We're pleased to introduce Jester King Barrel Aged Wild Ale with Jambolan Plums!

Finding interesting Texas fruits and fermenting them with our beer is perhaps our favorite thing to do at Jester King. In this case, we found a new fruit we'd never worked with before grown in southern Texas -- Jambolan plums! Native to India, Burma, Ceylon and the Andaman Islands, the...

We're excited to introduce Jester King Nocturne Serenade -- Imperial Stout Refermented with Blackberries!

Nocturne Serenade is our second Imperial Stout refermented with fruit following Black Atrial earlier this year. We brewed a high gravity wort with Maris Otter, double roasted crystal, chocolate malt, oats, and wheat, then fermented in stainless steel with English ale yeast. We then refermented Marion blackberries with the beer at a...

Today we're releasing batch 2 of our Dry-Hopped Oat Saison with Desert Yeast!

Our desert yeast series features native yeast strains captured in the West Texas high desert by our friends at Community Cultures Yeast Lab in San Antonio. For batch 2, the yeast was foraged from a salvia plant high in the Chisos Mountains near Big...

Today at 3pm CST we're excited to release 2020 SPON Three Year Blend!

SPON Three Year Blend is 100% spontaneously fermented beer inspired by authentic Belgian Gueuze. It's a blend of three different "vintages" of beer -- in this case beer from 2019, 2018, and 2017 coolship seasons. 2020 is our 5th three year blend following our 2016 to 2019 releases.

To create SPON, we combine unfiltered well water from the Trinity Aquifer and...

We're pleased to celebrate ten years of Jester King having first begun brewing in 2010! In recognition of our 10th anniversary, we're releasing two new beers as an ode to our past and present -- a DDH IPA and a Dry-Hopped Farmhouse Ale with Triticale & Oats! Both our anniversary beers are now available to go and to enjoy onsite at Jester King.

Our 10th-anniversary DDH IPA is dry-hopped with Idaho 7 cryo, Citra, and El Dorado at a...

Today at 3pm CST we're releasing our Blackberry Grisette! It's the latest in our lineup of fruited grisettes. These are highly drinkable, session-strength farmhouse ales with great texture, balanced fermentation character, and moderate fruit intensity. They are very much designed to be beers for drinking.

Blackberry Grisette was brewed with well water, Blacklands White Horn Pilsner malt, malted wheat, flaked oats, and a blend of fresh...

We're happy to release a new beer today called Hominimania -- a pale lager brewed with hominy (corn that has been nixtamalized)!

We've been really interested in corn as a brewing ingredient for some time now, and we wanted to experiment with nixtamalized corn. Nixtamalization involves soaking the dried corn kernels in a lye solution to soften them. Once softened, the kernels can be...

Starting this Friday, November 27th at 11am CST, we're having our annual Black Friday cellar sale!

Below is the list of the cellar beers we'll have available. As a nod to our past, as well as to our local supporters, our Black Friday release will be onsite only (no online sales). To purchase cellar bottles, please visit our cellar release tent onsite at Jester King. No reservation is required to purchase bottles. A reservation is...

Today we're releasing a new farmhouse ale refermented with four different types of Texas summer melons -- Watermelon, Casaba melon, Santa Claus melon, and Sugar Kiss melon!

Back in August of this year, we received a wonderful harvest of Texas melons at Jester King. We took the local melons and hand-processed them in-house. The melons were highly aromatic and flavorful and were among some of the best we've worked with. We then took the...

Our philosophy at Jester King is strongly rooted in creating a sense of place, by tying our guests' experience to a time, place, and people. Whether dining onsite in one of our lands, eating hearth baked Hill Country sourdough bread that you picked up curbside, or enjoying one of our beers purchased from your local retailer, our intent is to build a connection and experience with our guests and community.

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Daylight Savings Time ended on Sunday, November 1st, which means that the sun rises and sets much earlier, and cooler weather is upon us here in the Texas Hill Country. We are modifying our seating options as well as hours for Jester King Brewery & Kitchen to accommodate these seasonal changes and offer the best experience possible.

