Weekly Beer Releases – 2016

** This Page is a WIP. It is being reassembled from past info in 2025. Expect errors.

Below is the date, name and description we put out when it was released in 2016. With a few notes from us now in 2025.

  1. January 2nd: New Page Porter – Ring in the new year with the new page porter. This is a dark porter with an upfront roast bitterness which finishes with a smooth very slight vanilla spiced profile.
  2. January 6th: Belgian IPA – This recipe was designed by home brewer Russell Wagner. It twists and blends two common beer styles, an American IPA and a Belgian Wit. 60 IBUs acquired by both American and German hops. Fermented with a Belgian yeast strain along with additions of orange peel and coriander. Finished by a generous dry hopping of Soriachi Ace and Citra hops.
  3. January 13th: Diwali – This was a collaboration brew with the local chefs association. They wanted to create a beer that would show off their culinary expertise and they delivered! This is an Indian curry sort of beer with tumeric, coriander, cardamon, fenugreek, fennel, ginger and cayenne pepper.
  4. January 20th: Shipwreck Porter – This was a collaboration brew with home brewers Andrew McNeil, Brice Thomas and Stuart Morris. To make this porter even more unique we added rum soaked oak chips to give it a barrel aged flavor.
  5. January 29th: Grapefruit Pale – This simple pale beer is made with pilgrim and galena hops which both can have grapefruit qualities as well as fresh grapefruit peel. While we didn’t achieve as much grapefruit flavor as we were hoping for, it is still a tasty beer with a refreshing hint of grapefruit.
  6. February 5th: Islander Beach – We took the Beach in wHeat and added blueberries during the brewing process. And when it is served, it will have more blueberries! This beer is in honor of the Islander Homecoming this weekend.
  7. February 10th: Lovers in the Surf On the first sip this golden colored beauty starts off with a slight hop bitterness that quickly fades into an incredibly rich and creamy light beer. Just when you think that is all, it ends with a semi sweet light chocolate finish that lingers until your next sip.
  8. February 10th: Corpus Christi v5 – After tallying up all the votes Corpus voted for the beer to go darker and more malty. We adjusted the malts accordingly and out came the new version.
  9. February 18th: Ooh Rah – Home brewer and Marine Wes Earhart challenged himself as well as us to create a Rye Amber Hefeweizen to match the marine battle cray ooh rah. Our creation is similar to a Roggenbier but instead of using mostly barley and rye which is common in a Roggenbier we replaced most of the barley with wheat to bring it closer to a hefeweizen.
  10. February 18th: Raptor Eye – Surftoberfest home brew winner, Sean Sutherland, collaborated with us to make this American style IPA.
  11. February 24th: Belgian Abbey – This Belgian style abbey is dark copper in color, extremely smooth and packed full of Belgian aroma and flavor that really start to shine as it warms up.
  12. March 3rd: Sun-burnt Blonde – We took our Blonde and added Cayenne and Chipotle peppers for a spicy and tasty twist.
  13. March 3rd: Kombucha – Kombucha is back again after a few months of hiatus.
  14. March 10th: Irish Stout – Its black, creamy, and full of delicious roast flavor with an amazing chocolate flavor on the finish. (This later became the 1799 Stout)
  15. March 17th: Hermits Lair – We released this beer on our taprooms grand opening back in June and decided it was time to make it again. We decided to make a couple changes and this porter came out even better than last time. Roasted Barley, Dark Chocolate, Subtle Coffee, Molasses, are just a few of the flavors in this malty delicious porter. 30 IBU, 4.9% ABV
  16. March 17th: English Bitter – Also known as an English Pale Ale, this beer is copper in color with an excellent lite bready malt flavor followed by a classic English earthy hop flavor. Very similar to a popular English pale ale with a slightly sweeter malt flavor. 30% IBU, 4.8 ABV
  17. March 24th: Corpus Christi v6 – After reading all the comment cards from version 5 it appears the majority of you want the Corpus Christi beer to be thicker and sweeter but not darker (with our favorite card saying it needs to be sweeter because corpus people are sweet). We also received some requests for specific hop changes, so we changed the dry hopping to from Centennial to Citra hops. We have a small amount of version 5 left and will have both versions on until it runs out. Make sure to make your vote count on this new version!
  19. November 17th, 2016 Butter Beer for the Harry Potter night
  20. November 17th, 2016 Corpus Christi Version 10
  21. November 22nd, Double Texas Bock: We wondered what the Texas Bock would taste like if we doubled all the ingredients, so we gave it a try.
  22. November 30th, 2016 Reindeer Droppings

Jackrabbit Double IPA : Brewed with Steven ‘bob’ Moreno

C-Water : Radio Station C101 On Air Personalities Rex Gabriel and Gino Montalvo, Monte Montana and Hitman joined us to brew this English Brown Ale.

Isle of Sark Belgian Dubbel (Brewed with Black Monk Tavern)

Kombucha (Apple)

Food Trucks that came out to the Brewery:

  • Coastal Sol Food Truck
  • D’Lish Foods
  • JB’s German Bakery & Cafe
  • Miseenplace Mobilecafe
  • Slingerz
  • TacoBar Street
  • The MIX Grill

Taproom Changes:

We added our first Growlers.

We started carrying Texas Wines

The taproom starting opening on Fridays as well as Saturdays. (It was just Saturdays in 2015)