pilsner
Karbach focuses on making beer fun. They have a terrific food menu, and the complex is sprawling with plenty of outdoor seating. “First, we think craft beer should be for everyone.” Furthermore, they’ll “make that person’s beer damn good and have fun making it for them.” They welcome anyone and everyone to the world of great beer – just ask, and you will receive.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️ Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Brazos Valley Brewery
Brenham, TX
Founded: December 2013
Known For:
Beer to Try: 7 Spanish Angels Coffee Ale, Mama Tried IPA, Silt Brown Ale, The 13th Can Cream Ale
Our roots are similar to most. Home-brewing, maybe a few too many, and a crazy “what if”. As the recipes were being developed, we discovered the old Brenham Brewery located just south of downtown Brenham, Texas.
We’re not a complicated brewery nor are we a complicated group of people. Our philosophy is a simple one. We brew what we like and we hope you like it, too.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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Coalfox Brewing Company
Chappell Hill, TX
Founded:
Known For: Creative takes on classic styles that end up being not-so-true-to-style
Beer to Try:
Huff Brewing Company
Belville, TX
Founded: ?
Known For:
Beer to Try: Huff’s Original, Huffmeister
Located in Austin County, Texas, we’re committed to crafting our beer to compliment our history, customs, and lifestyles. We always brew with a respectful nod toward tradition before looking forward to produce beer with a worthy amount of creativity, adventure, and independence. The result is our idea of a good beer: one we enjoy.
We hope you agree. Here’s to sharing a beer with you soon — Prost!
🌮 Kitchen Onsite
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
New Republic Brewing
Bryan – College Station, TX
Founded: 2010
Known For:
Beer to Try: Skylight Dunkelweizen, Kadigan Blonde, Marlinspike Porter
Born of a love for sharing good beer with good company. Founded in 2010 by Dean & Adrienne Brundage and John & Lisa Januskey, New Republic is one of the further out Houston breweries. They craft beer in College Station, Texas. They’re no two-percenters. NRB is run by a core of current and former students (and one slightly befuddled non-Aggie).
Leave a penny for Sully on our behalf and enjoy a New Republic beer when you celebrate. Get it in Bryan, College Station, and select locations in Houston.
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
Black Water Draw Brewing Company
Bryan – College Station, TX
Founded: ?
Known For:
Beer to Try: Border Town Mexican Lager, Ole Saint Nipplaus Peppermint Milk Stout
On account of our fierce beer lovin’ spirit, we hunkered down for a great brewed oddity that would whet our whistles and tickle our tastes. The suds of Blackwater Draw Brewing Co. are akin to their namesake, the beautiful birthplace of the mighty Brazos River: The Blackwater Draw. Now unlike that sludgy, unsanitary, downstream water that courses through the Brazos Valley, the beautiful Blackwater Draw sources unadulterated H-twenty. We follow this simple precept with our brew-making, and we believe it to be true that our time is not ill spent. Our beer is brewed in-house and is as sweet and pure as the water that pours from the Blackwater Draw.
The Blackwater Draw Brewing Co. makes bona fide craft beers that are as cultured as the grain that makes them. Consider us the safehouse for your gang while you hunker down, arouse your appetite, and satiate your thirst. Shit Dang!
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Hullabaloo Diner
Bryan – College Station, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: Being on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Beer to Try: Grapefruit APA, Cream Ale, Ramrod Red Ale
Hullabaloo Diner is one of the few registered, authentic diners in the state of Texas. Hullabaloo Diner is nationally recognized by the Food Network’s popular series Diners Drive-Ins & Dives.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Secret Beach Inspired Ales
Montrose, TX
Founded: 2017
Known For: Killer homebrew, creating quite a buzz with each release, and a gothic/tiki beach vibe that’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before
Beer to Try: Swooner, Depths of Dessertion
Laser Brewing
Houston, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: Wildly successful collaborations with Baa Baa Brewhouse, Eureka Heights, and Whole Foods Market Brewing
Beer to Try: Pew Pew, Damn Girl, Game Over
Stained Glass Beerworks
Houston, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: Strawberry Milk & Honey Milkshake Double NEIPA
Black Page Brewing
Houston, TX
Founded: 2018
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: ?
Slantways Brewing
Houston, TX
Founded: 2018
Known For: ?
Beer to Try: ?
We are three beer loving entrepreneurs who want to create a fun, easy going (non-hoity toity) atmosphere for our fellow thirsty friends. At Slantways, we want to make beer enjoyable and open for everyone. We’ve been making delicious beer for decades for family and friends and want to bring our creations to you, our “friends we haven’t met yet.”
Misfit Brewing
Houston, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: A Vienna Lager that’s good enough to make you think it’s not from a homebrewer.
Beer to Try: Vienna Lager
R.I.P. Houston Breweries That Didn’t Make it
Symposium Brewpub
Galveston, TX
Founded: ?
