Houston Craft Beer Month is Underway
Houston Craft Beer Month is Underway this August, and it's kicking off with a partnership with the...
Houston Craft Beer Month is Underway this August, and it's kicking off with a partnership with the...
Wild West Brew Fest is one of the best rated beer festivals in the country, and Lord knows 2020 left us itching for some camaraderie at these types of events. Here are a few quick notes that you should be aware of as you get your tickets...
Wild West Brew Fest is one of the best rated beer festivals in the country, and Lord knows 2020 left us itching for some camaraderie at these types of events. Here are a few quick notes that you should be aware of as you get your tickets...
The MVB winner has been announced! We're getting the trophy, the framed certificate, and the side bar ads on the to do list, and we'll be reaching out to interview them very soon!...
The mix is what makes it, but the beer can't be overlooked! Some of the best michelada beers are crisp, clean, lagers. A few of them...
It was Friday the 13th, 2019 at 2:48am when Jay's Barber Shop & Shave Parlor was burglarized. Only three months after he opened his Heights shop, and he...
Labor day weekend means beer and grilling. Why not let somebody else cook for you and enjoy your choice of 150+ beers at Brewmasters Craft Beer Fest 2019...
A long, looong, dry finish of nothing but hops both delights and teases, as it pulls me in for another sip. 11 Below Daisy Chain IPA has a dankness...
Each sip of 11 Below Oktoberfest screams of rich, biscut-y malts but in a welcoming, sessionable way. In an odd paradox, the boldness of...
Just in time for their 3 year anniversary and the 2018 batch of Big Mistake, and this is a solid beer. I'm excited to get more this year, but I'm not aging it. I think I'm done aging beer after experiencing...
The irony here is that last year we had to work pretty hard to gather all the IPAs, and do it quickly all while being mindful of the bottled/canned dates. This time, we didn't have to worry about freshness nearly as much, but we managed to wrangle all the stouts together much quicker. We met up at Drink of Ages and had Jon partake in the...
11 Below Trade Bait IPA is a rotating hop beer with a delightfully fruity hop aroma that smells like oranges and pineapples in the cleanest, sharpest way. Not even sure if that makes sense but...
Lame Duck pours a medium amber color, with the perfect amount of head. In the recent haze craze, anything amber that you can see through is sometimes dismissed. The color isn't too clear, which sometimes indicates a thin watery beer. Your nose can't miss the citrus fire that exudes after pouring....
When the crowd was finally mellowed and entranced by the live musician, who was covering 80’s/90’s ballads, Jeff was able to join me as well as a fellow author and a few brewers from Back Pew Brewing in a game of darts. It was during my back to back bullseye throws that I learned the story behind Lame Duck. The beer had originally been called...
Lame Duck, before they started canning it, was a brewery only beer. The first time I went to the brewery and tried it, it was love at first sight. It left me heart broken though because I couldn't make it out to the brewery often enough! Then 11 Below expanded their production and that allowed them to begin to can Lame Duck! ...
I've been jonesin' to get Lame Duck in cans and I am pretty sure I pestered the guys about it the last few times I have been out to the brewery. In fact, last time I went, they showed Chris and I the can design for Lame Duck and it is...
To give you some more background on this beer, Big Mistake is a barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout that goes into 3 different types of barrels: 5 yr old Yellow Rose bourbon, 9 yr old...
The aroma I got from Color Blind was all hops. Fruity and piney hops. The malt aromas in this light amber colored concoction were completely covered up so I expected to be hit with a hop beam when I took a hearty gulp...
7 Iron is great to share with new drinkers in the craft world because they won’t be turned off by the slight kick of hops. As I mentioned before this is a foundation beer, that was created to be paired with a stick and ball game of Scotland, so it makes sense that the...
The pours they gave us were the base beer, samples from each individual barrel, the 2017 blended batch, and the batch from 2016. If you want to know why they call it Big Mistake RIS...