Tap Room

Tap Room Hours

  • Mon-Sat: 11AM-10PM
  • Sun: 11AM-8PM

One of life’s great pleasures is drinking beer at the place it is brewed. And we’re prepared to pleasure you!

Have a pint. Have a party. Take a swim in one of our brew tanks! (okay one of these things is not true). We’ve got a carnival worth of cool merch. And now we can sell Beer-To-Go so you will certainly take home something special.

Wait, we haven’t even talked about the beer?!? All of our core beers are on tap, plus seasonals, big bottles from our Killer Strains series and every week there are new RAD Lab beers you’ll only find at the taproom. Oh, and we also have wine and cider! Come on by, there’s always a party at ABW.

PS - We have a new taproom in Northeast Austin on Springdale Rd. Read more about it HERE.

We’re committed to creating a safe, welcoming, harassment-free environment for everyone who walks through our doors. For more information about the behavior we expect from our employees and guests, please check out our Code of Conduct.

Please note that, due to city code, only service animals are allowed inside our taproom. Well-behaved pets are welcome everywhere else, including our covered patio area.

Exclusives

Collab

Drinking good beer with good friends is the best.You laugh, you cry, you play the finger circle game (made you look. PUNCH) When we drink with other brewers we can’t help but come up with ideas and that’s the beauty of collaborations. We get to brew beers alongside our buddies and make something totally unique that everyone can enjoy. It’s given us the chance to brew alongside some of our idols like Doug (f-ing) O’Dell (LINK TO VIDEO?) and New Belgium (LINK TO VIDEO?) and just some of our favorite people like Sun King (LINK TO VIDEO?).

It’s an integral part of any active brewery and one of our favorite things to do. These are always super limited releases so if you see one on the big board make sure you act quick! Like a great conversation it’s over before you know it.

RAD Labs

R and D! This is our drink-u-bator. Our playground. Our sex machine. It’s a 7-barrel pilot system where we can experiment without having to brew a whole 90-barrel batch. And everyone in the brewery gets a crack at making a beer on it. RAD Labs is rolling all year round so there is always something RADically new in the taproom. It leads to some incredible and incredibly-limited beers. So come to the tap room if you want something totally rad that you can’t get anywhere else. And, as a bonus, you get to see how bad our beer puns get.

Killer Strains

Yes mommy, monsters are real. They are mutations, permutations and twice-removed relations made entirely of beer imaginations. They are wine barrel-aged sours and bourbon barrelled Sputnik and tequila barrel behemoths with a dash of lime. They are something to behold. And even better, to drink. For months – even years – these wild things are making magic in oaken darkness. And then the day comes when they meet the world. That’s the day you want to be here.

RAD Labs

Hop Water

Hop Water

0.0%

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ABW’s Hop Water

Core Beers

About Core Beers

It's all about having a strong core.

These are the beers that fuel the fun of Austin. No matter what the situation – from fancy wedding to ill-advised shotgun challenge – we’ve got a can for every occasion. Many have won awards but we just hope they win your heart.

Now look at that… It’s Anytime!

Hazy Session IPA

Floaty

4.5%

ABV

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All the smooth fruity flavor of a Hazy IPA with half the body and booze. Floaty opens big with a burst of citrus, orange candy and stone fruit. Then it dials it down with a delightfully light finish that leaves you floating on cloud 4.5.

  • 20

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German-Style Pils

Pearl Snap

5.3%

ABV

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You always remember your first kiss. But no matter how very many times you try to recreate it with your awkward advances it never matches up. That’s why you should plant your pucker on a Pearl Snap. This crisp refreshing pils will never let you down. Whether if it’s your first date or two year anniversary, every bright clean sip tastes like the very first time.

OFFICIAL BEER OF AUSTIN - AUSTIN CHRONICLE
2012 AUSTIN BEER GUIDE BEST OVERALL BEER (READERS’ CHOICE)

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  • 27

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  • 12.0°P

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American IPA

Fire Eagle

7.3%

ABV

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Flavor swoops in (cue EAGLE SCREAM), grabs you by the face and flies you through the hop rainbow. At the peak of the ride it swoops back to earth and gently drops you back on your bar stool where you are refreshed, excited and ready to ride again. It’s hoppy, bold and American. It is a classic IPA to judge all others against. Say it loud, scream it proud, “Screeeeeeee!”

