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Fort Worth Untapped Releases Beer List Including Cheech and Chong from Rahr

Did you get your fill at the Big Texas Beer Fest last weekend down at Fair Park? Nah, us neither. While it was a delicious beer event, it really just teased our hophead tendencies. So, fantastic news! The Paste Untapped Festival is next weekend, April 20, in Fort Worth. Even better news! The beer ... More >>

Eight Music-Themed Gifts You Never Knew You Needed

Ah, the holidays, that time when you frantically try to figure out what exactly to give whoever you got stuck with in the secret Santa drawing. Maybe you got lucky and selected a music fan; maybe you think you want to give that music fan something that's not just the latest Pitchfork-blessed album, ... More >>

Our BBQ-loving Englishman Is Actually an Educated Student of Politics. Who Knew?

Turns out or resident English guy, Gavin Cleaver, who drenches himself in barbecue sauce and smoke for us over on City of Ate, is actually like a doctor. In politics. University trained and the author of a forthcoming book on political ethics. We did not know that ... both that he was a Ph.D. or tha ... More >>

Belgians Celebrate Independence Saturday. Brew Lovers Celebrate Belgian Beer Week Now.

With Belgium's Independence Day falling on Saturday, retailers and pubs specializing in good beer are celebrating all week with specials on Belgian beers, starting last night and running through Saturday -- though the celebration runs through next week with the Libertine Bar's Belgian Beer Dinner Tu ... More >>

The North Texas Beer Festival Heads to Las Colinas, Gets Shunned by Deep Ellum Brewery

The North Texas Beer Festival is coming to that far- off convention center in Las Colinas. More than 200 beers will be available for tasting, organizers say, and 50 brewers will be featured at the event, including large-market brewers Samuel Adams, New Belgium and Magic Hat, and smaller breweries li ... More >>

But I Don't Want to Go the Fuck There for Drinks

A new website has been making the rounds for the past few weeks. Created by Coolagraphy, a creative consultancy dedicated to cool, wherethefuckshouldIgofordrinks uses your zip code or internet geolocation to offer up random watering holes with a side of salty banter. It's fun for about seven seconds ... More >>

A Day by Day Guide to Dallas Beer Week

​Considering that I don't get paid by the word here on City of Ate, there is simply too much going on during Dallas Beer Week to list every event taking place this Saturday through the November 19 Dallas Beer Festival in Fair Park (which warrants its own post, coming soon). And that's not even tak ... More >>

OMG, It's Ommegang

Brewtopia, Beer Dinners, Oktoberfest and More Ways to Build Up Your Winter Beer Gut

Spaten will be among the beers available at Addison's Oktoberfest.​What with Central Market's Brewtopia beginning today, Addison's Oktoberfest starting tomorrow and several beer dinners planned for the rest of the month, there are enough brew events in the next couple weeks that your liver should ... More >>

The Full List Of Beers You Can Pour Out In Memory of Timbo

Here's to you, Timbo. RIP.​Timbo, the Dallas Zoo's oldest gorilla, died yesterday in surgery at the age of 49, and we're still bummed by the news. Even though we didn't know her personally, we still plan to mourn her the same way we've marked the deaths of friends, family members and celebrities a ... More >>

So You Want to Participate in UT-Dallas's Tinnitus Trials? The Good News and Bad News.

​Almost as soon as we published that very popular post about University of Texas at Dallas researchers' efforts to silence that high-pitched problem known as tinnitus, readers began leaving comments and sending e-mails in which they all asked the same question: How can I  participate in the f ... More >>

At Neighborhood Services, The Search for True Love Waits

​Mister Rogers' classic "Won't you be my Neighbor?" should not be the theme song for Neighborhood Services The Original on Lovers Lane. Last Friday, at 5:09 p.m. I called Neighborhood Services to be put on the wait list. The hostess asked when we expected to be there, I told her my date and I ... More >>

Idle Rich Winter And Christmas Beer Tasting: Do We Have To Wait A Year To Do It Again?

Jesse HugheySamichlaus lager and cheese plate at the Idle Rich Pub​My only complaint about the Idle Rich Pub and Monday night's Winter And Christmas Beer Tasting is something outside the control of the bar: Resident Parking Only areas are one of the most idiotic ideas shortsighted Dallasites have ... More >>

Eating Asian in the Big Apple: The Highs, the Lows, the Many

Bone Marrow at Prune​Having been on a business trip in New York for the last two weeks, I thought, surely I'd be off blogging duties. However, the man had different ideas for me, with a seemingly innocuous send-off of, "Have a safe trip. Send in anything interesting you might find." Crap. See ... More >>

Celebrating Belgian Independence At The Ginger Man, Ranking Urthel Hop-It And Le Merle Saison

Jesse HugheyUrthel Hop-It Belgian IPA​Just as the hot summer months inevitably result in a spike in crime stats, something about the July heat must make people get the urge to collectively rise up against their oppressors. Not only is our own country's independence celebrated in July, but the Fren ... More >>

