With fewer bottles available than even the already difficult to obtain Divine Reserve series, one feels almost as if the Bishop’s Barrel series can only be discussed in hushed, ecclesiastical tones. Only available at select pubs and restaurants, do you…
Buying a Round
Strangeways – Dallas
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Sad British pop might fuel a torrid 500-day affair with Zooey Deschanel, but you might not suspect it’d launch a craft beer haven in Dallas. Named for the Smiths’ final album, Strangeways didn’t seem to bear that out when I…
Cedar Creek Brewery – Seven Points
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This past weekend, the fine folks over at Open The Taps organized a camp-out at the young Cedar Creek Brewery in Seven Points, Texas. Owner Jim Elliott started things off in nearby Kemp, but for the past couple of months he’s…
Growler Prowler
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It wasn’t enough that at either end of the strip of Waugh between Allen Parkway and Westheimer one could have their growlers filled at Whole Foods or Hay Merchant, respectively. Not to mention Premium Draught just a couple of miles…
Shakesbeer
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Whether you found him banal or brilliant, tiresome or titillating, most everyone is familiar with George Orwell from their high school days reading Animal Farm and 1984. One my favorite discoveries over my years of sifting through a farrago of…
Born on the Bayou
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It was a mild January afternoon this past Saturday, with the errant cloud providing sporadic shade as the multitudes gathered outside one of the young Turks on Houston’s beer scene, the Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co., to celebrate its first anniversary.…
Up A Creek
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Trendy new hotspots may get all the buzz, but the hill country aesthetic of the Creek family of establishments pulls me in like an irresistible tractor beam. Where Dry Creek is smaller and BYOB, and Cedar Creek is massive and…
Scotch Map Revisited
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While this site might lead you to believe otherwise, I don’t always drink beer (but when I do, it’s good beer). I don’t always drink liquor either, but when I do, it’s usually whiskey and, if I have my druthers,…
Ranger Creek
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In a short story titled “Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote”, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells, in his magical realist fashion, of the titular Menard, who was attempting to write Don Quijote. As a 20th century Frenchman, he was not trying…
APEX Bar – Portland
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The second half of 2012 went by in such a blur that I hardly documented our annual football trip aside from a look at the mouth-puckering sour beers at Cascade Brewing. My buddies and I take the trip every year…