Weathered Souls Brewing, located at 606 Embassy Oaks on the city’s Northeast side, was co-founded by longtime San Antonio resident and businessman Mike Holt, and head brewer/co-founder Marcus Baskerville. The two met in 2014 at San Antonio’s Busted Sandal Brewing Company and meshed right away. Soon after, they began planning for a brewery of their … Read more
Mad Pecker Brewing Co’s story starts as a typical brewing origin story. A person gets a homebrewing kit from a friend, practices, and decides to open a brewery. Though this is indeed part of co-founder and brewer Jason Gonzales’ story, it is not all of it. “When I was brewing at home, I had no … Read more
New Braunfels Brewing Company, named in honor of one of the town’s earliest breweries, sits right off the town square in downtown New Braunfels, Texas For owner-operator Kelly Meyer and his wife, Lindsey, starting a brewing company in the Texas Hill Country seemed like a good idea at the time. Nearly a decade before, when … Read more
Eugen Simor, who came to Texas via California, first tossed around the idea for his Alamo Beer Co in the fall 1997, though it was not until five years later that he would send forth into the world his first beer: Alamo Golden Ale. At the time Simor did not have his own brewery, so … Read more
Blue Star Brewing Company has become a mainstay over the last 20 plus years, inserting itself into San Antonio as a mainstay of its rich and modern brewing history. Blue Star was started in 1996 by San Antonio resident Joey Villarreal, inspired by his brewing experiments at his neighborhood bar aptly named ‘Joey’s’ years before. … Read more
Second Pitch Beer Company’s owner and head brewer James Hansen is hoping his brewery will become a destination within San Antonio. The California native started his brewing career cleaning tanks at Devil’s Canyon Brewing in San Carlos, California, and would eventually go on to handle production procurement and brewing for Gordon Biersch Brewing Company’s production … Read more