Location: 1615 Crozier Ln., Del Valle, TX 78617
Tap Room Hours: Daily, 12 noon to 9pm
These guys has been making deliciously refreshing ale and old school lagers since 1997 and is one of the better Austin breweries out there. Traditional and old-world brewing techniques rarely seen in America, but extensively practised all over central Europe, are the only ways things are done in Live Oak.
With the best authentic ingredients, Live Oak makes use of painstakingly time consuming mash, secondary lagering process, and open fermentation. As a result, craft beer from Live Oak has received critical acclaim from all over. But nothing would make the Live Oak folks happier than seeing their loyal beer drinkers absolutely satisfied with their beer-crafting efforts.
The Taproom
After almost 2 decades in existence, Live Oaks had recently opened their taproom doors to the public. Their Biergarten and Taproom are open to the beer-loving public all days of the week from noon until 8pm.
Their brewery is near the Austin Bergstrom International airport, right behind Fast Park located at 1615 Crozier Lane, Del Valle, TX 78617. Great tasting and refreshing beers await thirsty customers while food trucks frequent the place offering pairings to your delicious beer.
Insider Tip
Unless you have a service dog, you will have to leave your pets at home. Tours are not conducted just yet since they’ve recently opened their taproom and brewery to the public. Most of the time they hold beer pairing dinners, sometimes it’s musical performances.
All Year Round Beers
Hefewaizen
Inspired by traditional Bavarian beers, this Live Oak favorite is straw-colored and cloudy with a meringue-looking head that stays almost until the last drop. Brewed with a generous amount of few hops and wheat malt, Hefeweizen features a distinct wheat strain that gives well-blended notes of banana, vanilla, and clove.
Pilz
Greatly inspired by the Bohemian classic, this is a golden lager that features a soft malty flavor and a moderate hop bitterness. Live Oak a rigorous decoction mash that gives the beer a rich full body and right color. A painstakingly long secondary conditioning coupled with cold fermentation creates this brilliantly awesome beer showcasing the taste of spicy Saaz hops.
Big Bark
The dry, crisp Vienna lagers served as the inspiration for the Big Bark Amber Lager. Infused with European malted barley, it has a soft body, rich malt, and aroma. The malt is balanced by adding small amounts of hop.Conditioning and cold fermentation guarantee a clean finish that highlights the mixture of hops and malts.
Liberation IPA
Live Oak’s IPA offering is infused with Cascade and Columbus hops, and balances a mixture of firm bitterness with a rich malt body and a immense hop taste and aroma. The satisfying dryness and fruity flavors are produced by way of warm fermentation together with ale yeast.
Limited Releases
Liberator Doppelback
Brewed for the last days of the winter season, this beer has a deep brown color and pours with layer after layer of thick malt flavor. This rich malt character is balanced and gently supported by hops present in the brew. This Liberator’s dry and clean finish is brought on by lager yeast that steadily works its winter conditioning.
Schawrzbier
Dark-colored with a hint of roast character gets its clean malt flavors from the spicy, flowery notes from noble hops. If held against the light, Schwarzbier will show deep ruby undertones. This is not a heavy beer though; it has a dry, clean finish because of the conditioning and cold fermentation with lager yeast. A nice dark beer for any Pilz fan.
Dunkelweizen
This is wheat ale the way they do it south of Germany,which is pretty much where Primus and Hefeweizen both takes after.Dunkelweizen gives off that breath-taking clove, banana and vanilla aromas provided by the Bavarian wheat strain.
Roggenbier
Direct translation is rye beer. This is meant to showcase rye malt’s special contribution to brewing, Roggenbier has refreshing tartness and cloudy body, and lightly hopped. Its fruity notes brought on by fermented, special German ale yeast, which greatly compliments the spiciness of rye.
Berliner Weisse
A special beer that has undergone bacterial fermentation for lactic acid to naturally occur for a nice, lemony tartness. This classic wheat ale highlights a bready maltiness, effervescent carbonation, and low bitterness.
Weiber Rauch
It’s a German word for white smoke, and is a magnificent union of a classic German Rauchbier and Hefeweizen. Smoke in other Live Oak beers were less restrained letting the weizen yeast to come out. The smokiness of the Weiber Rauch plays on the fruity esters and spicy phenols to improve complexity. Perfect for the smoke beer novice or connoisseur.
Lichtenhainer
This German style of beer making has vanished since the 1980’s. Berliner Weisse has a lot in common in terms of tartness and strength, but the Lichtenhainer hammers home an element of smoked malt releasing an intriguing aroma.
Grodziskie
A revival of the last remaining indigenous Polish beer-making style that has gone extinct in the 20th century. Production came to a stop during the 90’s in Poland. This brewing process involved just oak-smoked wheat malt. The aroma this produces is distinct and intense from the ones Live Oak uses in their other raucbiers.
Pale Ale
Infused with bright tropical fruit flavors and citrus, Live Oak’s Pale Ale is made dry and pale with choice hipster hops. Its moderate bitterness and apparent immoderate hop aroma and flavor make it a perfect choice for IPA drinkers.
HopfenWeibe
Marries the best attributes of Live Oak’s Weissbier to the nice fruity aromas unique to American hops. Brewed in a similar manner as the Hefeweizen, Hopfenweibe comes out with a strong floral, citrusy aroma with a mild bitterness. Best served fresn!
Gold
Brewed in the style of the Bavarian folk’s favorite drinking beer, Live Oak Gold is a bright, crisp lager bursting with soft malt flavors spiced with fine Hallertau noble hops. A long secondary conditioning and slow, cold fermentation is what makes this beer truly beautiful and brilliant.
Helles Rauchlager
A smoky, pale, bitter beer brewed with traditionally smoked malt. A decoction mash is used to produce body and the malty character. Hefty amounts of malted barley smoked in beechwood make for a powerful smokiness and clean finish.
Oaktoberfest
Live Oak’s fall favorite, Oaktoberfest is masterfully brewed following Bavarian traditions. The finest German malts give it a rich flavor, its malty fullness balanced with bitter notes of noble hops.The beer is stored in conditioning tanks to allow the rich malty character to round out and to produce that smooth finish.
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