Hint: It's Not From the Land Down Under

​Men At Work might suggest these lyrics: Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was 6-foot-4 and full of muscles I said, do you speak-a my language? He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich. They would be partially correct, but instead of muscles, it would be mussels. And instead of ... More >>

Info On Saturday's Brew Riot, Plus Notes From Flying Saucer On The Lake's Spring Beer Festival

Jesse Hughey​The last time I went to a Flying Saucer beer festival (the fall 2009 fest at the Fort Worth location), I learned that tasting the big, bad, high-gravity and high-ABV beers before trying lighter brews can throw off your tastebuds and make the latter drinks seem puny by comparison ... More >>

Breweries Whose Best-Known Beers Are Also Their Least Interesting

​Ask for a Shiner in any Texas bar and you're almost certain to get a Shiner Bock without any need to clarify, despite the array of other brews offered by the Spoetzl brewery under the Shiner name. In fact, Shiner Bock is so synonymous with Spoetzl that many casual beer drinkers may not even be aw ... More >>

The Ginger Man Branches Into Plano Operating Under the Business Model of More Beer

​All pubs are not created equal. Typically, a Dallas pub, whether of English, Irish, or generic extraction, will have a wide selection of beers and ales on tap and in bottles, plus a sufficient selection of eats. You can usually count on fish and chips, burgers, sandwiches, maybe nachos, and a fe ... More >>

Browsing the Aisles at the New Park Lane Whole Foods, Where We Score Brother David's Triple

Unfair Park​A selection of more than 600 beers surrounded me on refrigerated grocery shelves that seemed to stretch on forever, and a money clip brimming with cash in my jacket pocket bounced against my ribs like a reassuring pat with each step. Yet I had to hold back from the splurge that would h ... More >>

Which Format Is Superior: Bottle, Tap Or Can?

Jesse HugheyCan you tell which of these Fat Tires came from a bottle, draft or can? ​Cans are starting to catch on in the craft-brew world, with more and more microbreweries offering their products in the once-maligned format -- even in Texas. Shiner has long offered its bock in cans, and upstart ... More >>

On The Range: Lengua

Sorry, we couldn't stop ourselves.​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Nobody gets tongue tied when the subject is, um, tongue.Writing in the Weekly Volcano (Tacoma and Olympia Washington's "only edgy, irreverent, and thought-provoking alternative news ... More >>

Top 10 Overlooked Culinary Vacations

Flickr user ^riza^It's a long way, but the rendang is worth the trip.​Anyone with the means can travel the villages of Tuscany, visit tasting rooms in Napa Valley or hit Belgium's chocolate shops. In fact, certain places are so well known as culinary destinations, even those with only the faintest ... More >>

Hophead: Do Right By The Pilgrims And Have Beer With Your Thanksgiving Meal

​If barley be wanting to make into maltWe must be content and think it no fault For we can make liquor to sweeten our lipsOf pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. --Anonymous colonist, 1630Though some dispute the story, many beer lovers cling to the legend that the Pilgrims landed at Plymou ... More >>

Hophead: New Belgium's Hoptober, Paulaner's Oktoberfest And Sam Adams' Octoberfest--A Three-Way Rocktober Smackdown!

​As it is now officially Rocktober, Oktoberfest beers are replacing summer brews on store aisles, bar coolers and tap walls. Apparently, though, not all brewers have the traditional Oktoberfest German Marzen-style amber lager in mind for this month. New Belgium, best known for Fat Tire, has introd ... More >>

Hophead: Does The Right Beer Glass Matter?

Mikal Beth HugheyLibertine Bar owner Simon McDonald serves Leffe, Hoegaarden and Duvel ales in their corresponding glasses.​The importance of serving wine and spirits in the correct style of glass is pretty well established. Order a Cognac at even the most laid-back of bars and it's unlikely that ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Two Of The Best 'Hard To Find' Spirits

​I personally think zubrowka and aged genever are the finest spirits one can drink. But neither are easy to find, unless you travel.Zubrowka is a flavored vodka generally associated with Poland, where they've been distilling and drinking it for a good six or seven centuries. Pale gold in color, it ... More >>

Hophead: 'Liquid Aloha' From Kona Brewing Co.

Jesse Hughey When you think about brewing hot spots, what come to mind? Some obvious international destinations include Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Czech Republic. As for the U.S., craft breweries are everywhere, but we think of the West Coast--especially Portland and Seattle. There's alw ... More >>

City, Country

10 Questions: Abraham Salum

First we all knew him as executive chef of Parigi. Four years ago he decided to open his own place, the self-styled Salum.Tucked into that in-between ground--kind of Uptown, but near enough to Highland Park--it remains a destination for those who know. And he probably doesn't mind occupying such unc ... More >>

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Belgian Waffling

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Monk Spunk

The Old Monk is mostly about beer, but its mussels aren't bad either

Fluff

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More bang for the Lira

La Dolce Vita steeps penny-pinching in romance and taste