Houston Breweries-IPA Cans to go recs

Spindletap

 

Equal Parts (formerly Sigma)
Great Heights
Astral
Baa Baa (great hazies but west of Katy; they'll have walk-up sales Friday evening)

 

Spindletap
Urban South
Holler
Astral

-Baa Baa is a serious hike. I would not recommend taking the trip out there just for their beers, which are very good to be sure.
-Ingenious and B52 fall into the same category as Baa Baa.
-Equal Parts doesn't do hazy well, in my personal opinion. I know there are a lot of fanboys of these guys, but they don't do it for me.
-Haven't been to Great Heights in a while, but pre-COVID I would have said their hazy beers tend to be overly sweet and not my favorites.

 

Just updating myself to say I had a good experience at Great Heights recently. Their "Fruity Pellets" line of variants remains too sweet for me, but their newer beers were pretty tasty. They had a particularly nice WCIPA on tap (can't remember the name).

Spindletap remains the local champion of hazy IPAs.

Astral continues to improve significantly and is putting out a lot of great stuff.

Finally, I had my first really good Brash "hazy" IPA recently (they are calling it Simple Jack). So check for snow in hell, but I guess you can't count them out of the hazy game (and their non-hazy game is possibly the best in town).

 

A lot of the Spindletap, even some Great Heights and Equal Parts juicy/hazy IPA's can be found at the grocery and liquor stores now. I see them at Kroger Heights location a lot. Just adding that a good handful of these can be found without driving to every nook and cranny of Houston now, though check dates.

 

if you are on twitter, follow this store @TheBeerStation. It is off of downtown Houston at 806 Richmond Avenue. If a brewery in Houston cans and distributes he will have it. You will pay a little more as you can usually walk out of there with singles, but he has a great selection.