We're very excited to announce that Jester King will soon self-distribute our beer in parts of Texas! Starting next month, we'll be self-distributing kegs and cans of our lagers, IPAs, farmhouse ales, and fruit beers to select accounts.

If you're with a Texas bar, restaurant, or store interested in selling Jester King, please hit us up at 512-468-4646 or...

We're honored, excited, and grateful to announce the release of OH! — farmhouse ale with Sansho pepper brewed in collaboration with Chef Yoshi Okai of Otoko in Austin.

We've been enormous fans of Chef Yoshi for the last several years. His culinary combination of restraint, subtlety, artistry, and creativity is very special, and he's a really friendly, down to Earth person on top of it.

For OH!, we felt a duty to create flavors...

Our 2023 batch of Grim Harvest — farmhouse ale with blackberries — is now available at Jester King.

For Grim Harvest, we brew fresh wort with Hill Country well water, west Texas barley and wheat from TexMalt, fresh and aged hops, then ferment it on the blackberries from Nocturn Chrysalis (barrel-aged wild ale with blackberries). This second "maceration" of the fruit yields a more subtle fruit character, with elements of the base beer...

We're releasing our 4th batch of Moderne Dansk!Moderne Dansk is our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with Danish Stevnsbær cherry juice from Frederiksdal Kirsebærvin in Denmark.

The character of the Stevnsbær cherries is one of our favorite sensory experiences. The aroma is almost unreal. We created a nice, soft blend of pale/golden wild ale aged in oak barrels for about a year, then re-fermented the cherry juice with the beer to...

We're excited to announce that as of this week, we're fully back to in-person ordering of food and drink at Jester King. This is the way it was at Jester King from 2011 to 2020, and we're glad to get back to our roots. Why? While QR codes can be helpful, we miss being able to talk about and present our farmhouse ales and wood-fired pizza to our guests in person. We put a lot of love and connection to place into what we do with local grains,...

Our annual Star Party is back!

There are very few places that have dark, open night skies perfect for stargazing and we are happy to be one of them. Join us at The Hall at Jester King on Friday, April 21 from 5:30-10pm alongside the Hill Country Alliance for an evening of observation and exploration into our night sky.

A panel of esteemed voices from the ATX astronomy community will discuss the impact of astronomy in the Hill...

We're excited to release a new dry-hopped farmhouse ale re-fermented with fresh lime juice, grapefruit juice, and wildflower honey called Landive!

Landive falls in line with our long tradition of making dry, drinkable, low-to-medium strength farmhouse ales with interesting fermentation, fruit re-fermentation, and dry hop flavors / aromas. We brewed with Hill Country well water, Texas malted barley and wheat, and Sabro hops. We...

Mel Erwin, Assistant Production Manager/Brewer at Jester King, on Nocturn Chrysalis – our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with Marion Blackberries.

"I tried Nocturn Chrysalis on my very first visit out to Jester King in 2016 and it completely changed what I thought about farmhouse beers and fruited sours. I had only started getting into funky barrel aged and mixed culture beers and prior to that most sours just tasted like sugar and...

For our 2022 Estival Dichotomous beer, we made a farmhouse ale with grilled peaches, cardamon, and cinnamon. Our Dichotomous series of seasonal saisons seeks to capture the character of the season in which they're brewed. "Estival" is our summer version.

The peaches were grown last summer at Vogel Orchard in Fredericksburg, Texas. We de-pitted them and grilled some of the peach flesh on a flat top grill & others over an open flame...

Wacth the Austin FC Game on our screens in the Pole Barn! Please be advised there's no audio accompanying the games.

We'll have AFC bingo, food & drink specials, and more.

Game day specials:

• Verde Burger – double patty smash burger with Monterey jack cheese, salsa verde, crispy tostada, seasoned smashed avocado, and pickled red onions.
• Mint Gimlet – gin, lime juice, and mint simple...

For the second time ever, we're releasing a batch of Feral Dampf — our farmhouse Dampfbier brewed in collaboration with...

We love brewing hoppy farmhouse ales (arguably our favorite thing to make), and up until now we haven't done one with exclusively New Zealand hops.

So we're happy to introduce Jester King Bird Bump — hoppy farmhouse ale brewed with New Zealand Motueka, Rakau, and Nelson Sauvin from our friends at Freestyle Hops. The fruity, tropical character of the hops melds really well with the fermentation profile from our mixed culture. Aside from...

On Doom Forge Day this Sunday, 1/22, get your photo taken with our doom metal goats. Suggested donation of $10+ to the SIMS Foundation and our photographer will take a professional photo with you and a group of our goats in the triangle garden. Garden located next to the Pole Barn and Kitchen. Photos from 12pm-3pm. Photos will be available for download on this page starting January 25th.

If you'd like to meet our entire herd, take a...

Doom Forge Day is back! Join us on Sunday, January 22nd from 11am-9pm (kitchen closes at 8pm) for an event most brutal, where we celebrate all things metal.

We're excited to release:

• Original Black Metal
• Doom Forge Coffee Stout
• Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrel Aged Black is Beautiful (draft only)
• Bourbon Barrel Aged Black Atrial (draft only)

At 12pm, we'll be serving a Beet Blood Red Ramen Bowl...

Our latest batch of Jester King Gotlandsdricka is out now!

Gotlandsdricka, meaning "Drink of Gotland", is a farmhouse ale brewed with smoked malt, juniper, and myrica gale. It's inspired by the Scandanavian farmhouse brewing tradition. Gontlandsdricka is fabled to be the beer of the Vikings. Rudimentary malting techniques would likely have lent a smokey character to the beer and other plants besides hops (such as juniper and gale) were...

Our next blend of Jester King Viridium is out today!

Viridium is a blend of mature Jester King SPON with a special coolship brew in 2019 with toasted yaupon, juniper, and rosemary. We foraged the herbs from the land around Jester King, added them to our coolship, and let the herbs steep in the hot wort overnight. We then spontaneously fermented the herbal wort in oak barrels and allowed it to slowly mature over a few years. We then...

