Craft brewers meeting here this week

The Texas Craft Brewers Guild has chosen San Marcos to host their 2018 Education & Safety Summit, an annual conference focused on growing the quality, safety and education for Texas Craft Brewers.

Guild members will spend July 13-14 at thought-provoking and informative presentations and panel discussions on topics relevant to today’s brewers. Speakers cover a wide variety of topics including dry-hopping methods, working with the press, barrel aging procedures and promoting breweries as a tourism destination. This is the second year the Texas Craft Brewers Guild has held their Education & Safety Summit in San Marcos.

San Marcos is an emerging craft beer market with six breweries and brewpubs, with more being established soon. The first San Marcos production brewery, Altmeyer & Lewis Brewing Company, opened in October of 2016. The second production brewery calling San Marcos home is Hops & Grain, who will be opening their downtown San Marcos location this summer. With the opening of Hops & Grain, there are now four craft breweries within a three-block stretch in downtown San Marcos. For a full list of breweries in San Marcos, visit the Tour San Marcos website.

Who: Texas Craft Brewers Guild and San Marcos Convention & Visitor Bureau

What: Texas Craft Brewers Guild Education & Safety Summit

When: July 13-14

Where: The San Marcos Conference Center, 1001 East McCarty Lane

Why: San Marcos is an emerging craft beer market with six breweries and brewpubs, with more being established soon.

For more information, please contact Sarah Smith, social media specialist, at 512-393-5935 or by email, ssmith2@sanmarcostx.gov.