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Texas Craft Brewer’s Festival

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I had an awesome time at the Texas Craft Brewer’s Festival yesterday with my friends Scott & Roy. There is some seriously good beer being made in and around Austin. If you like craft beer you should definitely attend next year. (Come early for shorter lines.)

Here were some of my favorite beers from the day (can you tell I like ’em hoppy?):

Empire (barrel-aged IPA) from Real Ale in Blanco, TX

Cask-conditioned Wytchmaker (rye IPA) from Jester King in Austin, TX

A Cascadian dark ale from Southern Star Brewery in Conroe, TX (not sure it had an official name because it was a pro-am winner’s beer)

Fire Eagle Ale from Austin Beerworks in Austin, TX

Blur Texas Hefe from Circle Brewing Company in Austin, TX

Stash IPA from Independence Brewing in Austin, TX

Bruin (American brown ale) from (512) Brewing Company in Austin, TX

Pale Horse (American pale ale) from No Label Brewing in Katy, TX

 

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Food & Wine Festival Coming to Austin

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I was excited to read this news at austin360.com today:

Food & Wine magazine and the company behind the Austin City Limits Music Festival will produce the first Austin Food & Wine Festival in March 2012, organizers announced Tuesday.

The magazine, which has about 1 million subscribers, has been hosting the Aspen Food and Wine Classic in Colorado for almost 30 years, and it is involved with more than a dozen other events around the country, including food festivals in South Beach, Fla.; Los Angeles; New York; and Atlanta . The new festival, slated for March 30-April 1, will absorb the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, which ends its 26-year run.

My wife and I have always wanted to go to the Aspen Food & Wine Classic. It’ll be great to have a similar event here in Austin. And it sounds like they’ll pull in some heavy-hitters.

Grdovic said the Austin festival will be similar to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, the February soiree in which many of the biggest celebrity chefs in the country and their legions of followers descend upon Miami for events such as a tasting village on the beach that is three blocks long.

“It is like the mosh pit at Lollapalooza,” said Tampa Tribune food writer Jeff Houck . “South Beach has become the template by which other festivals have been born and compared to,” he said.

Along with the magazine and C3, the new festival is a collaboration with chefs Tyson Cole of Austin and Tim Love of Fort Worth and Austin restaurateur Jesse Herman of La Condesa and Malverde.

“Knowing the kind of powerhouse that Food & Wine magazine can bring to Austin, that was one of the huge incentives for us to do this,” said Cathy Cochran-Lewis, president of the Hill Country festival.

See you there in 2012!

via @DeniseFraser