Big Texan Brewery

About

The Big Texan Brewery starting serving hand craft beers June 24, 2011 in Amarillo Texas after a lengthy process of paperwork with the “Feds” or TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) and the TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission). The amount of work that was needed to put a dream into reality started decades ago and many miles apart between Tom Money (Brewmaster) and the Lee Brother’s (Bobby & Danny) who are second generation owners of the Big Texan Steak Ranch. Starting back in 1988, Danny was teaming up with buddies on the weekends brewing beer in backyards and cracking open many new tastes that were unavailable to the general public. Meanwhile Bobby, the prodigy mastermind behind the Big Texan’s promotional engine had been encouraging his brother to continue the tradition of brewing only this time for the Big Texan’s patrons, and not just as a hobby either. Theses conversations went on for years and years, UNTIL January of 2011 when a friend of the family told the Lee Boy’s that his brother Tom, who also brewed beer at home for a hobby, wanted to be a Brewmaster for their world famous steak house. Tom was looking for an introduction and a foot in the door. After the handshakes, formalities, some heavy sampling, the concept of the Big Texan Brewery was well under way to becoming a reality. Along came the long process of applications & forms, trial & error, recipes, remodeling, purchasing, construction, moving this to there, testing and testing and more testing. Tom had his favorites and Danny had his, and then there were the ones that breweries “were suppose to offer” such as the Ambers, Reds, Bocks, and IPA’s. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the notice from the Fed’s that a license to brew and sell beer was approved and now issued! Thanks to our former President Jimmy Carter for paving the road for handcraft beer making. After 24-years, our hobbies were now memories and the real work was about to begin.