Drink Dogma Is Back!
I know; I’ve been a bad blogger. It’s not my fault though. You see, uhm, this thing called Anvil Bar & Refuge happened and everything else in my life stopped happening for a while. I’ve stopped telling people that I own a bar; instead I tell them that a bar owns me. Nevertheless, I am resisting and fighting the good fight. Maybe this blog can be an uncommon Phoenix in the blogosphere. I know that most bloggers inevitably lose the battle of life versus online content production, but I am not going to let this happen to Drink Dogma. Read the story »
Draft Beer - The Right Way
Anvil has draft beer - finally. When we ordered the walk-in cooler almost 300 days ago, we never thought that the beer would be the thing we waited on, but after weeks of delays and setbacks, we have finally been running draft beer successfully for several weeks.
The thought behind Anvil was to build a bar that no matter what kind of drinker you were you could find something to satisfy your thirst. While cocktails are what we are best known for, we sought out interesting wines and beers for the causal drinker and the enthusiast alike. The motivation behind our draft program is the pour some of the best beers you can buy in the city of and have them taste as close to brewery fresh as possible. 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. Read the story »
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