Cedar Creek Brewery Opens

SEVEN POINTS - Cedar Creek Brewery opened this week with a launch party at The Common Table in Uptown Dallas.

Although located southeast of Dallas near the Cedar Creek Reservoir, Cedar Creek beers will be distributed by Duff with North Texas one of their primary markets after their local area.

Cedar Creek has three beers initially available: Scruffy's Smoked Alt, Elliott's Phoned Home American Pale Ale and the Lawn Ranger Cream Ale.

Cedar Creek Brewery Signs Lease

ATHENS - The planned Cedar Creek Brewery has just signed a lease on a location in Athens, with an expected opening date around May of this year.

As reported by Teresa Gubbins of Pegasus News, owner Jim Elliott found a location near the Cedar Creek Reservoir on US Highway 175. Elliott and brewer Damon Lewis plan to build one of the few craft breweries ever located in the East Texas area.

More New Craft Breweries

Several more new Texas craft breweries have come to our attention just this past week, all in various stages of planning, development, fundraising and construction.

• Brewery DADA (Austin)
• Buffalo Bayou Brewing Company (Houston)
• Cedar Creek Brewery (Kemp)
• Down Easy Brewing Company (Houston)
• Karst Canyon Brewing (Austin)
• Yellow House Canyon Brew Works (Lubbock)