Adelbert’s Renames The Traveler in Response to Traveler Beer Company Trademark Notice
Austin-based Adelbert’s Brewing Company is changing the name its popular beer The Traveler Belgian IPA, in response to a trademark notice from Vermont’s The [...]
Beer Laws
Flying Dog Hits Deep Ellum With C&D Over Easy Peasy IPA
Today in “____ craft brewery is threatening legal action against ____ craft brewery” news… Flying Dog Brewery has hit Dallas-based Deep Ellum Brewing [...]
Filed Bills Push For ‘Beer to Go’ Sales at Texas Breweries
A pair of bills introduced this week aim to make it legal for Texas craft breweries to sell cans, bottles and growlers of their beer to go directly from their taprooms. [...]
UPDATED: Live Oak, Peticolas & Revolver to Announce Distribution Lawsuit
Three Texas brewers have teamed up to challenge restrictions on craft beer distribution. Chip McElroy, owner of Live Oak Brewing in Austin, Michael Peticolas, owner [...]
Craft Brewers and Beer Organizations advocate for exemption to FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
In the past months, concern has risen that new federal rules may cut centuries-long relationships brewers have had with farmers. A proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]
Three Ways to Celebrate Repeal Day With Craft Beer
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st amendment, in other words, the repeal of Prohibition. Naturally, this beverage-centric historical milestone [...]
Rolling Roadshow screens Crafting A Nation at Jester King Craft Brewery
The Alamo Drafthouse is kicking off its Rolling Roadshow summer series with a very special beer-themed event. As the sun sets on Jester King Craft Brewery this Thursday July [...]
With Beer Bills Passing, Texas Brewers Take to Internet to Announce Plans
With only the Governor’s signature needed to make the beer bills law, a number of Texas brewers have come forward through social media, online forums and blogs in [...]
Beer Bills Go Before House Tomorrow
Hey craft beer drinkers, in case you haven’t heard the news, SB 515, 516, 517, 518 & 639, a package of craft beer bills that would allow production breweries to [...]
Municipal Waste partners with 3 Floyds Brewery for Toxic Revolution Stout Ale
Remember that one time Hanson said they were making a beer called MMMHop after their revolutionary 1997 hit “MMMBop”? I do because I was fucking stoked for it. [...]
New “Anti-Competitive” Beer Bill Brought Before the Texas Senate
One step forward—two steps back, as they say. Senator John Carona (R-Dallas) brought before the Texas Senate a bill that many are calling “anti-competitive.” [...]
Texas Craft Brewers Guild Files Bills for 2013 Legislature
It was announced earlier this week on Open the Taps’ blog that the Texas Craft Brewers Guild had made some headway in their negotiations with beer industry interest [...]