Today at Noon, we're excited to release Jester King DDH IPA -- Galaxy, Simcoe, Citra!

Brewed with Texas malted barley from TexMalt, flaked oats, and raw wheat, and intensely dry-hopped pre-and-post primary fermentation with Galaxy, Simcoe, and Citra Cryo at a rate of 4 pounds per barrel. Jester King DDH IPA is balanced, drinkable, and bursting with intense citrus, tropical hop flavor and aroma. It was packaged last Thursday and goes on...

We're pleased and excited to bring back Space Waves -- our collaboration with Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales!

Space Waves is a farmhouse ale with cherries, lime juice, and lime zest, originally brewed in 2016. For batch 2, we brewed with well water, White Horn Pilsner malt from Blacklands, flaked oats from TexMalt, and Mandarina Bavaria hops. We added two pounds per gallon of Montmorency and Balaton cherries and 400 pounds of limes (juiced...

Today we're pleased to release our next fruited Grisette! Our latest is with Montmorency and Balaton cherries! We added equal parts of each variety to Grisette-style beer at a ratio of about 1.25 pounds per gallon. Our goal was to make a very drinkable beer, low in acidity, with present but not overwhelming fruit character. With an emphasis on balance and drinkability, we primary-fermented the Grisette in stainless steel for a few weeks, then...

We're pleased to release 2020 SPON Muscat! SPON Muscat is 100% spontaneously fermented beer aged in oak barrels for one to three years refermented with Texas-grown Muscat grapes. We let the unfermented beer rest overnight in our coolship, then 100% spontaneously ferment with native yeast. Our goal is to capture the terroir of the Texas Hill Country through the "magic" of spontaneous fermentation.

Muscat is one of our favorite grapes to...

We're pleased to release Blacklands Helles Munich-style Lager -- brewed in collaboration with our friends at Blacklands Malt in celebration of their 7th anniversary! It was seven years ago that Blacklands brought local, craft malt to Texas. In celebration of their pioneering effort, we brewed a Helles with 100% White Horn Pilsner Malt with Blacklands. We found this fitting, as White Horn Pilsner...

Nearly one hundred runners participated in the Black is Beautiful 5K Fun Run co-presented by Jester King, Beer Garden Run, and Marvis Dixon on Saturday, October 17th. In the interest of health and safety on our trails, masked runners took to the course in physically distanced waves of ten. Participants were encouraged to time themselves rather than compete against others. Check out the photo gallery...

Today we're releasing our latest co-ferment, which features Texas-grown Lomanto grapes!

For our co-ferments, we combine massive quantities of fruit with wort (unfermented beer) and let them ferment together to total dryness through mixed culture fermentation. In this case, we chose a grape that's new to us called Lomanto. Lomanto is a hybrid of...

Today at Noon Central we're releasing Cerveza de Tempranillo Blend 4! Cerveza de Tempranillo is barrel-aged wild ale refermented with Tempranillo grapes from the 2020 harvest!

We received the Tempranillo grapes back in August during the heart of the Texas summer. Tempranillo grapes are primarily grown in Spain and Portugal. They're a black grape with thicker skins that can thrive in warmer climates with less precipitation. We've become...

Our philosophy at Jester King is strongly rooted in creating a sense of place, by tying our guests experience to a time, place, and people. Whether dining onsite in one of our lands, eating hearth baked Hill Country sourdough bread that you picked up curbside, or enjoying one of our beers purchased from your local retailer, our intent is to build a connection and experience with our guests and community.

We could not foster these...

Today at Noon central we're releasing I Voted Today DDH American Pale Ale! Our I Voted Today beer is part of a nationwide voter awareness initiative led by Tired Hands Brewing Company in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. A portion of the proceeds from Jester King I Voted Today will go to Jolt Initiative, a non-partisan,...

Community concern is a core value of our Jester King philosophy, and fuels our ongoing charitable efforts. While monetary donations are vital to nonprofit organizations, we and our community can support worthy causes in other ways.

