January 10th, 2012
Happy New Year! We wanted to give you a quick update on what we are up to. We have new equipment coming in this March. We have ordered three 60 barrel ferementers. We are very happy to be able to brew more often! We will also be bottling this summer. We will keep you posted on when this will be. If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter, you can email us at info@nolabelbrew.com. We send monthly events in these newsletters as well as up to date information. We hold tastings at our brewery every Saturday BUT the 1st Saturday of the month from 1pm-3pm. Admission is $5 for 21 and up. Under 21 is FREE but must be accompanied by a parent. We are dog and kid friendly. For marketing/events that you would like No Label to be apart of, please contact Jennifer Royo at jennifer@nolabelbrew.com. Cheers!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Greetings beer lovers! We are quickly approaching the end of a wonderful year. We want to thank you all for your support. We really do appreciate it. We will continue making great beer for you!
A few things have changed. We are now charging a $5 admission fee for everyone 21 and up. If you are under 21, you are FREE but must be accompanied by a parent. We are dog and kid friendly. We encourage bringing cash to move along the lines. The admission gets you a nice No Label souvenir glass and 4 beer tokens.
We hope you have enjoyed our Black Wit-O Ale. This fall seasonal was quite popular. This beer is coming to a close but don't fret, our winter seasonal, the Elda M. Milk Stout will be available mid-December. We hope you enjoy this! We enjoyed making it.
If you do not receive our Newsletter monthly, you may email us at
info@nolabelbrew.com
We hold tastings every Saturday BUT the 1st Saturday of the month. However, in December we will be CLOSED December 24th. Tasting dates in December- 10th, 17th and 31st. December 10th enjoy food by Rolling Hunger food truck. Kim's Cupcakes will also be given away FREE to all who bring a perishable item to donate to the Food Pantry. On December 17th, we will have Bread & Batter serving up food. We will also have Christmas Carolers at this tasting! December 31st, we will be open and Zubs Brats will be serving great brats with our Ridgeback Ale cooked in the food!
On December 11th, you can catch us pouring beer at the Urban Legends Car Show from Noon-7pm. This should be a great event if you are a car lover!
Being as that our head brewer and marketing guru are UH Alumni, we will be pouring No Label samples at the December 3rd C-USA Tailgate if this game does occur. GO COOGS!
We want to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season!
Cheers!
The No Label Brewing Folks
October 19, 2011
Hello Fellow Beer Lovers!
We are now back from the GABF! We enjoyed ourselves and talked to many beer lovers. We are already looking forward to next year!
An IMPORTANT UPDATE, we will start charging for admission to our brewery starting November 19th. Admission is $5/person for all 21 and up. Minors under 21 are free. We appreciate your understanding. We have had some very successful tastings in the past months with our crowds getting as high as 550 people! Our tastings are held every Saturday but the 1st Saturday of the month. WE WILL BE CLOSED ON NOVEMBER 12TH DUE TO MONSTERS OF BEER EVENT! For more information about this event and information on Houston Beer Week, please see below:
www.houstonbeerweek.com
Thanks again for all the support! We hope you are able to get a glass of our Black Wit-O on tap! Coming soon, our Panamanian Coffee Milk Stout!
Cheers,
No Label Brewery Folks
Tuesday, September 20th
We apologize for not updating our blog in a while. We have been quite busy the last few months. So much has happened! We are now selling to many bars and restaurants in the Houston and Katy area. To help with all the new accounts we signed with Duff Distribution on Sept. 2nd. We are very excited about the partnership. Like us, they take extreme pride in the beers they sale and distribute. We are currently planning our next expansion which will include a bottling line and double or triple fermentation capacity. We hope to have all the equipment here and be bottling by end of March 2012.
We have been continuing our Saturday tastings from 1pm-3pm except for the 1st Saturday of the month. We have 2 bars open during the tasting to accommodate all the thirsty people that come out. We will always have a food vendor at our tastings so make sure to bring cash if you would like food. Outside food is allowed but absolutely NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL is allowed. This is strictly enforced. We are kid and dog friendly. No admittance after 2:30pm. Note: Our tasting is held outside so come prepared for whatever the weather is like that day.
