The Beer

  • Live Oak HefeWeizen

    HefeWeizen

    Modeled after the classic wheat beers of Bavaria, HefeWeizen is cloudy and straw-colored with a meringue-like head that lingers to the bottom of the glass.

    Brewed with an ample volume of wheat malt and few hops, this beer features a unique yeast strain that produces harmonious notes of clove, banana, and vanilla throughout this effervescent brew. A traditional interpretation of a classic style, this idiosyncratic Bavarian beer is perfectly at home here in Texas..

    ABV: 5.3% IBU: 10

    Availability: Year-round on draft and in cans

  • Live Oak Pilz

    Pilz

    Pilz is a classic Bohemian-style golden Pilsner, decoction-mashed with a single heirloom variety Moravian malt.

    Premium Saaz hops combine to produce a clean, crisp pilsner with complex malt flavor and spicy hop bitterness and aroma.

    This is Austin’s Original Pilsner!

    ABV: 4.7% IBU: 36

    Availability: Year-round on draft and in cans

  • Live Oak Big Bark Amber Lager

    Big Bark Amber Lager

    The clean, dry lagers of Vienna provide inspiration for this beer which displays a depth of malty richness and aroma. Small additions of noble hops perfectly balance the malt.

    Cold fermentation and conditioning assure a beer with a clean finish, showcasing the delicious interplay of malt and hops. A fine beer of character and nuance, it is highly accessible, smooth, and satisfying.

    ABV: 4.9% IBU: 25

    Availability: Year-round on draft and in cans

  • Live Oak Grodziskie

    Grodziskie

    Piwo Grodziskie is a centuries old Polish beer style that ceased commercial production in the late 20th century. A decoction mash, rare oak-smoked wheat malt from a small Czech malting, and equally rare Polish Nowotomyski hops join in to bring this beer back to life in Texas.

    A spritely carbonated, low-alcohol beer with a clear, golden color, moderate levels of hop bitterness, a firm full body and a wonderful smoky aroma and flavor. It is very refreshing.

    ABV: 3.0% IBU: 36

    Availability: Year-round on draft and in cans

  • Live Oak Kalt IPA

    Kalt IPA

    Kalt means Cold! Kalt IPA is cold-fermented for extra smooth crisp flavor. It tips the scale at 60 IBUs and is cold-hopped for flavor and aroma with generous heaps of hand-selected hops – dank, stone-fruit and citrus. It’s everything you desire in an IPA.

    ABV: 5.7% IBU: 60

    Availability: Year-round on draft and in cans

  • Death Putt Ale

    Death Putt Ale is a cold fermented IPA brewed to celebrate USWDGC and the installation of our new tee pads! Brewed cold to be the ultimate course quencher with classic and new Polish, German, and American hops. With these new tee pads you'll be parked every time and the only death putts you'll have are ice cold ales.

    ABV: 5.0%. IBU: 50

    Availability: Spring on draft and in cans - taproom exclusive.

  • Live Oak Gold

    Gold

    Live Oak Gold is a north German-style pilsner, cousin to our Czech-style Pilz, brewed with generous additions of Hallertau noble hops. The German lager yeast and lengthy secondary conditioning produces a crisp, bright, and very clean beer that really lets the flavors of the malt and hops shine through.

    ABV: 4.8% IBU: 34

    Availability: On draft and in cans each spring

  • BamBerger

    A namesake dedication to the old German city of Bamberg, where smoke beer remains king, alive and well. This amber lager is a righteous example of the beechwood-smoked lager style, balanced and clean.

    ABV: 4.8% IBU: 24

    Availability: On draft and in cans in winter - taproom exclusive

  • Live Oak Schwarzer Rauch

    Schwarzer Rauch

    Schwarzer Rauch, or Black Smoke, is a smoked black lager. With balanced roasted malt flavor, this beer prominently features a beechwood smoke. This smokiness mingles with layers of darker malt flavors, braced by Noble hop character. Fermented cold and clean with our German lager yeast, this beer highlights the complexity that smoke adds to traditional dark lagers.

    ABV: 4.8% IBU: 30

    Availability: On draft and in cans each winter - taproom exclusive

  • Fumigator

    A delicious Bavarian style Doppelbock with round smoky character contributed by beechwood smoked barley malt and a pinch of oak wood smoked wheat malt. Rich without cloying sweetness & deceptively easy drinking.

    This health sustaining lager has full maltiness & a delicious alcoholic warming. Modeled after the sustaining Doppelbocks of Bavarian monastery breweries.

