Corey sent us the scoop, so we thought we’d share. Mark your calendars! The first event will take place on Wed., Oct. 22nd at 6:00pm at The Muddy Pig. You’ll be able to enjoy their IPA, Olde Gnarley Wine (just for this event), Hop Stoopid…
Newstead Tower Public House is hosting another in their line of monthly beer dinners with this dinner featuring selections from O’Fallon Brewery. The date of the dinner is October 22nd at 7PM. The cost of this event is $45 and reservations are…
This week’s cover of the Houston Alternative newspaper is all about Texas Beer. Written by the great Robb Walsh, this is a really great article and I encourage everyone who has an interest in Texas Beer to read it, whether you pick up a paper copy, o…
No, I’m not talking about my favorite rock band AC/DC (although they are coincidentally coming out with a new album next week called Black Ice)…I’m talking about Double Black Stout from Redhook Ale Brewery. After being MIA for eight years, Double Bl…
Joe Wurzelbacher isn’t even registered to vote and yet he’s become a dominant theme in the 2008 Presidential campaign. In case you, the reader, spent the past 24 hours in a hop-induced haze (lucky), Wurzelbacher is an Ohio plumber who wan…
Apparently both the Browning’s and Park Place restaurants are closed for good, but all indications are that brewing will proceed for off-premise distribution, at least for the foreseeable future, and that’s good news.Browning’s beers are brewed by Bri…
Fresh off of the Great American Beer Festival, we enter the week of the Houston Cellar Classic, put on by The Tasting Room. This is a unique week in Houston filled with wine tasting, wine and food pairings, dinners, etc. It also includes a special d…
For a while I was stockpiling barleywines, imperial stouts, strong ales of all kinds. Lately, the in flow has slowed and I’ve began drinking more of them as they have gained a little age. The collector in me is sad to see them go, but the beer…
Thanks to Griff Rhys Jones, one of the “myths” pages on this blog saw a sudden spike in hits last night and today, as large numbers of sceptics turned to Google to check out one of the claims in the gurning comedian’s new BBC televi…
So the other day we took the last partial keg of of summer seasonal Festivale-Plus, and put it into six staff growlers… and then drank em. Sorry kids, but she’s all gone now. I’d be sad if it wasn’t for the fact that our new seasonal should be** get…