We sell merchandise during the tastings as well. Shirts are $15, pint glasses are $7, koozies are $3 and dog bandanas are $5. We will have hats and sweatshirts in by the end of October. We will also have a special shirt for our fall seasonal beer - The Black Wit-O. Make sure to get yourself one of those when you are out in October!
We participated in the Brew masters Beer festival in Galveston, TX the 1st weekend of September. We debuted our Black Wit-O during the festival and had a wonderful response.
We will be participating in the Houston Wine Fest, the Texas Craft Brewers Festival in Austin on Sept 24th and the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, CO.
Coming soon! Black Wit-O will be release beginning of October. We are currently working on our winter seasonal- Panamanian Coffee Milk Stout and our Blonde Ale.
If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter with the most up to date information please email us at info@nolabelbrew.com
Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to making good beer!
The No Label Brewery Folks
June 1st
We have been very busy getting our beer to bars and restaurants. TABC laws will not allow us to promote what bars we are on tap. We will be attending the Houston Beer Festival on June 11th. For tickets go to: http://houstonbeerfestival.com/
If you would like to be added to our newsletter list, email us at info@nolabelbrew.com. June 26th will be Field Day at the brewery. We will play old school games such as sack race, tug of war, egg on a spoon and our own games such as keg toss. To buy tickets to Field Day go to our main page. We have tastings every Saturday but the first Saturday of the month but we will be closed June 11th due to Houston Beer Festival. We will reopen June 18th. We appreciate the support and look forward to bringing more beer to you
We are also growing hops at our brewery- See pictures below!
CHEERS!
No Label Brewery
Wednesday, April 27th
We are now at the final stages of being a functioning brewery! We will be in a few bars on tap starting next week! We are very excited! Along with being on tap, we will also be participating in the Texas Beer Festival on May 7th at the Humble Civic Center. This will be a great event for Houston. Our tasting this Saturday, April 30th has been cancelled due to our first couple of batches not coming out quite right. We want to serve you the best beer possible! We will start our tastings back up May 14th. If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter, please email info@nolabelbrew.com. We are also on Facebook and Twitter with the most up to date information. Thanks for the support and we look forward to bringing good beer to the
Katy and Houston area in the next months to come.
Cheers!
Brian, Gilberto, Jennifer and Melanie
Friday, April 1st,2011
We finally get to brew on our big boy equipment this week! We are thrilled to finally be able to make more beer at one time. We had a few struggles during the process but made it! Our next tasting is April 9th at 1pm. We will hold tastings every Saturday from 1pm-3pm except the first Saturday of every month. We are dog and kid friendly! Don't forget to bring your ID as we will be checking ID's before you can consume some delicious beer! We attended the Craft Brewers Conference in San Francisco last week and really enjoyed ourselves.
A few events that are coming up:
April 18th- Beer Dinner Event at Rockwell Tavern
May 3rd- Beer Dinner at The Public House
May 7th- Texas Beer Festival
We hope to see you out at one of our events and our tastings. We appreciate your support so much! If you would like to be added to our monthly newsletter list please send an email to info@nolabelbrew.com.
Thanks and Cheers!
Gilberto, Brian, Melanie, John and Jennifer
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Howdy beer lovers!
Things have been very busy around the brewery the past month and will continue to be busy throughout February. Our 15 barrel system should arrive sometime in February, although we do not know what day yet. Our keg washer has finally arrived and is ready to use! We hope to have our next beer tasting sometime in March. We will keep you updated on when that will be. February will be dedicated to installing our equipment. Head brewer, Brian and Assistant brewer, John will be thoroughly trained on the new equipment next month.
We are on tap at a very PUBLIC bar if you can't wait till March to drink our beer!
Saturday, February 5th is the Alamo Draft house -Mason locations 5th Anniversary. To celebrate, they are having a feast with beer paired with each course. No Label Brewing will have our Honey Wheat beer paired with one of the courses. The recipe for this beer was created by assistant brewer, John Anderson and has won awards in the past. Make sure to sign up for this event. Alamo Drafthouse will have several other amazing beers on the menu as well for you to try.