Black Metal, a.k.a. Iron Sword, a.k.a. Blackened Death, a.k.a. Suds of Northern Darkness, a.k.a. El Martillo del Muerte, is a cruel and punishing beer fermented by the sheer force of its awesome will.

Brewed with Hill Country well water, Texas-grown pale malt, British caramel, brown, and chocolate malts, and Belgian candi sugar and fermented in with British yeast. 9.3% alcohol by volume.

Black Metal is available onsite and online...

Find us at the Wedding Capital of Texas Showcase on Sunday, January 29 from 10AM - 2PM. Then head over to The Hall at Jester King from 2PM - 5PM for our open house!

We'll have open tours, small bites, drinks, and local vendors. Some of our vendors include, Austin Yard Games

Bee Lavish, Melanie Agee (Wedding Coordinator), and photographer Lauren Slusher. Lauren will be providing a complimentary portrait to couples who attend (so...

After a long hiatus, we're happy to release a new batch of Jester King Mad Meg Farmhouse Provision Ale!

Mad Meg is a Franco-Belgian inspired "bière de provision," which means beer for keeping or storing. Provision ales were typically higher in alcohol and cellared for longer periods of time than their lower abv counterparts. Jester King Mad Meg is a simple beer with well water, Texas barley and wheat, and organic Fuggle and Perle hops....

We're excited to release our 2022 batch of Commerical Suicide English-Style Dark Mild. It was brewed to style with Golden Promise, Biscuit, Caramel, and Chocolate malts and East Kent Golding hops. We fermented in stainless steel with English yeast.

Commercial Suicide was actually the first Jester King beer ever released in 2010. We called it Commercial Suicide because the beer effectively had no audience. We considered it too dark for...

Happy Holidays! Thanks to everyone that came out to take holiday photos with our goats on SPON Day. We appreciate all of your donations to Helping Hand Home. Please find & download your photos at the button below.

We're pleased to announce the release of 2022 SPON Three Year Blend tomorrow, 12/10 starting at 11am CT (onsite only)!

2022 SPON Three Year Blend is a blend of 100% spontaneously fermented beer from our 2021, 2020, and 2019 coolship seasons. Taking inspiration from authentic Belgian Gueuze, our aim is to follow a time-honored, classical method developed overseas, but with our own well water, Texas grain, aged hops, and native yeast to...

Bug Farm Batch 3 is now available at Jester King!

Bug Farm is our farmhouse ale with rosemary, lavender, and spearmint, re-fermented with watermelon. We brewed the base beer with Trinity well water, TexMalt Llano Pilsner, malted wheat, raw wheat, and organic Perle hops. We fermented in stainless steel with JK mixed culture, added rosemary, lavender, and spearmint to taste, then re-fermented with over two tons of fresh watermelon...

Our latest batch of Mr. Mingo — farmhouse ale with Roselle hibiscus — is now available.

Brewed with Trinity well water, TexMalt Llano pilsner and Denton County wheat, flaked oats, Columbus hops, and Roselle hibiscus. Fermented in stainless steel with our JK mixed culture. Packaged in kegs and (for the first time) cans. Light, dry, drinkable, mildly tart, and slightly herbaceous.

Available today onsite and online at the link:...

Our latest batch of Queen's Order — farmhouse ale with Tallow honey and dried lemon peel — is out today!

Queen's Order is designed to be a nice, pillowy, low abv, dry and drinkable farmhouse ale with pleasant fruit-forward aromas and a nice quenching hop bitterness and fermentation tartness. It's brewed with Trinity well water, TexMalt Llano Pilsner, malted spelt, flaked oats, organic Perle hops, dried lemon peel, and Tallow honey. It...

Today we're releasing Batch 2 of Urban Mutation, our collaboration with...

We’re excited to celebrate SPON Day this year! Join us on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022 FROM 11AM-9PM CT as we release our annual three year blend of spontaneously fermented beer, feature some of our favorite spontaneously fermented beers and wines, and celebrate the season with a holiday market featuring local vendors, delicious food from Jester King Kitchen, private tours & tastings, live music, holiday goat photos, and...

We're excited to release Gin Barrel-Aged Nocturn Chrysalis Batch 3 on Black Friday!

To make Gin Barrel-Aged Nocturn Chrysalis, we brew farmhouse ale with well water, Texas grain, and fresh and aged hops. We primary ferment in stainless steel with our mixed culture, then age the beer in neutral oak for about a year. We then create a blend and add a very high ratio of Marion Blackberries (6 pounds per gallon) to the beer. We let the...

Start your holiday shopping on Black Friday at Jester King! We'll be open Friday, 11/25 from 11am-9pm. Black Friday cellar release includes:

• Black Metal - Batch #18 (June 2016) Farmhouse imperial stout - 10.8% abv - $30 (750mLx12 available)
• Vanilla & Balcones Bourbon Barrel Aged OG Black Metal - Batch #1 (Nov 2021) - Imperial stout aged in Balcones bourbon barrels for 9 months w/ Madagascar vanilla beans added prior to...

Happy Holidays! We'd love to be a part of your celebrations this year. We have a delicious selection of cookies, pies, and baked goods available for pre-order from our Pastry Chef Mattie Grey.

Cookie Boxes ($25/12 cookies):

• Ginger molasses cookies (3 each)

• Peppermint shortbread sandwich cookies (3 each)

• Chocolate...

Introducing Jester King Acerose Efflorescence! This is a collaboration with our longtime friends at Novare Res Bier Café in Portland, Maine. Acerose Efflorescence is a bière de coupage (young beer cut or blended with mature spontaneous beer) of fresh Belgian-style Blond Ale and mature Jester King SPON.