Through volunteerism with our JK Volunteer Corps and charitable giving via our...

We're pleased to release Nocturn Chrysalis Batch 7! Nocturn Chrysalis is our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with six pounds per gallon of Marion Blackberries!

We blended mature beer aged in oak barrels with native yeast, added the blackberries, then let the fruit referment to total dryness. We then naturally conditioned the beer through refermentation in bottles and kegs.

We're quite happy with how our 7th batch of Nocturn...

Last week we were quite pleased to release the results of our recent experiments with co-fermentation of fresh fruit and unfermented beer in our journey to create wine one day at Jester King. Unfortunately the sales of our Farmhouse Ale Co-Fermented with Texas Hill Country Peaches limited release did not go as planned. We sincerely...

Today at 12pm CDT we're releasing our first spontaneous fruit beer of 2020 -- SPON Petit Verdot & Plum!

We created a blend of 100% spontaneous beer from two-year-old and three-year-old barrel stock. We then hand-processed several hundred pounds of plums grown in the Texas Hill Country and added them to the blend. The plums had a nice depth of flavor and a bright acidity. On top of that we added Petit Verdot grape must from...

We're pleased to introduce Jester King Italian-Style Pilsner!

Single decoction mash with Weyermann Eraclea malt (grown near the Adriatic Sea northeast of Venice) and a touch of CaraMuchich. Kettle hopped with Hallertau Magnum and Hallertau Mittelfruh. Fermented with lager yeast from Community Cultures Yeast Lab in San Antonio. Dry-hopped with Spalter Select and Saphir. Lagered for four weeks. Dry, earthy, peppery, herbal, with a touch...

We've worked with Texas Hill Country peaches at Jester King for a long time. It might be our favorite local fruit to work with. We're biased, but we'd put Hill Country peaches up against any peaches in the world in terms of flavor and aroma. After using them for the better part of a decade to make beer, we thought to ourselves, "What if we made wine from Hill Country Peaches?"

Our alcohol license doesn't currently let us make wine, so...

We are pleased to introduce Jester King Black Atrial! Black Atrial is Original Black Metal Imperial Stout refermented with six pounds per gallon of raspberries! It will be released on Wednesday, September 16th at Noon CST.

To make Black Atrial, we brewed a batch of Original Black Metal Imperial Stout. After primary fermentation with English ale yeast in a stainless steel tank, we added six pounds per...

We're excited to introduce Jester King Deinos Kynos -- DDH Double IPA fermented with Kveik yeast!

Brewed with Blacklands Silver Star Two Row, malted oats from TexMalt, flaked oats, and flaked and raw wheat. Fermentation hopped with Citra and Amarillo. Dry-hopped with Australian Vic Secret and Idaho 7 cryo at 4.5#/bbl. Fermented with Hornindal Kveik from Community Cultures. 9.5% ABV. Packaged on 9/4/20.

Available for curbside...

Our philosophy at Jester King is strongly rooted in creating a sense of place, by tying our guests experience to a time, place, and people.

Whether dining onsite in one of our lands, eating hearth baked Hill Country sourdough bread that you picked up curbside, or enjoying one of our beers purchased from your local retailer, our intent is to build a connection and experience with our guests and community.

Our Jester King Staff...

We're happy to re-introduce Jester King / Mikkeller Drink'in the Sunbelt -- Hoppy Wheat Beer!

Originally brewed in 2011, we decided to bring it back this summer. Drink'in the Sunbelt is a riff on Mikkeller's Drink'in the Sun. The 2020 beer is brewed with Blacklands Malt Silver Star Two Row, malted and flaked wheat, and flaked oats....

We're pleased to release a new beer today we're simply calling "Raspberry Grisette". It's a fairly low alcohol beer (4.7% ABV) brewed with barley, wheat, and oats with a fairly low amount of hops, which we then refermented in stainless steel with raspberries. Like all our beer, we let it ferment to complete dryness. Raspberry Grisette is a simple, highly drinkable, effervescent beer, that's mildly tart, fruit-forward, and a good companion for...