February 5th is a busy day! We also will be at the Texas Beer Festival get together located at the Ginger Man's from 7pm-11:30pm for the 3 month pre party. (It is a good thing there is 5 of us!) The Texas Beer Festival is on May 7th at the Humble Convention Center. Tickets are on sale now at
www.texasbeerfest.org
If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter, please send an email to
info@nolabelbrew.com
We look forward to making delicious beer for you in 2011!
Cheers,
No Label Brewing Folks
Brian, Gilberto, Jennifer & Melanie
December 28, 2010
Well hello beer lovers! We are very excited about the year to come and bringing you good beer to drink! We recently had a special event at The Public House bar in Katy, TX where we tapped our American Amber Ale (Ridgeback). The event was great. A good time was had by all. We are still waiting on our 15 barrel system which should arrive end of January or early February. Our January 22nd tasting has been cancelled. We do apologize.
We will be sending our January Newsletter out in about a week. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter we send out every month please send us an email at info@nolabelbrew.com.
We would also like to recognize John Anderson, our assistant brewer. Without John, Brian would be one tired brewer. Thanks John for all you do!
Now for beer news. We are working on a "special brew" that will be on tap at one of the January tastings. We think it will be a unique beer that many people in Texas especially would enjoy....that's the only hint we will give you! We are continuing on with our 3 beers and will be building on our selection of beers in 2011. We are looking forward to brewing beer for you all to enjoy and really appreciate the support Katy and Houston has given us.
Cheers!
Those crazy No Label Brewery Folks!
December 5, 2010
We are very excited about the month of December! We will be in our first bar this month. Although we can not disclose the bar due to TABC rules you should be hearing something soon for the bar. We are waiting for our 15 barrel system to arrive. We hope it will be delivered by the end of January. We will be closed all of February due to our equipment arriving and being set up properly. We do have quite a few tastings coming up. We will be open Dec. 11th, Dec. 18th, Jan.8th, Jan.15th, Jan.22nd and Jan.29th. All tastings are from 1pm-3pm. We have t-shirts, koozies, glasses and bottle openers for sale. You are more than welcome to bring food to our tasting to enjoy with our beer. Dec.11th and Dec.18th we will have The Public House Bar and Restaurant at our brewery handing out fish and chips! Our taphandles are being finished up ands we are very happy with the results. If you would like to join our monthly newsletter please send us an email at info@nolabelbrew.com
Hope to see you out at our brewery soon!
Cheers,
The No Label Brewery Folks
November 4, 2010
Well, our equipment is ordered and now we wait! We ordered a 15 barrel brew house from Premier Stainless and can't wait to start brewing on it (See picture below). We still hope to be in a few bars around Katy in December. We will keep you posted on that. We have our graphics design crew working on our beer logos as we speak. Pale Horse and El Hefe are almost finished. Next Ridgeback! Brian the brewer is now at our brewery full time so he can make our delicious beer for you all more often. We know you all are thirsty!
We have 4 tastings left until 2011 so don't forget to come by and try some of our beer. Its FREE! We do sell our t-shirts and glasses at our tastings if you are interested. We hope to have them on sale on our website sometime in the near future.
We appreciate all the support we have received from everyone. It really means a lot to us. We are chuggin along nicely and look forward to the future.
Cheers!
No Label Brewery Folks
September 28, 2010
We finally received our TTB license!! We are VERY excited. Our next steps will be to order our 15 barrel brewhouse as well as our taphandles. We hope to be in a few bars around Katy in December. If you haven't bought your tickets to Monsters of Beers for October 17th, the tickets are going quick! We will also be at the Rockwell Tavern & Grill October the 15th from 7pm to 9pm. Starting November 1st our brewer Brian will be out at the brewery full time. We hope he doesn't drink all our supply!
Come on out to our brewery every Saturday from 1pm to 3pm except holiday weekends. (We will be closed October 2nd).
Support your local brewery!
August 23, 2010
We are excited to become Katy's own microbrewery! We are so close in obtaining our TTB licensing that we can almost taste it, September should be the lucky month we receive our TTB and order our equipment. Right now, we are brewing on our pilot system while we prepare the brewery for our 15 barrel brew house.
We are also VERY excited to be participating in the Monsters of Beer Event held October 17th at 13 degrees Celsius. Check out the website:
www.monstersofbeer.com
That is all for now..we will keep you updated on our Facebook and Twitter weekly!
