Hill Country Beer Club

Member's Choice
February 22, 2025

PhatMeat's House
12:00:00

Brewer Beer Vintage Score
McFleshmans's Brewing Company Festbier 2024 83
Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company) TexHex Storm Caster Juicy IPA 2024 84
Drekker Brewing 6 Minute Abs 2024 87
Drekker Brewing 6 Minute Abs 2024
Drekker Brewing 6 Minute Abs 2024
Founders Mortal Bloom 2024 87
Branch & Bone Artisan Ales Monostatic #12 Mosaic 2024 87
Industrial Arts Brewing Company Wrench 2024 88
Wood Foot Beer Company Decorative Tin 2025 88
Streetside Brewery Obscurify 2024 89
Firestone Walker Brewing Company Wookey Jack 2024 90
Saint Arnold Brewing Company French Press 90
Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company) TexHex Wicked Haze 2024 89
New Holland Brewing Company Dragon’s Milk Bourbon Barrel - Aged 2024 92
Horus Feather Pluckin 2024 94
Jackie O's Brewery Omission of Logic 2024 93
New Holland Brewing Company Dragon’s Milk Trible Madh 2024 94

Who Offered: FATBOY, KAY JAY, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: FATBOY, KAY JAY, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Summary

83

McFleshmans's Brewing Company

Festbier

Golden or Blonde Ale | 5.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
McFleshman's Festbier highlights lighter, delicate German malts. This golden lager has replaced the more traditional style of Marzen as the Oktoberfest standard with its lighter body, ABV and color, making it more drinkable during the long fest. McFleshmans's Festbier will have you raising stein after stein. Eins, zwei, drei, g'suffa!

84

Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)

TexHex Storm Caster Juicy IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) - Hazy | 5.5% ABV | 35 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
An endless drought once descended onto the domain of La Bruja. Through a blend of might, magic and experimental hops, the alchemist refreshed her realm with her fabled Storm Caster Juicy IPA.

87

Drekker Brewing

6 Minute Abs

Hazy IPA | 5.7% ABV | 30 IBU
Offered By: KAY JAY
Club/Brewer Notes:
This collab with our friends at Icewind Brewing is going to blow your expecations right outta the water. Listen to this: 6... Minute... Abs. Do you see where we’re going? With notes of piña colada, candied lime and peach, this new IPA is just as good of a workout as the 8-minute folk. They said nobody’s comin’ up with 6, but we fuggin’ did.

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Drekker Brewing

6 Minute Abs

Hazy IPA | 5.7% ABV | 30 IBU
Offered By: KAY JAY
Club/Brewer Notes:
This collab with our friends at Icewind Brewing is going to blow your expecations right outta the water. Listen to this: 6... Minute... Abs. Do you see where we’re going? With notes of piña colada, candied lime and peach, this new IPA is just as good of a workout as the 8-minute folk. They said nobody’s comin’ up with 6, but we fuggin’ did.

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Drekker Brewing

6 Minute Abs

Hazy IPA | 5.7% ABV | 30 IBU
Offered By: KAY JAY
Club/Brewer Notes:
This collab with our friends at Icewind Brewing is going to blow your expecations right outta the water. Listen to this: 6... Minute... Abs. Do you see where we’re going? With notes of piña colada, candied lime and peach, this new IPA is just as good of a workout as the 8-minute folk. They said nobody’s comin’ up with 6, but we fuggin’ did.

87

Founders

Mortal Bloom

Hazy IPA | 6.2% ABV | 50 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
Mortal Bloom reminds us that you can find what you’re looking for in truly unusual places. This radiantly beautiful hazy IPA will wrap your tastebuds with intense citrus and tropical notes of pineapple and mango. The intense flavor is balanced by a soft mouthfeel, making Mortal Bloom incredibly flavorful and aromatic without any harsh aftertaste. Embrace the unconventional with Mortal Bloom.

87

Branch & Bone Artisan Ales

Monostatic #12 Mosaic

New England/ Hazy IPA | 7% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Single Hop Hazy IPA series this time featuring Mosaic Hops

88

Industrial Arts Brewing Company

Wrench

New England Hazy IPA | 7.1% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
A pithy explosion of aroma and flavor, beyond hazy, and loaded with Mosaic and Citra to the point of stickiness.

88

Wood Foot Beer Company

Decorative Tin

Maple Praline Stout | 7.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: SANTA
89

Streetside Brewery

Obscurify

New England/ Hazy Ipa | 7.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Accio Mash Paddle! Streetside won the House Cup and scored some Galaxy for a special brew that we whipped up in Potions with Professor Snape. Fresh Citra combines with the Galaxy for passionfruit and citrus aromatics that you can smell all the way to Herbology class.

90

Firestone Walker Brewing Company

Wookey Jack

Black Rye IPA | 8.3% ABV | 70 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
Wookey Jack now reclaims its title as Firestone Walker’s wildest and woolliest IPA, offering big, toasty malted rye flavors with a balanced bite on the finish. It is, in Brynildson’s words, “gnarly on the outside, yet refined on the inside.” This latest edition of Wookey Jack remains faithful to the well-beloved original recipe, which includes loads of pearled dark malts with rye adding a rustic grain element. The hops are dank, sticky Citra and pungent Amarillo, both of which are incorporated into a massive dry-hop regimen.

90

Saint Arnold Brewing Company

French Press

American-Style Imperial Porter | 9.4% ABV | 48 IBU
Offered By: FATBOY
Club/Brewer Notes:
French Press is an imperial coffee porter brewed with Java Pura Coffee Roasters Espresso blend coffee. It pours dark brown/black in color with a creamy and tan head that lasts. It has a bold chocolate and coffee flavor and aroma with a balanced roast bitterness and mild sweetness. It finishes with a nice balance of coffee and a slight chocolaty sweetness that doesn’t build and keeps you coming back for another sip.

89

Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)

TexHex Wicked Haze

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) - Hazy | 9.5% ABV | 40 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
Out of a ceaseless sandstorm steps La Bruja to unleash TexHex Wicked Haze Double IPA. This mesmerizing mix of cactus water and cryogenically enhanced Idaho 7 hops unleashes tropical and pine flavors.

92

New Holland Brewing Company

Dragon’s Milk Bourbon Barrel - Aged

American-Style Imperial Stout | 11% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: FATBOY
Club/Brewer Notes:
Throughout the ages, Dragon’s Milk has been a term used to describe potent ales that were bestowed in celebration at the end of a journey. Our signature stout carries on that tradition today. Roasted malt delivers notes of coffee and chocolate, married with sweet undertones of vanilla and oak from a three-month stay in bourbon barrels, to create a truly legendary blend of flavor

94

Horus

Feather Pluckin

Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer | 12.4% ABV | 40 IBU
Offered By: KAY JAY
Club/Brewer Notes:
The Horus x Omnipollo team conditioned a rich, fudgy base with heaps of chocolate and bushels of blueberries, along with measured doses of pecans, coconut, and vanilla

93

Jackie O's Brewery

Omission of Logic

American-Style Imperial Porter | 14% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Porter conditioned on pecans, vanilla, and cinnamon.

94

New Holland Brewing Company

Dragon’s Milk Trible Madh

American-Style Imperial Stout | 18% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: FATBOY