Texas Craft Brewers Festival Returns to Austin
The Texas Craft Brewers Festival is back! Well, it was back and now it’s gone. Don’t worry, you can always catch it next year. It happened this past Saturday, September 24th at Fiesta Gardens in...
View ArticleThe Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between
The Texas economy is one of the most robust in the world. Wildly profitable companies and ingenious entrepreneurs call this state home, and what happens here influences businesses around the nation....
View ArticleShiner Hops Forward with Wild Hare
It used to be that you could order a Shiner and everyone knew what you were talking about. But the craft-beer explosion of the last decade forced the Texas-based Spoetzl Brewery to offer more than just...
View ArticleOffering Fine Advice Since 2007
Q: I’ve had a tailgate party in the same spot for just about every Aggie home game since R. C. Slocum’s last season, in 2002. This year I’d like to make the move to a different spot, on the other side...
View Article¡Una Cerveza, Por Favor!
They may not be known for their complexity or microbrew lineage, but there’s one thing Mexican beers do better than all others: go with Mexican food. The light acidity of brands like Corona cuts...
View ArticleConfirmed: Texans Drink A Lot Of Beer
Finally, an arbitrary online list that Texans can be proud of! 24/7WallSt.com has the scoop on something that most Texans probably already know: we drink a lot of beer. The article ranks the Top Ten...
View ArticleThe Church At The Local Bar
An Abilene church is “following the example of Jesus” by setting up shop in a local bar. Beginning March 24, Southern Hills Church of Christ will kick off their “Bar Church,” offering Sunday morning...
View ArticleTexas Gives New York A Shiner
One of Texas’s most sought after exports is finally landing in the Big Apple. On April 15, Shiner Beer will begin flowing from taps in New York City. Shiner posted this announcement on its Twitter last...
View ArticleBars and Crafts
That IPA you prefer may be local, but stop calling it a “micro.” The suds formerly known as “microbrews” have officially evolved into “craft beers,” a lexical shift that reflects the exploding...
View ArticleMichelada
Summer is upon us, occasioning a return to picnics and pool parties and cookouts and, of course, the riotous sweating that accompanies all of the above. Every good Texan knows that beer is the only...
View ArticleThe New UT President Wants to Sell Beer at Football Games
Passions at football games in Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium may not run as high as they did during the UT/A&M rivalry—especially since the Red River Showdown takes place in Dallas—but...
View ArticleWhat’s the Brew-Haha?
The Legislature hasn’t yet declared beer our official state beverage (what’s the hold up, folks?), but it is. A beer’s what we reach for on 100-degree days. A cold one’s what we’re cracking open at the...
View ArticleKing of Hop
As I sat down beside Jeffrey Stuffings, the founder of Jester King Brewery, in Austin, I noticed he was covered in grass clippings. Apparently I had interrupted the weed whacking he was doing in the...
View ArticleDrinking
Maybe there exists somewhere a satisfying historical account of ethyl alcohol in relation to human beings, but if so I haven’t seen it, and I’ve read a few attempts. My interest in the subject, I’d...
View ArticleBrewing a Career
Beer school, it turns out, can look an awful lot like regular school. During a recent visit to the Journeyman Brewery Certificate program at Eastfield College, in Mesquite, a student distractedly...
View ArticleSmoked in Texas: Jester King Beer
Southwest of Austin is a farmhouse brewery called Jester King. They make unconventional beers with unique names and sometimes sinister looking labels. It’s considered a farmhouse brewery because they...
View ArticleBarbecue’s Best Beer Buddy
I have a confession: I don’t usually like beer with barbecue. Although having a beer while cooking barbecue is one of life’s great pleasures, when I’m chowing down on smoked meats I’d much sooner reach...
View ArticleJensen Ackles Isn’t the Only Star at Family Business Beer
With all of the breweries opening in Central Texas, it can be hard for a new beer business to get the attention it wants or deserves. But when a celebrity is involved—a brewery is started by a famous...
View ArticleThe Texanist: Are You Getting Tired of the Craft Beer Craze?
Q: Texanist, are you on board with the craft beer craze that the Lone Star State (see what I did there?) is currently caught up in? Gib Travis, Abilene A: To answer your question right off the bat:...
View ArticleTexas Beer Is the Best Beer
The Brewers Association held its biannual World Beer Cup in Nashville, Tennessee last night, and Texas breweries won big—bringing home eleven medals. Austin’s Pinthouse Pizza won three of those medals,...
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