Our philosophy at Jester King is strongly rooted in creating a sense of place, by tying our guests experience to a time, place, and people. Whether dining onsite in one of our lands, eating hearth baked Hill Country sourdough bread that you picked up curbside, or enjoying one of our beers purchased from your local retailer, our intent is to build a connection and experience with our guests and community.

We could not foster these...

Jester King 2020 Terroir Project is now out! Our Terroir Project beers are co-fermentations of grapes and grains in collaboration with the legendary Firestone Walker Brewing Co.!

For our 2020 release, we crushed by foot 2,000 pounds of hand-harvested, whole-cluster Zinfandel grapes grown in Sulphur Bluff, Texas. We then let the crushed grapes spontaneously ferment for about 5 days before...

Today we're proud to release our 2020 batch of 分 桃 (Fēn Táo) -- our barrel aged wild ale refermented with Texas Hill Country peaches!

For this year's batch (No. 7), the peaches once again came from Vogel Orchard in Fredericksburg, Texas. June Gold and Regal made up the majority of the peaches, along with Carored. We're pretty proud of the quality of the fruit we get...

Today at Noon central we're releasing a new version of Mr. Mingo, our hibiscus saison. We took a tiki inspired approach and added allspice, vanilla beans, and strawberries to the beer. The allspice was added to the boil and the Grade A Madagascar vanilla beans and Texas Hill Country strawberries were added during secondary fermentation. The strawberries were fermented to dryness by our mixed culture.

Mr. Mingo — Strawberry Edition is a...

We're pleased to introduce Bug Farm -- our re-brew of 2014 Hibernal Dichotomous! 2014 Hibernal Dichotomous was a farmhouse ale brewed with lavender, rosemary and spearmint and refermented with fresh pressed watermelon juice. It was released in April of 2015.

The original recipe for Bug Farm was the brainchild of former Jester King Head Brewer Garrett Crowell, now the founder of...

Today at Noon we're releasing our 2020 batch of SPON Still! SPON Still is 100% spontaneously fermented beer inspired by authentic Belgian Lambic.

We did a turbid mash with well water, TX malted barley, and TX raw wheat, long boiled with aged hops, chilled overnight in our coolship, then 100% spontaneously fermented in oak barrels. This year's SPON Still came from a single barrel containing...

We're pleased and honored to announce the release of Jester King Black is Beautiful tomorrow at Noon! Black is Beautiful is part of a world-wide collaboration created by Weathered Souls Brewing Co. in San Antonio, Texas to support justice and equality for people of color.

100% of the proceeds from Jester King Black is Beautiful go toward the cause. Last month, we pre-donated...

Today at Noon we're releasing TERPY GALAXY -- Double IPA hopped with Australian Galaxy hops!

Terpy Galaxy is a recipe swap with our great friends at American Solera in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During these times when onsite collaboration brews have been difficult or impossible to do, recipe swaps have emerged as one way for brewers to stay connected. American Solera brewed and released O.G. Black Metal...

Today at Noon we're releasing Montmorency vs. Balaton Batch 7! Montmorency vs. Balaton is our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with a blend of Montmorency and Balaton cherries. This beer has been one of our personal favorites over the years with its rich cherry, marzipan, cinnamon, and pie crust flavor. Batch 7 is our first release in 750ml bottles, which is likely a one-off format.

Available while supplies last for curbside pickup (...

Jester King Brewery & Kitchen is proud to announce our participation in the #TexasBakersAgainstRacism Virtual Bake Sale!

Our partners at Barton Springs Mill donated one ton of flour to Texas bakers to support criminal justice and social reform, with 100% of virtual bake sale profits being donated to the movement. This Texas fundraising campaign was inspired by the...

Today we're releasing a new beer we're calling our Dry-Hopped Oat Saison with Desert Yeast. This is the first beer we've fermented with a native yeast culture from Community Cultures Yeast Lab in San Antonio. We selected their Prickly Pear strain, which was harvested during the spring season in Lajitas, Texas near Big Bend National Park. The Prickly Pear strain is known for its bright, floral, citrus...

