Whitney Filloon, our resident pastry chef/booze correspondent, took the week off from drinking to bring you these winter cocktail ideas. We have her assurances that she was sober when she wrote them. I enjoy a $12 cocktail as much as the next Dallas girl, but I decided I better trim…
‘Tis the season for cliche. I could do with fewer references to chilly weather and the warming bowls of soup I’m reading on food blogs lately. How about booze? How about hot booze? That’s the stuff to warm up with. Observer bar-and-clubs guru Daniel Hopkins came to my office this…
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…
The holidays are here, and restaurants and bars around town have broken out their seasonal boozing menus. So I went on a pub crawl and explored some of Dallas’ best wintry concoctions over the past couple of weeks, stopping at The Library Bar, Windmill Lounge, Bolsa, Meddlesome Moth, Marquee Grill,…
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…
Private Social bar manager Rocco Milano is like a young redheaded Santa, ready to grant all your alcoholic Christmas wishes, or maybe the fourth Wise Man, bearing obscure aperitifs and rare scotches in place of frankincense and myrrh. Perched at his silver and white bar in the space’s “Social” wing,…
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…
The barman procures a large glass jar from underneath the bar and pours in a few ounces of Sobieski vodka, followed by fresh-squeezed lime juice. Hickory chips are scooped from a glass jar and loaded into a hand-held smoking gun, then ignited with a small torch. Smoke fills the jar…
I’m definitely too old for this, but it’s hard to shake the temptation. While the phenomenon doesn’t seem quite as prominent in Dallas, Black Wednesday has become a steadfast tradition across the country. It’s easy to understand how it got started. College kids home for the holiday finally have a…
The flier is fairly self explanatory, but we thought we’d reiterate the details for you. Tonight the Observer is hosting its monthly Tweet Up party, which means you’ll have the opportunity to hang out, listen to music (provided by DJ Pun), win free swag and most importantly, drink cheap booze…
It’s a Tuesday night in the O.C., and Mesa is abuzz with a low murmur of conversation. Three couples and a group of four populate the soft brown velour banquettes and chairs; with only 40 seats, four tables is enough for the place to feel alive. We take a seat…
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…
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…
A story in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend examined the practice of cramming in one more drink before the evening ends. According to “Rules for an Honorable Nightcap,” there are, it turns out, many rules. A nightcap should be a one-off, not “one more” of whatever you’re…
Editor’s note: Whitney Filloon, a trained pastry chef, is also a trained drinker. She’ll occasionally write for City of Ate about cocktails and general booziness. “Tastes like pickles.” My shaven-head drinking companion wrinkles his nose slightly and slides my tall glass back across the copper-veneered bar at the People’s Last…
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)…
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…
We’ve already mentioned a handful of them, but today being Halloween, perhaps reading about one particularly excellent pumpkin beer will inspire some of you homebrewers not to waste the chunks of gourd left behind from carving your jack-o-lantern.On the other hand, the scary results of a pumpkin experiment gone awry…
