Beers Pinthouse Round Rock
About Our Beer
We like hops here at Pinthouse... some may say we are a bit obssesed with them, but we also like balance and drinkability and, we work tirelessly to create innovative beers of all styles that showcase the highest quality ingredients that we source for them. Whether it is our award-winning Fully Adrift Double IPA (2018 Alpha King Winner, 2014 Alpha King Runner Up and 2015 L.A. International Beer Competition Silver Medal), Nomura DIPA (2017 Alpha King 3rd place), Green Battles IPA (2018 GABF Gold Medal and 2018 World Beer Cup Gold Medal), our Electric Jellyfish IPA voted Austin's Best Overall Beer in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, our delectably bold Bearded Seal Dry Irish Stout (2017 GABF Gold Medal), elusive Jaguar Shark Barrel-Aged Stout (2015 L.A. International Beer Competition Gold Medal, 2014 GABF Bronze Medal, 2014 L.A. International Beer Competition Bronze Medal) or our next experimental offering, we brew every beer to be delicious, drinkable and to pair well with 6 more! Check out our tap schedule for upcoming beer releases, read about our Brew Team, or learn about our beers below…
Mainstays Pinthouse Round Rock
ABV: 6.5%
Brewed with some of our favorite new hop varieties from our favorite hop farmers - Citra, Simcoe, Chinook, Ekuanot, Azacca, and Galaxy. Electric Jellyfish is filled with a bright tropical citrus character along with notes of orange, mango, lychee, and a floral backbone. The Jellyfish is a hazy new school IPA focusing on the juicy hop flavor and aroma while keeping the bitterness balanced and refreshing.
ABV: 5.8%
Our director of brewing, like so many other brewers, started his journey into craft beer as a homebrewer over 10 years ago, and one of the first beers he ever brewed on his stove was an Extra Special Bitter inspired by some of England's finest examples. In constructing the recipe for our Old Beluga Amber Ale he looked back on his notes from that first ESB he ever brewed, realized it probably wasn't as great of a beer as he thought it was at the time, and worked on a recipe that blended elements of the English-Style ESB with those of an American Amber. The result is a delightfully complex, malt-forward Amber Ale filled with aromas and flavors of cherry, nuttiness, and an earthy-herbal hop profile to balance it all out.
ABV: 5.5%
Winner of a Gold Medal at the 2017 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), our Bearded Seal is 'must have' at our brewpub. Our director of brewing was the only person in his class at an Irish Catholic School growing up that had no Irish heritage in his bloodline. Despite that fact, St. Patrick's Day is still one of his favorite holidays. He loves jet black pints topped with creamy white heads, and gets a bit surly when people say stouts are only for cold weather. This Dry Irish Stout is a little bolder than the commercial example most people are familiar with and is filled with aromas and flavors of roasted coffee and dark chocolate balanced with a nice dry finish.
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” – Frank Zappa
Seasonals
Fresh Hop Training Bines
Fresh Hop IPA
ABV: 7.0%
Teaming up with our friends at Wyckoff Farms and Yakima Chief Hops, we’ve integrated fresh YCH 301 hops into the recipe with the sole intention of knocking your socks off. These uniquely processed wet hops were frozen immediately after harvest to ensure peak oil content, then turned into YCH Cryo® pellets to deliver the loudest and loveliest expression possible. To round it out we added fresh frozen, whole cone Mosaic alongside Motueka hops, giving this brew a stunning farm-to-pint-glass experience.
Rye’d The Lightning
Imperial Stout
ABV: 10.5%
We use all English base, specialty and rye malt to give this Imperial Dry Irish Stout a very complex character. This beer is filled with notes of roast, dark chocolate, rye spiciness and a nutty base layer, while still finishing dry on the palate unlike many of the syrupy sweet Imperial Stouts available.
Hidden Habits
Hefeweizen
ABV: 5.5%
We’ve got a refreshed Hefe on tap perfect for any Austin weather. This traditional German Hefe features smooth notes of banana & clove throughout. It’s become a seasonal favorite from the tanks to the tap room.
Sonic Botanist
Hazy DIPA
ABV: 9.5%
Arguably one of our favorite Double IPAs to ever drop from our brewhouse, this hazy was brewed with the delicious combo of Citra Powder, Ekuanot Powder, Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin hops. It’s sticky, resinous, and dangerously drinkable.