Today at Noon we're releasing a very small run of a co-fermentation we did with Carignan grape must (juice, skins, seeds, and stems). We added the must to our tiny three barrel stainless steel fermenter and blended it with some simple, fresh, lightly hopped, pale wort. We pitched our mixed culture and let the blend of grape must and wort ferment to total dryness. We then naturally conditioned in 750ml bottles.

We're pretty excited...

Last Friday morning, the Governor issued an Executive Order requiring that restaurants with over 51% of their revenue from alcohol sales close by Noon. At Jester King, we are a brewpub (restaurant / brewery) with alcohol sales historically above this threshold. Therefore, we promptly closed.

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In accordance with the Governor’s recent order closing Texas bars, Jester King is now closed to the public indefinitely. Our curbside pickup business will continue to be open 7 days a week from 12-8pm (https://www.toasttab.com/jesterkingbrewery/v3).

We had worked very...

Today at Noon we're releasing a variation on our Kvass. Instead of using sourdough bread in the mash like we typically do, we added cornbread to the mash baked in-house at Jester King Kitchen! Our Head Baker Jonathan Sanchez made several hundred pounds of his delicious cornbread for us to use. If you'd like to checkout Jonathan's process and recipe, here's a link to him...

Today at Noon we're releasing Moderne Dansk Batch 2! Moderne Dansk is our barrel aged wild ale refermented with Danish Stevnsbær cherry juice from the renowned Frederiksdal Kirsebærvin in Denmark!

We first experienced Frederiksdal wine at the Mikkeller Copenhagen Beer Celebration several years ago, and became instantly infatuated. The character of the cherries from the...

Today (Friday, June 12th) at Noon, we're thrilled to release our latest collaboration beer Rex Machina -- a hazy IPA brewed with our great friends at Weldwerks Brewing Co. in Greeley, CO!

Rex Machina was brewed with a base of local Silver Star Two Row malt from Blacklands and a quarter-ton of flaked and malted oats and wheat....

We are very excited to release our 10th batch of Atrial Rubicite! Originally released in 2013, Atrial Rubicite is our barrel aged wild ale re-fermented with over 6 pounds per gallon of raspberries! Brewed with well water and local malt, Atrial Rubicite is aged for roughly a year in oak barrels before fruit re-fermentation and 100% natural conditioning.

For Batch 10, we decided to change things up and make Atrial Rubicite a 750ml "genie...

Introducing Jester King Necrølith -- Imperial Stout brewed with Hill Country Sourdough Bread from Jester King Kitchen!

For Necrølith, our Head Baker Jonathan Sanchez of Jester King Kitchen baked 300 pounds of our Hill Country Sourdough Bread made with 100% Texas-grown grains. We use Barton Springs Mill TAM 105 wheat, Wrens Abruzzi rye, and Rouge de Bordeaux wheat, known for its rich, nutty, cinnamon, and baking spice...

Today at Noon we're releasing All Together IPA! Brewed with local two row barley from Blacklands Malt, oats, wheat, and Mosaic and Cascade hops. Dry hopped twice at a rate of 3.4# per barrel with Citra, Mosaic, Cascade, Simcoe, Citra cryo, and Simcoe cryo. 6.6% ABV. We get guava, banana, and pungent tropical fruit with dank undertones.

All Together is a worldwide collaboration started by our friends at...

Being closed for the last two and half months has given us a chance to think deeply about what Jester King would look like when it reopens. We knew things would be much different. After much thought, we've decided to reopen Jester King in the mold of a park offering picnic grounds and hiking trails for our guests to enjoy across our 165 acres of Hill Country land!

We'll reopen this...

We're very excited to introduce L'Aradia -- lager beer dry hopped with a blend of Azacca, El Dorado, Idaho Gem and Loral made in partnership with the Pink Boots Society!

