Deep Ellum Brewing Company

Deep Ellum Brewing Co. Hosts Third Annual Brew-B-Que This Sunday

Deep Ellum Brewing Co. will host its Third Annual Brew-B-Que this Sunday, an event that was a launch party of sorts back in 2011. It will a chance to pack the brewery and courtyard with hopheads, sip local beer and have Pecan Lodge barbecue, all while listening to tunes of Cody Foote (who hopefully ... More >>

Seven Awesome Culinary Events in Dallas This Week, Feb 20 - 26. Plus, Great News if You're Thirsty.

From high-end whiskey tastings to lowbrow beer dinners, the Dallas culinary scene is perforating at the seams with things to do. From Scotch tastings to barbecue blow outs, there's something for everyone. You can go with this or you can go with that. It's your call. Wednesday, February 20 Today S ... More >>

A Texas Lawmaker Filed Four Bills Yesterday to Make Life Easier on the State's Craft Brewers

State senator Kevin Eltife, a Republican from Tyler, filed four bills yesterday that could breath new life into the craft beer industry in Texas. The legislation "will modernize laws that unfairly advantage out-of-state beer producers over Texas' small businesses of the beer industry -- craft brewer ... More >>

Stateside Pie and Beer in Mesquite, with Pizza and Bacon-Infused Bourbon, is Now Open

Stateside Pie and Beer opened recently in Mesquite, at 1335 North Peachtree Road. The upscale sports bar's name was inspired by World War II veterans' dreams of returning home, and the interior is cloaked in mages of that "Greatest Generation." Bring your copy of Unbroken, or perhaps not because the ... More >>

The Best Foodie Events of the Week, including a Seriously Awesome Road Trip

Wednesday, November 28 The Mason Bar is throwing a little Holiday Open House with complementary "select house cocktails and menu tasting" from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, November 29 A new weekly music series will be held at Klyde Warren Park, Set List on the Green, featuring local musicians. Check it o ... More >>

Sniffing Tail, Doing Shots

The Six Best Foodie Events of the Week (Oct 17 - Oct 23)

The 3rd annual Texas State Veggie Fair is this Sunday, October 21, at Reverchon Park (3505 Maple Ave.) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be lots foods samples, vendors, music and art - all in the name of a plant-based diet. Not to be shown up by other fairs, there's also a fried food competition th ... More >>

The Best Food (and Drink) Events of the Week: Oct 11 - 17

The Red River Rivalry is this Weekend. What's that mean? Well, a lot of bars are going to be packed with people you don't know wearing burnt orange or maroon. And boots. If you get hungry, head over to Main Street Garden (1920 Main Street) at 5:30 on Friday for the Red River Barbecue Shoot Out. Ei ... More >>

Eco Co-Op's Pop-Up Market Has Yet To Pop

I'm used to getting to a farmers market early, in an attempt to get the best produce but Wednesday's pop-up market at Eco-Op's building inside 10137A Shoreview was a little dismal when I showed up right at 5 p.m. yesterday. A few vendors set up tables, including those Bee Keeper's Guild folks we lov ... More >>

Hopdoddy Burger Bar Opens Wednesday in Preston Center

Hopdoddy is an upscale, yet casual, burger restaurant and bar that originated in Austin just a couple years ago. Founders Larry Perdido and Chuck Smith are old hats in the restaurant business. According to Austin Culture Map, they sold their Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille to the ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Company Has Six Packs and Tasting at Sigel's. Plus, Maybe a New Bottled Beer?

Until last week, all of Deep Ellum Brewing Company's beer was only available on tap at bars or in kegs. But, a few months ago they scored a good deal on a bottling system and we can all now enjoy a local brew on our local couch in front of our local TV. See Also: Inside the Fermenting Mind of Drew ... More >>

Meat Fight Tickets Are Now On Sale

Meat Fight is a barbecue competition and fundraiser that I'm throwing at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum on November 4. In addition to mind-blowing meats for eating, there will be beers from Deep Ellum Brewing Company. There will be Knob Creek tastings. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Na ... More >>

Five Events to Occupy Your Tummy and Time, September 12 to 18

BrewFest If the Untapped festival whetted your whistle for good beer amongst great friends in a festive setting, then you should make haste to the Arts District this Saturday for our very own BrewFest. Highlights, with the exception of impromptu shenanigans (which we'll have pictures of Monday morni ... More >>

Parkit Market Celebrates 50-Years with BOGO Sandwiches and Free Ice and Cups with Keg Rental

Frank and Ann Todora originally opened their small family-run store and deli, Parkit Market, on Greenville Avenue in 1962. At the time, Central Expressway was a dirt road and the store was surrounded by pastures and cows. This year marks 50 revolutions around the sun for Parkit Market, and despite ... More >>

For We The People, It All Comes Down to Welsh Cakes or a Honey Brown Ale Home Brew

