Texas Breweries at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival

The 2015 Great American Beer Festival begins in less than a month, so it's a good time to take a look at the Texas breweries that will be attending this year.

Last year there was 47 Texas breweries with booths on the festival floor which was the largest turnout ever. It's down slightly to 45 this year, but that probably has more to do with the space limitations in the convention hall and how the booth space is assigned due to the record number of craft breweries now operating. According to the GABF website, the following breweries will be representing Texas this year:

Brewery	City	Booth
(512) Brewing Co	Austin	Y2
903 Brewers	Sherman	K2
Austin Beerworks	Austin	K3
Bitter Sisters Brewing Company *	Addison	K5
Black Star Co-op	Austin	K6
Blue Owl Brewing *	Austin	K8
Bluebonnet Beer Co *	Round Rock	K9
Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co	Houston	K12
Circle Brewing Company	Austin	K13
Community Beer Co	Dallas	K14
Deep Ellum Brewing Co	Dallas	W10
Flix Brewhouse - Round Rock	Round Rock	K16
Fredericksburg Brewing Co	Fredericksburg	K23
Freetail Brewing Co	San Antonio	K24
Freetail Brewing Co - Brewpub *	San Antonio	K25
Hops & Grain Brewing	Austin	K27
Humperdinks Restaurant & Brewery	Dallas	K28
Independence Brewing	Austin	K30
Lakewood Brewing Co	Garland	K32
Live Oak Brewing Co	Austin	L3
Martin House Brewing Company	Fort Worth	L5
Middleton Brewing Co	San Marcos	Z2
No Label Brewing Co	Katy	L7
North By Northwest Restaurant and Brewery	Austin	L8
Oasis Texas Brewing Company	Austin	L9
Panther Island Brewing Company *	Fort Worth	L10
Pedernales Brewing Co	Fredericksburg	L11
Peticolas Brewing Co	Dallas	Z11
Pinthouse Pizza	Austin	Z12
Rahr and Sons Brewing Co	Fort Worth	X3
Real Ale Brewing Co	Blanco	K1
Revolver Brewing	Granbury	L13
Saint Arnold Brewing Co	Houston	J17
South Austin Brewery	Austin	BP17
Southerleigh Brewing *	San Antonio	L15
Spoetzl Brewery	Shiner	L20
Texas Beer Refinery	Dickinson	L23
Texian Brewing Co	Richmond	L24
The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co	Austin	L25
The Collective Brewing Project *	Ft Worth	L26
Tupps Brewery *	McKinney	L30
Twin Peaks Brewery	Irving	K34
Twisted X Brewing Co	Dripping Springs	L31
Uncle Billy's Brew & Que	Austin	Z21
Zilker Brewing Co*	Austin	L33

* Denotes first time attending GABF

 

This is another great turnout from Texas and includes quite a few new breweries. Hopefully this will result in another great medal showing after Texas breweries took home 16 medals last year and 10 the previous year. 

Good luck to all the breweries who have beer entered in the competition this year and I look forward to sampling your beers on the convention floor.