Happy Hours in Austin, Texas

Austin has a citywide price and it is $5 wells and drafts. Roughly three in ten listings on this page quote exactly that, the highest concentration on one price of any market in this top fifty, which turns the search into a hunt for the entries that go under it or do something else entirely.

They exist. Violet Crown Social Club on East 6th lists 50 cents off well drinks, which is either modest or honest depending on your mood. The Little Longhorn Saloon on Burnet Road lists $4 bottles and $3 drafts inside a single hour, 5 to 6. Central Machine Works on East Cesar Chavez lists $4 pints from open until 6, and Black Sheep Lodge on South Lamar lists $2 off Texas pints with no window at all.

East 6th Street carries nearly fifty listings, twice West 6th, and the rest spread along South Congress, South Lamar, Burnet Road and Manor Road. Firehouse Lounge on Brazos Street runs the longest downtown window, listing $6 margaritas and mules from noon to 8 daily. Bill's Oyster on West 3rd lists $5 oysters and drinks in a two-and-a-half-hour block.

Eight in ten windows open at 3 PM, an early start Austin shares with Houston and San Antonio, and about one listing in nine touches a weekend.