Live Oak Brewing Company
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| Location | Austin, Texas | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1997 | ||||||||||
| Owner(s) | Chip McElroy | ||||||||||
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The Live Oak Brewing Company located in Austin, Texas, is a locally owned and operated brewery. The brewery produces four year-round beers as well as four seasonal (or special release) beers. Live Oak beers are only available on draft in the following Texas cities: Addison, Alpine, Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Marathon, San Antonio and San Marcos, Temple, and Waco.
While Live Oak uses industry standard step mashing for most of their beers, they use a more difficult and rarely used old world style of mashing known as decoction mashing for a few of their beers, most notably the Live Oak Pilz and the Oaktoberfest.
Live Oak uses large dairy tanks as fermenting vessels instead of the more traditional cylindroconical fermenters.
The brewery is currently run out of an old industrial building in south east Austin. Recently the company purchased 20 acres (81,000 m2) of undeveloped land on the Colorado river just north of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on which to build a new brewery, the completion of which is estimated to take "a couple of years."
External links
- Live Oak Brewing Company - Official Website
- Live Oak Brewing Company on Facebook
- Live Oak Brewing Company on Twitter
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Coordinates: 30°13′15.37″N 97°39′47.81″W / 30.2209361°N 97.6632806°W