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Austin360 blogs > Out & About > Archives > 2008 > March > 19 > Entry

Your A-List: Best Locally Produced Beer, Liquor or Wine

By Michael Barnes | Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 05:56 PM

The winners of the A-List vote on best locally produced beer, liquor or wine are everywhere. There’s hardly a local party where you won’t find either Paula’s Texas Orange (which earned 42 percent of the vote) or Tito’s Handmade Vodka (31 percent). It helps that they were the first two hit products from the Austin distilling mini-boom of the past 10 years. Two brewers came in third and fourth place: Real Ale Brewing (8 percent) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (6 percent). Taking 5 percent or less were Dripping Springs Vodka, Independence Brewing Co., Draught House, Uncle Billy’s, Caprock wines, Savvy Vodka, Treaty Oak Rum and Alamosa wines.

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