Rank your favorite Texas Breweries.

Jester King > Deep Ellum > Freetail > (512) > Austin Beerworks > Live Oak > Real Ale > Southern Star > Saint Arnold > Independence

Deep Ellum is slowly becoming my favorite brewery however.

Karbach is Texas' worst brewery until they send some to Austin. I hear they brew with fish bladders and soy sauce.

 

Jester King
Live Oak
512
Southern Star
Deep Ellum
Real Ale
Saint Arnold
Ranger Creek
Rahr
Franconia
Spoetzl







MillerCoors

 

So you'd put No Label ahead of all those breweries? Interesting. What have you tried that makes you say this?

 

Jester King > Freetail > Saint Arnold

I pick JK first, because they are awesome at what they do. A very special brewery with supreme execution. Boxer's Revenge and Noble King are a couple of my favorite brews in the nation. Their recent collaboration with Mikkeller produced awesome results.

I had a chance to visit Freetail and I am very happy that I did. I tried the wild ales and was very impressed. I just traded for a couple of Freetail bottles and I have high expectations which I think will be met.

I'll admit that I've only tried Saint Arnold's Endeavour, but I'm very picky about pale ales. This one is great.

It's great to see Texas has some major players. I have family in Texas and now I have reasons to visit bottle shops.

 

I love all my children the same. Except for my favorites...

 

Did you see that West Lakeview Liquors has several different Jester King beers?

 

Hell yeah I did! I heard that the cooler months will probably be the only months we'll get JK at WLV. This might just be due to the extreme heat of this past summer. Nobody wanted to risk any negative effects to the brews due to heat during transportation.

 

Karbach
Real Ale
Saint Arnold
512
Rahr and Sons
Shiner (hope this is ok..ha)
Buffalo Brewing
Southern Star
Jester King (just not a fan of the ones I've tried)
No Label (I tolerate Ridgeback and really don't like the rest at all)

 

Jester King > Karbach >Freetail > Saint Arnold > Deep Ellum > Real Ale > Southern Star > New Republic > Live Oak > Independence > Rahr> Spoetzl > Big Texas Brewery

Love those 1st three quite a bit.

 

Jester King (Magic is made here)
Karbach (Slowly becoming my favorite)
Southern Star (LOVE ME SOME PRO-AM 2012, also got me into craft beer)
No Label (They will only get better!)
Buffalo Bayou (Solid Brews)
Saint Arnold (Doing more experimental stuff, I appreciate that, and hopefully climb my list more with that)
Rahr
Real Ale
Live Oak
512
Spoetzl
Austin Beer Works
South Austin

 

I would like to know what you've had from each of those breweries, because I feel you're trying to trick me somehow...

 

Dear Scott,

Please excuse the above 6 of 7 BAs who omitted Freetail from their "rankings." They know not what they have done

 

Real Ale needs more love. I guess you guys haven't tried as many Mysterium Verum beers as I have, but they are easily a top 4 Texas brewery along with Freetail, Jester King and Karbach.

I'm curious how much time will pass until a certain BA known for irrational hate against all TX breweries sees this thread and takes a dump in here...

 

I will second this.

 

1. Real Ale
2. Jester King
3. Freetail
4. Ranger Creek