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OK, so the headline’s a slight exaggeration — it would take an album of photos to fully capture all the outdated laws and unfair advantages the giant (and foreign-owned, by the way) corporations of the beer world have over the small businesses trying to brew in Texas or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…
While not everyone thinks it’s a tremendously creative idea, Stone Brewing Co. this year has introduced a program called “Odd Beers For Odd Years,” in which the recipes for Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine and Stone Imperial Russian Stout are tweaked. This year, the brewery is adding the Belgian yeast…
Beer is lovely, in many ways because of its very simplicity. In its purest form, it’s just four ingredients. And all you have to do is open a bottle or can and drink it — pouring it into a glass first, if you’re really trying to savor it.So why is…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company and Peticolas Brewing Company are both making progress toward opening and making their wares available to the general public, with DEBC completing the hire of Saint Louis’ Andrew Huerter as brewmaster and making inroads with distributor Ben E. Keith, while Michael Peticolas’ one-man operation (using equipment…
You’re going to need your palate and your liver to be in tip-top shape for Dallas Beer Week in November. Fortunately, there are plenty of training opportunities coming up — as well as a chance to support state House Bill 602, which would allow craft breweries to charge for brewery…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we’re on Lower Greenville for sashimi at The Blue Fish. Where: The Blue Fish Sushi, 3519 Greenville Ave. When: 5-7 p.m. Monday-Friday The Scene: Dining at any Blue Fish will always feel like eating sushi at a…
Congratulations to Justin Bitner, who created the masterpiece Maudite menu you see here. Bitner’s entry to our menu-art contest makes him the winner of a pair of tickets to Wednesday night’s Unibroue beer dinner at the Libertine Bar. Astute drinkers of the Canadian company’s products will recognize references to a…
As tasty as some of the beers created by Quebec brewery Unibroue are, they may be almost as noteworthy for their awesome packaging. Names like Trois Pistoles and Maudite (Québécois for “damned,” a reference to legendary lumberjacks who made a deal with the devil) are complemented by artwork that is…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company looks to be on pace to be the city’s first non-brewpub microbrewery, but it may not be the only one for long. Attorney and homebrewer Michael Peticolas was looking into investing in a new brewery in another city. Yet the more he investigated, the more he…
As usual, Brian Brown over at Plano Craft Beer Examiner has a good round-up of the week’s events for beer lovers. A couple of highlights include tonight’s tap night at Flying Saucer on the Lake featuring Sierra Nevada Oak-Aged Grand Cru, tonight’s Ommegang Brewsday Tuesday at The Common Table and…
Boy, doesn’t this lovely weather just put you in the mood for a crisp, cold spring beer? Well, the temperatures may not quite yet be spring-like, and spring may not officially begin for more than a month, but spring seasonals are already appearing on grocery shelves — just as it…
First they came for Sparks, and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t drink Sparks.Then they came for Four Loko, and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t drink Four Loko. Then they came for Moonshot ’69, and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t drink Moonshot ’69. Then they…
This week, we had, I believe, three blackouts in Girl Drink Drunk Land. Some Aters saw six according to Twitter reports, and yet another Ater offered that her home temp dropped from 70 to 56 degrees during one of the blackouts in the OED.So, I got to thinking about some…
