Jester King Brewery

Jester King Brewery Jester King is a brewery, restaurant, farm event hall on a 165-acre ranch in the TX Hill Country.
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Jester King is an authentic farmhouse brewery committed to mixed culture and spontaneous fermentation, as well as pure culture beer that incorporates local and Texas ingredients and our own natural groundwater. Our beer and food incorporate our natural surroundings and local agriculture, so as to make beer uniquely tied to a time, place, and people. Our restaurant and trails provide a beautiful, relaxed setting to enjoy the Texas Hill Country with friends and family.

2025 Urban Mutation 🏙️ 🧪🐝🧬First released in 2017, Urban Mutation is our Texas Hill Country × NYC handshake. It’s a mixed...
11/19/2025

2025 Urban Mutation 🏙️ 🧪🐝🧬

First released in 2017, Urban Mutation is our Texas Hill Country × NYC handshake. It’s a mixed-culture farmhouse ale, brightened and reshaped around a vivid lift of New Zealand hop varieties and the wild sweetness of 200 lbs. of Texas wildflower honey. Brewed in collaboration with our friends at Other Half Brewing in Brooklyn, NY.

Fermented in stainless, blended with oak-aged tart farmhouse ale, and refermented on Texas honey, Urban Mutation marries glow and grit — the snap of bright Motueka and the stonefruit of Rakau, with a living farmhouse core. We finished with a fresh dry hop of Motueka & Rakau and a final dusting of Motueka hop kief before bottling. The result is a bottle-conditioned, 9% amalgamation of what we love most right now: mixed culture, NZ hop expression, and local ingredients working in tandem to mutate something familiar into something a little wilder.

Flavor profile: aromas of wildflower honey, lemon-lime leaf (Motueka), and stone fruit (Rakau) over a gentle oak-touched base. The palate opens bright and lightly tart, moves through honeyed grain and herbal hop-tea, with flashes of citrus peel and apricot/pear. Dry, lively finish; the 9% abv drinks gracefully and nuanced.

Look for it in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, DFW, and at select locations abroad.

We have extended hours for the week of Thanksgiving! Bring your friends and loved ones out for some Hill Country vibes a...
11/18/2025

We have extended hours for the week of Thanksgiving! Bring your friends and loved ones out for some Hill Country vibes and holiday good times! 🦃😎

Sunday, 11/23 — 11am to 8pm
Monday, 11/24 — 2-8pm
Tuesday, 11/25 — 2-8pm
Wednesday, 11/26 — 11-8pm
Thursday, 11/27 — Closed
Friday, 11/28 — 11am to 9pm
Saturday, 11/29 — 11am to 9pm

We’re very honored and flattered to have been voted the number one “Favorite Sour or Wild-Ale” brewer in the world by th...
11/18/2025

We’re very honored and flattered to have been voted the number one “Favorite Sour or Wild-Ale” brewer in the world by the readers of Craft Beer & Brewing. We were also voted the number six “Favorite Saison” brewer in the world. It’s particularly flattering to be mentioned alongside the very breweries that inspired us to make these styles in the first place.

It’s pretty much no secret at this point that wild and sour beers are no longer our exclusive focus. Their popularity sustained us for over a decade, but we’ve adapted to make a range of styles for a beer market that has evolved significantly. In our experience, wild and sour beer still has a committed following and is still a viable style category. Can it sustain a production brewery like Jester King? No, not anymore. But these styles still have an important place in the beer world and are far from dead.

For instance, in 2025, we’ll release about 500 barrels of wild and sour beer. At the height for us, we released about 2,500 barrels annually. We’ve taken a few extra steps back in volume as we’ve had to focus on making the best IPA and lager we can, while also developing a self-distribution model to get new styles to market. While work here remains (and always will), we feel poised to hopefully produce around 800 barrels of wild and sour beer in 2026. That’s just one-third of what we previously made by volume, but still very significant. We love making wild and sour beer and still feel its call. The sense memories we get from making it today transport us back to when we fell in love with the style and the seemingly limitless room for creativity and experimentation it presented.

Again, we’re very grateful to the readers of Craft Beer & Brewing for this honor, and props to our friends at Pinthouse and Meanwhile for the great recognition they received as well.

We’re pouring our beer at the Texas Craft Brewers Festival! Thank you to the Texas Craft Brewers Guild  for putting on a...
11/15/2025

We’re pouring our beer at the Texas Craft Brewers Festival! Thank you to the Texas Craft Brewers Guild for putting on a stellar event and for working to promote Texas craft beer! 🙏🍻

Yesterday, we got to brew a beer with our friends at Hold Out Brewing for their upcoming Best Fest in December! We’ve be...
11/14/2025

Yesterday, we got to brew a beer with our friends at Hold Out Brewing for their upcoming Best Fest in December! We’ve been fans of Hold Out and their flawless brewing ex*****on since the day they opened. We’re also fans of their sibling establishment Better Half, under the direction of our friend Matt Stowe. We have huge respect for what owners Matt and Grady Wright have created there (and elsewhere in Austin).