We brewed a soft pale wort with well water, Whitehorn Pilsner malt from Blacklands Malt, Hallertau Mittelfruh, and the Pink Boots Society hop blend. We fermented with a Czech...

Today we're releasing B is for B______, a collaboration with Brekeriet in Landskrona, Sweden! B is for B______ is a barrel aged wild ale rested overnight in our coolship and matured for two years in neutral oak.

Brewed with well water, local Amber Waves and Silver Star malt from Blacklands Malt, and aged hops from our barn, B is for B______ rested overnight in our coolship in February of 2018. It...

On Monday, May 18, 2020, the Governor announced that Texas craft breweries can reopen at 25% capacity on Friday May 20th. While we are excited to re-open, we have to make sure that Jester King will be as safe as possible when that happens. We're a unique place that presents both opportunities and challenges when it comes to safety during the pandemic.

We believe we have a plan in development that will indeed make Jester King a safe...

Jester King / Yazoo A Pale Green Horse -- an intensely dry hopped hazy IPA with Galaxy and Strata hops, 7.2%.

Brewed in collaboration with our dear friends from Yazoo Brewing Co. in Nashville, Tennessee, A Pale Green Horse is dry hopped initially during fermentation with Mosaic and Citra, then again with an abundance of Australian Galaxy and Strata hops. Huge notes of lime, kiwi, papaya, and orange...

We're excited to introduce Jester King Entombment -- a 10.8% ABV hybrid of bochet and beer aged in Balcones whisky barrels!

What is bochet? It's a type of mead made by boiling the honey before fermentation to caramelize the sugars. Entombment began in January of 2019 by taking 100 pounds of Texas wildflower honey and...

Today at Noon we're releasing a new beer called Farmhouse Ale Co-Fermented with Texas Blueberries. It's our second fruit beer release of 2020 following Colour Five.

Co-fermentation of wort (unfermented beer) and fruit is a technique we've become increasingly fond of over the past few years. The process is actually pretty simple. We take blueberries from Echo Springs Blueberry Farm in...

Introducing El Regalo del Comal -- a blend of 4, 3, 2, and 1 year old spontaneously fermented beer in oak barrels coolshiped at La Cruz de Comal Wines in Canyon Lake, Texas.

A little over four years ago, we began a special spontaneous fermentation project with our friend Lewis Dickson -- the Proprietor of La Cruz de Comal Wines in Canyon Lake, Texas (about 40 miles...

On Monday, the Governor announced that Texas restaurants, among other businesses, could reopen in a limited capacity on May 1st. Bars are to remain closed. Here at Jester King, we are officially viewed as a bar because our sales are over 51% alcohol. Therefore, we are to remain closed, aside from curbside pickup.

In reality, even if we were allowed to reopen on May 1st, there’s virtually no way we could. Restarting our business so as to...

Today we're releasing 2019 Autumnal Dichotomous -- a barrel aged wild ale co-fermented with Texas apples and grapes!

This was a fun (if not labor intensive) beer to make. Last fall, we got in a beautiful shipment of Red Cortland, Winesap, Fuji and Arkansas Black apples from Sweet Ruthie's River Ranch in Canadian, Texas. We took the apples, put them through a grinder, pressed the juice,...

While you're staying at home, here's a recipe to try out from Jester King Kitchen's Executive Chef Damien Brockway! It's for strawberry pancakes with Chantilly cream. We have fresh, Texas-grown strawberries available at our Country Store, open 7 days a week from 12-8pm for contactless curbside pickup. Call 512-661-8736 or order online (https://www.toasttab.com/jesterkingbrewery/v3)....

Video of Jester King Baker Jonathan Sanchez teaching how to make our Hill Country Sourdough Bread.

Our sourdough bread kits are available for curbside pickup at Jester King. Call 512-611-8736 or order online: https://www.toasttab.com/jesterkingbrewery/v3/

We're excited to introduce Bughaven — A Jester King / Mikkeller Collaboration! Bughaven is an open fermented wild ale barrel aged in Amarone & Sangiovese wine barrels for 14 months!