The Belgian-style Blond Ale was brewed well water, malted barley and wheat, and Adreena hops from Roy Farms in Washington. After primary...

Our latest batch of Jester King DDH IPA is out today. It's a West Coast Hazy IPA brewed with Texas-grown malted barley and wheat, flaked oats, and Idaho 7 and Mosaic Cryo hops. It was fermented with California Ale yeast and dry hopped with more Mosaic Cryo and Citra Cryo.

Available at Jester King starting at 2pm today and at a small number of bars around Texas (draft only) from our friends at Flood Independent Distribution. Enjoy...

We're happy to announce the return of Jester King Biere de Lenoir!

Biere de Lenoir is barrel-aged wild ale brewed with well water, Texas grain, and a blend of fresh hops and aged hops from our barn. It's fermented with our mixed culture and aged in neutral oak wine barrels. After about a year of maturation, it was re-fermented with a very high ratio (fruit to beer) of Lenoir (aka Black Spanish) grapes from Sulphur Bluff, Texas. After...

We canned a fresh batch of Helles Lager this week!

We brewed a simple wort with Weyermann Pilsner Malt and Hallertau Mittelfruh hops. Primary fermented with pure culture German lager yeast and lagered for eight weeks prior to filtration and packaging. Clean, crisp, drinkable, and refreshing.

Available now onsite and online at the link:...

We're excited to announce our latest IPA — Jester King Star Party!

Star Party is both kettle and dry hopped with Comet, Apollo, and Galaxy hops and fermented with Star Party yeast from Omega Yeast Labs. The Star Party strain is a "Thiolized™️ version of the beloved Chico strain...with aromas of passion fruit, dank pink guava, and citrus zest." We get big Tiki, limeade, and mango notes from Jester King Star Party IPA.

Be on the...

Today we're releasing a more recent favorite of ours — Hoppy 6 Grain Saison!

This beer is fairly new (batch 2), but it relates back to the origins of farmhouse ale at Jester King. Mineral-rich water, combined with a rustic malt character, herbal/spicy hoppiness, and wild fermentation is our main calling card. To achieve a rustic malt character, we brewed with malted barley, rye, spelt, and wheat, naked oats, and unmalted purple corn....

We're pleased to announce the release of Jester King Colonel Toby in 16oz. cans!

Colonel Toby is a "Hoppy Little Farmhouse Ale". It's highly drinkable, completely dry, citrusy from the Citra hops in the boil and dry hop, and has a subtle yeast complexity. Along with Le Petit Prince, it's one of our daily drinkers at Jester King. We think you'll enjoy having this neat, tidy little beer around in cans. Brewed in collaboration with...

Check out Jester King Artists Market every Saturday & Sunday from November 5th through 20th! Shop from local artists with a beer in hand in the Jester King Beer Garden. 11am-4pm.

As a proud Partner of this year's Austin Studio Tour, we'll be celebrating with Big Medium 20 years and 29 editions of the tour. Join us and over 500 artists, exhibitions, special projects, and events from November 5-20.

If you're interested in being...

A fresh batch of German-Style Pilsner is now available at Jester King!

Brewed with softened well water, Weyermann pilsner malt, a touch of rice to lighten the body, and Hallertau Mittelfruh hops. Fermented in stainless steel and lagered for eight weeks prior to filtration and force carbonation.

Available now at Jester King by the glass and in cans. 16oz cans. About 70 cases available. Also available online here:...

Today we're releasing our 2022 batch of Jester King Colour Five!

Colour Five is our barrel-aged wild ale re-fermented with Texas blueberries grown at Echo Springs Farm in Murchison, Texas near Dallas. We love fermenting them with our barrel-aged beer because the blueberries are highly aromatic (think blueberry yogurt) and mild in acidity. The result is a highly drinkable beer bursting with jammy aromas.

This is our 7th batch. Be...

We're happy to announce the return of Jester King EEZY PEEL* — farmhouse ale re-fermented with mangos!

EEZY PEEL* is brewed with well water, TexMalt Llano Pilsner Malt and Denton County Wheat Malt, flaked wheat and oats, and organic Perle hops from The Oregon Hophouse. It was fermented in stainless steel and re-fermented with two pounds per gallon of mangos. No flavorings or extracts, just water, grain, hops, yeast, and mangos....

Happy Thanksgiving! We'd love to be a part of your celebration this year. We have a delicious selection of pies and other baked goods available for pre-order from our Pastry Chef Mattie Grey.

Pies ($35 each):

• Pumpkin Pie
• Pecan Pie
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Buttermilk Chess Pie
• Caramel Pear Pie
• Chocolate Oreo...

Our latest batch of DDH IPA was canned this week! For this batch, we were inspired by our friends at...

分 桃 (Fēn Táo) batch 9 is now available!

First released in 2014, Fēn Táo is our barrel-aged wild ale re-fermented with fresh Hill Country peaches. We love the juicy, highly aromatic character of the peaches from the Texas Hill Country. They're one of our favorite fruits to ferment, and we love showing off the Hill Country terroir. Peaches are June Gold and Texas Royal from Vogel Orchard in Fredericksburg, TX.

We process the...

Our 2022 batch of La Vie en Rose is here!

La Vie en Rose is a farmhouse ale re-fermented on the raspberries from Jester King Atrial Rubicite. The ratio of fruit to beer is very high for Atrial Rubicite (6 pounds per gallon), so La Vie en Rose has a lot of fruit character even though it's from the second re-fermentation of the raspberries. It's unfiltered, unpasteurized, and naturally conditioned. The effervescence from bottle...

We have another fresh batch of Le Petit Prince available now in 16oz. cans!

Le Petit Prince is our Farmhouse Table Beer brewed with Trinity Aquifer water, Texas-grown Llano Pilsner and Denton County Wheat from TexMalt, and Saaz hops. We dry hop it with more Saaz. It's fermented in stainless steel with our house culture of brewers yeast and native yeast.

