Busted Sandal Brewing Company

Sometime in mid-2001, two semi-sober guys were playing darts and drinking O. Henry’s Porter at Waterloo Brewing in Austin, TX. Taking a moment to enjoy their beer and looking around to admire the “character” of the place, they lamented that a similar experience could not be found in San Antonio. At that moment, they vowed, as they had done a hundred times before, that they would open a place where a great beer experience could be had. One of them would handle the kitchen, entertainment and the books, the other would handle brewing duties. As they traded “Wouldn’t it be awesome if…” and “we should definitely…”, they were unaware that Waterloo, their inspiration at the moment, would soon announce that they were closing their doors forever. An undisclosed number of pints later, they exited, still rambling on about their blurred vision for a brewing establishment when one of them nearly tripped over an odd object in the parking lot. A single, well-worn and obviously unusable sandal. And that is when the moment of inspiration came. “We should form a band and call it Busted Sandal!” Busted Sandal, the band, never made it to the stage but the name lived on. As we attempted to imagine the history behind that parking lot sandal, the image of it changed and it took on a personality all its own. This sandal lived life to the fullest. It was at backyard BBQs, combed the beaches of Jamaica, and could be found hiking in and around Enchanted Rock. It tubed down the Guadalupe, navigated the Great American Beer Festival, and was stepped on a hundred times at Oktoberfest. It was all about fun, family, friends and good times.