Known For: Homey brewpub with a local music venue vibe
Beer to Try: Should be brewing summer of 2019, until then, try other breweries on draft
Great beer with a focus on drink-ability as well as live music, comedy, and local art.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
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BCS Zoigl Brewery
Bryan – College Station, TX
Founded: January 2017
Known For: Allowing homebrewers an opportunity to brew and sell their beer on Zoigl’s system
Beer to Try: Constantly rotating
A very unique blend of home brewing, and community brewpub without all the titles. B-CS Unlike a typical brewery, the Zoiglbraurie and its members have equipment scattered all over town. Normally, when beer is fermenting and the tanks are full, there cannot be any mashing or cooking because there is no place to store the wort when done.
Many Zoiglbrauie members have their own fermenters and, when finished preparing the wort, they take it back to their place for finishing – freeing up the brewery to cook again for the next member. When the beer is finished, the brewer hangs a sign (“Zoigl”) to let everyone know that they should come on over and have a few – until it’s gone.
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
🍻 Beer to GO
Town in City Brewing (Now known as Houston Cider Co.)
Inside the Loop – Heights
Founded: March 2015
Known For: Being a brewery and then switching it up to be Houston’s first production cidery
We love our neighborhood. We love how eclectic, unique, and quaint the Heights is. So what better way to honor our home than to name our brewery after it. The heights is known as the Small Town In The Big City. So we decided to name our brewery Town In City Brewing Company in honor of Houston’s first official suburb that was established way back in 1896. Then we switched it up!
🍻 Cider to GO
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🌮 Kitchen Onsite
Brew Brothers Galveston
Galveston, TX – Still open and serving but ceased brewing their own beer in 2017
Founded: 2011
Known For: Being one of Galveston’s first craft beer destinations
Beer to Try: 1900 Great Stout, Kingpin IPA, Bourbon Barrel Big Mint
During a promotional tasting in September of 2011, the first beer served at Brews Brothers was their original brew nicknamed the “1900 Great Stout.” This high volume stout aged over 100 year old Galveston Oak was a pitch black malt bomb with hints of chocolate, bourbon, and vanilla. Today, the bar proudly serves the finest craft beers available from breweries both local and abroad.
🤓 Beer Nerds Welcome – Hype Beers Available
👍 True-to-Style Beers Available
✔️Tickers Welcome – Big Selection
❄️ AC
Galactic Coast Brewing
Dickinson, TX CLOSED UNKNOWN DATE, CRANKY BRITCHES THEN OPENED IN THIS FACILITY
Founded: 2010
Known For:
Beer to Try: Sneaky Blonde, Rocket Ride, Goblin Hunter
Galactic Coast Brewing Company is an experimental, micro-brewery located just miles from the home of U.S. Manned Space Flight/NASA Mission Control (Johnson Space Center) and the water (Galveston Bay, Clear Lake and Gulf of Mexico) in the great state of Texas.
We are avid, if not aggressive, craft beer enthusiasts and are proud to have brought commercial brewing back to Galveston County, which has a tradition of famous breweries dating back to the 1800s although none in more than 30 years.
Not currently packaging beer for sale in cans/bottles. Can’t fill/sell beer at the brewery. No tours of the brewery. Can only buy their beer at the restaurants/bars they distribute too.
Cranky Britches Brewing Co.
Dickinson, TX CLOSED 2018, MERGED WITH TEXAS BEER REFINERY UNDER THEIR BRAND
Founded: 2018
Known For: Filling the facility that used to house Galactic Coast, and then head brewer Bill Arning announced a restructuring that included his move to Texas Beer Refinery
Texian Brewing Company
Richmond, TX TAPROOM CLOSED 2017 (REPORTEDLY STILL BREWING STRICTLY FOR DISTRO), FULBROOK ALE WORKS OPENED IN THIS FACILITY
Founded: November 2012
Known For: A bunch of good sours and as of 8/1/2017 closing their taproom to focus solely on distribution.
Fort Bend Brewing
Fort Bend CLOSED 2015
Founded: 2013
Known For: First Houston Brewery to close post 2013 boom
160 Ft Beerworks
Inside the Loop – Near Northside CLOSED 2017 AFTER HURRICANE HARVEY
Founded: 2016
Known For: Small batch, big taste
Statement from owner: “It’s over folks. We’re shut down permanently. We were unable to accept the quality of our building owners remediation effort. We’ll miss the area and the community that accepted us with open arms and much love. Please continue to show your love to the warehouse district, Last Concert Cafe, Hardy and Nance Studios, Bisong Gallery, Studio 713, and Theodore Rex.”
The Village Brewery
Rice Village CLOSED UNKOWN DATE
Founded: 1990’s
Known For: First GABF medals in Houston