Not only for the businesses, but for the locals. Elmo (Walnut Bend), Circle Brewing (Elgin), and Austin Beerworks (Springdale). We've always felt good about the quality of our beer and the uniqueness of our experience, so we never really looked around and asked, 'Where will we find the courage to expand?' maybe I should have!"Īnd while the upstart Lazarus is having its moment, the brewery also serves as a stress test for fellow future developers like St. "I just love revitalizing old buildings and creating neighborhood gathering places, so was probably more of a question of when rather than if. "We had been working on Laz 2 since a few years after Laz 1 opened," reflects Christian Cryder, owner and founder of Lazarus Brewing. Lazarus Brewing Co., the elite but young East Sixth beermakers whose quietly confident aw-shucks Brock Purdy act has them expanding from a Gen Z neighborhood to a Gen X district, is somewhat surprisingly the first of many future-planned second breweries in town. Not here in Austin, though, where beer tourism continues to surge, new breweries pock the Hill Country and feeder roads, and the most popular breweries in town look toward homes away from home. That's why, in the year 2023, as the American craft beer hype deflates and crashes to earth like a spy balloon at 40,000 feet, Austin is actually expanding its beermaking repertoire coming out of post-pandemic fatigue while other cities are rapidly abridging their small beer industry. It's one of the city's enduring features: turning each local into a craft beer extremist, then getting them to flip people like Barry into flavor zealots while out on holiday. Even my hard-pounding, Bud-steady, stepfather-in-law Barry warms to a handcrafted pint whenever he visits Austin from back home in the hardcore American Rust Belt.
It's 2023, which means everybody in America has gotten frisky with at least one craft beer in their lifetime. Bread of Life (center) and Prodigal Pils make great accompaniments for Lazarus' queso fundido (photos by John Anderson)
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