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Five Dallas Beers to Cool You Down This Summer

By Lance Higdon
Jun 19, 2017

Although summer is more of a formality than an actual seasonal shift for North Texans, the end of school and a national holiday or two offer some unique opportunities for themed beer consumption. While your options might seem simple — lagers, limes, drink, repeat — we like to think that...
Now That Crowlers Are Legal in Texas, Dallas Drinkers Can Leave Their Growlers at Home

By Lance Higdon
May 17, 2017

The red tape of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission can be peeled back but slowly, so when the agency’s soon-to-be-ex-executive director Sherry Cook lifted the ban on the retail sale of crowlers in March, makers and partakers of Texas craft beer rejoiced. Two months in, you can now secure an...
Fast(ing) Food: Four Meat-, Egg- and Dairy-Free Meals to Start Saint Philip's Fast Strong

By Lance Higdon
Nov 15, 2016

If you're one of the people perennially pissed off about the Christmas creep, the St. Philip's Fast might offer you a cure. Beginning 40 days before the Feast of the Nativity (i.e. Christmas), it is a time of prayer, almsgiving and fasting for Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians around the world. It...
Sip Local Beer While You Shop For Kale: Noble Rey's New Taproom is Open at Dallas Farmers Market

By Lance Higdon
Nov 14, 2016

Twenty-five years ago, the stiffest libation sold at the Dallas Farmers Market was iced lemonade. Now, market-goers can wet their whistles at half a dozen stalls — including, as of Saturday, a cozy micro-taproom from Noble Rey. The genesis of the brewpub (Noble Rey’s second, after receiving a brewpub license...
We Tasted a Few of the Forthcoming DFW Breweries That Will Become the Craft Beer Class of 2017

By Lance Higdon
Oct 25, 2016

On Sunday afternoon, Luck, the craft beer bar and restaurant in Trinity Groves, celebrated its third anniversary. Over the course of the afternoon and into the evening, attendees sampled beers from no less than seven DFW breweries, which span the range of the DFW area and the entire spectrum of...

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