The Best Breweries in Austin for a Bachelor Party

Why Breweries Are the Austin Bachelor Move

Sixth Street handles your night. Breweries handle your afternoon. Austin's best taprooms have huge patios, on-site food, and zero cover, which makes them the cheapest quality hours of the whole weekend.

Pick two or three within a short ride of each other and treat it like a slow crawl. You want long tables, shade, and a kitchen on site.

The Best Breweries

Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company

Best for: The first stop | Price: $

Everyone calls it the ABGB. Massive beer garden, long communal tables, live music most nights, and award winning lagers that go down easy in Texas heat.

Order this: The Industry Pils and a couple of pizzas for the table. Pints run around $6 to $8.

Meanwhile Brewing Company

Best for: Settling in for hours | Price: $

A giant tree covered patio in southeast Austin with an outdoor stage and a full food truck lineup, including Distant Relatives for barbecue and Side Eye Pie for pizza. There is even a soccer field if the group needs to burn something off.

Order this: A crisp lager and the brisket from Distant Relatives. Do not skip the barbecue here.

St. Elmo Brewing

Best for: Burgers and beers | Price: $

A big shaded patio with picnic tables and live music, plus Patty Palace on site turning out some of the best smashburgers in the city. It sits near the ABGB, so pair them.

Order this: Carl Kolsch and a double smashburger.

Austin Beerworks

Best for: The beer nerds in the group | Price: $

One of the most respected breweries in Texas, with a no nonsense taproom north of downtown. The cans you see all over Austin bars come from here.

Order this: Pearl Snap pilsner, the beer Austin runs on.

Jester King Brewery

Best for: The half day field trip | Price: $$

A working farmhouse brewery in the Hill Country about 40 minutes from downtown, with sprawling grounds, goats, wood fired pizza, and wild fermented beers you cannot get anywhere else. Go Saturday afternoon and make it the whole plan.

Order this: Le Petit Prince, a low alcohol farmhouse ale that keeps the day sustainable.

Zilker Brewing

Best for: East Sixth warm up | Price: $

A taproom right on East Sixth, which means you can finish your brewery day here and walk straight into the East Austin bar scene without calling a ride.

Order this: Marco IPA before you move on to the night.

Planning Tips

• Route it south to east. Start at the ABGB and St. Elmo, then move toward Zilker Brewing on East Sixth as the day turns into night.
• Jester King is a separate trip. Do not try to bolt the Hill Country onto a city crawl. Book a van out and back if you go.
• Most taprooms close between 9 and 10 pm. Breweries are the afternoon, not the destination.
• Assign one guy to order pitchers and settle up per round. Fifteen separate tabs at a busy taproom bar kills momentum.
• Texas sun is not a joke. Hats, water between rounds, and shade seats in summer.