Cask Beer 101: Full Moon Pale Rye Cask at Anvil
Now that we have successfully tapped our first keg of draft beer at Anvil my thoughts have shifted to the next addition we will make to the Anvil beer program, cask ale. It is my hope that in the next 6 months we can find the money to buy ourselves a cask engine which will allow us to pour cask conditioned ale all the time. Before I launch into an equipment nerd break down of the cool workings of a beer engine however, let’s cover the abc’s of cask ale to find out why this type of beer is so special and rare. Read the story »
Anvil Bar & Refuge Video Online
There is a new website online called Blockcast.TV, which is visiting Houston bars and posting video tours. Blockcast is touring a wide spectrum of Houston bars, and recently, they came to see us at Anvil. I spent some time talking with them during a recent shift, and now the video tour of Anvil is available. I think the below video concisely gives a great tour of our bar, and I get to make a virtual version of one of my favorite cocktails, the Pisco Sour. So enjoy, and be sure to check back with Blockcast for more bar tours. Read the story »
The Texas Micro-Distillation Market
Since my return to Houston a couple of years ago, I have anxiously monitored the Texas spirits market. In Chicago, I had the great small-batch spirits from North Shore Distillers, including Distiller’s Gin No.6 and their Aquavit. But, despite the boom of Tito’s Vodka years before, the Texas market remained relatively quiet, adding only Paula’s Texas Spirits until 2007. I was always puzzled by these circumstances because if there is anything that Texans are fanatical about, it is products made in Texas. Nevertheless, over the last year, several new brands have been released – a clear sign that Texas interest in spirits and cocktails is on the rise. Read the story »
Cocktails & Spirits
Drink Dogma and Anvil Bar & Refuge are now on Twitter. Keep...
Old Overholt is arguably the most enduring staple of the American...
American conceptions of mezcal generally involve drunken college...
Beer & Wine
The smell of fresh cut grass, baseball on TV, the sound of kids...
Several weeks ago, I received emails from two people directly...
Great news! Houston (Conroe) has another micro-brewery and they...
More Dogma
The Evolution of American WhiskeyWith construction work on Anvil moving ahead at a feverish pace, I have found it next to impossible to sit down and string together...
Anvil Bar & Refuge - Poison Girl Classic American Cocktail GatheringThere are five American whiskey cocktails that you must try at least once in your lifetime. And no, making any of them with spoiled...
The Champagne Cocktail & Houston Wine Bar 13 CelsiusI just wanted to let everyone know that, Houston wine bar 13 Celsius is going to feature champagne cocktails with an Anvil Bar &...
Jim Beam New (ri)1 Rye ReviewAfter spending most of the last decade of my life surrounded by shelves of liquor, I have come to the definitive conclusion that different...
The Corpse Reviver #2I really wanted to throw this drink up for the recent New Orleans Mixology Monday, but the Corpse Reviver #2 isn’t necessarily a...
San Francisco TreatsSo obviously I’m not quite as on-the-ball as our San Franciscan friends, Anita and Cameron, from Married with Dinner fame, but you...
The Expansion of the CocktailSomeone asked me today how my trip to New Orleans went. After describing the hazy evenings and all of the wonderful people I met,...
Macgyver CocktailsLast week, two of my colleagues and I found ourselves for a week at a work-related convention in the city of Austin. One might assume...
Air Infusions: Smoked RyeI’ve got two obsessive hobbies: cocktails and large South American tropical fish. The .0005% of the world’s people who appreciate...
Tales of the Cocktail
