Great American Beer Fest

American Craft Beer Week

We are big fans of Clown Shoes Blaecorn Unidragon. So, when they released the Porcine Unidragon, we knew it wold kick ass. I hear it tastes like bacon stout. Come share it with us this Sunday morning, we’ll be tapping it at 11:00am.

From now on we are supporting Houston’s biking community by offering a special on Karbach brews in honor of Houston’s bikers. “One Less Car, One More Karbach” offers $3 Karbach from Hay Merchant’s great selection to anyone who bikes to the bar.

30 Beers for 3 Bucks
Start your afternoon off on the right foot. Hay Merchant now offers Happy Hour. Every day we will offer 30 beers from their on-tap selection for the price of $3 each from 3:00 p.m. through 6:30 p.m.

Fatty Hour
Because sometimes it’s best if you eat after an evening of great craft beer we have a full menu plus a handful of snacks that are $3 each from 11:00pm til 1:00am every day.

Mud Turtle Mondays
Get to Belgium quicker on Monday’s when half-pint beers count towards your Mud Turtle challenge. Drink less, get more!

Steak Night Every Tuesday!
Every Tuesday starting at 5pm we’ll be rockin’ locally raised, well marbled beef steaks. Juicy, delicious and great with a beer. We’ll have optional accoutrements so you can make it the steak you want.

Get here for your chance to win ONE YEAR OF BEER! The Golden Growler is a mythical object, bestowing one fill-up per week for a year on its owner! Every time you buy a Hay Merchant growler or a fill of any growler, you’ll get your chance to draw a cap–will it be gold, for 52 weekly growler fill-ups? Silver, for 52 weekly half-growler fills? Or Bronze, for a month of weekly full-growler fills? COME TRY YOUR LUCK!

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Jester King Salt Lick
• Style: Smoked Farmhouse Saison
• ?
• 6.7%
• Snifter

• Lagunitas Imperial Stout
• Style: Imperial Stout
• ?
• 10.1%
• Tulip

• Karbach Rodeo Clown w/ Port Spirals
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 85
• 9.5%
• Snifter

• Lagunitas Undercover
• Style: American Strong Ale
• 74
• 9.75%
• Tulip

• Real Ale 4 Squared
• Style: Imperial Blonde Ale
• 50
• 7.2%
• Pint

Sociable & Refreshing

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Live Oak Schwarzbier
• Style: Schwarzbier
• ?
• 4.8%
• Pint

• Left Hand Polestar Pilsner
• Style: German Pilsner
• 33
• 5.5%
• Pilsner

• Karbach Weisse Versa
• Style: Witbier/Hefe Hybrid
• 15
• 5.2%
• Pilsner

• Six Point The Crisp
• Style: German Pilsner
• 42
• 5.4%
• Pilsner

• Karbach Sympathy
• Style: Helles
• 45
• 4.9%
• Pint

• Victory Prima Pils
• Style: Pilsner
• 44
• 5.3%
• Pilsner

• Bavik Pilsner
• Style: German Pilsner
• ?
• 5.2%
• Pilsner

• Oskar Blues Mama’s Lil Yella Pils
• Style: Pilsner
• 35
• 5.3%
• Pilsner

• Real Ale Fireman’s #4
• Style: Blonde Ale
• 21
• 5.1%
• Pint

• Jester King Le Petite Prince
• Style: Farmhouse Table Beer
• ?
• 2.9%
• Imperial Pint

• Southern Star Bombshell
• Style: Blonde Ale
• 20
• 5.25%
• Pint

• Brooklyn Summer
• Style: Pale Ale
• 18
• 5%
• Pint

• Sunner Kolsch
• Style: Kolsch
• 18
• 4.8%
• Pint

• Live Oak Hefeweizen
• Style: Hefeweizen
• 12
• 5.2%
• Pilsner

• van Steenberge Ertvelde Wit
• Style: Wit
• ?
• 5%
• Tulip

• (512) Wit
• Style: Witbier
• ?
• 5.2%
• Tulip

Hop-a-licious

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Founders Double Trouble
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 86
• 9.4%
• Tulip

