Hi Sign Brewing Opens New Austin Taproom, Unveils Brand Refresh Ahead of 5th Anniversary

AUSTIN, Texas – Native craft beer darling, Hello Signal Brewing, introduced the grand opening of its new 13,000-square-foot East Austin taproom and manufacturing facility positioned at 730 Shady Lane. To unveil the brand new area and commemorate the corporate’s fifth yr in enterprise, Hello Signal will open its doorways at 12 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 for a public grand opening celebration. On the occasion, Hello Signal will debut three new beers (two summer season seasonals and one everlasting addition) alongside up to date brand and may designs by artistic company FugginHuggin.

Founder and CEO Mark Phillippe credit native assist for Hello Signal’s success within the aftermath of a recession that shuttered unbiased companies worldwide. “We wouldn’t have survived the final 5 years with out our Austin neighborhood,” Phillippe mentioned. “They sustained us over the past two years –– this new place is for them.”

On Saturday, July 9, Hello Signal Brewing invitations everybody to expertise its new industrial-style tasting room with views of the beer-making course of. Doorways will open at 12 p.m. and DJ Stefon Osae will spin from 6pm – 10pm. Burro Cheese Kitchen’s meals truck will kick off its onsite residency promoting artisan grilled cheese sandwiches to accompany Hello Signal’s present lineup of  brews: El Berto the Mexican Lager; Violet the Blueberry Blonde; Shamus the Fiddler Irish Pink; Wooderson the West Coast IPA; Hello-C Hazy IPA; and a number of other new releases to incorporate the launch of Eastside Pilsner.

“Because the Austin craft beer market matured, it grew to become obvious that we weren’t going to outlive at our previous location on Bastrop Freeway, nearly completely because of the devastating, several-years-long Hwy 183 building undertaking,” Phillippe defined. “However, a shortage of assets compelled us to focus sharply on packaging and product.”

Hello Signal’s new dwelling on Shady Lane has a wealthy beverage manufacturing and packaging historical past. It initially opened as an RC Cola bottling facility within the Nineteen Fifties, and later grew to become Shiner’s first beer distribution heart in Austin. Within the 90s, the constructing was occupied by Hill Nation Brewing & Bottling. 20 years later, the area is returning to its beverage business roots because it turns into Hello Signal Brewing’s new dwelling. Phillippe chosen OPA Design Studio, an award profitable structure agency specializing in breweries and distilleries, to reimagine the area whereas paying homage to its distinctive historical past.

“After assembly with Ambrose [Taylor], the constructing’s earlier proprietor, my imaginative and prescient for the undertaking was to make minimal modifications to the constructing — it already had superb bones,” mentioned Phillippe. “We’ve got this unimaginable construction, and we wished to design the area in a method that reused as lots of the authentic supplies as attainable, and hold a few of its historical past alive.”

The footprint of the brand new brewery is greater than twice the scale of Hello Signal’s earlier facility, offering the area wanted to ramp up manufacturing of the model’s core beers and permit Hello Signal to reincorporate limited-release choices.

“Between the additional room and upgraded tools, we’ll enhance to a manufacturing capability of simply over 8,000 barrels per yr,” mentioned Phillippe.

Phillippe is a former United States Marine Corps Infantry Officer who served in Afghanistan. After getting back from deployment, he started homebrewing for his fellow marines whereas stationed in Twentynine Palms, California. Desirous to dive deeper into craft beer, he sought out and accomplished intensive craft brewing coursework at UC Davis and Portland State College, immersing himself within the research of producing and distribution of craft beer. In 2015, Phillippe started work on his dream of constructing Hello Signal and opened its first taproom and manufacturing facility in Austin in 2017.

