Southern Star Brewery’s Pine Belt Pale
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The Ramos Gin Fizz & The Evening of Enlightenment
A while ago, my wife and I were celebrating our first wedding anniversary in
Allagash Musette Oak-Aged Scotch Ale
I love being back in Houston. After 2 years in the cocktail backwoods of North West Arkansas, where a bottle of the local watery beer and a Jager bomb toped my list of great drinking experiences, and 4 years before when I passed my time shooting Jack and kicking back Coronas in a mostly dry region of West Texas, I find it refreshing to be crafting drinks at a bar where we are given the freedom to explore the Rosetta Stone that is the Savoy Cocktail book. Read the story »
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