Craft Pride (Austin, TX)

41 bucks for Xv Anniversary Dark Strong Belgian(ommegang 2 bottles)
60 bucks for 1-BA Full Sail Impy stout, 1-Ba old raspy, 1-Brooklyn brewery silver anniversary lager
so thats 5 for 101 and theres 1 or 2 i jut cant remember and my online wallet says i went for about 150+ in the last few days.

Not complainin since i got a 600 dollar bonus, but im sure the wife is wondering when im gonna contribute to the move to bastrop LOL

 

Rumor has it that Bastrop got 7 cases of Abyss, so your wife might be on to something.

 

Sounds good. Lol. Yeah my wife told me yesterday that I had too much beer.

 

Took our first trip to Craft Pride today... so I took some photos for y'all...

Here's the bar... they had 2 cask engines built into the bar and another cask sitting on the bar with Saint Arnold Divine Reserve 13.



Here's the entrance to the bottle shop, which is directly behind the bar area...



Inside there are 3 coolers... 1 has entirely Texas beers which including DR13, Bishop's Barrel #2 (I bought 2 @ $8, they had a good deal of it), various Jester King, Hops & Grain, and Deep Ellum cans amongst others...



To the right of this they have branded snifters & pint glasses, a few wines, and another cooler with more common out-of-state beers...



On the back wall of the retail store is the last cooler that has various imports & limited release beers. Some gems in here... got a bottle of Brooklyn Silver Anniversary Lager (which I hadn't seen elsewhere yet)...



Here's also a shot I took of the back porch with the Bacon food truck parked (wasn't open today, probably because of the Easter holiday).



Everybody was really friendly there with a much cozier atmosphere than over at Banger's IMHO... I spoke to the manager, who is really interested in putting together a bottle share event for out-of-market beers (she's from Chicago and was a big fan of all their beers).

 

Oh, another thing I liked was that pints are served in 20oz glasses with a 16oz fill line, so you're getting a true 16oz pour with room for head.

 

Yes, I liked the glasses too. No short pours on "pints" there. The chicken with bacon-waffles hit the spot last I was there.

 

Nice, how much did you pay for the brooklyn silver? I got one at rosedale, think i paid a tad over 18 bucks.

 

Their stuff seemed very reasonably priced.... it was $15.

 

Kick ass. need to get out of work at a reasonable hour now....

 

The manager also mentioned she wanted to get some Three Floyd's, because that's her favorite brewery. Didn't want to crush her dreams with the awful reality.

 

Bottle share could accomplish that.