Statesman: Make room for more craft brews in Austin

Patrick Beach starts his latest beer piece with this line:

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict 2010 will be the year craft beer breaks big in Austin.

Sure, I'll buy that.

South Austin Beer Search #1

We recently moved down to South Austin. The last two years we've lived up north, a hop, skip and a jump from Draught House and Flying Saucer. And a quick zip downtown to Gingerman. When I say south, I mean wayyy south. I was worried. Worried good beer would be hard to find. And that is what this little series is about. Our first exploration was to Red's Porch.



It was Saturday night and the place was jammed packed. They had a pretty decent tap selection. Something for everyone - even beer dorks.



NXNW Pale Ale?? They had it. Someone explain to me why they are allowed to have this. I am not complaining, I just thought this was not possible, beer-law-wise.



My Yakima Twilight. We also had a Green Flash IPA and Brooklyn Lager.

The food was pretty good too. My Border Burger was spicy as hell. Sofia liked her Chicken Fried Chicken, but her sides were soaked in garlic.

We will be back.

Shiner 101

I have not been drinking much beer of late (do to some dumb weight loss bet, which is almost over!), but I had some of these over the weekend. Decent, very drinkable. One I wish Shiner would turn into a year round beer.

Michael Jackson Movie

Beer Hunter Movie Trailer from John Richards on Vimeo.

Via Liquid Austin

(512) Whiskey Barrel Aged Double Pecan Porter - BOTTLES

Seeking more info.....

I was sleepy last night and forgot this: Hat tip: Beer Town Austin Twitter

Beer Flashback #1

Who does not like reminiscing? Who does not like beer? And that is what this "series" is all about. That and an easy way to get up more content. But it's new, well new for you. This will mostly be old posts from before I started this blog, from my other blog and mostly when we were living in New York.

For entry #1 we rewind the clocks back to July 2007. Enjoy:
















Barcade in Williamsburg hosted Dogfish Head Brewery night tonight. It was mighty fun.
















Burton Baton and Chateau Jiahu































Don't worry Sof, there is always more.
















Barcade is a sick bar. They have great beer. And old skool video games, like Tapper and Ms. Pacman.
















Sam Calagione was there. He is the owner of Dogfish Head and he is sort of one of my heroes. I played him in darts. I beat him and won a hat. We high fived, WOW!
















Cristy and Greg were there also, but we left pretty much as soon as they showed up.
















Waitin for the F.
















Stew and his new free hat.

And so it begins

What's it gonna be........