When fellow beer lover, and good friend of mine, Leah, announced that she was partnering with The Tasting Room to do a Grapes Vs. Grains (wine vs. beer) dinner, I was excited to see what they would come up with. As the Houston Ladies of Craft Beer organizer, Leah hosts monthly happy hours to encourage [...]

Part two of my GABF posts consists of all of the outside events we packed in when we weren’t visiting a brewery or at one of the sessions. Check out part 1 on the GABF Sessions here. We decided not to attend the Friday GABF session based on the recommendations from our friends that had [...]

Disputes about the alcoholic beverage industry, beer specifically, are nothing new. Since prohibition in the early 20th century until now, people in the industry have been working to protect the sanctity of this precious, ancient beverage. Most opposition comes from outside of the community (which I will not get into), but I’ve read a few [...]

Camp Beer VIII: Stoutapalooza II took place on a Friday evening this time around, once again benefiting the charity incubator Live It Big. Unfortunately I didn’t attend the first Stoutapalooza, so I was definitely excited to participate in round two. Since most of the beers were 9%+ ABV, this Camp Beer featured fewer beers, 12 [...]

After a tip from my friend Dave, I contacted one of the founders of Yard Sale Brewing Company, Justin Engle, to chat about his plans for a new brewery in the Heights area of Houston. I had the chance to sit down with Justin and his business partner and graduate school buddy, Steve, at a [...]

Since my last chat with Rassul Zarinfar, founder of Buffalo Bayou Brewing Company, one of several new breweries hoping to enter the Houston craft beer scene, there have been a lot of updates to their progress getting into production mode. They expect their commercial equipment to arrive this week to their Cottage Grove location (south [...]

Before I get started, I just wanted to say I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately, but for a very good reason! I’ve been working very hard with several other Houston beer nerds to get our newly formed grassroots, non-profit craft beer advocacy group, Open The Taps, up and running. I’m not going [...]

About a month ago Carlos Rodriguez, the concept chef at Vic & Anthony’s, announced they would be hosting their 6th (I think?) beer dinner. Each previous dinner had a specific brewery theme, starting with Dogfish Head last summer, to the Real Ale dinner in April. The “Mid-Summer” beer dinner was to be different though, this [...]

Two of my favorite things on the planet are cheese and beer, especially when paired well together. When I found out that Hubbell & Hudson, in the Woodlands, was hosting their 2nd beer & cheese festival, I knew I wanted to make the trek up there to check it out. I had yet to visit [...]

I wasn’t going to write about my visit to Queen Vic last night, as it was date night and I knew they had a great craft beer selection going in, but I was pleasantly surprised at the rest of the beer culture at this British-Indian fusion pub. When we walked in, we sat at the [...]