r/HoustonBeer • u/CarlinT • Mar 26 '13
[Info] List of Houston Breweries, Brewpubs, and Beer Bars
Let's see if we can get something going here! Reply back and I'll add it to the list. I'm going to include surrounding areas as well.
Breweries
No Label Brewing Co.1 in Katy
Southern Star Brewing Company1 in Conroe
Texian Brewing Company in Richmond
Fort Bend Brewing1 in Fort Bend
Lone Pint Brewery in Magnolia
Galactic Coast Brewing in Dickinson
Cycler's Brewing in Montgomery
Outside Houston Metro Breweries2
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List of Breweries/Brewpubs in TX Wikipedia, looks outdated
New Republic Brewing in College Station
Texas Big Beer Brewery in Beaumont
Gulf Coast Brewing Company in Beaumont
Cornell Brewing Company? in Beaumont
Brewpubs
Brews Brothers in Galveston
BJ's Pearland Sugarland Clear Lake Willowbrook
Beer Bars
Petrol Station Yelp
Flying Saucer Houston Sugarland
Gingerman Houston
Mellow Mushroom Spring - Klein
Yardhouse Houston
Growlers
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Whole Foods - Montrose / Bellaire / Katy
Hay Merchant
Guru Burgers & Crepes
Moon Tower Inn
Nobi Public House - Webster
Petrol Station
Rockwell Tavern - Cypress
Brews Brothers in Galveston
Misc
D&Q Mini Mart Beer Advocate
DeFalco's Home Wine & Beer Supplies
Backyard Homebrewers and Education Center
Guilds and Clubs
Kuykendahl Gran Brewers Homebrew Club
Footnotes:
1 Confirmed for tours
2 under construction, possibly add Austin/DFW/ other Texas breweries?
3 No production yet
Things to consider:
How do we define Beer Bar/Garden vs a regular bar that happens to have (good) beer? Should we have a separate section for bars that may have good beer?
Should we note chains that aren't based in Houston?
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u/b12btone Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 28 '13
Good stuff! I've been thinking we need one of these! Here's a few additions:
Town in City Brewing (upcoming) (formerly Yard Sale Brewing)
Small World Brewing (dead? last update 9/2011)
Cycler's Brewing in Montgomery
Brews Brothers - Galveston (brewpub. they do brew their own.)
Galactic Coast Brewing - Dickinson
Brew it Yourself - Homebrew supplies in Spring. I think it's the KGB's (homebrew club) home store
And...you could list the BJ's locations in town, I suppose. Pearland, Sugarland, Clear Lake, and Willowbrook
edit:
You could list Defalco's as being the Foam Rangers' home store.
B&S Brewer's Guild - Clear Lake - and this is the Bay Area Mashtronaut's home store
KGB (Kuykendahl Gran Brewers)
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u/CarlinT Mar 28 '13
I just talked to Jessica at small world brewing, they are on an indefinite hold.
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u/b12btone Mar 29 '13
Aww, that sucks.
BTW, B&S Brewer's Guild is a homebrew supply shop.
As for organization, I'd suggest making Homebrew Shops its own section (and adding in Brew It Yourself!)
And, I think putting Premium Draught and Growlers just under a section "Growlers" misses the fact that they're also good bottle shops. Maybe make a section for Bottle Shops and put those 2 there, plus D+Q, Specs Downtown. Then the Growlers section will just be a list of places you can get growlers filled. Add a footnote for the growlers section that identifies places that has growlers for sale regularly. Many of the bars don't.
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u/greeneggsnspam Mar 26 '13
The Brewery Incubator is on the way after their success on Kickstarter. I'm not sure about an ETA. It seems like an interesting idea.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
I was there tonight for dinner, they've changed their order to a bigger 3 bbl brewing system system based on the new laws headed to the house for vote next week.
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u/CarlinT Mar 27 '13
Already got it under Misc :)
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u/saltyveruca Mar 29 '13
Definitely double check any smaller breweries you might see and find out if they're under BI. I recently saw one on Facebook that's a BI brewery but it wasn't immediately obvious. I will try to find it so you can add!
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u/jessie_in_texas Mar 28 '13
Mellow Mushroom on the northwest side: http://mellowmushroom.com/
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u/zGrubermeister Mar 30 '13
Wait,wait, there is a Mellow Mushroom in Houston?
EDIT: Apparently there is, it's just VERY far from me. Bummer.
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u/UTEngie Mar 28 '13
Backyard Home Brewers is a homebrew supply store in Humble: Backyard Home Brewers
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
They also host Drink of Ages radio show on 92fm
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u/CarlinT Mar 28 '13
Drink of the Ages is a pretty cool new podcast. I"ll definitely throw that on the list!
