Anyone been to the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, TX?
 

I've been thinking about doing a little road trip down there to check it out. I was curious if anyone here has been before. If so, how was it in general? Did they have places setup where you can sample all or some of their brews?

It's a little bit of a drive from Dallas but isn't too bad, I think it may be worth the experience. I enjoy most of their brews but there's still a few I haven't tried yet.

Wouldn't be a bad trip, make a weekend out of it and hit up Gruene, Texas and New Braunsfels while your down there, both those are close to 35. One thing I regret not doing when I lived in San Antonio was going up to Gruene while I was some what close.

I've been there the tour is about a hour they give you wooden nickels to sample the beer. Shiner blonde is my fav pretty Cool little tour its beautiful down there i'm used to flat mesquite trees so yea way better. Look on there website for days and times they have the tour .

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I'll be goin down there this summer.

That entire part of Texas is really nice.

yeah i could say that i totally liked it. it was a really sweet place and caught a free buzz. well worth it, LOL.

Sounds like a good cruise! Enjoying a Shiner Bock as I type!

been twice, well worth it. try out the local restaurants too, they have some damn good shiner food. the sample beer they give you is the freshest you can get. :cheers:

I really like it. I have been probably 4-5 times in the past 5 years. I have family in the Hill Country so we stop by when the tours are open on our road trips.

I'm a Shiner Blonde guy as well. Good stuff.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to make an effort to get down there sometime this year and check it out.

I grew up 10min from shiner, I have never taken the tour, and...I do not drink shiner beer.

Shiner resteraunt and bar is the ONLY place id eat at if I was you.

They don't give tours on the weekends.

True. But they still give free samples in the tasting room on Saturday afternoon.

If you haven't had your fill at the brewery, have another one at Howard's or Art Antiques & Beer. Unbelievably cheap beer prices.

and :thumb: to the Shiner Restaurant & Bar. Get the pulled pork chile relleno if its still on the menu.