One Man's Ceiling, Is Another Man's Floor

This past weekend the folks at Run in Texas held an event at 5 Stones Artisan Brewery .  I was unfamiliar with 5 Stones, which is located southwest of New Braunfels, Texas on FM 1863.  If, like me, you use a navigation program to guide you to your destinations, a caution, for 5 Stones double check the address.  It seems Google and other devices are still listing the brewery's prior address in Cibolo, Texas. That caused some of our colleagues to take a bit of a detour to the closed location. Traveling along FM 1863, it’s easy to miss 5 Stones, and believe me you do not want to miss this brewery.  For 5 Stones, 2017 was a big year. They opened at their new location in November of that year. Also, in 2017, 5 Stones started working with Garrett Crowell, best known for his tenure as head brewer at Jester King Brewery. The brewery sits on 19 acres, about an eighth of a mile off the main road down a rough gravel path. The brewery is a picturesque limestone build...

The new Roughhouse Brewing is located about 10 miles down Highway 12 from San Marcos, close to Wimberly, Tx. San Marcos is a college town dominated by Texas State University . Before its renaming in 2003, the university was named Southwest Texas State University. The university's main claim to fame is that Lyndon Johnson was an alumnus. Texas State is a large college. Its undergraduate enrollment is more than 34,000; that’s greater than Indiana University, or the University of Alabama. But even with all those students, San Marcos is not a craft beer mecca. Only two breweries can be found in town. Aqua Brew an upscale brewpub and The Root Cellar a restaurant, that brews some beer. Yet just 10 miles away near Wimberly Texas three breweries are within 3 miles of each other. Roughhouse is the newest of the three. Roughhouse is located at 612 Oakwood Loop. The brewery is located on part of the Pasternak Ranch. The brewery opened January 19, 2019, and is operated by Davy and Alex Pastern...