• (512) IPA
• Style: IPA
• 65
• 7%
• Pint

• Deschutes Hop Henge
• Style: IPA
• 95
• 8.5%
• Tulip

• Karbach Hopadillo
• Style: IPA
• 70
• 6.6%
• Pint

• Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
• Style: Pale Ale
• 37
• 5.6%
• Pint

• Dogfish Head 90 Min
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 90
• 9%
• Tulip

• Stone DDH Ruination
• Style: IPA
• 100+
• 7.7%
• Tulip

• Stone Ruination
• Style: IPA
• 100+
• 7.7%
• Tulip

• Stone IPA
• Style: IPA
• 77
• 6.9%
• Pint

• Stone Black Eye PA
• Style: BIPA
• 97
• 7.9%
• Pint

• Eel River Earth Thirst
• Style: Double IPA
• 92
• 8.2%
• Tulip

• Left Hand Twin Sisters
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 77
• 9.6%
• Tulip

• Harpoon Leviathan IPA
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 120
• 10%
• Tulip

• Lagunitas Undercover
• Style: American Strong Ale
• 74
• 9.75%
• Pint

• Lone Pint 667 Neighbor of the Beast
• Style: IPA
• 66.7
• 6.6%
• Pint

• Southern Star Red Cockaded
• Style: Imperial Red Ale
• 110
• 8.5%
• Pint

• Moylan’s Hopsickle
• Style: Imperial IPA
• 100+
• 9.2%
• Tulip

• Stone Sublimely Self Righteous
• Style: Black IPA
• ?
• 8.7%
• Tulip

Big & Sticky

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Breckenridge Imperial Chocolate Cream Stout
• Style: Imperial Sweet Stout
• 11
• 7.2%
• Tulip

• Boulevard Coffee Ale
• Style: Coffee Ale
• 26
• 9.3%
• Tulip

• Oskar Blues Gordon
• Style: Imperial Red Ale
• 60
• 8.7%
• Tulip

• Bavik Petrus Aged Red
• Style: Aged Red Ale
• NA
• 8.5%
• Snifter

Sour & Funky

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Rodenbach Grand Cru
• Style: Flemish Red Ale
• ?
• 6%
• Snifter

• Bavik Petrus Aged Pale
• Style: Flemish Pale Sour
• NA
• 7.3%
• Snifter

• Bockor Jacobins Rouge
• Style: Flemish Sour Red
• NA
• 5.5%
• Snifter

• Liefman’s Cuvee Brut
• Style: Kriek
• NA
• 6%
• Snifter

Belgian Inspiration

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Dogfish Head Positive COntact
• Style: Fruit Wit
• 26
• 9%
• (ng)Snifter

• D’Achouffe McChouffe
• Style: Belgian Dark Ale
• ?
• 8%
• (ng)Snifter

• Unibroue Maudite
• Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
• 15.5
• 9%
• Tulip

• Victory Golden Monkey
• Style: Tripel
• 25
• 9.5%
• Tulip

• Goose Island Sophie
• Style: Farmhouse/Saison
• 25
• 6.5%
• Snifter

• Sierra Nevada Belgian Blonde IPA
• Style: Belgian Blonde IPA
• ?
• 7.5%
• Tulip

• Goose Island Matilda
• Style: Belgian Style Pale
• 32
• 7%
• Tulip

• Ommegang Gnomegang
• Style: Belgian Strong
• ?
• 9.5%
• (ng) Snifter

Malty, Toasty, or Nutty

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Lone Pint Gentlemen’s Relish
• Style: Brown Ale
• 28
• 6.2%
• Pint

• Schneider Aventinus
• Style: Weizenbock
• ?
• 8.2%
• Tulip

• Buffalo Bayou 1836
• Style: Copper Ale
• 40
• 5.9%
• Pint

• Wasatch Devastator
• Style: Doppelbock
• 21
• 8%
• Pint

• Oskar Blues G’Rauch
• Style: Smoked Imperial IPA
• ?
• 8.5%
• Pint

• Brooklyn Silver Anniversary
• Style: Doppelbock
• 45
• 8.6%
• Pint

• Alaskan Amber
• Style: Altbier
• 18
• 5.3%
• Pint

• Brooklyn Lager
• Style: Vienna Lager
• 28
• 5.2%
• Pint

Dark & Flavorful

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• (512) Pecan Porter
• Style: Pecan Porter
• 30
• 6.8%
• Pint

