Circle Brewing Co. - Austin Beer Guide

FROM THE EDITORS
I know, I know, last issue was a bit “Dad” heavy. For
this issue I told the guys to take it easy on the dad stuff.
They couldn’t help themselves, they were all new dads,
brimming with love and excitement. I was the older,
wiser, bitter old pop and I only bring this up because I am
sitting in the labor and delivery room awaiting the birth
of our second child, our first daughter. And it’s almost
Father’s Day. But that’s it, that is where I will leave it.
Before going to press, I did a find and replace for a
few choice words. First: Dad. I replaced every reference
to dad, father, pop, padre, etc. with the words “Dive Bar.”
See page 14 for more on that. Next: Kid. No one wants to
read about kids, children, babies, etc. in a beer mag. So
those were replaced with “Cans,” a hot topic these days
in the beer world (p. 22). Actually it’s been a hot topic
for awhile, but we are busy dads so it takes us a while to
catch on to the trends.
Luckily, I was able to get the guys to ditch their
families to head down to New Braunfels for an afternoon
of beer drinking. Of course, to do this, we had to have a
family brunch before hand. Read all about it on page 28.
Also to lessen the dad stuff, we have a Season’s Drinking
on wheat beers (p. 6). And everyone knows wheat beers
are for moms, not dads. Don’t believe me. I had a can of
Karbach’s wheat beer for the opening photo of the can
feature and my pregnant wife said, “Don’t drink that, save
it for me for after the baby comes.” See. Mom beer.
So as you can see, we’ve successfully cut down on
the dad-ness and pumped up the beer-ness. Right here
I was trying to think of a dad joke to perfectly close this
thing out, but I got nothing. Now excuse me, I have to cut
the umbilical cord of my newborn daughter. “Hold on
doctor, just want to finish this last sentence.” —AC
Chris Troutman
Josh Spradling
Aaron Chamberlain
Shawn Phillips
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Contents
........................................ NEWS & BREWMORS 02
.......................................06
SEASON’S DRINKING
.......................................08
PODCAST
.......................................10
BREWER’S BRAIN
.......................................14
FEATURE: DIVES
.......................................22
FEATURE: CANS
............................................28
BEER & LOATHING
.......................................32
BREWERIES
.......................................58
BREW PUBS
.......................................63
BP: DAYTRIPPERS
.......................................66
MAPS
.......................................72
OVER A PINT
BONUS STAFF
PHOTOGRAPHY .................. Casey Moore
PROOFREADERS ............Sofia and Sarah