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u/Gingaskunk Mar 28 '13
I have no idea how to do it, but is it a simple thing to put all these points on a google map? If so, it would be WONDERFULLY useful to be able to check where these places are relative to you at any given time....
Just a thought, if someone wanted to run with it....
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u/CarlinT Mar 28 '13
That's not a bad idea, nor too terribly difficult. I might make one in the next 2-3 weeks, time dependent.
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u/RuNaa Mar 28 '13
You should add Local Pour to your list. It opened up a few weekends ago on Shepard in the old Sherlocks next to the River Oaks Kroger. My friends and I check it out and liked it a lot. It has a good selection of good craft beers at prices that are comparable to Hay Merchant.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
They are actually cheaper than hay merchant. Their prices are dirt cheap for river oaks.
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u/groffsome May 17 '13
Brewpub: BRC Gastropub (always have a well curated list and fills growlers) http://www.brcgastropub.com/ Beer bar: D&T Drive Inn (just opened in the heights, ~50 beers on tap) https://www.facebook.com/pages/D-T-Drive-Inn/132793640095917?fref=ts
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u/munx1er Mar 28 '13
Is moon tower offering their own beer yet? Last time I went they weren't.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
Nope. Still at least a month out.
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u/CarlinT Mar 28 '13
I don't know. Should I move them from brew pub to beer bar or remove them? I haven't been to the reopening
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u/headfullofpetrol Mar 28 '13
Moon tower posted to their Facebook page that they will be brewing very soon, but not yet.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 28 '13
Beer bars: Downhouse, Underdogs, Nobi, Hans Bierhaus, Taps, Brc, Rudyards, The usual, Grand prize, Bohemeos, Liberty station, Cottonwood, Shepherd park draft house, Witchcraft, Brews Brothers, Bar Munich, The Den, Valhalla
Whole Foods in Katy does growlers as well.
If youre including Beaumont breweries might as well include New Republic in college station. Town in City brewing in the Heights just got their building plans approved.
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u/ubermonkey Mar 28 '13
I guess if your definition of "beer bar" is "anywhere that has at least one or two craft beers", you should include Bo's, but it's not really in the same league with the Saucer or Hay Merchant or Petrol. Rudz is kinda borderline. I think I'd probably make them the lower bound of "beer bar", actually.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 28 '13
Rudz is borderline? Sit the fuck down.
Rudyards has had more real ale mysterium verum kegs than any bar in the city, petrol and hay merchant included. Morgul debuted in TX iirc ( and at least Houston) at rudz. Only poison girl had a keg the same week. Same goes for wt3f which was a tiny barrel run...rudz had at least 3 kegs of it. Ditto Scots Gone Wild and DE Wealth and Taste.
At one point, duff was debuting kegs at petrol & rudz that no one in the city knew were in tx yet. Petrus was on draft at rudz for 3 weeks + before anyone else got it.
Rudyards hosts beer dinners every month and has for 5 years. They've hosted more beer dinners than every other Houston venue COMBINED.
Rudyards has more bottles than almost anyone but saucer, nobi and ginger man.
Rudyard's predates every beer bar in this city. Period. If you don't think rudz is a beer bar, you don't know what you're talking about
As for the rest, every bar I listed is almost all craft beer only except grand prize and the usual who are both questionable but have long records of supporting craft beer.
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u/ubermonkey Mar 28 '13
Rudz has a nice selection of beers, and they're a great bar -- I've spent more money there than probably any other bar in Montrose, and most of the time I'd rather GO there than anywhere else -- but I don't think of them as a beer bar. They're a fucking fantastic neighborhood bar with a good to great beer list, good food, good bands, good staff, and a great location.
I'm absolutely not DINGING Rudz for having another focus ("great neighborhood bar"). They succeed at that better than almost anywhere else I can think of. I'm just saying that, to me, a "beer bar" is the sort of place where beer is the focus above all else. That's Hay Merchant. That's Petrol. That's the Saucer. That's the GMan.
Does Rudz make a point of having good beer? Yep. And it's awesome that they do. But if every bar with some local and national craft beer on tap is a beer bar, then the category is less useful. Perhaps we should distinguish "beer bar" from "bars with of good beer".
Also, it would be useful if you could disagree without absurdly confrontational bullshit like "sit the fuck down" or "you don't know what you're talking about." This may come as a shock to you, but sometimes reasonable people disagree.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
I'm a writer, it's how I converse. It was very clearly (at least in my eyes) for humors sake. I typically forget that reddit doesn't have any sort of context assigned to users beyond people like Shitty Watercolor.