Last week Ann Romney shared a batch of her homemade Welsh cakes that she baked in a brief moment of reprieve in her kitchen in Belmont, Massachusetts. Phillip Rucker of The Washington Post was aboard the plane when the cakes were dispatched and was one of the lucky few who got to sample what a Repub ... More >>

Downtown Dallas Inc. to Host Pop-Up Beer Gardens Thursdays in August (Sans the Beer from Local Breweries)

Each Thursday in August the folks at Downtown Dallas Inc. (DDI) are hosting pop-up happy hours at different parks in downtown. Last Thursday they met at Pegasus Plaza. The idea is to bring more exposure to downtown parks and, hopefully, business to surrounding restaurants and shops. DDI reveals the ... More >>

Acme F&B, Gyro Scopes And a Novice's Take On Brisket: This Week in Dallas Dining

It's that time again. This week I reviewed Acme F&B, the whole hog restaurant on McKinney Avenue with a looker of a dining room. It's a great place for a drink, and if you're hungry they have one hell of a pork chop. Elsewhere on the blog we took a first look at Start, the new fast food restaurant ... More >>

Inside the Fermenting Mind of Drew Huerter, Head Brewer at Deep Ellum Brewing Company

Drew Huerter is the 28-year-old head brewer for Dallas' own Deep Ellum Brewing Company. How can such a young tyke have the burly discernment necessary for a proper brewer, you ask? Well actually, he has a long history in the business. Twenty-eight years, as a matter of fact. His mom and dad founded ... More >>

Dispatch from The Cedars Food Park Event on Saturday (Spoiler Alert: They Nailed It)

See also: Photos from the Cedars Food Park Grand Opening Saturday evening a surly red rooster greeted visitors at the entrance of the Dallas Heritage Village with an ungracious crow from its coop. Inside the Old City Park south of downtown, the bright green sloping lawns were speckled with picnic b ... More >>

Cedars Food Truck Park Opens This Weekend at the Dallas Heritage Village

If you've been looking for the right time and opportunity to check out the Dallas Heritage Village, we may have found your opening. The late 19th century village will now be home to a food truck park. The inaugural Cedars Food Park event is this weekend, Saturday, July 28 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. In ... More >>

Serious Pizza In Deep Ellum Isn't Just About Giant Pizza

Serious Pizza at 2807 Elm St. in Deep Ellum has gotten some play here before. Last summer Cheap Bastard couldn't fit a large pizza in a Ford Escape, and we've also included them in a "Best of" here and there. Last week I had the good fortune to try the gargantuan pizzas at Serious Pizza. There are ... More >>

Bryan Street Tavern Has New Owners, a New Menu, and Way More Beer on Tap

The beer festival in Irving this past weekend played host to many brewers who got most of the attention, but Bryan Street Tavern was there, too, saving beer guzzlers from death by super processed carnival food. Sure, the cheese on the sandwich pictured above is the same canned stuff you get on you ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Company's Brew-B-Q Belongs on Your Memorial Day Weekend Slate

If you already have plans for Memorial Weekend, cancel them. If you don't, congratulations, you do now. The Deep Ellum Brewing Company is getting all grown up and is already planning "second annual" events. It's like kindergarten is done and they're off to college already. DEBC is hosting a Brew ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewery's First Weekly Tour is Tonight; Can't We Just Make This Place a Bar?

The Deep Ellum Brewing Company continues to build out its presence in the Dallas neighborhood known for its iconic pizza and old-school tattoos. Tonight they'll host their first weeknight brewery tour, which will continue every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. To court potential customers (as if t ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Company. Beer Garden. Beer Samples. Tomorrow.

This week, the guys at Deep Ellum Brewing Company have been hard at work transforming their backyard into a beer garden. And on Saturday they'll celebrate their new digs (at 2821 St. Louis St.) with an open house, tour, "general merriment" and a concert with Fish Fry Bingo. For grub, So-Cal Tacos wi ... More >>

Big Texas Beer Fest Tickets Are On Sale RIGHT NOW!

Last year Dallas was going to have its very own beer festival. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. And now, finally, tickets have gone on sale for the April 14 event at Fair Park. General admission tickets are $35, and if you draw the short straw and end up the designated driver you can get in for $2 ... More >>

New Brewing Company, Four Corners, Looks to Make it Easier to Open a Brewery

Yesterday Robert Wilonsky over at the Dallas Morning News (that feels like putting a shoe on the wrong foot) reported on a fast-tracked code issue aimed at easing restrictions on Dallas microbreweries. As it stands now, these small independent brewers are relegated to "heavy industrial" zones and in ... More >>

Party's Holy Trinity

Drinking at Oddfellows. And We Don't Mean Coffee. We Mean Alcohol. Was That Not Clear?