In particular, it was wonderful to brew with Hold Out’s Director of Brewing Brent “Schmitty” Sapstead. The craft beer industry is pretty small in the grand scheme of things, and Schmitty was one of the first people we met back in 2009. At the time, my brother Michael and I were looking for somewhere to learn a little more about pro brewing, and our friends at Real Ale were kind enough to let us shadow them. The Director of Brewing Operations at Real Ale, Tim Schwartz, told us to show up bright and early around 5:30 am for a brew day, and waiting to greet us when we arrived was Schmitty. So for the first production batch of beer we ever witnessed, Schmitty was at the helm. That made it extra special to brew with him sixteen years later at Hold Out. Craft beer is full of stories like this, which is why it’s a special industry.

For the yet-to-be-named beer, Schmitty and I got to connect during harvest out in Yakima and talk hops. We’re pairing some hot-side Rakau and Nelson Hyperboost with our favorite lots of Nelson T90 and Superdelic Cryo cold-side in the context of a clean, well-attenuated Chico yeast fermentation. Check it out at Best Fest soon! Thanks again to Hold Out (and Better Half) for being awesome people and for being the proprietors of true excellence.

Jester King is celebrating our 15th anniversary all day on Saturday, December 6th, and we have an epic lineup of music, ...
11/12/2025

Jester King is celebrating our 15th anniversary all day on Saturday, December 6th, and we have an epic lineup of music, food, drink, fermentation, and fun planned!

Check out the details below. FREE. ALL AGES. Hope to see you on the 6th to celebrate 15 years of Jester King!

🎸 MUSIC
Rippleberry
The Peterson Brothers
Moving Blues
Cilantro Boombox

🌮 FOOD
Pueblo Viejo food truck
Garbo’s food truck
Goodie Dumplings
Jester King pizza
Jester King Kwik Kitchen food truck

🍻 DRINK
Special Jester King releases and cellar selections
Guest farmhouse and wild ales from our friends (list TBA)

EVENTS
🍞 Sourdough Starter workshop with Barton Springs Mill
🍺 Fermentation panel (details TBA)
🥒 Pickling workshop with Pickle Envy
🧵 Makers market with Austin Flea
🍻 Founders tour
✒️ Live tattooing with
🎨 Face painting with
🖌️ Live painting with
👚 Live screen printing with ..and more to come!

In honor of Veterans Day 🇺🇸, all veterans and active duty military will receive 20% off this weekend at Jester King. We ...
11/11/2025

In honor of Veterans Day 🇺🇸, all veterans and active duty military will receive 20% off this weekend at Jester King. We thank you for your service!

🐐 Doom Metal Goat Yoga invites you to continue our journey of connection and introspection in nature with a special q***...
11/10/2025

🐐 Doom Metal Goat Yoga invites you to continue our journey of connection and introspection in nature with a special q***r goat yoga session! Partnering with we are offering this class as a welcoming, inclusive environment for everyone to be in nature in their body.

🏳️‍🌈OutWellness is a q***r and trans health and wellness center dedicated to creating a safe space for q***r folks to access these services.

🍻Come connect to your wellness, community, and our herd of goats in this all skill level class led by with

🏳️‍⚧️Tickets are $15 for this one time event and can be found at our link in bio.

Saturday November 15th
Class 10-11am
Check in begins at 9:30am

The Chrononaut — our Hazy IPA with  Cryo Fresh Krush and Citra — was voted best Hazy / East Coast IPA at the  East / Wes...
11/09/2025

The Chrononaut — our Hazy IPA with Cryo Fresh Krush and Citra — was voted best Hazy / East Coast IPA at the East / West Beer Fest this weekend! Thank you to Craft Beer Austin for having us at the fest! 🙏

Here’s the band schedule for  H***y Tonk Fest at Jester King this Saturday! Doors at 2pm. Music starts at 2:30pm with Th...
11/07/2025

Here’s the band schedule for H***y Tonk Fest at Jester King this Saturday! Doors at 2pm. Music starts at 2:30pm with The Mellows. Vendors and pop-ups from , , and all day. Chicken S**t Bingo by starts at 3:30. 🐓

PLEASE NOTE — H***y Tonk Fest is a ticketed event! All ages. Age 8 and under free. LINK IN BIO or visit https://www.austinmonthly.com/austin-monthly-presents-honky-tonk-fest/

Jester King will return to its normal open 7 days a week, free entry experience on Sunday.

We hope to see you for an epic day of nine artists, two stages and dance floors, two-stepping lessons, art, vintage shopping, food trucks, chicken sh*t bingo, a sunset goat graze, and more!

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🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Jester King!!! The little guy in the last photo is actually on our menu! Jambalaya Jack-O-Lanter...
10/31/2025

🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Jester King!!!

The little guy in the last photo is actually on our menu! Jambalaya Jack-O-Lantern — bell pepper stuffed with gulf shrimp, andouille sausage, holy trinity, white rice, tomato, & scallions

Address

13187 Fitzhugh Road
Austin, TX
78736

Opening Hours

Monday 2pm - 8pm
Tuesday 2pm - 8pm
Wednesday 2pm - 8pm
Thursday 2pm - 8pm
Friday 2pm - 9pm
Saturday 11am - 9pm
Sunday 11am - 8pm

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Jester King

Jester King is a brewery, restaurant, kitchen, farm & event hall on a 165 acre ranch in the TX Hill Country. We make food & drink uniquely tied to a time, place & people. We're a welcoming place for people of all ages to enjoy community.