Apologies for this week’s post being both tardy and short, my fellow beer lovers, but kid-related circumstances have kept Lady Hophead and I housebound, and trying new brews was temporarily knocked down a few pegs on the priority list. Good news is I managed to take some notes on a…
Homebrewing is a labor of love, the creative pursuit of some new twist on beer or refinement on a standard style. Few homebrewers expect anything more than a fresh supply of tasty beer and perhaps a nod of approval from friends and family. But for those few who aspire to…
Last night kicked off an annual tradition for Girl Drink Drunk–taking a week off to spend at the movies. Fellow girl drinker and film festival enthusiast Jen joined me in hitting up the opening night festivities at the Angelika at Mockingbird Station. The draw, for me anyway, was actually the Brooks…
A selection of more than 600 beers surrounded me on refrigerated grocery shelves that seemed to stretch on forever, and a money clip brimming with cash in my jacket pocket bounced against my ribs like a reassuring pat with each step. Yet I had to hold back from the splurge…
The opening of Eno’s Pub last Thursday was marked by too much rock for the karaoke system to handle and too few beer samples for the thirsty donors. But those small setbacks aside, it was a great night, as you may have seen in Spike Johnson’s slideshow.The night had been…
The Pints for Paint fundraiser that Jesse teased in yesterday’s Hophead went off last night at Eno’s Pub in Oak Cliff to the sound of a thousand Journey covers, and some incredibly good beer. It was for a good cause: donations went to purchase the paints and materials for local…
Fort Worth brewery Rahr & Sons’ roof collapsed during the February 12 snowmageddon storm, bringing beer production to a screeching halt as the bottling line and glycol chilling lines cooling the fermentation tanks were crushed and demolished.More than a month later, founder Fritz Rahr said in an interview earlier this…
Cans are starting to catch on in the craft-brew world, with more and more microbreweries offering their products in the once-maligned format — even in Texas. Shiner has long offered its bock in cans, and upstart Southern Star is doing the same. In fact, Dale’s Pale Ale from Colorado’s Oskar…
The weather has been pretty great lately, calling for a little patio here, a little frozen slurp there. But it’s never a guarantee, so this girl drinker has been grabbing the goods when and where she can get them. I’m not going to say one word about the forecast this…
It’s a busy time of year for Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray, as you might imagine. Not only is he tasked with ensuring the quality of every batch of beer at Dublin’s St. James Gate Brewery (which produces approximately 4 million pints each day), but he serves as the globetrotting brand…
There are probably as many ways to rank beers as there are beer drinkers, though most stick to similar criteria. Beer Advocate users frequently grade by appearance, smell, taste, mouth feel and drinkability, while RateBeer users grade by aroma, appearance, flavor, palate and overall. Of course, standardizing how beers are…
For all those times you’ve come home from work with a throbbing headache, and the walls close in too fast, here’s an iPhone app to Tarzan-in and keep you from dying. Or at least crying. It’s called Happy Hours, and it’s powered by Go Time and Village Voice Media. It’s…
Every first Monday of the month our very own Pete Freedman serves as DJ for the Libertine Bar on Greenville Avenue. During the Local Hang ol’ Playlister P plays nothing but local music (naturally) and so, being a fan of quality music played where I can eat and drink, I…
As you may know from Jim Schutze’s cover story this week, one of the issues challenging Oak Cliff businesses is the neighborhood’s dry status. Liquor stores are banned, and some grocery stores such as Whole Foods find it economically unfeasible to open in the area, as the profit margin is…
For all that I wrote last week about seasonal beers that fall outside of the usual dark and heavy winter warmer classification, the first thing I wanted once it was safe to send Lady Hophead on a beer run … was a porter. Along with a few old favorites, she…
With the exception of a few Saint Arnold’s Christmas Ale six-packs, recent trips to Central Market, Goody Goody and Applejack are proving that the bounty of holiday brews is but a fond memory. Only those wise souls who stocked up on Anchor, Scaldis Noel, Delirium Noel and other wonderful beers…
I’d like to give a lake of beer to God / I’d love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there for all eternity … I’d sit with the men, the women of God, there by the lake of beer / We’d be drinking good health forever and every drop would…
Number 7 on the Hophead Beer of the Year list last month was Inedit, a new creation from Barcelona brewery Estrella Damm specifically created as an alternative to wine for food pairings. What landed this brew on my year-end list wasn’t the taste. In fact, I hadn’t even tried it…
See, I’ve started this whole “eating well and exercising” bullshit that’s totally overrated because it’s making me feel better, sleep better, lose jiggle…wait, what? Yeah, it’s working and I’m totally pleased, so I guess it’s not really BS, but I like the snark so whatever.Only problem with my new life…
O gude ale comes and gude ale goes; Gude ale gars me sell my hose, Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon-Gude ale keeps my heart aboon! — Scottish poet Robert Burns, whose birthday is toasted annually on or around January 25With Burns Night coming up, what better time to…
I made no New Year resolutions. At least, I’ve not called any of my plans to become a better me “resolutions.” Too easily broken once you put that dastardly moniker on them, you know. But I will say that this Lose It! iPhone app is coming in handy and my…
Delaware’s Dogfish Head landed at No. 2 on the Hophead Beer of the Year list for 2009, thanks in large part to its creative approach. But the brewery isn’t just forward-thinking with its innovative beverages–it also has a healthy respect for the past, and goes so far as to resurrect…
