The beer scene in Houston keeps getting better.
Eric Warner was at the well-regarded Flying Dog Brewery in Colorado for a decade, as brewmaster and then as chief executive. While there, the brewery came out with such beers as Snake Dog IPA, Double Dog double pale ale, Gonzo Imperial Porter and Dogtoberfest Märzen.
By the time Flying Dog moved production to Maryland and Warner left the company in 2008, Flying Dog was a national brand with annual production of 50,000 barrels, up from 10,000 when he started.
Now the 47-year-old is bringing his talent, a quarter-century’s brewing experience and his interest in startups to Houston.
Karbach Brewing Co. has brewing equipment on site, in a warehouse under renovation in the same U.S. 290/Loop 610 West part of town where Saint Arnold started.
Warner said the company will have more than $1 million invested in the brewery by the time it begins operations in late July or August.
The Karbach beers will be on draft around town two months after that.
Packaging — in 12-ounce cans, meant to fit the lifestyle of active Texans – should follow shortly.
“Hopefully, people can take a couple of six-packs of Karbach beer to the Thanksgiving table,” Warner said one recent morning, while making a test batch of “Weisse Versa” wheat beer that will be among three year-round offerings.
That’s now three new microbreweries in the Houston area in the last year, plus the forthcoming Freetail brewpub. Not too shabby. I wish them all well. Beer, TX has more.
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