2014 GABF SILVER MEDAL
TOP 50 AMERICAN IPAPASTE

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  • 65

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Hoppy Pale Ale

Flavor Country

5.9%

ABV

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When we began in 2011 it was impossible to brew this Hoppy Pale Ale. The ingredients weren’t available and the science didn’t exist. Oil rich lupulin powder was just a dream. It brings intense flavor but doesn’t linger, drinks like a hop forward pale ale but doesn’t blow you up and every sip leaves you craving more. It’s so special we had to invent a whole new country to explain it. Welcome.

2018 GABF BRONZE MEDAL

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Anytime Ale

Peacemaker

5.0%

ABV

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Peacemaker was the very first beer we decided to brew. It’s balanced, refreshing, and very sessionable. Peacemaker is simple, but we take it very seriously — a bold and clean beer with nothing to hide behind. It’s the beer we drink the most at the brewery. And at home. And on the river. When you have a cold, bright, well-balanced beer like Peacemaker on hand, anytime is a good time to enjoy it.

2011 GABF SILVER MEDAL

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  • 15

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  • 11.5°P

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Light Beer

Smalltime

3.0%

ABV

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Call it a light beer. Or misspell it lite beer. Call it Half Pint or Short Stuff. It doesn’t matter, Smalltime speaks for itself. Brewed with uber-premium pilsner malt, it’s small on calories (89) and big on flavor (100%). Smalltime is your all-the-time beer.

  • 15

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Seasonals

About Seasonals

Limited Release

Who knew Austin had so many seasons? Spring. DAMN, Spring is Hot. Summer. Second Summer. Kill Me Summer. Seriously? Almost Winter. Wait, Was That Winter? Spring. Hot Spring. Well, we’ve got something special for every one of them. They only last a limited time so get ‘em while they’re hot and drink ‘em while they’re cold.

Russian Imperial Coffee Oatmeal Stout

Sputnik

8.5%

ABV

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Oats. Cuvee Coffee. Alcohol. And we have liftoff! Like the sight of a comet, the appearance of Sputnik has the locals thanking the brewing gods. As Will says, “we get all science on this shit.” He has developed a proprietary way to introduce the coffee into the beer. We’ve seen it happen and we know a stopwatch and monocle are involved. What happens is it opens up the aromatics without adding any harshness. You get an intense coffee aroma and bold flavor that perfectly compliments the silky oats and high alcohol. It will take your taste buds to orbit.

2014 AUSTIN BEER GUIDE BEST LIMITED/SPECIAL BEER (READERSCHOICE)

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American Lager

Cold Glory

5.6%

ABV

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From the bold hops of the Pacific coast to the clean grains of the plains, this beer is 100% from sea to shining Screeeee!

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Juicy DIPA

Megaflora

7.9%

ABV

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You’ve whacked through a thicket of typical IPAs. Now you come upon Megaflora, hanging on the vine like a ripe melon. With a simple tap, citrus disco balls spill out enveloping you in a cloud of fruity indulgence. You’re going to megafauna over it.

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Blood Orange IPA

Bloodwork Orange

7.0%

ABV

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As part of our ABW Pilot Program, every Beerworker gets the chance to pilot our private bi-plane. Whaaat? No. We have robots for that. Actually they get to make their own beer on our seven-barrel pilot system - It’s called RAD Labs for Research and Development. That’s how Bloodwork began - with Nick Pratt and a citrusy dream. It was only available in our taproom but was in such high demand it has become our first year-round seasonal. It’s the Sicilain blood oranges added during fermentation that make this a citrus symphony for the senses.

  • 20

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Juicy IPA

Juice-O-Matic

7.0

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A tropical triumph of technology! A melon-y marvel of modern engineering! Juice-O-Matic IPA utilizes high-speed centrifugal action to squeeze out every last drop of hop flavor.

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Can-tina

Good Beer Deserves Good Food

Serving Lunch and Dinner Every Dang Day

We want to guarantee the best food every single day at our taproom. So instead of relying on a rotating caravan of food trucks we grabbed the burger by the horns and took the queso into our own hands.

Fresh, local, and open for lunch and dinner every damn day. Can-tina may be on wheels but it’s not leaving the grounds for any festival, it’s ours, it’s delicious and it’s only available at Austin Beerworks.

For food options at our Springdale location, check out Yellow Bell Tacos!

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