• Left Hand Milk Stout (Nitro)
• Style: Milk Stout
• 25
• 6%
• Pint

• Anderson Valley BBA Barney Flats
• Style: BBA Oatmeal Stout
• 14
• 6.9%
• Tulip

• Sierra Blanca Alien Stout
• Style: Imperial Stout
• 20
• 8.3%
• Tulip

• Deschutes Obsidian(Nitro)
• Style: Milk Stout
• 55
• 6.4%
• Pint

Not For the Faint of Heart

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Stone Oak Smoked Old Guardian
• Style: American Barley Wine
• 85
• 12%
• Tulip

• Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti
• Style: Oaked Russian Imperial Stout
• 75
• 9.5%
• Snifter

• House BBA Troubadour Imperial Stout
• Style: Imperial Stout
• ?
• ~9%
• Tulip

• Dogfish Head House BBA Raison d’Etre
• Style: BBA Belgian Brown Ale
• ?
• ~8%
• Tulip

• Clown Shoes Porcine Unidragon
• Style: Oaked Imperial Stout
• ?
• 12.5%
• Snifter

• Clown Shoes Blaecorn Unidragon
• Style: Russian Imperial Stout
• ?
• 12.5%
• Snifter

• Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero
• Style: Imperial Chocolate Stout
• ?
• 9%
• Snifter

• Left Hand Wake Up Dead
• Style: Imperial Stout
• 45
• 10.2%
• Tulip

• Victory Storm King
• Style: Russian Imperial Stout
• ?
• 9.1%
• Tulip

• North Coast Old Rasputin(Nitro)
• Style: Russian Imperial Stout
• 79
• 9%
• Tulip

Besides Beer

IBU

ABV

Vessel

• Duchman Vermentino
• Style: White Wine
• Texas High Plains
• 13.5%
• Wine Glass

• N2 Cabernet Blend
• Style: Cabernet Blend
• Napa, California
• NA
• Wine Glass

• Julian Hard Cider
• Style: Dry Apple Cider
• NA
• 6.9%
• Tulip

• Original Sin Cider
• Style: Medium Dry Apple Cider
• NA
• 6%
• Tulip

• Ace Perry Cider
• Style: Pear Cider
• NA
• 5%
• Tulip

• Bombshell Blonde Shandy
• Style: With house made lemon ginger soda
• Houston
• NA
• Imperial Pint

• Underberg
• Style: Natural Herb Bitters
• Germany
• 44%
• 20ml

• Jambalaya Arancini
• The Creole version, served with a spicy tomato sauce.

• Vietnamese Chicken Wings
• Caramelized fish sauce~local honey glaze.

• Fake Ass Canadian Poutine
• Crispy fries with bacon gravy, cheddar, and house pickled peppers. Right on!

• Warm Pretzel
• With a Redneck cheddar cheese dip.

• Parisian Gnocchi (Means No Potato)
• House-made gnocchi tossed with mushrooms, red onion, garlic and white wine. Savory and comforting.

• Sweet & Spicy Pig Ears
• Trust us, ask your beer neighbor, they are really tasty. Spicy, sweet, crispy and addictive.

• House Made Wagyu Beef Jerky
• Beef jerky and beer. Need I say more?.

• Pork Trotter Tots
• Trotter rillette tots with creole mustard.

• Mussels
• Steamed mussels in a beer based curry sauce. Maybe some butter?

Large

• The Butcher’s Burger
• This is the cheeseburger we’d give you at our house. Just straight-up delicious.

• BBQ Pork Sliders
• Smoked pork with our badass barbecue sauce.

• Crawfish BLT Poboy
• Crispy crawfish tails, bacon, local tomato and greens on baguette.

• Crispy Egg & Bacon Salad
• Egg and bacon with buttermilk dressing and sourdough crostini.

• For That One Person
• Grilled salmon with local veg and brown rice.

• Blood Sausage Queso Fundido
• House-made blood sausage, melted cheese and kick-ass tortillas…what else do you need?

• Did someone say Corny Dog?
• A house-made corn dog served with mustard aioli and a pile of hand cut fries.

• Bad-Ass Bowl of Gumbo
• Without rice…just like our beers. Chicken and andouille sausage gumbo, Blacksmith scratch biscuit.

