Brewed with the taste of place 
Now Pouring
We brew traditional styles which pay homage to European origins, while highlighting our own Texas Hill Country terroir. All of our beers are made with water sourced directly from the limestone-filtered water well on the property, 450 feet below the surface in the Middle Trinity aquifer.
We don’t alter this water in any way, and let our beers showcase this beautiful, mineral-rich natural resource. The end product is an elegant and dry beer, made to be enjoyed under the shade of a Live Oak.
The Tasting Room draft list shown here is subject to change, as we rotate beers often. Be sure to check our retail cooler for barrel program beers no longer on draft.
We offer a curated list of wines and local ciders, as well as non-alcoholic beverages.
Collaboration Series
We celebrate lifelong craftsmen and organizations who share our ethos through developing a recipe and brewing together. We highlight local Texas artisans and non-profits in our community who are working hard for their passion each and every day.
Collaboration Series
We celebrate lifelong craftsmen and organizations who share our ethos through developing a recipe and brewing together. We highlight local Texas artisans and non-profits in our community who are working hard for their passion each and every day.
Collaboration with Pink Boots Society
Crisp / Tropical / Pine / 5.3% abv
0.5L POUR / PITCHER / CROWLER
Our 3rd Annual release of Zwickeled Pink is the perfect crushable, lightly hoppy beer for summer in Austin. A crew of ladies hand-selected hops to use during during the brew day: Pacific Gem & Columbus in the kettle. We added this year’s Pink Boots Blend from Yakima Chief Hops as a dry-hop addition (Azacca, El Dorado, Idaho Gem and Loral) giving all the best of tropical, citrus and piney aromas.
Breweries around the world used that same hop blend in a recipe of their own choosing, with a portion of the proceeds from hop & malt sales going back to Pink Boots. Vista is committed to donating a portion each sale of this beer back to the Pink Boots Society. The funds raised from the collaboration brews supports both the PBS international organization and our local Pink Boots Society Austin chapter, with funds going towards scholarships for members.
Collaboration with breweries around the world
Pine / Melon / Grapefruit
6.5% abv / 55 IBU
Only in 4 x 16 oz cans
A worldwide collaboration brewed to support hospitality professionals. We’ve joined up with Other Half Brewing out of Brooklyn and more than 550 breweries around the globe (40+ countries!) to brew a beer that supports hospitality workers in their local community. “All Together is a worldwide, open-ended beer collaboration created to raise support for the industry we love so much. It’s an effort to raise awareness and provide relief, even in the smallest way, to those who are struggling. As much as this is about raising money, this is also an exercise in awareness so that local communities can understand how daily life has been upended for those that rely on social gathering to make a living.” — Other Half Brewing Co
Each brewery takes the open source recipe and shared artwork to create a product which gives back to their hyper-local community via a fund or method of their choosing. For us, a portion of proceeds of each sale will go towards purchasing meals directly from Hill Country restaurant businesses for our furloughed team members.
Collaboration with Funkwerks
Earthy / White Grape / Mango / Pepper / 3.8% abv
0.5L draft / 750ml BTL
We joined forces with one of our favorite Colorado breweries, Funkwerks, to brew this “little saison”, a style-defying ale with the funkiness of saisons we love, without adding brettanomyces. Our two brewmasters Pat and Gordon — longtime friends — were up to the challenge. They started with a unique grain bill: pilsner malt, malted wheat and acidulated malt, along with raw spelt berries from our neighbors at Barton Springs Mill added for mouthfeel and a slight haze.
Classic Tettnang & Hersbrucker hops, along with Vista’s mineral- rich well water, were the perfect compliment for a wild Texas saccharomyces strain. Our friends at Community Cultures isolated this yeast from a prickly pear cactus in Big Bend Park in West Texas. The result is like a saison, a wit and an earthy farmhouse in one, all at an easy-drinking 3.8%.
Pours a hazy straw color with a thin head. The initial aroma is white grape, mango and coconut shell. As the beer warms, you’ll find biscuit, bread and earthy aromas come out. The first sip gives a spritzy mouthfeel, slight acidity and a dry finish. You’ll discover flavors of mango, lychee, kiwi, white pepper and clove.