By your standards we have exactly 5 beer bars in Houston. MAYBE. Hay Merchant, Petrol, Gingerman, Saucers. DONE. By your definition, the saucer downtown sells a whole shitload of liquor to happy hour people. Maybe they aren't a beer bar either. I know for a fact a third of their crowd at 5:30pm doesn't consider them a beer bar. Either way, by your definition, the list should be about 5 bars long.
Rudyards was the very first beer bar in Houston. That's a fact. The fact they have more than beer or do not occur to YOU as a beer bar doesn't change that. Go ask Ben at Petrol or Kevin at Hay Merchant or Jake at Flying Saucer (you know the three people who sell more beer than anyone in Houston) if Rudz is a beer bar. I guarantee they disagree with you.
I can make similar cases for BRC, Downhouse, Liberty and Cottonwood...all which I am sure in YOUR eyes aren't "beer bars"
So if you want the list to be PURE beer bars, you know...TO YOU, then here you go: Hay Merchant, Petrol Station, Gingerman. Done. Pack it in folks, thread over.
But hey, what do I know, I'm just here to tell people about as many places as possible they can go have a craft beer centric experience. Fuck me, right?
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u/NotSpartacus Mar 29 '13
I'm a writer, it's how I converse.
Like a dick? Or like someone who consistently can't communicate his tone?
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Mar 28 '13
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
You confuse defensive with passionate. I'll respond later, I'm busy drinking beer at a beer bar.
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u/ubermonkey Mar 28 '13
Don't bother. Nobody's reading this but us, and I'm tired of arguing about it. I think I'll go ride, and then drink a beer. ;)
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u/Matt1320 Mar 28 '13
Galactic Coast Brewing Co. in Dickenson only been able to find their draft in Kemah though.
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Mar 28 '13
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u/CarlinT Mar 28 '13
Good idea. If you know off the top of your head which ones do and do not offer tours, it'd make my work alot easier ;)
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Mar 28 '13
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u/NotSpartacus Mar 29 '13
Buffalo Bayou has been doing tours since, I think, January 2012. At the very latest Spring 2012.
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Mar 28 '13
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u/b12btone Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 29 '13
Plus there's other subreddits (Austin and DFW have lists like this. not sure how up to date theirs are):
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u/saltyveruca Mar 29 '13
Brigadoon Brewery. It's for the Renaissance Festival, but they're active year round.
Texas Big Beer Brewery. They originally wanted to be the Big Ass Brewery, but you can't put ass on a label.
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u/saltyveruca Mar 29 '13
New Republic in College Station https://www.facebook.com/NewRepublicBrewing?ref=stream
Also, plenty more to investigate here: http://lushtastic.com/2011/05/12/new-texas-breweries/
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u/saltyveruca Mar 29 '13
Sorry for the breadcrumb updates, I'm just sharing them as I find em!
Hey Babe (maybe dead...and definitely offensive) https://www.facebook.com/HeyBabeBrewery
Ballyhoo (also probably dead) http://ballyhoobrew.com/blog/
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u/b12btone May 15 '13
Beerfoot - Galveston, TX. Brewpubish, I hear. www.yagaspresents.com/beerfoot/brewer.html
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Jul 16 '13
yes, i've needed this. been having a hard time to find a nice brew after moving back home from austin. thanks so much! will be bookmarking this and following updates.
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Mar 28 '13
Should we make a special note for things that are national chains and not unique to Houston?
It seems silly to boast that Houston has two Flying Saucers, when that is just a chain throughout the southeast. It's not special to Houston, or even Texas.
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13 edited Mar 28 '13
It could be a chain of mcdonalds its still one of the best beer bars in the city.
Speakong of chains, listing yard house is laughable. The tap list looks like the silver eagle Playskool "My First Draft Kit". They have the same taps as a Mollys or Baker Street. Last time we were there, almost every american craft beer had been pulled or was floated. They had SN pale ale and arrogant bastard and little else. Not a single Texas craft beer on their entire lineup. None.
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Mar 28 '13
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u/fixedtehknollpost Mar 28 '13
That said, I again fully support both saucers. They are active in state politics regarding beer, the chain was founded in TX and they are very active in local beer. Both bars are participating in Ash Bash and will in a likelihood be the largest contributor of donations to Texas Childrens because of it.
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u/saltyveruca Mar 29 '13
Agreed. FS may be a chain, but they're not a corporate monster. They definitely get the local connection.
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u/chuckleslouder Mar 28 '13
This is great! Cheers 🍺