    ABV: 9.0% IBU: 38

    Availability: On draft and in cans in winter - taproom exclusive

  • Rauch Leicht

    Rauch Leicht is a lager collaboration with Von Trapp Brewing in Vermont. It's made with German beechwood smoked pilsner malt, American rice grits, and German Mittelfruh hops.

    ABV: 4.2% IBU: 20

    Availability: On draft and in cans in winter - taproom exclusive

  • Live Oak Pre-War Pils

    Pre-War Pils

    A 1912 German-American recipe, Pre-War Pils is mashed with 35% corn grits. Immigrant German brewmasters created these beers to duplicate those from their homeland while using high protein American malts. These are the beers thirsty beer drinkers yearned for during prohibition – “Pre-War” being the common way to refer to those times and those beers before prohibition and before World War I. An authentic example of early American lager brewing as performed by the original German-American lager brewers.

    ABV: 5.0% IBU: 32

    Availability: On draft in spring and summer, in cans year-round

  • Live Oak Piwko Pils

    Piwko Pils

    The Big Lubelski! Piwko Pils is a Polish pilsner made with Lubelski, Nowotomyski, Marynka and Sybilla hops and Moravian pilsner malt to complete this simple and delicious golden Polish lager. Nowotomyski hops were nearly lost to history during WWII, and are gaining ground again. Spicy and earthy, this is a fantastic hop!

    ABV: 4.4% IBU: 36

    Availability: On draft and in cans in the spring - taproom exclusive

  • Live Oak Oaktoberfest

    Oaktoberfest

    Our Oaktoberfest is decoction-mashed with Bavarian malts honoring tradition. Noble German hops balance the rich malty fullness with a subtle and smooth hop character. A fall classic that will have your tastebuds dancing to an oompah band in no time. O’zapft Is!

    ABV: 5.8% IBU: 20

    Availability: On draft and in cans each autumn

  • Live Oak Smoaktoberfest

    Smoaktoberfest

    Smoaktoberfest is a smoked version of our fall classic, Oaktoberfest. Using beechwood-smoked barley malt, this lager is cloaked in a pleasant balance of smoke, malt and hops. Noble hops offer a balancing bitterness enveloped in the flavor and aroma of beechwood smoked. After fermentation with Bavarian lager yeast, the beer undergoes an extended lagering period to round out its character and mellow into a clean, smoky finish. O’zapft Is!

    ABV: 5.8% IBU: 20

    Availability: On draft and in cans in each autumn

  • Live Oak Krug

    Krug Festbier

    Krug is a traditional pale Festbier like those served in the Oktoberfest tents in Munich. This lager is brewed with pilsner malt to party-strength and hopped with just enough Mittelfruh to balance. A simple beer, lagered cold for maximum enjoyment. Find some friends, fill your krug, listen for polka, and Prost!

    ABV: 6% IBU: 30

    Availability: On draft and in cans in autumn - a taproom exclusive

  • Live Oak Zoigl

    Zoigl

    A historical Franconian beer, Zoigl means “sign” in their dialect. Czech pilsner malt, German Munich malt, English crystal malt and American brewers corn are matched with whole cone American hops to balance this amber American corn lager. Truly an international collaboration of ingredients and an American collaboration with Goldfinger brewing in Chicago who passed us the Zoigl.

    A historial Franconian brewing tradition, the Zoigl (two superimposed triangles similar to and commonly confused with a Star of David) was passed around the village between citizen brewers to be hung over their front door to signify that they had beer to sell made from the community brewhouse. Today the Zoigl is commonly seen in front of many Franconian breweries. When our Zoigl beer runs out, we too will hand off the Zoigl to another brewery.

    ABV: 5.0% IBU: 32

    Availability: On draft only in autumn- a taproom exclusive

  • Live Oak Primus

    Primus

    A Weizenbock with dark roasted and rich malt flavors of chocolate, caramel and toffee with Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast notes of clove, banana, and vanilla.

    ABV: 8% IBU: 12

    Availability: On draft and in cans each winter

  • Live Oak Kleines

    Kleines

    Kleines Bier is a small beer with a sizable hop bouquet. We have combined our favorite noble Czech and German hops into a lager beer that is as flavorful as it is light.

    ABV: 3.2% IBU: 26

    Availability: On draft and in cans in summer and autumn - taproom exclusive

  • Krampus Punishment Ale

    Our hoppy holiday ale is brewed just for you… Krampus Punishment Ale is cold-fermented and hopped with Cascade, Crystal, Centennial, and Citra hops. Munich and Red malt provide the malt flavor that balances the bitterness. It's that time of year when you receive the punishment you deserve.

    ABV: 6.7% IBU: 70

    Availability: On draft and in cans in the in the winter - taproom exclusive