Cheers,
~No Label Brewing ~
June 23rd
Just a quick update! We received our Certificate of Occupancy on our building. We are extremely excited about it. Now we can brew BEER in our brewery! We have a No Label Brewing sign being put up today so if you're driving by you will know where we are at. We recently joined the Katy Chamber of Commerce and have enjoyed being apart already.
We hope to receive our TTB license by the end of August but we will definitely keep everyone posted. We will start sending a newsletter out next month so if you are interested please send us an email. We are also on Facebook and Twitter if you want to follow our progress every day.
Thanks again for everyone's support and we can't wait to be Katy's microbrewery!
Cheers,
No Label Brewing Co.
Summer begins!
June 5, 2010
We had a few snags with our building permit but should be receiving it next week. After receiving the building permit we will then be able to brew in our brewery (with our small equipment)! We installed a new AC unit in our office that we hope will allow the rest of the brewery to be slightly cooler during those hot July afternoons. Our TTB papers were received on May 5th and we were told the process of getting this permit could take up to 90 days..so hopefully by August we should have our TTB permit!
We've been brewing the last couple of weekends. We plan to brew almost every weekend throughout the summer. We have been keeping an eye on equipment to purchase for our brewery. Our goals for June will be to receive our building permit and will hopefully have a lovely sign out front. Oh....and a whole lot of brewing!
We were asked to speak at The Petrol Station bar last month. We had a nice group out there to support us and really appreciated the Petrol Station letting us come. They also had a great selection of microbrew on tap!
That is all for now....we will keep you updated on our Facebook and Twitter weekly!
Don't forget to support your local brewery,
~No Label Brewing ~
Whats brewing with us?
5/11/2010 - Things have been rolling along nicely! We have been putting in many hours at our warehouse/brewery and we a must say...it looks mighty fine! The inside of the brewery is all painted and cleaned at last. A portable No Label Brew bar was built with..... a Barbie doll as one of the tap handles?? Landscaping has been done to the outside and our new door and garage has been finished. We are hoping to have our building permit by the end of May. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
We will start aggressively searching for brewery equipment in the next few months. If you know of any, please let us know! We are interested in used or new equipment. We hope to purchase either a 10 or 15 barrel system.
We keep our Facebook and Twitter pages updated very often, so if you want to know what we are up to on a daily basis, check those out!
Our interview in the Ultimate Katy section of the Houston Chronicle will be in the paper this Sunday, May 16th !
We also were recently in the Katy Sun newspaper...check out the link below:
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/05/04/katy_sun/news/sws-no_label_brewery.txt
Cheers big ears!
Jennifer Royo
The Marketing Department
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4/4/2010 - We moved one step closer to getting our Certificate of Occupancy this weekend. We did a little bit of landscaping, added parking lanes, painted our floor, installed fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and many more things. Needless to say it was a busy weekend. This week, we have a contractor renovating the front entrance. All that�s left is a little bit of electrical and some temporary break tanks. We should have this all completed by the end of April.
We bottled our Ridgeback Ale and Pale Horse. Then we kegged our El Hefe and Silo Ale. Fermenting is another batch of the Ridgeback. Gearing up for the big tasting May 8th!
This week we will be in Chicago for the Craft Brewers Conference. Can�t wait to try the deep dish pizza, Chicago dogs�and the beer of course! While we are there we will be making contacts for our equipment and materials. The search begins for our equipment!
Also, the Chronicle (Ultimate Katy) and Channel 39 Houston did a story about us. Here are the links:
www.ultimatekaty.com
Check out our bi-weekly article on the LoopScoop.
www.theloopscoop.com
That's all for now.
Cheers,
Brian
We recently received our TABC permit…yeah! This was a big step. We got our building permit today to do some minor renovations to the front of the building. The renovations should be done be the end of next week. We hope to have our certificate of occupancy by end of April. Next step is look for equipment!
April 7-10, we are attending the Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago. We are hoping to learn a lot while we are there. Also, I have been writing an article for the LoopScoop. www.theloopscoop.com Check it out when you get a chance.
Become a friend of ours on Facebook (NL Brewing) or follow us on Twitter (NoLabelBrewingCo) to get updates about upcoming events and tastings.
Cheers,
Brian