Available onsite at Jester King and distributed around Texas in 16oz. can...

We're happy to announce the re-release of Jester King Final Entropy Farmhouse Kölsch brewed in collaboration with...

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 with friends and family, eating baked goods that you picked up for the road, 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 relationships without the...

Back just in time for Fall is Wytchmaker Rye IPA!

First released at Jester King in October of 2010, Wytchmaker is brewed with Texas-grown San Jacinto Two Row and Wildfire Pale Malt from TexMalt, malted Rye, and oats. It's kettle hopped with Citra and El Dorado and dry hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra, and Mosaic Cryo. We fermented it in stainless steel with Imperial A38 Juice yeast.

It's super fresh, hoppy, and delicious, so...

We're very excited to announce the return of one of our all-time favorite beers at Jester King — Synthesis Analogous!

2022 Synthesis Analogous is a blend of Jester King La Vie en Rose (made from the raspberries from Atrial Rubicite) and Jester King Grim Harvest (made from the blackberries from Nocturn Chrysalis) aged in whisky barrels from our friends at Balcones Distilling in Waco, Texas. We love the rich character the Balcones whisky...

Back in July when it was blazing hot in Texas (it's the first day of Fall and it's still hot), we got the idea of making a nice, light refreshing farmhouse ale inspired by a Shandy cocktail we were serving. We came up with a recipe using lemon peel and ginger root, and we called the beer "100°" to coincide with some cool label art designed by Jester King Artist Katie Ross. In true Jester King fashion given the time it takes to make and...

Join us for our first Jester King x Bat City Cycling Ride on Sunday, September 25th! Please RSVP at the appropriate ticket link below.

We will have an A Group and B Group. For the A Group, the speed is going to average 19-21 mph and the route will be: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/130545053. A group...

We're happy to announce the re-release of Fantôme del Rey — farmhouse ale brewed with Belgian candi sugar, coriander, black peppercorns, & truffle honey in collaboration with Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Belgium. We first brewed Fantôme del Rey with the legendary brewer Dany Prignon on a trip to Belgium in 2014. We then re-brewed it at Jester King in 2016. Six years later, we're excited to release it once again.

Fantôme del Rey was...

Join us on Sunday, October 9th at 8pm CST in the Pasture at Jester King Brewery for a screening of The Shining with Rocket Cinema!

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

$10 per ticket. Get yours at the link. Please bring camping chairs and blankets to sit on. The grass in...

Jester King Oktoberfest! Join us 9/28 through 10/2 for a week of festivities. Make sure to be there for our end of Oktoberfest celebration on Sunday, 10/2.

• Bavarian food specials Friday through Sunday
• Lagers & pilsners & all your favorite Jester King beer
• Trivia (9/29) & Drag Bingo (9/30) w/ prizes
• Keg rolling contest (w/ prizes) on Sunday, 10/2
• Stein holding contest (w/ prizes) on...

Today we're releasing our second batch of Devin the Dude's Brew — our German-style Pilsner brewed in collaboration with Omnipollo and legendary Houston hip hop artist Devin the Dude!

Devin the Dude's Brew was brewed with 100% Pilsner malt, Hallertau Mittelfruh hops, and was lagered eight weeks. It's clean, crisp, hoppy, and delicious. 4.8% abv. Special thanks to our friends at Omnipollo and Devin the Dude for collaborating with...

Join us at Jester King Brewery & Kitchen for our annual Funk n' Sour Fest on Tuesday, October 25th. This year's event, held in our Beer Garden with sweeping views of the Texas Hill Country, features Austin's top local restaurants along with world-class breweries, wineries, cideries, and distilleries. We will have 30 pairings this year, which makes this the largest Funk n' Sour event to date. Join us on a food & beverage journey you...

Announcing Cantillon Zwanze Day 2022 on Saturday, September 24th! Zwanze Day is when Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Belgium simultaneously releases a special beer at a select group of locations around the world. We're honored and grateful to be one of the locations this year. Here's Cantillon's description of 2022 Zwanze:

“This year’s Zwanze is a two-year-old Lambic blend with black pepper. For this year’s beer, we worked with...

For this year's Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day, we brewed a hoppy pale lager with the 2022 Pink Boots hop blend. The blend consisted of 30% Idaho Gem, 20% HBC 630, 20% Talus, 20% Triumph, and 10% Loral. We added the blend during the boil and again as a dry hop. Lagered for eight weeks prior to packaging.

100% of the proceeds from our Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day will be donated to the...

We have a new fruit re-fermentation being tapped this week featuring raspberries, blackberries, and cherries. The fruit came from SPON Raspberry & Cherry and SPON Blackberry & Cherry released earlier this year. It's a draft-only release that's only available at Jester King.

The process was pretty simple. We brewed a medium-strength farmhouse ale with well water, Texas-grown grains, and a blend of fresh and aged hops. We racked...

Join us at the Jester King Inn every Sunday at 3pm from September 11th through October 16th for an intimate concert series under the breezy live oaks. Delicious food & drink from Jester King Brewery & Kitchen will be available for purchase at the Inn.

Lineup:

• 9/11: Jeska –...

We're excited to announce the release of our second-ever cider bottling!

Last fall, we received Arkansas Black apples grown in Arkansas, pressed them in-house at Jester King, and fermented the juice in stainless steel with our mixed culture. We aged the cider in stainless for seven months, then bottle conditioned for another two months. The result is dry, tart, crisp, effervescent, and refreshing with bright apple and fermentation...

We're happy to announce the return of Modern Science, our foudre-fermented farmhouse ale brewed with aged hop plasma and re-fermented with Texas Hill Country peaches! It's our collaboration with...

Happy International Beer Day! We're excited to announce the return of Bitter Death -- our Extra Hoppy Belgian-Style Pale Ale. For our second batch, we've packaged it in 16oz. cans in addition to draft.

