Jester King Brewery

Brewing tasks at Jester King Brewery, Austin, Texas

Jester King is a craft brewery in Austin, Texas that specializes in beer fermented with wild yeast. It is set on a 200-acre ranch about 18 miles west of Downtown Austin.

Jester King was founded in 2010 by Jeff Stuffings and Michael Steffing.[1] Joshua Cockrell was hired to create beer labels, which have won awards at the World Beer Championships packaging competition.[2]

In 2011 Jester King won a lawsuit against the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, which had prohibited beverages with an alcohol content greater than 4% from being labeled as "beer".[3] In honor of their legal campaign against regulation, the Brewers Association in 2014 presented Jester King with their F.X. Matt Defense of the Small Brewing Industry Award.[1]

Due to the use of wild yeast, some beer batches can go bad: in late 2011, Jester King recalled a batch of its Commercial Suicide beer due to excessive gushing caused by over carbonation.[1][4]

In January 2016, Jester King purchased 58 acres of land surrounding their facility. At the time, Stuffings said the company was planning to enlarge the brewery and add a winery, a distillery and a farm-to-table restaurant to the complex.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Toon, Anna (2014-05-02). "All Hail the Jester". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  2. ↑ Kavehkar, Kimya (2013-12-01). "Art of the Brew — Austin Monthly — December 2013 - Austin, TX". Austin Monthly. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  3. ↑ Beach, Patrick (2011-11-20). "Judge eliminates forced distinction between beer, ale". The Statesman. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  4. ↑ "Business Digest: Drugmaker to pay $84 million to settle Texas Medicaid fraud case; Austin craft brewery recalling over-carbonated beer prone to gushing". The Statesman. 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
  5. ↑ Auber, Arianna (January 6, 2015). "Jester King Brewery plans expansion into farming, winemaking". austin360. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

Coordinates: 30°13′51″N 97°59′57″W / 30.2307°N 97.9992°W / 30.2307; -97.9992

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