After finding a niche in Austin as a family-friendly brewpub selling beer and pizza, Pinthouse Pizza is moving a little north of the city for its newest location in Round Rock. Construction will start this summer at a plot of land at Old Settlers and Interstate 35.

It might take longer to get this third brewpub up and running because Pinthouse is starting from the ground up, erecting an entirely new building rather than simply retrofitting an existing one, as with the first two on Burnet Road and South Lamar Boulevard. The team behind Pinthouse, which includes Director of Brewing Operations Joe Morhfeld, is excited to put their stamp on the project from the start.

�We�ll have more space to do what we want,� he said.

And why Round Rock? The town is appealing because it�s become an outpost of other Austin chains like Hopdoddy�and the site of new restaurants from established Austin chefs like Jack Gilmore, who opened Salt Traders Coastal Cooking there last year to strong reviews.

�It just kind of made sense for us to move there, looking at the other restaurants around there and how they�re doing and the demographic,� Mohrfeld said. �With the population shift and everything, it seemed like a natural fit for us. And there�s still open land that we were able to grab.�

For his part, Mohrfeld plans to approach the brewing program there in the same way he has the other two: offering new and different beers at it with Pinthouse�s indelible balanced style.

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�You�ll never find Man O� War (Pinthouse Burnet�s flagship beer) at the south location, just like you won�t find Electric Jellyfish (Pinthouse Lamar�s flagship beer) at the north location,� Jacob Passey, head brewer at the South Lamar brewpub, said. �We might make similar beers with some crossover recipes, but for the most part, if you always go south and you want to go north, we want you to be able to try new beers. Or vice versa.�

That will be the case at Round Rock: Morhfeld is considering making Training Bines, another Pinthouse IPA, the flagship at Round Rock. People at the Burnet pub have already gotten to try it, as he and the brewers work to perfect it.

�It�s same thing we did with Lamar,� the second Pinthouse location to open, he said. �We had been working on a lot of the beers for Lamar for a year plus leading up to it. We just took the stuff that worked and took it down there. So it�s not like we�re starting completely fresh. We�re able to incubate the beers at the two locations and see what works.�

One thing you can count on at the Round Rock spot: lots more exciting IPAs, Pinthouse�s specialty style. The brewpub�was founded in 2012 and quickly established itself as the place to go for fresh takes on the beloved beer.

For more information about Pinthouse Pizza, visit pinthousepizza.com.

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