Funky Picnic Brewery & Café and TexMalt are teaming up to launch a hot throwdown. Starting today, homebrewers can enter smoked beers into Smoke ’Em Out Homebrew Competition. “This competition highlights all things smoky, including traditional smoked beer styles like Rauchbier and Lichtenhainer, while allowing
Texas breweries are baking up special batches of liquid bread this spring.
They aren t baking, of course, but they are brewing specialty brews made with Texas-grown malt to raise money for the state s largest craft beer advocacy program.
The Texas Craft Brewers Guild is hosting a statewide fundraiser called the Liquid Bake Sale. Almost 30 breweries are participating, each one brewing a different beer using grain from the Fort Worth-based TexMalt, which sells Texas-grown malts for brewing.
Half a dozen of the beers have been released, with nearly two dozen more beers slated to debut in coming weeks in styles ranging from hoppy IPAs to decadent stouts.