Back in December of 2018, Mikkeller Master Blender Ehren Schmidt came to Jester King to brew with us. We decided on a technique we hadn't previously used at Jester King. We filled our coolship with...

Today at Noon we're excited to release Jester King Double Dry Hopped IPA with Sabro, Citra & Ekuanot!

Our DDH IPA is brewed with a base of Silver Star Two Row from Blacklands Malt, malted wheat, oats, and and buckets of whirlpool hops. We dry hopped it twice — first with Sabro, Citra, and Ekuanot pellets, and again with Sabro cryo. It's fermented with Voss Kviek yeast (aka "The...

We're very excited to release our first ever pale lager in cans -- Jester King Unfiltered Pilsner!

Like a lot of brewers and beer geeks, pale lagers have had a special place in our hearts for a long time. For instance, when we receive a box of beer from our brewer friends in other parts of the world, it's usually the pale lagers that get picked through the fastest. We remember waiting on our loading dock for our first ever shipment of...

Fellow Texans! We urge you to sign this...

As we know, Travis County as well as other counties across our state have issued "stay at home orders", effective through April 13th. People are asked to only leave their homes for "essential activities". We've received questions about what this means for local restaurants, breweries, and brewpubs, including...

Today we're releasing Dark Matter Imperial Coffee Stout -- made in collaboration with our friends from Dark Matter Coffee in Chicago, Illinois!

We've known the crew from Dark Matter for a long time. They do some of the most innovative things in the coffee world, especially when it comes to fermentation. They've done several pop ups at Jester King over the years, and they were supposed to...

On Saturday, April 4th at Noon, we're releasing Encendía Batch 2 -- our collaboration with longtime friend Kristina Bozic. Encendía is a strong farmhouse ale brewed with agave nectar, epazote, and ancho chiles and aged in Scorpion Mezcal barrels from Oaxaca, Mexico.

Batch 2 is 14.5% alcohol by volume and was naturally conditioned in 750ml bottles. We have 1,100 bottles available for pre-sale...

Due to the global pandemic and public health emergency we are all facing, Jester King is closing its tasting room, restaurant, and farm, and private event hall to the public and moving to a "To Go Only" model for our food and beer for the foreseeable future.

This was a painful decision for us to make given its economic impact on our company and employees, as we depend upon onsite sales for the vast majority of our income and...

It has been our privilege to have guests from all over the world visit Jester King for the past ten years. As we grow, we love continuing to provide each guest with not only beer and food, but a unique experience that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else. Many of you have seen us evolve from a quaint taproom in the Hill Country to the bustling farm and restaurant we are today. We could never have gotten this far without the continued...

We're pleased to introduce our Farmhouse Ale Co-Fermented with Blanc du Bois & Gewurztraminer grapes!

This fermentation blurs the lines between wine and beer by simultaneously fermenting grapes and grain. We took whole cluster Blanc du Bois grapes from the Texas Hill Country, foot stomped them to combine the microbes on the skin of the grapes with the juice, then allowed an ambient fermentation with native yeast to begin. We then...

Jester King Farm Tours in March

Due to the wonderful interest we've received in taking the Jester King farm tour since the arrival of our new baby goats, we're setting up a free reservation system for the month of March. The reservation system will help ensure the safety and comfort of our goats, guests, and staff.

Please follow the link below to reserve your free admission to the Jester King farm tour....

We're pleased to introduce Li-Fi -- a collaboration with Creature Comforts Brewing Co. in Athens, Georgia! Li-Fi is a 100% spontaneous fermented beer brewed with Texas malted barley and Georgia Dayspring wheat, barrel-aged for two and half years, dry hoped with Amarillo, and bottle conditioned for five months. Nearly three years of maturation went into what we believe is a truly elegant beer...

