Nick Rallo and I have both written before about how deliciously hoppy, caramelly and boozy Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA is, so no need to regale you once again with tasting notes that border on erotic fiction for hopophiliacs. Instead, just enjoy his beer-porn snapshot that shows how this 18-percent…
Just days after Texans celebrate the state’s Independence Day on March 2, drinkers can support its independent brewers and try offerings from all five of the DFW area’s functional breweries. (That number won’t be five forever, but more on that later.)Corey Pond at The Common Table says Rahr & Sons…
Remember when a husband-and-wife team planned a beer festival in Fair Park and everyone was all excited about it but then it got canceled and everyone, aside from a few told-ya-so-sayers, was bummed? Well, once again, a husband-and-wife team is organizing a beer festival in Fair Park. And, with more…
Continuing to enjoy holiday beers well after the holiday season shouldn’t make you feel like one of those neighbors who leaves their Christmas lights up through Valentine’s Day. Every day’s a holiday, and today you can crack open a special brew to celebrate (or rue) the fact that on this…
Here’s what passes for my year-end list, 10 of the beers that really impressed me this year, listed in no particular order other than roughly reverse-chronological. It’s late because I tend to do my heaviest drinking during the holidays. I wanted to be sure to include anything I tried up…
There are stand-up comedians who manage to wring humor out of the darkest, ugliest elements of human existence, who make you question your basic beliefs or revisit some of the most uncomfortable, painful experiences possible and laugh while doing so. And then there are comics who can have an audience…
Has there been a better year for beer drinkers in North Texas, and particularly Dallas, than 2011? Not one that I can think of, for reasons enumerated in the awards below. My year’s wrap-up isn’t over. Coming soon are my favorite beers of the year and a run-down of the…
Last year, we did some things we’re not so proud of. The year before last too, and the year before that and … well, enough of that. This being 2012, quite possibly the last year before some cataclysmic change such as the planet’s polarity reversing or a Newt Gingrich presidency,…
It’s a good week in Dallas beer real-estate news. Not only is Deep Ellum Brewing Co. opening its brewery doors to the public for the first time this weekend, but yesterday Lakewood Brewing Company announced via its Facebook page that it is ready to move into its home.”It’s been a…
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. beer has been available in local bars since last month’s launch party brunch at The Common Table during Dallas Beer Week. Since then, its brews have been the stars of several beer dinners and other events at Cane Rosso, Holy Grail Pub and other beer joints…
Dennis Wehrmann, brewmaster at McKinney’s 2011 Best of Dallas®-winning Franconia Brewing Company, hasn’t given up on bottling. His targeted late-summer or early-fall starting time passed, but bottling is still in the works for the company, he says. And with the decision to hand distribution duties over to Ben E. Keith,…
Samuel Adams and Weihenstephan’s collaboration Infinium, marketed (and priced) as a Champagne alternative, is back for the holidays. The limited-edition beer, which will be available next Friday at Central Market and likely other stores specializing in beer, is now in its second year of trying to lure in drinkers looking…
With Saturday’s Dallas Beer Festival canceled, the opportunity to sample two of the strongest beers ever made, along with a couple of rare Mikkeller brews, at Strangeways seemed a fitting enough way to cap off Dallas Beer Week. Brewdog’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin (32 percent ABV) and Sink the Bismarck! (41…
Comedian Doug Stanhope, who performs tonight at Trees, seldom ventures onstage without a drink. Usually it’s a beer. As anti-establishment as he comes off in his act, you might think he would be drawn to products from smaller breweries. If not simply to enjoy superior beers, he seems like someone…
You may remember him from his aborted run for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination, from his fight-provoking confrontational 2004 Austin set when he followed the political bombast of Alex Jones or from the riots that occasionally ensue at his shows when he touches a particularly sensitive nerve in his audiences…
Midway through the first official Dallas Beer Week, you could say things aren’t quite going according to plan. But considering how loosely organized and sporadically publicized the week has been, that’s not especially surprising, even if the cancelation of Saturday’s Dallas Beer Festival is a big disappointment. That said, let’s…
NOOOOOO!Citing lack of advance ticket sales and overcommitment with the simultaneous Dallas and Houston Beer Weeks, Cathy Clark Rascoe confirms that Saturday’s Beer Festival was canceled Tuesday afternoon. Ticket buyers will receive refunds within seven to 10 days, she said.”It was a really hard call,” she said about an hour…
You may remember him from his aborted run for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination, from his fight-provoking confrontational 2004 Austin set when he followed the political bombast of Alex Jones or from the riots that occasionally ensue at his shows when he touches a particularly sensitive nerve in his audiences…
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)…
Larry Miller is one of those actors whose generic name, relatively small parts and average-middle-aged-white-guy appearance all but ensure that most people’s reaction to him is, “Oh yeah, that guy. I’ve seen him in … what was it again?” Give up? Could be his part as Mayor Glenn Welsch in…
After the first Houston Beer Week last year, Houstonians Cathy Clark Rascoe and husband Jay Rascoe (aka Guns and Tacos) decided Dallas needed its own week to celebrate craft beer as well, as we first told you back in February. Since then, the events planned for Dallas Beer Week, November…
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…