The smell of brewing coffee filled the air, rich and fragrant with undertones of cocoa and nuts. The dark brown, slightly viscous liquid dripped ever so slowly through a paper filter into an oversized glass flask -- a Chemex coffee maker, the likes of which I'd never seen before. It was an unseason ... More >>

Deep Ellum is Developing a Coffee Beer To Chase its Dream Crushing Hop Bomb

Red Bull and vodka may be replaced by a darker, more silty caffeinated boozy beverage. The folks behind Deep Ellum Brewing Company posted the above picture on their Facebook wall, promising the the marriage of java and suds. Tait Lifto, who works on branding and sales, told me it will be some time b ... More >>

In Dallas, a Happy Marriage Forms Between New Brewers and Old Dairy Farmers

My extent of beer knowledge is limited. I know that I like it on occasion. I know that Jesse Hughey knows a lot. I know that there is new stuff popping up all the time. And I know that if you want to be a brew master, you should grow a fuzzy beard. But one thing I didn't know anything about was "s ... More >>

Bolsa's Chefs Put Wild Boar on a Pizza at Il Cane Rosso Last Night

Last night was Industry Night at Il Cane Rosso, and the kids (Jeffers and Zielke) from Smoke and Bolsa were serving up pie. Local and delicious were the themes. The bar stools across the pizza pit directly in front of the mouth of the big red alien-like oven are the best seats in the house on any ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Launches IPA This Weekend, Followed By a Ride to World of Beer

​This Saturday, January 14, the Deep Ellum Brewing Company will debut its Deep Ellum IPA, which it's calling "the backbone and most coveted beer in the brewery." The party gets going at 4 p.m. with a tour of the brewery. Easy Slider food truck and The Bacon Wagon will be on site to provide ... More >>

Guy Fieri Just Marked His Territory at Il Cane Rosso

Il Cane Rosso​Maple and Motor, you're not alone. This morning Il Cane Rosso posted this on their Facebook page: Cane Rosso is CLOSED at lunch today for a private Holiday Party. We will re-open for dinner at 5pm! Come down and try some of Deep Ellum Brewing Company's beers AND a Lockhart Bur ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Company Set to Launch, Starting at the Common Table

​Corey Pond at The Common Table just confirmed that his restaurant, while not in Deep Ellum, will nonetheless be the first to sell Deep Ellum Brewing Company's beers. The launch party will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, November 12, as part of Dallas Beer Week (much more on that coming soon). At l ... More >>

Notes From Deep Ellum Brew-B-Q and an Update on DEBC Opening

From Deep Ellum Brewing Company Facebook pageJana Donohoe and Taylor Douglas at the Deep Ellum Brew-B-Q last Friday.​One thing successful beer fests have in common with unsuccessful beer festivals is that they involve a lot of standing in line. Another is disappointment when a coveted brew runs dr ... More >>

Deep Ellum Brewing Plans Brew-B-Q, Peticolas Zoning Approved, Whole Foods Will Fill Your Growler And More Beer News

​Angela Hunt, Dwaine Caraway, Dave Neumann and the rest of the Dallas City Council may not agree on everything, but you know what can unite them? Beer. Michael Peticolas' zoning change request, which we mentioned back in March, was unanimously approved at yesterday's council meeting. The change al ... More >>

Details On Two Beer Fests, Tactical Tasting, Stone Brewing Co. Events And More Beer Quick Hits

​Lots of Brews News and Brews Clues to drink in after the jump.For starters, Flying Saucer on the Lake has announced the lineup for its spring beer festival as well as an opportunity to taste Brewdog Tactical Nuclear Penguin. There's a beer festival a-brewin' in Plano. The Common Table is tapping ... More >>

Tasting Offerings From Two Prospective Dallas Breweries

Jesse HugheyJohn Reardon of Deep Ellum Brewing Company pours a DEBC IPA.​Deep Ellum Brewing Company and Peticolas Brewing Company are both making progress toward opening and making their wares available to the general public, with DEBC completing the hire of Saint Louis' Andrew Huerter as brewmast ... More >>

Peticolas Brewing Company Sets Sights On Dallas Location

​Deep Ellum Brewing Company looks to be on pace to be the city's first non-brewpub microbrewery, but it may not be the only one for long. Attorney and homebrewer Michael Peticolas was looking into investing in a new brewery in another city. Yet the more he investigated, the more he wondered why Da ... More >>

Kirby Schlegel Lives In a Freaking Ridiculous House And Other Super Tales

Photo by Andrea GrimesThe view from Kirby Schlegel's house is considerably better than that from, say, the Bud Light Hotel.​I gotta quit showing up to places where members of the Schlegel family live. It's bad for my morale. It makes me question whether my hard-working, up-by-their-bootstraps pare ... More >>

Trying Texas-Made Oatmeal Stout, IPA and Barleywine, Plus Thanksgiving Beer Help

Jesse Hughey​Earlier this month I spent a weekend in Austin for Fun Fun Fun Fest, where I was able to spend some time in the very cool Black Star Co-op brewpub and also bring back a few beers that I hadn't seen in Dallas. One of the Austin-made brews that really made an impression on me was Jester ... More >>