COLLAB WITH BARTON CREEK COUNTRY CLUB
BREADY / CRISP / PINE / 4.2% ABV
0.5L pour / Pitcher / Crowler
This classic American blonde ale pours a rich golden hue with a fluffy white head and aromas of freshly baked bread, pine, grapefruit and melon. This drinkable ale delivers a full mouthfeel and slight acidity from Vista’s mineral-rich well water. This recipe was designed in collaboration with our friend’s over at Barton Creek Country Club as the perfect brew for a day on the golf course!
Collaboration with Central Texas Beekeepers
Honey / Apricot / Esters / 7.7 % ABV
0.5L POUR / PITCHER / CROWLER
Barrel Program (draft)
Vista’s barrel program is built around freshly emptied wine barrels sourced from our neighbors here in Central Texas. We currently have barrels aging with brettanomyces ales, Belgian-style lambics (some with local fruit, such as Fredericksburg peaches) and small batch variations of our beer garden recipes.
Barrel Program (draft)
Vista’s barrel program is built around freshly emptied wine barrels sourced from our neighbors here in Central Texas. We currently have barrels aging with brettanomyces ales, Belgian-style lambics (some with local fruit, such as Fredericksburg peaches) and small batch variations of our beer garden recipes.
White Pepper / Wood / Rye Bread / Vanilla / 6.0% abv
8 oz draft
A unique collaboration brewed June 2019 with Flying Machine Brewing out of NC. We then lagered half of the batch in our cold room for 8 months, exploring the effects of aging a lager in wood.
Savory / Apple / Honeysuckle / 6.9% abv
8 oz draft / 500 ml bottle
Hye is a savory and dry ale created with 100% wild yeast found in the freshly-dumped William Chris zinfandel barrels where it aged for over 12 months. The wild yeast and time in barrel gives flavors of white grape, honeysuckle and peach with a lingering tannic and funky finish.
Hye is an ongoing collaboration started in summer of 2019 with William Chris Vineyards, located down the road in Hye, TX. Our goal is to find wild Texas yeasts from Hill Country vineyards we can isolate and brew with Texas grains and age in Texas wine barrels.
Cherry / Blackberry / Leather / 7.8% abv
8 oz pour/ 500ml bottle
The aroma and flavor are first and foremost cherry, then warming to blackberry, leather and tobacco. Tart and dry with a vinous finish. This small-batch blend began with two of Vista’s most popular beers: Laissez Faire Brett Ale and our house mixed culture saison. After three months in stainless, the blend was racked into local wine barrels with star of the show: a heavy dose of tart red cherries. The mixed cultures refermenting on cherries, along with a subtle layer of tannin and wood character, creates a unique synergy of beer and fruit fermentations. The result is a vibrant crimson blend of fruit and earthy Brett that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Tart / Red Grape / Mineral / 7.4% abv
8 oz pour / 0.5L Carafe / 500 ml bottle
Full-bodied with a beautiful pink hue. Big fruit notes of red grape, berry and apple with a slight acidity and minerality. Brett forward with beautiful vanilla and tannins from the red wine barrels.
This beer began with Vista’s aquifer filtered well water, house-aged hops and 100% Texas-grown grains: two-row pilsner malt and wheat from Blacklands Malt. It spent 12 months in freshly-emptied, 100% Touriga Nacional red wine barrels from our neighbors Lewis Wines with a Brettanomyces Trois yeast strain. Laissez Faire is a French phrase meaning “let things take their own course, without interfering.” We proudly take that approach in our barrel program.
Vanilla / Bourbon / Botanical / 8.9% abv
8oz pour / 500ml bottle
The second release in our Desert Skies series, where we team up with our Driftwood neighbors Desert Door Texas Sotol to explore ageing beer in the freshly emptied barrels of this unique spirit.
Our house Le Saison transforms into an even more complex beer over a year spent in the sotol barrel, which adds layers of botanical, vanilla and bourbon-like notes. The flavors of both the mixed-culture saison and the sotol have married and concentrated, yielding a beer that is smooth, even at 8.9% abv.
