What Exactly is “Local” Beer? Well, It’s Complicated.

D.G. Yuengling & Son is America’s oldest craft brewery, having first poured frothy pints back in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Since that time they have remained a family business, passed down through generations, always father to son, until the fifth generation of all daughters who are now at the helm. Despite…

A Local Guide to Girl Scout Cookie and Craft Beer Pairings

Tables are already set up with stacks of cookies and wee little Girl Scouts hiding behind them, honing their sales skills and testing your gullibility. Despite the pandemic, they’re still out at some regular spots, but there are some online options and delivery. Asking Facebook is the best bet on…

Cocktails to Go May Become Permanent

The Texas Legislature may do something so unprecedented this session that it’s almost impossible to describe how unprecedented it is — make restaurant cocktails to go, now a temporary fix, permanently legal. Why unprecedented? Because much of the state was dry well into the 1990s, and it’s still illegal to…

Holiday Local Craft Beer Round-Up

As the air gets a chill and trees are bedazzled with festive lights, we should all celebrate not only the fact that we made it to the holiday season of 2020, but also the local craft breweries that have traversed this path with us. And because every day should be a…

The Best Wine and Alcohol for Thanksgiving

With all this mess and noise everywhere, take this week, or a couple of days at the very least, to imbibe and relax. Because if there’s anything we all could collectively use, it’s a drink. We reached out to a few local shops to see what they’re excited about for…

Pegasus City Brewery’s Historic Art Deco Taproom Opens Downtown

An old art deco department store in downtown Dallas is the setting for the city’s newest brewery taproom. Pegasus City Brewery’s downtown location quietly opened last weekend with service exclusively for residents of the Dallas Power and Light Building, in which it takes up much of the ground floor. This…

Social Distancing, Paperwork Snafus Shut 4 Restaurants/Bars for the Moment

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has suspended permits for four establishments in Dallas: Shuck N Jive, Alamo Club, Bungalow and High Fives. “These violations represent a very small number of the more than 20,000 licensed businesses inspected by TABC since the beginning of May,” TABC Chairman Kevin J. Lilly said…

Drink This: Peticolas’ Spicy, Ghostly, Fantastic Brown Ale

One of cold weather’s great pleasures is a nice spicy drink. There’s nothing like dunking churros into a mug of spiced Mexican chocolate, or spiking hot cocoa with pinches of cinnamon and cayenne. I’ve always loved peppery-hot alcoholic drinks, too, like jalapeño-infused tequila or cocktails made with a spoonful of…

Zombieland Twinkie Beer and Dark Halloween Brews

Tuesday, Oct. 27, is National American Beer Day. And while we really pride ourselves on a robust love of all beers every day, this is simply an excuse to highlight some local ones, to which we are certainly partial. So, as part of our monthly-ish beer round-up, the following are…

More Canned Cocktails Hit Shelves

With some of our favorite watering holes closed or simply not feeling all that safe these days, more of us are drinking at home. There are countless options for getting cocktails to go — next time you order from your favorite restaurant, be sure to see what they’re mixing, as…

First Look: Thunderbird Station Opens in Deep Ellum

Thunderbird Station, a new restaurant by the owner behind sibling bars Double Wide and Single Wide, is finally open in Deep Ellum. After delays caused by the lockdown and shifting TABC regulations, Kim Finch, the brains behind the operation, was able to open Thunderbird last week, and she considers herself…

8 Local Fall Beers You Need Right Now

Tuesday was the first day of fall, and we’re wildly enthusiastic about each and every turn of the page this year. These cooler temperatures also tickle a deep desire to pull out sweaters and boots, but we’ll wait … because wouldn’t it be so 2020 for summer to pull that…

Three Things to Drink This Week: Sept. 24, 2020

While I never advocate ONLY drinking three things a week, I am pretty excited about this week’s lineup. Celebrate National Bourbon Month with Balcones, enjoy live music with Dean’s Signature Margarita at Fearing’s, and order delivery frosés.