The
Texas Big Beer Brewery
Who we are & What we are doing...
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 The Texas BIG BEER
Brewery is a small brewery located in Southeast
Texas out in the woods in the Big Thicket. Owned
and operated by John & Tammy McKissack, our
goal is to start up a small debt free brewery
with no pressure to brew more beer, just to make
more money to pay to some bank! Brewing great
beer is a craft, which should be appreciated,
enjoyed and savored. We believe that if we live a
simple life, make wise decisions, put in an
honest days work and brew the best craft beer we
can, the bottom line should take care of itself.
We hope you will visit our brewery every first
Saturday on the month, so we can let you sample
our beer and tell us what you think and kick back
and chew the fat and shoot the breeze.
 We prefer rich malty
flavor you can only get from a BIG high alcohol
beerl, but we also strive to brew beers that are
perfect to style and have a flavor that takes you
back in time. Back to a time and place where the
beer style was originally discovered. We have had
several brewers say that we may regret the
decision to brew such big beers, because we will
have to use twice as much malted barley to
produce the same amount of beer as your average
craft brewery. We too are concerned at the higher
cost to produce our beer, but like we said,
brewing great beer is a craft and should be
appreciated, enjoyed and savored and it just cost
more to do that. We enjoy a lot of different
great craft beers and we are bound and determined
to add our beers to that list of great craft
beers we enjoy drinking.
Our brewery is unbelievably small. It is in a
small building on the front of what will be our
little five acre Self-Sufficient Homestead. As we
build the brewery we will be building our
homestead at the same time and we plan to make
our brewery an integral part of the functionality
of our homestead. The brewery waste (spent
grains) will feed our livestock including our
chickens, ducks, geese, a few pigs a cow or two
and the catfish in our pond. There has been
concern in recent years about CO2 emissions, so
we are looking into venting the CO2 produced
during fermentation into our greenhouse so the
plants can convert the CO2 into oxygen. The added
CO2 will increase plant growth and reduce the
amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere.
Our goal is to convert our waste into food. Next
we need to figure out a way to capture the heat
produced when chilling the wort and convert it
into energy, or something.
The BIG BEER
Brewers
John & Tammy McKissack,
Texas BIG BEER Brewery
400, County Road 3136
Buna, TX 77612
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