Bars & Breweries

Dust off your bike and your hot glue gun for this week’s best Dallas-area craft beer events.

In the craft beer world, bigger definitely doesn’t always mean better. But when it comes to can formats, some local brands are going big. Rahr & Sons Brewing Company recently launched a 19.2-ounce can featuring two of their core beers, Adios Pantalones and Dadgum IPA. These taller cans — a…

Stop into the Grey Goose tent at the Byron Nelson for one of their specialty cocktails.

Truck Yard’s newest location, opening in July in The Colony, will host Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum and Beard Science, a brewery focused on wild and sour beers.

A rundown of this week’s Dallas-Fort Worth beer events.

Deep Ellum Brewing Co. has opened the Funkytown Fermatorium in Fort Worth, and this brewery and taproom is funky in all the right ways.

The Vanilla Ginger Greyhound will have you off to the races in no time.

Texans love a Mexican-style beer, and as it turns out, Dallas breweries produce some excellent ones.

Although times are certainly changing, when discussing mead around these parts, we must first dispense with the clichéd formalities: In North Texas, mead (aka, honey wine) has more or less been something that the one friend of yours who is way too into Scarborough Faire has insisted you try because,…

On Tuesday night, head to Community Brewery for their annual seafood boil. A $75 ticket gets you all-you-can-eat crawfish, shrimp, jambalaya, corn muffins, potatoes, salad and slaw, along with two drink tickets. There’s also a cornhole tournament and an “ultimate raffle.” What: Seafood Boil and Ultimate Raffle When: 5:30-9 p.m…

Nearing the halfway point of last weekend’s Velvet Hammer 5K at the Peticolas brewery inside the Dallas Design District, I caught a glorious glimpse of volunteers holding out small white cups of water just up ahead of me. As intensely needed as those life-giving helpers were, their usefulness paled in…

Today, the Texas House will vote on whether Texas will remain the one and only state in the U.S. that doesn’t allow breweries to sell their beer directly to consumers for off-premise consumption.

Get literary with new cocktails named for Raymond Chandler works at Knife.

Beginning in May, lovers of linguistics and lexicons will be able to show off their spelling skills in an epic drunk spelling bee battle. Wheelhouse will kick off Boozy Bee, a tipsy spelling bee series that will take place every Friday night between 9 and 11 p.m. Boozy Bee will…

Before 2016, there wasn’t much to do in Arlington that didn’t involve ballparks or Six Flags. Legal Draft Beer Co. helped change that.

Start your week off right with craft beers and food pairing at the Meddlesome Moth’s ninth annual beer dinner. Tickets are on sale for $80, which gets you a six-course meal with each dish being uniquely crafted to pair well with your beers. The beers being served are locally crafted…

Dallas’ Bishop Cider Co. has launched Uncommon Wines, a woman-led brand of fruity, low-ABV “session” wines that come in a can.

Five Sixty’s bar offers a Maker’s Mark take on the Paper Plane cocktail that will mean $2 will be donated to Paper for Water.

We’re not sure why it took so long, but it’s safe to say that we’re in the midst of a golden age when it comes to dine-in movie theaters. Sure, there have been a couple of chains offering less than stellar bar food with what has historically been a ho-hum…

Victory Park has a new restaurant and watering hole: Dibs on Victory, a bar and restaurant with a second-floor patio overlooking Victory Park and the nearby American Airlines Center. The 7,700-square-foot restaurant comes from This and That Concepts, which also owns High Fives, Tiny Victories, Ferris Wheelers and the late…

Barrel aged beers always stir up craft beer lovers, and now Strangeways Dallas has really caused some commotion with their Barrel Week event. All week long, they will have 40 barrel-aged beers on draft to sip and savor. There will be a variety of different styles to try, so get…

The Tipsy Oak, a craft beer spot with a gorgeous patio and live music, is further proof that Arlington — yes, Arlington — is getting cooler by the day.