Shiner Bock: Spoetzl Brewery shines on 100th anniversary

First this town was called Half Moon, then New Half Moon, and it wasn't much more than a post office. Its early settlers, Germans and Czechs, came through the Port of Galveston to a land as vast and hostile as the immigrants were stubborn and independent. It's no coincidence that the first shot of the Texas revolution was fired just up the road in Gonzales. The people grew cotton and waited for the railroad until, in the late 1880s, Henry B. Shiner struck a deal with the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to give 250 acres if the railroad would run through his land. This effectively relocated the town, which its grateful residents renamed Shiner.

Then they really got down to business: Being from that part of the world and being parched in the blazing Texas heat, they brewed beer.

Without a doubt - This is one of the best Texas microbrews.

The Spoetzl Brewery