“I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs for a very long time,” Phillippe mentioned, “and thought I had a fairly good concept of what my future may appear like — writing the marketing strategy, constructing monetary fashions, courting traders, making an attempt to get a financial institution mortgage, and so forth. However in my wildest goals I by no means may have imagined the challenges I’ve confronted each personally and professionally over the past 5 years. It’s been an ultramarathon. Finally, what nonetheless drives me is a honest and real ardour for nice beer. I nonetheless get that rush after I style one thing contemporary out of the tank and know that we nailed it.  Craft brewing is for us very a lot in regards to the search; striving to make technically wonderful beers. Whether or not it’s perfecting a pilsner or bettering our IPAs, the journey will at all times be about making nice beer.”

About Hello Signal Brewing

Hello Signal Brewing is an area craft beer brewery and taproom positioned in Austin, Texas. Mark Phillippe, a former Marine Corps Infantry Officer who served in Afghanistan, developed his curiosity in brewing whereas consuming native craft beers across the hearth at his household’s cabin in Montana, on Hello Signal Street. He turned his curiosity right into a ardour, after which a actuality. In early 2017, Phillippe added Hello Signal Brewing to Austin’s booming indie brew scene.

Hello Signal Brewing actively markets six core beers. All six (together with a number of seasonal brews) will quickly be out there in its new East Austin taproom, and are at present out there at choose stores all through Austin. Core beers embrace:

El Berto the Mexican Lager | 4.5% –– a wonderfully gentle and crisp Mexican-style lager

Violet the Blueberry Blonde | 5.1% –– a blonde ale with the peerlessly delicate quantity of blueberry

Shamus The Fiddler Irish Pink | 5.2% –– a clean Irish pink, with a barely toasted aroma, and a caramel- malt end 

Wooderson The IPA | 6.5% –– Hello Indicators flagship IPA is a crisp, dank West Coast-style brew with a floral dry-hopped nostril

HI-C Hazy IPA | 6.8% –– juicy/hazy American IPA double dry-hopped with rotating hop varietals

Tremendous Astronaut Double IPA  | 9.5% –– a citrusy, dank, tremendous clean Double IPA. 2X Alpha King Problem Finalist

Hello Signal Brewing is a proud and energetic member of the Austin neighborhood, and is worked up to hitch the rising East Austin space with their new dwelling at 730 Shady Lane, Austin TX 78702. Starting July 9, 2022, the  taproom can be open Monday via Thursday from 7 am to 10 pm, Friday from 7 am to 11 pm, Saturday from 9 am to 11 pm, and Sunday from 9 am to 10 pm.

About Mark Phillippe

Mark Phillippe found a ardour for craft beer whereas spending summers at his household’s cabin on Hello Signal Street within the mountains of Montana.  After graduating from the College of Texas at Austin, he started a decade of labor on political campaigns and a presidential administration. In 2009 he obtained a fee as an Officer within the Marine Corps.  Throughout a fight deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan as an infantry officer, he spent most nights desirous about coming dwelling to Austin and making beer.  After his navy service he accomplished craft brewing coursework at UC Davis and Portland State College, immersed within the research of producing and distribution of craft beer.  In 2015 he started work on his dream of constructing Hello Signal Brewing; opening their first manufacturing facility and taproom in 2017, and managing all operations of the corporate.

The Story of Hello Signal Brewing

Whereas spending summers on the household cabin off Hello Signal Rd in Montana’s Huge Sky nation,  Mark found the pure enjoyment that comes from consuming contemporary, domestically made craft beer.  After touring across the Continental Divide buying growler after growler from native  breweries, he realized there couldn’t be time higher spent than making contemporary craft beer for  family and friends to get pleasure from. Whereas commissioned as an officer in the USA Marine  Corps, Mark was deployed to Afghanistan the place he shared his ardour for beer and dream of  making it with the Marines in his platoon. In the midst of Sangin, 1000’s of miles from  dwelling, he determined this is able to be his life’s work. After returning dwelling he began brewing within the excessive desert of Twentynine Palms, California with a easy aim: creating flavorful, contemporary,  hoppy ales to reward the craft beer consuming American after a tough day’s work. As a result of at  the tip of the day, having fun with a contemporary beer with household and pals, supporting the native  neighborhood and giving again to charitable organizations, are just some of life’s nice pleasures

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