Dry, bitter, drinkable, low-to-moderate ABV with some interesting fermentation character — that's a key mantra of ours when it comes to beer. And that's what Bitter Death is all about. We brewed a 5.0% abv pale beer with San Jacinto...

We're very excited to release our third wine from the 2021 grape harvest — our 2021 Red Blend. 2021 Red Blend is part of our Have We Met? series of wines. It features Texas-grown Black Spanish, Merlot, and Syrah grapes from Sulphur Bluff, Texas east of Dallas.

The grapes were harvested in August of 2021, crushed, and fermented in stainless steel at Jester King with the same mixed culture we use to ferment our farmhouse ales. We then...

Come out to try our new German-style Kölsch! This is a draft-only beer at Jester King. Our Kölsch was brewed as close to style as possible with softened well water, Texas-grown pilsner malt from Tex-Malt, Munich malt, and organic Perle hops. We fermented in stainless steel with Kölsch yeast, lagered for three weeks, filtered, force carbed, and packaged exclusively in kegs. 4.6% abv.

We hope you enjoy our crisp, drinkable, refreshing,...

We're excited to release the next English-style beer we've brewed at Jester King — English-style Summer Ale. While English beers are by no means our focus, we love brewing and drinking them. The complexity packed into relatively small beers, the blend of herbal hops and fruity esters, the drinkability, and the pub culture surrounding them make English-style beers among our most favorite.

For the hottest time of year, we brewed a...

2022 Vernal Dichotomous out now — our farmhouse ale inspired by the Central Texas spring season.

For this year's batch, we kept the recipe quite simple. We created a blend of farmhouse ale aged in oak barrels, then re-fermented the blend with sencha green tea. We sought to capture some of the herbaceous, earthy, floral character of the season in the form of a farmhouse ale. Like all our Dichotomous beers, they are created during the...

We're excited to release our 2021 batch of Biere de Coupage! Biere de Coupage is a dry-hopped blend of fresh, hoppy farmhouse ale and mature, barrel-aged SPON. "Biere de Coupage" simply means beer that is cut or blended. We learned about the practice of blending young beer with old from the Franco-Belgian farmhouse tradition, and we adopted it into our beer making about a decade ago. We enjoy seeing how the microflora from the mature SPON...

We're happy to announce the release of our latest batch of Das Wunderkind! Blended Saison.

Das Wunderkind is one of our oldest beers and one of the first to incorporate mature, barrel-aged wild beer. Back in November 2021, we brewed a young, fresh, hoppy farmhouse ale, blended it with mature, barrel-aged wild beer, then gave the blend a fresh dry hop of El Dorado, Motueka, Meridian, and Simcoe. We then naturally conditioned the blend...

We're excited to announce the release of 2022 Balcones Bourbon Barrel-Aged Moderne Dansk!

We created a blend of mature farmhouse ale aged in neutral oak wine barrels for about a year, re-fermented the blend with Danish Stevnsbær cherry juice from the renowned Frederiksdal Kirsebærvin, then barrel-aged the blend for another year in Bourbon barrels from our friends at Balcones Distilling in Waco! This two-year-old project involved...

We're excited to release Batch No. 9 of Omniscience & Proselytism! Omniscience & Proselytism (or "O&P") is our blend of mature, barrel-aged farmhouse ale, re-fermented with fresh-picked strawberries from KH Farm in Poteet, Texas!

Our core philosophy is taking the natural ingredients around us (aquifer water, Texas grain, local produce, native yeast) and presenting them through the "magic" of fermentation. Fermentation has a...

Our original version of Mr. Mingo Hibiscus Saison is here! Our motto at Jester King is we brew what we like, drink what we want, and offer the rest to those who share our tastes. This summer, we felt like drinking the original version of Mr. Mingo, which is simply a farmhouse ale brewed with Roselle Hibiscus.

But don't let the simplicity of the recipe and concept belie the complexity of the beer. Mr. Mingo is brewed with well water,...

Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer in cans.

This feels a little surreal to write. It has certainly been a long-time coming. We first brewed Le Petit Prince Farmhouse Table Beer in 2012. We've been brewing it once or twice per year since. Originally inspired by Brasserie Dupont's table beer called Avril. We sought to make a low-alcohol beer that's dry, drinkable, refreshing, crisp, hoppy with a little bit of beguiling yeast character...

We're excited to announce the release of 2022 Hibernal Dichotomous! Our Dichotomous series seeks to create flavors and aromas tied to the season in which they're created using seasonal ingredients and naturally occurring yeast.

For 2022 Hibernal Dichotomous, we created a barrel-aged blend of wild beer, which included a portion aged in Mezcal barrels. We then took winter beets and fire-roasted them in-house at Jester King Kitchen. Prior...

To help celebrate the release of 2022 Atrial Rubicite, we're also releasing a portion of 2021 Atrial Rubicite that was aged in Balcones Distilling Bourbon barrels!

We took some of last year's World Beer Cup Gold Medal-winning Atrial Rubicite and racked it into Balcones Distilling Bourbon barrels and aged it for a year. We then blended and naturally conditioned. The 2021 Atrial Rubicite must have absorbed residual bourbon in the...

We're excited to announce the release of Atrial Rubicite Batch 12 this Friday, July 15th! Atrial Rubicite is our barrel-aged wild ale re-fermented with raspberries. Originally released in 2013, it's our first-ever fruit beer.

When Atrial Rubicite was first released nine years ago, we wrote, "We love taking fruit that is highly aromatic and flavorful and fermenting it to dryness, so that the beer is imbued with the rich character of the...

We are honored to have won gold for Atrial Rubicite in the Belgian Fruit Beer category at this year's World Beer Cup!

⁠Celebrate the win with us at our 2022 Atrial Rubicite release party on Friday, July 15 from 12-9pm.

• We'll be pouring glasses of Atrial Rubicite all day
• Bottles of Atrial Rubicite available for purchase in the Beer Garden (while supplies last). 6 bottle limit.

