Infamous Hijack

 Breweries are sprouting up all over central Texas like weeds...wonderful, wonderful weeds.  It's really amazing how craft beer making is taking off the way it is.  It makes me supremely happy to have so many different local brews to try, and a little jealous that i don't have a brewery of my very own.  The latest Austin has to offer comes from Infamous Brewing Co., opening just last month.  I was fortunate enough to try their delicious Hijack cream ale, an odd beer, seeing as the taste and feel are far more in line with a lager than an ale.  This golden, creamy beer goes easy on the bitterness, and is probably one of the smoothest beers i could imagine drinking.  It's a springtime/summer beer to be sure, the perfect companion following a day of yard work, or for an afternoon at the ballpark.  Bottles are on the way and should be in stores soon (in Texas anyway), and it's available in draft form at various bars and brewpubs around Austin.

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