Blue Owl Brewing

Microbrewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2015

Contact
2400 E Cesar Chavez St, Ste 300, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Description
Blue Owl Brewing is an all sour brewery in Austin, Texas. We started Blue Owl in 2015 to make sour beers approachable yet still unique. Our souring style accentuates the beer rather than dominating your taste buds. We aim to produce clean, well-balanced sour beers that retain the characteristics of their style.

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(Can) Pours hazy amber with tiny white head. Pleasant and very unusual aroma of peaches, pastry and cream with a perfume hint that I can’t place. Light body with lively, almost fizzy carbonation. Great, and unusual, taste. The start is pleasantly citrus sour, with peach, pastry and cream flavours developing, along with a hint of sweetness. Pastry lingers in the finish. Very unusual and very enjoyable.

Tried from Can on 26 Apr 2022 at 12:55


8

Nice plum notes upfront. Honestly reminds me of prune juice in a good way. Mellow tartness

Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2021 at 21:26


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Clear gold with a small white head. Bergamot and some white plum. Soured bergamot and a light soured white fruit. Not bad.

Tried from Can from D&Q - The Beer Station on 20 Jul 2021 at 16:38


6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5

Deep ruby with a small white head. Burnt rubber and red berry. Bitter and sour with red berries. This is weirdly off.

Tried from Can from D&Q - The Beer Station on 17 Jul 2021 at 22:00


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bright yellow orange with a decent white head. Soured orange and grassy notes. Sour creamsicle and a nice clean finish.

Tried from Can from D&Q - The Beer Station on 12 Jul 2021 at 20:06


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Easy Tiger South. Pours a near clear amber with a gold hue and a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has earthy bread with some tart lemon and citrus with a hint biscuit underlying. Flavor has biscuit and bread with an earthy grass and growing tart citrus through the finish.

Tried from Draft on 26 Feb 2021 at 00:39


Pineapple, coconut. Tart. Thanks ROO! Love birds!

Tried from Can on 15 Jan 2021 at 21:11


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Funk and Sour. Pours a hazy gold with small white head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is smoke, wheat, lacto. Thin body, lemon zest, wheat, oak, lacto, salty finish, light smoke, very good.

Tried from Draft on 20 Nov 2020 at 01:48


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Funk and Sour. Pours a cloudy orange with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is wheat, lacto, rubber, grape. Medium body, leather, apple core, grape skin, oak, light tartness, very good.

Tried from Draft on 20 Nov 2020 at 01:42


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy orange and copper coloured body with a lighter golden glow towards the bottom and a thinnish, sinle to perhaps two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of soured, tart and funky grain with some yeast, brett and light oaky, woodsie scents with a light citrus and grapefruit bite, but the yeast shows it's character. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong dry and floral malt notes shows the funky flavours up front with a lot of dry grain and soured, tart elements, predominantly from the malts, but also from some residual fruits which show stone fruits and a dry pear flavour as well. Aftertaste shows some cedar and dry woodsie, herbal elements with a floral profile that shows some jasmine as well and ends with a subdued, but noticeable sweet bite from the fruits associated with this one, definitely some pears and apricots. Overall, a nice dry and floral beer with some good complexity from the fruits and of course the yeastie and funky notes that achieves a nice balance and smooth complexity, while being slightly puckering and robust throughout. Nice to sample and a good option for the style. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Spec's Liqour in San Antonio, Texas on 12-October-2019 for US$2,29 sampled just over a year later at my house here in Washington on 29-October-2020.

Tried from Can on 30 Oct 2020 at 07:54