Celebrate the amazing honeybee! Join us Saturday, July 26 at the ranch for a family-friendly event with beekeeping education, harvest demos, honey tastings & more. Plus, the release of our award-winning Hive Mind Honey Ale and honey food specials.

Join us at the Vista ranch on Saturday, July 26 for a celebration of pollinators, honeybees & all things HONEY, presented by the Texas Natural Beekeepers Association and Vista Brewing.

This is a free, family friendly, community event helps to raise money for the Texas Natural Beekeeper Association’s (TNBA) Youth Scholarship & Mentoring Program. This is a multi-year progressive program which teaches youth ages 12-17 about natural and sustainable beekeeping. The teaching apiary for this program is located on Vista's ranch.

Check out beeswax candles from Hunter's Hive, yummy locally made ice cream from Beanz Creamz and beekeeping services from BeeMindful Honey Farms.

From 11am to 4 pm, you can enjoy:

• Honeybee education, including an observation hive, a frame of live and active honeybees in a fully enclosed box with a viewing window

• Honey tastings from apiaries around Hays County - taste the natural variance in honeys based on what bees have foraged

• Live demonstrations of extracting & spinning honey

• Honey food specials from the Vista Grill

• Trying on a bee suit

• Kids’ activities including a scavenger hunt, coloring sheets & painting a bee box

• Hosted walk to the Vista apiary & TNBA teaching apiary

• Demonstration of how to render pure beeswax using a solar melter

• Samples of Hive Mind Honey Ale, the fifth iteration of Vista's award-winning collaboration with local beekeepers and made with wild yeast swabbed from a Vista honeybee

• The release of the 2025 harvest from Vista's onsite apiary, all-natural comb honey and raw honey

Vista Brewing is a 21-acre ranch in the Hill Country town of Driftwood, just 25 minutes southwest of Austin. Vista is open with a full lunch and dinner menu, beer, wine and non-alcoholic drink options.

Vista has a 16-hive apiary on site, which helps in pollination of our onsite vegetable farm. Vista also intentionally planted 8+ acres of wildflowers to support our honeybees.

Visit with these local partners:

• Our friends from the Texas Natural Beekeepers Association will be onsite if you’re interested in learning how to get started beekeeping. TNBA's mission is to encourage an educated and intelligent nature-centric management of honeybee colonies with the end goal of a chemical-free and sustainable approach to beekeeping and honey making.

• Hunter's Hive Candles is a a family owned and operated business that sells scented beeswax candles. All of our products are made with pure, filtered beeswax and are infused with essential oils.

• Beanz Creamz will be onsite with sweet treats! Beanz Creamz is a local ice cream manufacturer who specializes in tapping into your nostalgia by adding our elevated gourmet twist into a portable push pop style container. Everything is handmade from scratch, using commonly found, and easy to pronounce ingredients...you won't want to miss their honey-inspired pop!!

• Bee Mindful Bee School and Farm: Beekeeping Apprenticeships & WorkshopsHives & Bees & Ag Exemption Services and Raw, Unfiltered, Local HONEY. As Master Beekeepers, Les Crowder and Nathalie B. have over 65 years combined expertise in Beekeeping Education and Professional Beekeeping Services. Our specialty is Natural, Treatment-Free Beekeeping. We promote a strictly Pesticide-Free and sustainable approach, and never use poisons in our hives.

Honey Menu Specials to Be Announced