• Bottles of...

We're excited to announce a new collaboration beer with our longtime friends Nicole and Lumbri Stufflebeme of Lupinus Artisan Ales! We brewed a Danish-style lager with 100% Viking Pilsner Malt, Czech Saaz Hops, and Danish Lager Yeast from Omega Yeast. Eight weeks total lagering time. Filtered. 4.8% abv.

Thank you Nicole and Lumbri for the friendship over the years and helping us craft a new tasty lager!

Head to the brewery today...

Tomorrow we're releasing a re-brew of Enigmatic Taxa, our 2017 collaboration with Perennial Artisan Ales in St. Louis, Missouri! Enigmatic Taxa is a hoppy farmhouse ale with grapefruit juice and zest added to the coolship. A portion of the grapefruits is from our friends down the road at Revolution Spirits.

The base beer is inspired by Belgian Hommel Bier. We brewed a 13 Plato wort with Llano, Texas Pilsner malt, Biscuit, Carafoam, and...

We're excited to announce Jester King Summer Sessions this July through August! A one-of-a-kind concert series at The Hall at Jester King with live music, dinner, and Jester King's world-renowned farmhouse ales.

Lineup:

• 7/14 -...

Out today is a new Belgian-Style Pale Ale brewed to celebrate our kickball beer league at Jester King!

The beer was brewed with well water, Texas-grown malted barley and wheat, flaked oats, and Perle, Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, and Tettnanger hops. It was fermented in stainless steel with a pure culture of Belgian Pale Ale yeast, then dry hopped with more Hallertauer Mittelfrüh and Tettnanger hops. It's unfiltered and naturally conditioned...

We're excited to announce the re-release of Jester King Queen's Order — farmhouse ale with tallow honey and dried lemon peel. This staff favorite is dry, drinkable, flavorful, and timely for the hot Texas summer.

Queen's Order is brewed with well water, TexMalt Llano Pilsner, malted spelt, flaked oats, organic Perle hops, tallow honey and dried lemon peel. It was fermented in stainless steel with our house mixed culture. 100% naturally...

We are honored to have won gold for Atrial Rubicite in the Belgian Fruit Beer category at this year's World Beer Cup.

Atrial Rubicite competed amongst 76 other beers in the Belgian Fruit Beer category from breweries across the world. ⁠Congratulations to Oud Beersel for taking home silver and ColdFire Brewing for securing...

We're pleased to introduce Jester King Viridium — 100% spontaneously fermented beer brewed with toasted yaupon, juniper, and rosemary. All of the herbs were foraged from the land surrounding the brewery.

We first brewed a batch of Viridium in 2019, and then we brewed another batch in 2020. After the beer matured in oak barrels for two to three years, we blended it with some one-year-old spontaneous beer in our cellar. The blend was...

Jester King Hazy IPA out tomorrow! The base was Texas-grown malted barley and wheat from TexMalt. We kettle hopped with Idaho 7 and Simcoe. We dry-hopped with Simcoe, Citra, Galaxy, Strata, and Nelson Sauvin. We also added an enzyme called Beta glucosidase during the early dry hopping to aid in biotransformation (i.e. the interaction of yeast and hop oils to create new flavor compounds). 6.5% abv. Drink as fresh as possible.

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Today we're releasing our 2022 blend of Montmorency vs. Balaton! "MvB" is our barrel aged wild ale re-fermented with Montmorency and Balaton cherries from Michigan. 🍒 One of our running jokes at Jester King is, "What is your favorite fruit to ferment with beer, and why is it cherry?" Cherries are indeed hard to beat when it comes to fruit re-fermentation. We get delicious notes of cherry pie, cinnamon, and marzipan.

2022 Montmorency...

Chef Brad Leone visited Jester King over Memorial Day weekend for a Q&A with Jester King Brewery founder Jeff Stuffings. They discussed food, beer, and all things fermentation. Brad talked about a few stories and recipes from his new book 'Field Notes for Food Adventure' as well.

Three lucky winners won a Gozney oven with the purchase of one of Brad's books. Gozney makes live-fire cooking easy...

We continue to celebrate American Craft Beer Week with the re-release of Jester King Serrata — barrel-aged wild beer with Japanese Red Shiso, brewed in collaboration with Gigantic Brewing in Portland, Oregon.

In March of 2021, we brewed with well water, Texas-grown malted barley and wheat, Amarillo hops, and Red Shiso. After primary fermentation in stainless steel with our mixed culture, we barrel-aged the beer in neutral oak for about...

We are happy to announce the re-release of Jester King Italian-style Pilsner! Our Italian-style Pilsner is brewed with Eraclea Pilsner Malt and Hallertau Mittelfruh hops. After eight weeks of lagering, we dry-hopped with Spalter Select and Saphir, then filtered and packaged in cans and kegs. 5.1% abv.

Head to Jester King to cool off with a glass of Italian-style Pilsner. Available onsite and for pick up:...

The 16th annual American Craft Beer Week is now through May 22 🍺 We have three exciting releases this week, and we're kicking things off with the re-release of Audio Palette — our spelty farmhouse ale with American hops, brewed in collaboration with Stillwater Artisanal.

For the re-release, we brewed with well water, Texas-grown 2-row barley, malted spelt, and Idaho 7. We fermented in stainless with our mixed culture and dry-hopped...

We're excited to announce the release of Afield — our 2021 Cinsaut wine made in collaboration with our friends at Field Recordings Winery in Paso Robles, California, and American Solera Brewery in Tulsa, Oklahoma!

For Afield, we took 100% 2021 Cinsaut grapes grown in the California Central Coast and had them undergo carbonic maceration (fermenting the grapes from the inside out using natural CO2 pressure). Interestingly, the carbonic...

