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Live Oak Brewing Company

United States · Regional · Known for Amber Lager · Hefeweizen
Known for Amber Lager · Hefeweizen

Austin craft brewery founded in 1997, specialising in traditional German-style lagers and ales. One of the few American craft breweries dedicated to true long-lagered beers. Their Hefeweizen is widely considered the finest German-style wheat beer brewed in the United States.

3Beers
2Styles
5.2%Avg ABV
1997Founded

Beers by Live Oak Brewing Company

3 beers
Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Live Oak Brewing Company brew across 2 style families.

Emerging signature · 3 beers
Lager 2Wheat Beer 1

Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

bitter
2 of 3 beers
malty
2 of 3 beers
cleanevery beer
3 of 3 beers
refreshingevery beer
3 of 3 beers

With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Compared with 271 other breweries brewing Amber Lager, Hefeweizen and German Pilsner:

Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for Amber Lager, Hefeweizen and German PilsnerLive Oak Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
light
in all 3 of their beers · typical Amber Lager, Hefeweizen and German Pilsner brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more light than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 73%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 3
beers above the median
#4536
best ranked beer
Live Oak Hefeweizen

Their beers place in the Top 73% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Live Oak Brewing Company

Austin craft brewery founded in 1997, specialising in traditional German-style lagers and ales. One of the few American craft breweries dedicated to true long-lagered beers. Their Hefeweizen is widely considered the finest German-style wheat beer brewed in the United States.

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Location
Austin · Texas · United States
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