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 [...]
BELGIAN SAISONS
The smell of fresh cut grass, baseball on TV, the sound of kids out of school, steaks on the grill, weekends on the beach, hikes, 101° F temperatures and 95% humidity outside means it must be summer in Houston. For those of you not from Houston, allow me to explain. Go into your bathroom, close [...]
SOUTHERN STAR BREWERY’S PINE BELT PALE ALE
Great news! Houston (Conroe) has another micro-brewery and they are making some great beer. Southern Star Brewery in Conroe, just outside of Houston, finally released their first beer, Pine Belt Pale, last week, and I must say I am a big fan. If Southern Star is able to live up to the precedent set by [...]
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 [...]
REAL ALE’S DEVIL’S BACKBONE BELGIAN STYLE TRIPPEL
Texas is a big place; we have shore lines, high plains, wide valleys and a beautiful hill country. In amongst the green trees and white rock outcroppings of Texas’ hill country lays the small town of Blanco, the home of Real Ale Brewing. Real Ale is one of Texas’s smaller breweries offering only 4 beers [...]
REAL ALE PHOENIXX DOUBLE ESB
I swung by the Gingerman after work the other day hoping to get a pint of the Real Ale Real Heavy, we just got it on tap at the bar; however, they hadn’t yet tapped their keg so Joe grabbed me a Phoenixx Double ESB by Real Ale instead. The Double ESB is Real Ale’s [...]