Real Ale Brewing Company

Real Ale Brewing is a regional-sized American brewery founded in 1996 in Blanco, Texas.

Real Ale Brewing Company

Handcrafted beers from the Texas hill country
Location	Blanco, Texas
Coordinates	30.113255°N 98.41274°W
Opened	1996
Annual production volume	60,000 US beer barrels (70,000 hL)
Owned by	Brad Farbstein
Active beers
Name Type Rio Blanco Pale Ale English-style Pale Ale Full Moon Pale Rye Ale American Pale Ale Brewhouse Brown Ale Brown Ale Fireman's #4 Blonde Ale Blonde Ale Devil's Backbone Tripel Lost Gold IPA American IPA Hans Pils German Pilsner Sisyphus Barleywine Ale Barley Wine 4-squared American Blonde
Seasonal beers
Name Type Shade Grown Coffee Porter Porter Phoenixx Double ESB Extra Special/Strong Bitter Real Heavy Wee Heavy White Witbier Oktoberfest Oktoberfest/Märzen Hefeweizen Hefeweizen

History

The Real Ale Brewing Company was established in 1996 in Blanco, Texas. Their beers can only be found in Texas. Originally operating out of a tiny basement brewery on the square in Blanco, the brewery relocated in May 2006 to a brand-new facility in Blanco, where they have increased production massively.[1] The owner credits the local Blanco River as "some of the best brewing water for the styles of beer that we make," making Blanco an ideal location for the brewery.[2]

Local partnerships have included Austin-based Fireman's Texas Cruzer, a BMX cruiser bike manufacturer, for which Fireman's #4 Blonde Ale is named.

In October 2016 Real Ale Brewing Company announced it was issuing a "precautionary recall" of 11,000 cases due to a potential glass defect. [3]

Mysterium Verum

Mysterium Verum is a line of beers produced by Real Ale Brewing Company in which the beers are aged in barrels. Some of these beers are additionally inoculated with wild yeast and/or bacteria. A list of these beers follows:

Name	Name before aging	Base Style	Wild Beer?
The Highlander	Real Heavy	Scotch Ale	No
Scots Gone Wild	Real Heavy	Scotch Ale	yes
The Devil's Share	The Devil's Backbone	Trippel	no
WT3F!?	The Devil's Backbone	Trippel	yes
The Kraken	Sisyphus	American Barleywine	no
Empire	Lost Gold	American IPA	no
Imperium	Lost Gold	American IPA	yes
Morgul Ale	Porter	Robust Porter	no
Shipwrecked	Real Heavy	Scotch Ale	no
Benedictum	N/A	Flanders Red	yes

[4][5] [6]

Brewers' Cut

In 2012 Real Ale Brewing Company started the Brewers Cut product line. The Brewers' Cut line focuses on developing new recipes to put out to the public, and then relying on customer feedback through social media to determine whether the recipe will be bumped up to a year-round product, a seasonal product, or set with plans to be brewed at a later date again in the Brewers' Cut Series. This is a limited-release product; the releases are as follows:[7]

Release Number	Name	Release Date	Style	Packaging size	ABV
01	Signature Hop Pale Ale	2012	Herkeles American Pale Ale	6-Pack	5.5%
02	Black Quad	2012	Black Quadrupel	4-pack	9.6%
03	Dry Hopped Porter	2013	Porter	6-pack	6.4%
04	Imperial Red Ale	2013	American Double / Imperial IPA	4-pack	8.8%
05	Altbier	2013	Altbier	6-pack	6.6%
06	Blonde Barleywine Ale	2013	American Barleywine	4-pack	9.3%
07	Kölsch	2013	Kölsch	6-pack	5.2%
08	Maibock	2013	Maibock	4-pack	7.6%
09	Witbier	2013	Witbier	6-pack	4.6%
10	Double IPA	2014	American Double / Imperial IPA	4-pack	7.5%
11	California Common	2014	California Common / Steam Beer	6-pack	5.9%
12	Grand Cru	2014	Grand Cru	4-pack	8.5%
15	Signature Hop Pale Ale	2014	Ultra American Pale Ale	6-pack	5.9%
13	Oyster Stout	2014	Oyster Stout	6-pack	6.8%
14	Kriek	2015	Kriek	4-pack	7.5%
17	Helles	2015	Helles	6-pack	4.5%

Awards and recognition

Real Ale Brewing Company was awarded their first Great American Beer Festival Medal in 2010. They received a gold for the Rio Blanco Pale Ale in the English Bitter category.[8] Real Ale Brewing Company was awarded two silver Medals at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival; one for the Fireman's #4 in the Golden/Blond Ale category, and the other for the Hans Pils in the German Pilsner category.[9] In 2011 Real Ale Brewing Company ranked #49 in the Brewer's Association annual list of the top 50 Craft Breweries by sales in volume for the year of 2010. In 2012 Real Ale Brewing Company ranked #45 in the same list for the year of 2011.[10][11][12] In 2013, the brewery won silver at the Great American Beer Festival for their Brewers Cut Altbier in the German-Style Altbier category.[13] In 2014, Real Ale won a gold medial at the Great American Beer Festival for Benedictum from their Mysterium Verum series in the Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale category.[14] In 2019 Real Ale was named as the number 4 best brewery in Texas in the Texas Craft Beer Report published by the analytics organization Hopalytics.[15]

References

1. Lisheron, Mark (April 20, 2006). "Pierre Celis is back, and Real Ale's got him". Austin American-Statesman. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012.
2. A Taste of Texas for American Beer Month
3. Kendall, Justin (October 21, 2016). "Real Ale Brewing Recalls 11,000 Cases of Beer in Texas". Brewbound. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
4. "Advocating for Texas Craft Beer". Texasbrews.Org. May 19, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
5. "Mysterium Verum". Real Ale Brewing. Archived from the original on May 2, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
6. "Ben E. Keith: Beverage : Products". 208.131.137.152. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
7. Nason, Adam (October 18, 2012). "Real Ale Brewers' Cut series debuts with two new releases". BeerPulse. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
8. "Advocating for Texas Craft Beer". Texasbrews.Org. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
9. Gubbins, Teresa (October 15, 2012). "Texas snags 9 medals at 2012 Great American Beer Festival, including gold for Real Ale, Uncle Billy's and Spoetzl". Culturemap. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
10. "Releases Top 50 Breweries in 2011". Brewers Association. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
11. "Releases 2010 Top 50 Breweries Lists". Brewers Association. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
12. Nason, Adam (July 3, 2012). "Real Ale Firemans #4 Blonde Ale coming to cans". BeerPulse. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
13. "Great American Beer Fest 2013 Winners Announced". Huffington Post. October 13, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
14. "Great American Beer Fest 2014 Winners" (PDF). Great American Beer Festival. October 14, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
15. "Texas Craft Beer Report". Hopalytics. December 17, 2019.

External links

• Real Ale Brewing Company - Official Real Ale Brewing Company site
• Fireman's Texas Cruzer