We're very excited to release our first wine from last year's Texas grape harvest — Jester King 2021 Blanc du Bois! Our 2021 Blanc du Bois is made from 100% Blanc du Bois grapes grown in Sulphur Bluff, east of Dallas. We received the grapes last August and fermented on skins for about a month, yielding an orange wine. Fermentation was started by pitching our mixed culture — the same one we use to ferment our farmhouse beer. We then pressed...

We're happy to announce the return of SPON Shiso & Fuyu Persimmon! This is three-year-old spontaneously fermented beer from the winter of 2019 (Jester King coolship season no. 7). We created a soft, mellow blend and re-fermented with Texas Fuyu Persimmons grown in Mexia, Texas to the east of Waco. We then added Japanese Red Shiso before bottling.

SPON Shiso & Fuyu Persimmon is bright, refreshing, and tangy with a subtle...

Batch two of Citrus Foot Direct out now! This is our Farmhouse IPA fermented with Oranges and Mandarin.

To make Citrus Froot Direct, we mashed with well water and a base of Wildfire Pale Malt and San Jacinto 2-Row from TexMalt. We kettle hopped with Idaho 7 and dry hopped with Simcoe, El Dorado, and more Idaho 7. We fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture. During fermentation we added juice and zest from oranges and...

We're excited to simultaneously release two new SPON beers — 2022 SPON Raspberry & Cherry and 2022 Blackberry & Cherry! Both are a blend of mature, barrel-fermented 100% spontaneously fermented beer. Following a few years of maturation and blending, we refermented the blends with raspberries and cherries and blackberries and cherries respectively.

Stemming back to our love and appreciation of authentic-Belgian Lambic, as well as...

We're excited to announce the release of Jester King Ordinary Bitter! We love English-style beers. Like, really love them. We will not travel to Denver without visiting Hogshead Brewery or Seattle without visiting Machine House Brewery. We're lucky and grateful to have Acopon Brewing Co. making delicious English-style beers down the road from us. We've relished the opportunities we've had in the past to visit Manchester, England and...

We're excited to release this year's batch of Jester King Blueberry Wine! This wine is 100% blueberries fermented with our house mixed culture. We don't add anything else but blueberries and yeast.

After the crush, we did primary fermentation in stainless steel, then pressed and racked to neutral oak for six months. We blended and packaged the wine still. 7.9% abv.

This year, the blueberries came from Michigan instead of Texas....

Happy National Beer Day! In honor of this holiday, we’re sharing the recipe for Jester King 分 桃 (Fēn Táo) — Barrel-Aged Wild Ale refermented with Texas Hill Country peaches. We've been making this beer for around 7 years and it's one of our favorites. We love the character of Texas Hill Country peaches expressed through wild fermentation. It's a relatively simple recipe and process too. Good ingredients and patience combine to create a...

We're pleased to release our latest fruited Grisette — Jester King 2021 Blackberry Grisette! It's brewed with well water, Texas-grown malted barley and wheat, and a blend of Bobek and aged hops. Primary fermentation was in stainless steel with our mixed culture, followed by fruit re-fermentation with blackberries, and 100% natural conditioning. 5.3% abv.

Head to the brewery to get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$18) onsite in...

Our new pizzas are no joke. Come try our new pies this weekend – Tuberosum (left) and Citron (right)!

Tuberosum comes with bechamel, sharp cheddar, potatoes, bacon, thinly sliced leeks, & Crystal hot sauce. Citron comes with garlic oil, basil, fresh Lioni mozzarella, Calabrian chilis, sliced lemon, dill, & hot honey. These spicy pies are delicious.

Photo by Jess Attie.

Introducing St. Elmo Brewing Co. / Jester King Brewery Koelschip Kölsch!

We love crispy beers. We love coolships. We love collaborating with talented brewers, especially when they're local friends. All of these things come together in Koelschip Kölsch!

We first drank authentic German Kölsch when we traveled to Cologne in 2012 to collaborate with Freigeist Bierkultur and our friend Sebastian Sauer, with whom we made Sauer Power and...

We're excited to introduce Blackened Skies, our latest collaboration with our friends at Weathered Souls in San Antonio! Blackened Skies is a blend of two-year-old spontaneously fermented stout, whisky barrel-aged Imperial Porter, and Imperial Stout from Weathered Souls.

On a winter night about two years ago, we were joined by Weathered Souls Co-Founder Marcus Baskerville for a coolship brew. We brewed a medium gravity wort with Texas...

Our latest batch of Kollaborationsbier (batch 6) is out! Kollaborationsbier is Live Oak Pilz wort fermented in stainless steel with Jester King mixed culture. The Pilz wort is brewed at Live Oak and driven across town to Jester King for fermentation. This simple, crushable beer maintains much of the Live Oak Pilz character when young and fresh, then goes through a mixed culture metamorphosis in the...

Our latest hazy IPA is out! We've simply dubbed it Jester King Hazy IPA. It's hopped with Galaxy, Sabro, and Strata and fermented with Imperial A38 Juice. We've kept the ABV fairly restrained for the style at 5.8%, so as to make it a nice drinker for people visiting Jester King during the beautiful spring months. Cheers!

Jester King Hazy IPA is available for purchase starting March 23, 2022. Best enjoyed fresh, so make sure to come out!...

Introducing Jester King batch cocktails! We’re excited to officially roll out our rotating cocktail menu crafted by Keven White, Manager & Cocktail Program Director. Every Friday from 3-6pm, all cocktails are $5! Available at Pasture Bar only. Pictured: Vaca Luna.

• Vaca Luna - White rum, fresh lime & grapefruit juice, simple syrup
• Manhattan - French oak-aged bourbon, Carpano Antica vermouth, house-made Balaton cherry...

We're happy to release RU55 Batch 9! RU55 is our barrel-aged Flanders-style red ale. About two years ago we brewed a wort with pilsner and caramel malt and barrel aged it. After about 24 months maturation, we blended and naturally conditioned. We like to keep our barrel-aged blends nice, soft, and mellow, which is what we did for RU55 Batch 9. Smooth and mellow with a nice dark fruit, caramel, leathery character, and a gorgeous copper/red...

