(Austin, TX) – Live Oak Brewing, apparently makers of the world’s best Hefeweizen according to beer ratings, brewed its 1000th batch of beer recently. Live Oak Brewing brewed their 1000th batch of beer over the weekend. From the newsletter:

“This landmark brew is a batch of their new winter seasonal, Primus Weizenbock [pronounced PRE-moose]. It is a dark, rich German-style Weizen beer (beer made with wheat malt) fermented with a very particular strain of brewers’ yeast that gives these beers their unique spicy and fruity character. […] The unfiltered beer will have the characteristic clove and banana flavors familiar to HefeWeizen drinkers but with a darker and richer roasty malt character that is typical of some German-style Bock beers. Contributing to that malt character is a laborious decoction mash employed at Live Oak. This old school brewing method is still used at some central European breweries and Live Oak but rarely anywhere else. The alcohol strength will be around 8% ABV and it will be available on tap in December.”

Side note: “the brewery has purchased 20 acres of land on the Colorado River north of the airport (ABIA) to build a new facility that will include a bottling line.” Perhaps we can expect to see some Hefeweizen in bottles a couple years down the road…