A day out to Dripping Springs
Dripping Springs · 5 stops · 2 legs · 5 with pages
Fitzhugh Road runs west out of Austin to the town, and all five rooms on the day have a page here.
Fitzhugh Road runs west out of Austin past two breweries and a bakery. Dripping Springs itself sits at the end of it with two more taprooms.
The list follows the road out of Austin, and it is not a schedule. Check each room's own page for its hours and its closures.
Fitzhugh Road3
One road runs west off US-290 and picks up three of these five rooms before it reaches the town.
Jester King?
Solid · Farmhouse ales · Fitzhugh Road, southwest Travis County
walk-in
Montmorency vs. Balaton is built on six pounds of cherries per gallon, and the Austin Chronicle's beer desk calls it "perhaps the most perfect beer in town".
Abby Jane Bakeshop?
Solid · Heritage-grain bread, pastry and sourdough pizza · Dripping Springs
walk-in
The heritage grain is milled next door at Barton Springs Mill and goes straight into the bread, the pastry and the wood-fired pizza dough.
12 Fox Beer Co?
Listed · Craft beer · Dripping Springs · $$
walk-inthe room’s own account
Old-school Texas barbecue from a truck that parks here five days a week, at a brewery that opens three.
The town2
Mercer Street is the middle of Dripping Springs, and the last stop sits back on the highway toward Austin.
Acopon Brewing Co.?
Listed · Craft beer · Dripping Springs · $$
walk-in
Four working hand pumps in the Hill Country, pulling Dark Mild, Special Bitter, Golden Ale and an ESB.
Suds Monkey Kitchen & Brewery Dripping Springs?
Listed · Pizza · US 290 west · $$
walk-in
Greg Plummer brewed at Stone in California before he built this, and he names the beers for phases in the life of a cartoon monkey.
Where this came from
Drawn from the rooms already written up here, checked August 2026.