By Steven Richardson and Kaiti Evans
Hops and Grain Gets a San Marcos Start
Hops & Grain is an Austin local award-winning brewery that has move a little more south to San Marcos. The brewery is all about community, they are involved in all types of community activates that help protect the planet.
They also are connected with local non-profit, so they can help “bring attention to what makes central Texas great,” The brewery preaches sustainability as well they focus their sustainability efforts in the areas of environmental stewardship, community involvement and industry leadership”
Hops & Grain is always implementing new sustainable systems to their brewery and the give 1% of their annual revenue to local environmental non-profits.
The Hops and Grain Brewery expanded from their initial location in Austin to San Marcos. With just four weeks under their belt in a new location, the brewery has taken a liking to the San Marcos culture.
Five-dollar beers grace customers from 10 a.m to 10 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., drinks are only two dollars. It is hard to go wrong with a self-brewed beer. Even at 11 a.m. on a Monday, customers are strolling in to sample a drink and look at merchandise.
Photo essay by Kaiti Evans
IPA beer at the Hops and Grain Brewery. 
Carlos Garcia washes cups. 
Stand-alone chairs at Hops and Grain Brewery. 
Carlos Garcia pours a glass of beer. 
“Cheers!” painted on the wall of Hops and Grain Brewery. 
Carlos Garcia pours a beer. 
Beer-to-go is available for customers with a tight schedule. 
IPA beer at the Hops and Grain Brewery. 
Hops and Grain sells merchandise, such as t-shirts and glasses. 
Hops and Grain glasses sit on the merchandise stand.
Video by Garrett Moore
Audio Story by Steven Richardson
Photo Essay 2 by Bethany LeBeau
Freshly cleaned glasses are stacked neatly in a row. 
Behind the bar, the warehouse is visably under construction. 
A room in the warehouse has yet to be completed. 
An important instrument which is apart of the brewing process called the mash. 
Haze County, a hazey double IPA is stored in large quantities in the warehouse. 
A hanging plug floats in the warehouse waiting to be utilized. 
Three mash tuns gleam ready to be filled with deliscious beer-to-be. 
The experimental mash tuns await use in the warehouse. 
Back of the warehouse at Hops and Grain San Marcos.
Graphic by Bethany LeBeau
