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…
Have dinner plans tonight? Cancel them. As mentioned Monday, tonight’s beer dinner at the Libertine Bar features beers from St. Paul’s Summit Brewing Company. Cost is $50 per person, plus tax, which lets you taste five beers and five courses specially created to pair with each brew. The dinner starts…
As impressive as I found Commercial Suicide, from Austin’s Jester King Brewery, I didn’t have a chance to sample any of Jester King’s other offerings until last week, when The Common Table featured Black Metal Imperial Stout on BrewsDay Tuesday. And while I wasn’t completely blown away, it really was…
The holidays are over, and unless you’ve got Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Presidents’ Day off, there aren’t any work holidays until Memorial Day on May 30. Christmas and holiday beers are disappearing from taps and shelves faster than your New Year’s resolutions. But before you put a gun…
Paul Hightower at Dallas Craft Beer Examiner has a good round-up of the month’s beer events on his January Craft Beer Calendar, and Brian Brown of Plano Craft Beer Examiner has a more thorough run-down of the week’s area beer events. Both of them mention something I’ve had penciled on…
Overall, it’s been another great year for beer, at least from my perspective here in North Texas. If I didn’t suspect reader list burnout, I could probably do another top 10 piece on the best developments of the past year, and even another on things I’m most looking forward to…
This week, I’m looking back on 2010 with a couple of lists. First, I’ll share my 10 favorite beers of the year. They’re not my top 10 of all time, but rather 10 brews I tried (and in many cases, subjected to the Hophead Ranking System) this year and really…
Thanks to all who shared their tales of holiday embarrassment, trauma, blackouts and illness in our latest commenting contest. It was a lot of fun (and sometimes just sad) reading them, and also oddly comforting to know that I’m not alone in finding that the holidays aren’t just a nonstop…
The Libertine Bar sent along details about its December 29 holiday beer dinner, as well as a pair of tickets for one lucky City of Ate reader. Or rather, for the purposes of this contest, “one unlucky City of Ate reader” would be more accurate. Winning the tickets would be…
My only complaint about the Idle Rich Pub and Monday night’s Winter And Christmas Beer Tasting is something outside the control of the bar: Resident Parking Only areas are one of the most idiotic ideas shortsighted Dallasites have ever come up with, and they’ve spread like a cancer from a…
Sink the Bismarck! from BrewDog on Vimeo.Scotland’s Brewdog brewery made headlines early this year with Sink The Bismarck!, a 41-percent ABV quadruple IPA that surpassed German brewery Schorschbrau’s 40-percent ABV Schorsbock 40% as the world’s strongest beer. Schorsbock 40% had earlier one-upped Brewdog’s 32-percent ABV Tactical Nuclear Penguin as the…
Winter hasn’t even officially begun, but winter beers and holiday seasonals have already been on the shelves and bar taps long enough that I thought I’d offer a quick rundown of those I’ve particularly enjoyed so far this year — and one that gave me a good laugh. This is…