Nocturn Chrysalis batch 8 is here! Nocturn Chrysalis is our barrel-aged wild ale refermented with six pounds per gallon Marion Blackberries! Batch 8 ranks up there with the best of our Nocturn Chrysalis blends in our opinion. It's decadently jammy, gorgeous in color, and has a beautiful, soft acidity with a hint of funk. We're really proud of this blend and hope you enjoy it!

Head to the brewery to get a glass or purchase bottles to go...

Our first wine release of the new year is here — Jester King 2022 Sparkling Cherry Wine!

Our Sparkling Cherry Wine is a blend of 50% Balaton and 50% Montmorency cherries from Michigan. We fermented the cherries with our house mixed culture last May, then aged the wine in oak barrels for seven months. We then naturally conditioned the wine through refermentation in the bottle. No additives, preservatives, adjunct ingredients, or anything...

Our first SPON release this year is a dual one — 2021 SPON Touriga Nacional and 2021 SPON Chenin Blanc!

Both beers are two-year-old blends of spontaneously fermented beer re-fermented with Central Coast grapes. 2021 SPON Touriga Nacional is 10.4% abv and is very juicy and fruit forward. The mature SPON serves as a nice backdrop to the 2021 fruit, which is still presenting fruity and vibrant. 2021 SPON Chenin Blanc is 8.1% abv and is...

Jester King DDH IPA is back! Brewed with Texas-grown pale malt and malted wheat from TexMalt, as well as flaked oats. Dry hopped with Citra, Simcoe, and El Dorado Cryo. Fermented with Imperial A38 Juice. 6.5% abv.

Jester King DDH IPA is available for purchase starting today. Best enjoyed fresh, so make sure to come out! We also have $2 off all pizzas and crowlers today and tomorrow. 60 cases available. 16oz. four-pack cans = $16....

Announcing Jester King Kickball League! Learn about how to sign up for our Spring league below. First game is on March 16th! Purchase membership ticket here.

Jester King Kickball League

• Membership Ticket: $125. Includes shirt, stadium cup, and beer fills for each regular season game. Teams that make it to playoffs will be provided beer...

We're excited to release our latest batch of Snörkel — farmhouse ale brewed with alderwood smoked sea salt and oyster mushrooms. For this batch, we used golden oyster mushrooms grown by Smallhold in Austin. We added both the mushrooms and smoked sea salt hot side during the boil. Aside from the adjunct ingredients, we kept it pretty simple with this dry, drinkable farmhouse ale. Unfiltered,...

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.

Maris Otter base malt, English caramel, brown, and chocolate malts, brown sugar, dark candi syrup. Fermented with English yeast. 10.5% abv.

Black...

Introducing Chamango! This beer is inspired by the Mexican drink Mangonada or Chamango. It was brewed with tamarind, barrel-aged for over a year, re-fermented with mangos, then finished with additions of chamoy and Tajín. We get a nice mix of savory spice and tropical fruit character in a beer we find layered but quite drinkable. 7.6% abv.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to...

For Doom Forge Day next Sunday, February 20th, we're excited to release Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Nocturn Serenade!

Last year, we brewed an imperial stout re-fermented with blackberries called Nocturn Serenade. We then aged the beer for 13 months in maple syrup bourbon barrels. The results are quite vinous and remind us of port wine. Naturally conditioned in kegs in 750ml "genie" bottles. 12.3% abv.

Available by the glass and in...

Introducing hemp CBD prerolls from the Jester King farm! They're filled with estate-grown hemp, lavender, and prairie sage and will usher you into a calm and relaxing state. Our hemp contains less than .3% THC. Now available at the Jester King shop in the Pole Barn.

Our prerolls come from our hemp plants that were grown in our permanent beds and fed only well water and goat manure on...

A Pale Green Horse Kveik India Pale Ale is here! Brewed in collaboration with our great friends at Yazoo Brewing Company in Nashville, Tennessee. A Pale Green Horse is one of our personal favorites. We brewed it with a base of Wildfire Pale Malt and San Jacinto 2-Row from TexMalt, raw wheat, flaked oats, and El Dorado and Idaho 7 hops. We then dry-hopped at 4# per bbl with Strata and Sabro Cryo. 7.8%...

Our latest batch of Vague Recollection is now available! Inspired by the winemaking tradition of piquette, Vague Recollection is a farmhouse ale aged on the grape pomace from the 2021 harvest.

2021 was our second season of winemaking. We worked with Blanc du Bois, Syrah, Merlot, and Black Spanish grapes. After pressing the skins, we racked young farmhouse ale onto the pomace. After a few months of aging, we racked the beer off of the...

Introducing one of our Doom Forge Day releases, Vanilla Balcones Bourbon Barrel Original Black Metal! (Available starting 2/20/22).

Last year, we aged our 2021 O.G. Black Metal in bourbon barrels from our friends at Balcones Distillery. After nine months of barrel-aging, we added a pound per barrel of Madagascar vanilla beans to the beer. The result is decadent and delicious and will be a killer part of the experience at this year’s...

Our philosophy at Jester King is strongly rooted in creating a sense of community and place, by tying our guests’ experience to a time, place, and people. Whether dining onsite with friends and family, 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 memorable connection and experience with our guests and community.

We...

We're excited to release our latest batch of Munich-Style Helles Lager! It's brewed with softened Hill Country well water, 100% Weyermann Floor-Malted Pilsner, and Hallertau Mittelfruh. Fermented with Augustiner yeast and lagered for eight weeks in our new horizontal lager tanks. Filtered and packaged in kegs and 16oz. cans. 4.8% abv.

We find our Munich-Style Helles Lager highly refined, slightly malt forward, super-crisp, and...