• Spicy Chicken Tenders
• Spicy fried pieces of love with honey mustard.

• Grilled Shrimp Salad
• Grilled gulf shrimp, local greens, andouille dressing and cornbread croutons.

Sweet

• Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding
• Fresh baked with local vanilla ice cream.

• Local Ice Cream Cups
• With a little wooden spoon. We have them in lots of awesome flavors.

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• Level 02
• 100
• Identify 10 styles accurately out of 15 beer samples
• Pint

• Level 03
• 175
• Identify 5 beers accurately out of 10 beer samples
• T-shirt

• Level 04
• 250
• Identify 10 beers accurately out of 15 beer samples
• Glassware set

• Level 05
• 350
• Identify 15 beers accurately out of 18 beer samples; pass Cicerone Level 1 test
• Embroidered shirt

• Level 06
• 450
• Beat a fellow Level-5 Mud Turtle in a Hay Merchant taste-off
• Ceramic growler

• Level 07
• 750
• Beat a fellow Level-6 Mud Turtle in a Hay Merchant taste-off
• Head Merchant for a day

• Level 08
• 1,500
• Beat a fellow Level-7 Mud Turtle in a Hay Merchant taste-off
• Kegerator

• Level 09
• 3,000
• Beat a fellow Level-8 Mud Turtle in a Hay Merchant taste-off
• Private dinner for 12 people

• Level 10
• 5,000
• Beat Kevin Floyd in a Hay Merchant taste-off
• Trip to Belgium

Why “Mud Turtle?” Well at one point, Houstonians were actually mocked as “Mud Turtles” throughout the rest of Texas because of how filthy our city was. We had no clean water, no streets, and a significant portion of our population was drunk at any given point in time because one of the only sanitary beverages was beer (certainly not bayou water).

Register as part of the Mud Turtle Program and begin to learn about delicious beers as you drink them. There are also some great prizes involved. Want to go to Belgium on our dime? You can make it happen. Do they even have turtles in Belgium? Who knows!? But we promise that as you climb the Mud Turtle ranks, you’ll learn a ton about beer and appreciate it more than ever.

Another fundamental personality trait of Houstonians is our competitive nature. Few other cities would have made it through those Turtle Days without a group of real stubborn sons ‘a bitches. In this spirit, advancing through the program’s levels will depend on your ability to challenge other Mud Turtles to blind tastings. We’ll make sure to keep track of the Mud Turtle Top 25 at all times so you can be sure to know where you stand in the Turtle Hierarchy.

The Hay Merchant
1100 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77006

Monday to Friday 3pm – 2am
Saturday to Sunday 11am – 2am
713.528.9805

Great bars—the kind you’d visit every day if it weren’t for what life throws at you—excel at mirroring their neighborhoods. And for a damn fine beer bar, we couldn’t think of a better Houston borough than Montrose.

Take Westheimer (our beer joint’s street), for example. Houston’s most famous thoroughfare is named after a German immigrant who built Houston’s first public school on his own dime, raised 16 children, spoke six languages, and maintained a large plot of land just west of Montrose. Among his many professions, Westheimer was a hay merchant, and 150 years later, we’d like to think that we’re pushing grains of a different sort.

Better Beer

The beers of Westheimer’s era were predominantly offered as alternatives to unsanitary Houston water. Fortunately, there are some pretty amazing brews being crafted these days, especially in Texas.

These remarkable brewers take the crafting of beer very seriously, and we try to do them justice by taking the serving of beers just as seriously. As a testament to their energies, we’ve gone to painstaking efforts to ensure that our beers are always served at the proper temperature, with the correct pressure and gas mix, in appropriate glassware, and by folks who know what the hell they’re talking about. At The Hay Merchant, you’ll not only find a ridiculous selection of well-chosen beers, they’ll taste better than they do anywhere else. We’re not bragging! OK, maybe a little bit … but isn’t taste the whole reason you’re into craft brews and not drinking some watered-down crap from a Super Bowl commercial?

We’re a proud bunch of beer enthusiasts obsessed with serving the very best food and craft beer we can get—and delivering it in the way it was meant to be enjoyed. We are excited to offer a broad spectrum of craft brews to our community of longtime beer lovers (and the beer-curious).

We’d love to share our passion with you, so come in for a bite and a pint.