Sadly and all too predictably, House Bill 602 was never put to a vote as yesterday’s deadline for House bills expired. Texas lawmakers found time to legalize catfish noodling and criminalize falsifying the weight of a fish caught in a tournament, but somehow just didn’t get around to voting on…
Thanks to everyone who contributed their suggestions on which beer to drink in toasting a Mavericks return to the NBA Finals in this item about three upcoming beer dinners. Nick made a valid Rick James-endorsed point and appealed to our love of hops with his suggestion of Sierra Nevada Celebration…
Three of Dallas’ premier beer bars have planned three very interesting beer dinners in the next few weeks, including a chance to meet the founder of a leading American craft brewery, a unique beer-vs.-wine dinner and a post-American Craft Beer Week dinner celebration with an eclectic food and brew menu…
If you’re a passionate beer drinker or state-legislation fetishist, you’ve probably read by now that two of the House bills favoring Texas craft brewers are dead, and things ain’t looking too hot for the last one. HB 602, which would allow relatively small breweries to let consumers take home a…
American Craft Beer Week is fast approaching, so you’d better save your beer money. You can start by taking $10 off the advance price and $20 off the door price by buying your North Texas Beer Festival tickets today, as the event’s Facebook page is offering admission to the Saturday…
May is shaping up to be an eventful month, beerwise. First off, don’t forget about the Belgian Tea Party at The Common Table Saturday, May 14, or about the two previously mentioned festivals, the Spring Beer Festival noon to 10 p.m. Saturday at Flying Saucer on the Lake and the…
Not everything is Tecate and tequila with a smattering of high-pitched mariachi howling on Cinco de Mayo — not anymore at least, thanks to the rise of Mexican craft breweries. The individuals behind these operations aren’t going the usual lager route, as the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month…
Lady Hophead visited an estate sale on our street recently and picked up what has to be the greatest, most hilarious example of misguided beer marketing I have ever seen: a 1974 pamphlet from Schlitz full of food and “cocktail” recipes featuring the malt liquor. Oddly, all the food recipes…
At noon on May 14, The Common Table will throw a Belgian Tea Party and take a stand against bland beer through an act of rebellion sure to stir some controversy: Owner Corey Pond and manager Jeff Fryman will dump out the bar’s last-ever keg of Stella Artois.”This defiant act…
OK, we’ll be the first to admit that the whole idea of turning 4/20 into a pot-smoking holiday is pretty stupid. If you’re an adult, you should be able decide if and when you want to smoke on your own, without a numerical coincidence putting any extra emphasis on the…
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…
Houston brewery Saint Arnold cracked this year’s just-released Brewers Association Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies list, coming in just ahead of a fellow Texas brewery No. 49 Real Ale (Blanco) but well behind the only other Texas company on the list, the No. 4-ranked Spoetzl (Shiner) — which also earned…
Good news if you missed the Strong Ale Festival at the Meddlesome Moth on Saturday — you weren’t alone. Which was good news for those of us who actually did go: no lines and no disappointment upon finding out that a scarce keg had run dry. And that also means…
Playing up his audience’s Lone Star state of mind, Stone Brewing Co. founder Greg Koch conjured a fire-and-brimstone Baptist evangelizer while doing what can only be described as preaching to the choir at Monday’s Stone beer dinner at the Meddlesome Moth, part of the ongoing Ale Week. After all, these…
A peek inside the Meddlesome Moth’s formidable walk-in cooler reveals kegs carefully piled on top of each other, carefully placed to maximize efficiency like some oversized game of beer Tetris with as many as 120 kegs at a time in the cooler. Some have been there or strategically placed in…
Moments ago at 5 p.m., the Meddlesome Moth tapped a cask of Saint Arnold Divine Reserve 11, which almost immediately shot to the No. 4 spot on Beer Advocate’s Soutwest ratings. As you probably know, Divine Reserve is the Texas brewery’s sporadically released series of a relatively small batch of…
Michael Peticolas’ microbrewery is a step closer to opening, as he applied March 14 for a zoning change to request the creation of “a new subdistrict that will allow for the manufacture of alcohol,” according to the wording on his zoning change application to the city’s Department of Development Services…
Thanks to all the City of Ate readers who shared their prank stories in last week’s contest for the Libertine Bar’s March beer dinner featuring Jester King. Among the highlights: Justin1310 and his friends made creative use of leftover movie popcorn, while Brad Ward recounted how having an easily stolen…
As mentioned last week, the Libertine Bar’s March beer dinner is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, and will feature the greatness of Austin brewery Jester King. The dinner sounds tasty (menu available here), and should also be a great opportunity to try some very interesting beers. Boxer’s Revenge,…
OK, so the headline’s a slight exaggeration — it would take an album of photos to fully capture all the outdated laws and unfair advantages the giant (and foreign-owned, by the way) corporations of the beer world have over the small businesses trying to brew in Texas or distribute from…
If you’re not too debilitated by the Irish Flu, lift a pint to (and from, preferably) Rahr and Sons, as the brewery took home two awards at the United States Beer Tasting Championship. Results were announced yesterday.Ugly Pug took First Prize in the Dunkels Lager category in the Rockies/Southwest division,…
Beer lovers, make sure you don’t have anything going on Saturday, May 7. That’s the date of Flying Saucer on the Lake’s second annual Spring Beer Festival, and if our experience last year is any indication, you’re going to want to be there from the noon start all the way…
