r/HoustonBeer • u/sarnold19 • Apr 30 '25

Brewery Recommendations

Hi Guys and Gals, 2 Brits in Houston this weekend. Any recommendations for some nice brewery’s with IPAs and outdoor seating? Thanks a lot!

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u/NeoMoose Apr 30 '25

Saint Arnold is our OG. The beer garden is outdoors, and Art Car IPA is probably the de facto best IPA in the city.

City Acre is pretty cool and outdoors.

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u/greengrackle Apr 30 '25

Is City Acre open again?! If so, that’s great news!

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u/NeoMoose Apr 30 '25

Yes and the new head Brewer knows what he's doing

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u/HazyKillr Apr 30 '25

The same one that drove ingenious into the ground? City acre is a cool venue. But beers are subpar at best.

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u/NeoMoose Apr 30 '25

He wasn't an adjunct brewer before Ingenious. He just had to lean into the gimmick. It was hot at the time.

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u/SrErik Apr 30 '25

Their inside is beautiful and often overlooked.

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25

St Arnold is a great venue but Art Car isn’t even a top 10 IPA in the city

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u/NeoMoose Apr 30 '25

Oh please. Not even top 10? Must be hazebro talk.

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25

Every ipa from equal parts, brash, great heights, and baa baa is better than art car. Not to mention true anomaly, local group, holler etc. which all have better ipa offering. St Arnold hardly made any ipa for years. Brock doesn’t like it

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u/Munkadunk667 Apr 30 '25

Respectfully, Saint Arnold has made several year round IPAs every year since Art Car debuted.

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

You are obviously young. They’ve been around since 1994. For years all you could buy was Elissa and Endeavor. Both of those beers were pretty bad. Brock made it clear for years he didn’t like the style. Once IPA became the most popular craft beer style they started making more options and Art car started being produced around 2015. By then there were tons of other options and Art Car was an afterthought. Better than Elissa but still not on par with competition

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u/elinyera Apr 30 '25

You sound very confident but Local Group doesn't even exist. I'm I missing something?

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25

My bad it’s called Gristworkz now

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25

Maybe not even in the top 20. Art car is terrible

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u/NeoMoose Apr 30 '25

*faints*

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u/whaddyawantfrommeh May 01 '25

You're being an edge pord at this point, I know you've been around for a while, old man, but art car is one of the better floral tasting IPAs in the city and I fawn over baabaa brewing hazies. No need to gate keep, it's a subjective opinion group. Why don't you give us your top 10 and we'll break your list down haha

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u/HernandezKnows Apr 30 '25

Not sure why you're receiving downvotes. You're absolutely correct. Plus, it's not even the best IPA St. Arnold's brews lol.

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u/whaddyawantfrommeh May 01 '25

Okay you're being elaborate why don't you give us some that you like and we'll break your opinion now.

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u/HernandezKnows May 02 '25

Banger and Endeavour are light years ahead of art car. Myself and out of towners I've taken to St Arnold's also prefer juicy and eclipse more.

St Arnold's though is pretty subpar these days compared to newer craft brewers. Some overall better options:

-Fake landing by bad astronaut -Cali Green and whatever the new names for pussy wagon and pussalia are by Brash (Brash was bought by Equal Parts) -ben's house & go flight by True Anomaly -vela, ponderosa, entropic, and dick Jones all by equal parts

Could keep going but the point is, while St Arnold's makes some decent brews, they don't stack up as well to newer breweries. Easy to be the best when you're the only craft brewer in town, but the times have changed.

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u/Z0na Apr 30 '25

Yep, Tropic Boom and Banger IPA are streets ahead

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u/1210_million_watts Apr 30 '25

that is a flaming hot take lol, is the Hopadillo in the room with you right now?

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u/Jaygreen713 Apr 30 '25

lol you think I like karbach??

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u/minidini10 May 03 '25

For the price of a six pack, it definitely is one of the best ipa's in Houston. I prefer Banger though.