Austin will be awakening from a drunken, craft beer-induced stupor come Monday morning wondering what in the hell just happened.

Nightly bacchanals have been thrown across the city as our town's bars all clamored for a finite drinking dollar. We celebrated, as is our custom, on the front porch.

Day 5 looks especially promising. Whip In, down on southbound I-35, is tapping a cask of Lupulus, a hoppy Belgian Tripel, from Independence Brewing at 420 pm. The man on the phone wasn't sure if it would be 3-4 dollars. Either way. 1950 Hwy 35 S

Grab a six pack of Fireman #4 for $6.99 at E.1st Grocery 1811 E. Cesar Chavez and hit Micklethwait Craft Meats for their 5 month anniversary party 1309 Rosewood Ave

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We've been celebrating Craft Beer Week on the front porch on a nightly basis of late. Electric Wizard good and loud, fresh kettle of chili on the stovetop, plenty Anderson's Coffee to help us power through the malaise. It's been a lot of fun. But, most folks like the camaraderie of drinking in taverns and pubs so we've been hard at work finding the best beer events in Austin every single day.

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This daily post has involved way more work than we bargained for. Yes, there are a lot of bars in Austin trying to make money off craft beer; trouble is, most of them are cocktail bars that saw a trend and swooped in to see if they could line their coffers off the work of the brewmasters as well as distillers.

Tried and true, genuine craft beer bars are scarce as hen's teeth around these parts.

With that being said, we did manage to locate a couple good beer parties for y'all.

Down at Craft Pride you won't find any booze unless it's in a flask in somebody's hip pocket, but you will find a fresh keg of Austin Beerworks Heisenberg Kristalweizen. Grab a 20oz pint and walk out back and get a plate of Schnitzel off the Bacon food truck parked in the courtyard. 61 Rainey.

Meanwhile, all the college kids will be crowding into Hopfields near the UT campus to quaff big glasses of dry hopped Lost Gold IPA from Real Ale. No booze, no rules, run in there and let your devil dogs run free and tell em Scrumptious sent ya! 3110 Guadalupe.

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After an exhaustive morning calling a bunch of "craft beer" bars who were blissfully unaware of any sort of American Craft Beer Week promotion, we finally managed to wrangle a special to help fuel y'alls celebrations.

At Dog n Duck Pub, the venerable west Capital drinking institution all Austin craft beer pints range from $3-$3.50 tonight. We're still recuperating from the shell shocking we took at their powerhouse Aussie music night a few years ago when the Saints and HooDoo Gurus levelled the joint, so we'll probably sit this one out. Given the prime hunk of land the bar sits on, we're predicting the bulldozers will be revving up soon enough, so get by while you can. 406 w.17th st.

And that's about it.

With an imprimatur of only featuring non-liquor serving bars that are featuring Texas-only draft beer that wraps today's edition up.

Back with more tomorrow.

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It starts today.

American Craft Beer Week is going off all over Austin as our town's explosive craft beer scene is celebrated nightly in bars and taverns across town.

Watch out for all the drunks on fixies around 2am each night.

Really, really missing Lovejoys right now.

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In keeping with the modern state of foodways in East Austin, the renaissance of long running curb store Quickie Pickie will feature local foods in the cafe, local beers on the tap wall and perhaps an aviary off to one side featuring only the finest local chickens?

A month or so ago we were motoring toward Rosewood Avenue when we spotted a gang of construction workers descending on the corner of East 11th and Lydia. Always curious, we popped into the old time quick mart to see what was going on with the hubbub.

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A few months ago we made our way to the Draughthouse in Central Austin for the Austin Beer Guide Winter release party. It was a glorious affair save for the poor beleaguered barkeeps who were in no way prepared for the mammoth crowd.

Once the wait for a fresh brew stretched past a half hour we left for greener pastures. We documented the fete here ( http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/3/ )

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My father always chastened people to "never trust a man with a beard," he did so with a wink and a nod as his chest length beard fluttered in the breeze. I've grown out multiple beards in my life, mostly of the Hezekiah variety, where you keep your face baby-bottom smooth, and let the neck fur grow to your waist.

It's biblical.

Joshua Cockrell, the Aesthetic Czar of Jester King, brought home the bacon at the recent World Beer Championships Packaging Competition.

No word on whether he's one of the beardos who compete at the prestigious beard growing competitions that take place around Austin and other, lesser, cities around the USA.

Cockrell speaks http://jesterkingbrewery.com/world-beer-championships-p

Providing extensive coverage of Austin's full blown gone nuclear craft beer scene is a daunting task but one that Austin Beer Guide tackles with aplomb. They also know how to throw a very fine party as was witnessed by their epic blowout at Draught House a couple months ago.

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Time to make plans for a craft beer roadtrip down to New Braunfels Texas.

Guadalupe Brewing Company, makers of:

Texas Honey Ale

Rye IPA

Scotch Ale

Americano Wheat Ale

Texas Honey Sour

and

Guadalupe IPA

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Great article this morning on the Bitch Beer site on the intersection of craft beer and sexual imagery in advertising.

Author Caroline attended a roller derby event where South Austin Brewing had purchased some ad space in the program and utilized that hoary old cliche of a sexy looking woman to sell their beer.

Win.

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