1st Course

Local Romaine -- preserved chilies, crispy rabbit pancetta, Castelvetrano dressing, focaccia

2nd Course

"Spaghetti & Meatballs" -- marinara, pecorino romano, chitara pasta

3rd Course

Tiramasu -- meyer lemon, strawberry, lady fingers

Friday, February 14th (Valentine's Day) from 4-9pm at Jester King Kitchen

Full table service

$35...

We're excited to announce that on Saturday, February 15th from 5-9pm, we're hosting a Star Party with TC Superstar and Astronomy on Tap!

By our calculations, February 15th marks the evening when our baby goats are due. To help welcome new life into this world, we turn to...

Here's the full run-down on all the cool stuff happening at Doom Forge Day tomorrow (2/1) at Noon at Jester King. We hope you'll join us for an awesome day of great food, drink, music, and fun!

FAMILY FRIENDLY / ALL AGES WELCOME

HOURS

12-10pm (Kitchen closes at 9pm)

JESTER KING BEER RELEASES

O.G. Black Metal -- draft & 32 oz. crowlers (350, $22, limit...

"Black Metal, a.k.a. Iron Sword, a.k.a. Blackened Death, a.k.a. El Martillo del Muerte, is a cruel and punishing beer fermented by the sheer force of its awesome will. Best enjoyed while pumping out blast beats, summoning trolls, or enjoying a nice, leisurely reading of the Necronomicon."

We're happy to announce the return of our original ("O.G.") Black Metal Imperial Stout!

First brewed in 2011 at Jester...

We're pleased to announce our next release for Doom Forge Day on February 1st -- Barrel-Aged Wild Imperial Porter.

Barrel-Aged Wild Imperial Porter is an English-style Imperial Porter fermented with our mixed culture and aged in Balcones Distilling Texas Blue Corn Whisky barrels! It was brewed in April of 2019, primary fermented in stainless steal, then racked to Blue Corn...

For 2020 Doom Forge Day at Jester King, we're excited to introduce Doom Forge Imperial Coffee Stout!

Doom Forge Imperial Coffee Stout is an American-Style Imperial Stout with one pound per barrel coffee from our friends at Figure 8 Coffee Purveyors in Austin. During a coffee cupping with Figure 8 at their shop, we selected 75% Ethiopia Guji Sere Saba Natural and 25% Kenya Mehotoro...

We have a new shop at Jester King!

The Jester King Shop is located in our barn and is open during our normal business hours (listed below). It contains Jester King beer, guest wine, Jester King merchandise, and baked goods from Jester King Kitchen.

The shop takes the place of our old bottles and merchandise tent by the brewery. We hope you come check out our new shop and all the great things it has to offer!

Thursday...

Our last SPON beer of 2019 is being released this week, 2019 SPON — Cab Franc & Zinfandel!

2019 SPON — Cab Franc & Zinfandel is a blend of two year old and three year old 100% spontaneously fermented beer, refermented with two varietals of Texas-grown wine grapes. Cab Franc in particular has become one of our favorite wine grapes to work with for its rich dark fruit flavors.

We received the grapes at Jester King last...

We're pleased to introduce a new event at Jester King -- our inaugural Farm K Charity Fun Run!

Our Farm K Charity Fun Run is a 5K (3.1 mile) run/jog/walk through the 170 acres of farm land and native Hill Country land at Jester King! It will take place on Saturday, February 8th at 10:30am.

Warm-ups begin at 10:30am and the race starts at 11am.

All participants will receive:

- a...

On Sunday, January 19th from 2pm to 4pm at Jester King, we're very excited to partner with our friends from Dune Brothers Seafood in Providence, Rhode Island for a New England Style Clam Bake!

Our talented kitchen team at Jester King, led by Executive Chef Damien Brockway, will collaborate with Chefs/Owners Jason Hegedus and...

Today we're releasing a new beer called A Pale Green Horse brewed in collaboration with our great friends at Yazoo Brewing Co. in Nashville, Tennessee!

A Pale Green Horse is a Kviek IPA brewed with well water, Pale Moon malt from Blacklands, raw wheat and oats from Barton Springs Mill, and Galaxy, Citra, and...