Beer Garden
We’re brewing beer perfect for enjoying in shade of an old oak tree. Our recipes are influenced by European traditions, with our own signature interpretation. We’ll have a range of styles, all balanced, approachable, low abv. Crisp and dry on the palate, but at the same time, soft and drinkable.
Beer Garden
We’re brewing beer perfect for enjoying in shade of an old oak tree. Our recipes are influenced by European traditions, with our own signature interpretation. We’ll have a range of styles, all balanced, approachable, low abv. Crisp and dry on the palate, but at the same time, soft and drinkable.
Fruity / Caramel / Cedar / Biscuit / 5.1% abv
0.5L Pour / Pitcher / Crowler
Our newest release, Silver Linings, honors a message of positivity during this unprecedented pandemic. We are focused on finding gratitude and sharing a little bit of joy through craft beer. We’re opening up our walking paths for you to enjoy the fresh air and beauty of the spring wildflowers and the Hill Country.
This California Common is our brewmaster Pat’s tribute to the first modern American craft beer: Anchor Steam. Growing up in California, Pat has fond memories of this brew and the beer industry revolution inspired by Fritz Maytag.
The classic beer is marked by the use of crystal malt and Northern Brewer hops. We follow suit, with the malt giving the beer a rich, amber color and caramel flavor, the Nugget and Northern Brewer hops giving an austere woody bitterness and the warm-fermented lager yeast lending biscuit and toast flavors.
Crisp / DRY / Effervescent / 4.5% abv
0.5L pour / pitcher / Crowler / 6 x 12oz cans to-go
An ale-lager hybrid with an easy-drinking mouthfeel and a touch of fruit notes from the ale yeast. An exceedingly drinkable beer which we make with 100% German Noble hops and malts. Named for an old Texas family name, passed down for generations in the Vista Brewing family.
Clove / banana / ester / 9.5% abv
8oz pour / 750ml bottle
This Belgian-style, strong golden ale is our tribute to the Trappist monks and to Vista’s pure, limestone filtered water from the Middle Trinity aquifer. Pours with a faint haze and a snow-white head. Floral and mellow spiciness and clean vanilla malty notes make way for traditional banana and clove.
FLORAL / CITRUS / BALANCED / 6.5% abv / 45 IBU
0.5L pour / pitcher / Crowler
Vista’s mainstay classic American IPA, a rotating hop brew which is always highly drinkable and dry, right at 6.5%. This batch is super crisp, citrusy with a hint of mango. Named for: travels to destinations near and far that have inspired our dreams!
Citrus / Pear / Peppercorn / 6.6% abv
0.5L draft / Pitcher / 750 ml bottle
A complex farmhouse style paying tribute to the classic style of Northern France. We use three unique yeast strains over a 12 week fermentation. Pours a hazy straw color with a luscious white head, aromas of leather and peppercorn. Pair this elegant beer with any of our grilled meats, or take a pint on our walking trail and explore it’s delicate layers.
BALANCED / DRY / COOKIE-LIKE / 4.9% abv
0.5L pour / pitcher / Crowler / 6 x 12oz cans to-go
GOLD MEDAL – 2018 US OPEN BEER CHAMPIONSHIPS
A black lager with hints of coffee and roasted marshmallow. European hops are used to balance the body alongside the German specialty malts and German yeast which imparts fruitcake and fresh dough flavors and aromas. Named for: the big, bright stars over Driftwood and the International Dark Sky Association.
Light / Bread / Mango / 5.0% abv
0.5L POUR / PITCHER / CROWLER
Hensel is our version of a traditional Munich Helles, swapping the customary noble hops for a New Zealand bred hop, Nelson. Typically used in IPAs, Nelson has a vinous flavor and aroma, big on white grape and white pepper. In this lager, Nelson hops are a compliment to the richness and breadiness of the grains and yeast.
While in the traditional vein of a Munich Helles, the utilization of Nelson and the minerality of Vista’s limestone well water produces a beer that is a great example of Vista lagers. Hensel is dry and easy drinking, but with enough complexity for serious beer drinkers. The combination of bready flavors from the malt, white grape and tropical flavors from the hops, and a dry, clean finish from the German lager yeast makes for an easy drinking beer by itself or a great accompaniment to spicy foods.
