KarliHaus Brewery

08/21/2025

14 Years ago today KarliHaus Brewery launched with our first batch!!!!! We're still brewing today!!!!

10/05/2024

Watching Knox College Volleyball while drinking a Pandemic Pilsner. Let's go Prairie Fire!!!!

10/19/2022

The boys from KarliHaus Brewery were happy to be interviewed while we enjoyed some of the last days with our friends at Adelbert's Brewery yesterday afternoon. if you can swing by and enjoy their beers and tap room before they close down on Halloween.

We'll miss you our friends! L'Chaim!!!

Adelbert’s Brewery is shutting down its north Austin location on Oct. 31.

06/20/2022

While summer officially starts tomorrow morning no one bothered to tell the heat that has been in place in Austin, and much of the rest of the central USA the past few weeks. We even upgraded to some insulating drinkware to help us survive!!!

We also planned ahead and revisited one of our first original recipes, review from the Assistant Brewmaster below. L'chaim!!!

KarliHaus RyePA—Updated Review

The fifth original recipe produced by KarliHaus Brewery was Brewmaster Matthew Karli’s RyePA in September, 2013. At the time it won third place in the Hops Forward division of the home brew competition sponsored by Austin Homebrew Supply.

Brewing the RyePA for the 11th time Matthew decided to double the amount of hops used in the dry-hopping. The tweaked result has the same clean, crisp bitterness of the original, but with hops just bit more forward in a very positive way. The solid rye maltiness still provides the base but the additional dry-hopping adds a new dimension.

The tweak to the original recipe is likely here to stay!

Brewed May 7, 2022. Bottled May 21, 2022. Tasted June 11, 2022. 5.0% ABV. Review by Robert Karli

05/07/2022

We have significant respect for the roots of craft brewing in Austin, hence the Celis Brewery glassware holding our flagship KarliFest lager during brew day on this hot and steamy first Saturday of May in Austin. Another batch of KarliFest was bottled, and a fresh batch of KarliRyePA was brewed. L'chaim!!!

11/07/2021

While we've been a bit quiet here production has continued during the pandemic.

Our most recent endeavor has been to collaborate with some of the women of Austin Mustard Seed who in their reading of The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr learned about the role of medieval alewifes in the production of Ale prior to the Black Death and were inspired to step into this historical role.

KarliHaus Brewery was thrilled to participate by providing 100% of the necessary facility and equipment, as well as 100% of the funding for this effort We brewed a slightly modified version of our KarliBlonde Ale. The women of Austin Mustard Seed dedicated a large portion of the labor under the guidance of KarliHaus Brewery Brewmaster Matt Karli including wrapping up bottling earlier today. 2 week bottle conditioning carbonation to go then we'll have a tasting.

We also created a custom label for the beer bottles and utilized the public domain artwork from English baroque age painter David Loggan with his work "Mother Louse" who was apparently a notorious alewife in the mid 17th century.

05/24/2020

We are living in uncharted times and uncharted times call for newly charted paths. In that spirit Matthew Karli, Brewmaster of KarliHaus Brewery, was inspired to take us in a new direction—our first pilsner. The result is KarliHaus Pandemic Pilsner. Beautiful to the eye as it is refreshing to the taste, this is a classic pilsner: light but brightly flavorful, easy on the hops with the slightest hint of caramel sweetness, leading to a crisp and clean finish. This one is a keeper and we will brew it again soon. And yet again when COVID-19 is nothing but a bad memory but our first pilsner Is a good one. Brewed March 21, 2020. Bottled May 9, 2020. Tasted May 23, 2020. 4.84% ABV. Review by Robert Karli

05/16/2020

Brew Day at the KarliHaus Brewery. A special collaboration to wrap the day. Delicious, and special, creation from Balcones Distillery and Spoetzl Brewery.

If you can find it buy it!

L'Chaim

01/05/2020

KarliHaus RyePA on an Austin winter day! L'Chaim!! (photo credit to Robert Karli, whose hand also appears in the photo)

04/06/2019

On March 21st the Co-founder and CFO of KarliHaus Brewery presented Christine Celis of Celis Brewery with a vintage poster from their brewery. It happened to be, what would have been, the 94th Birthday of Pierre Celis the original brewery founder. Serendipity.

02/16/2019

KarliFest Lager on a brew day at KarliHaus Brewery!