For obvious reasons, I was unable to attend most of the events for San Antonio Beer Week, but as I was in San Antonio Saturday morning for the Freetail Brewing bottle release, I decided to hang around and attend Sweet & Sour, A sour beer and cupcake pairing put on by Jeremey Banas of Ruination […]

A ladies only event was hosted at Spec’s downtown with Jennifer Litz of Texas Girls Pint Out that included rare beers from the midwest paired with beers that are available in Texas that matched the flavors and style of the midwest beers. We started off with some Goose Island Sofie- a Belgian Farmhouse Ale that […]

So, last week the Houston Beer Week website had posted something about Wednesday’s usual Brew Nite at Flying Saucer being the Stone Brewing night, that was supposed to have an appearance by Jason Armstrong, the Texas Stone distributor, but when I checked this morning, it wasn’t there, along with a note saying that the Saucer […]

It’s game day for the Houston Dynamo and Labor Day weekend, so drinking is abound, not that its much different from any other weekend, nonetheless I am trying a new beer, the New Belgium fall seasonal, Hoptober. This fall seasonal is brewed with five hops: Centennial, Cascade, Sterling, Willamette, and Glacier. “Pale and wheat malt […]