Tag archive for ‘beer’

  • North Coast Food Pairing at Flying Saucer

    2/17/10 • (1)

    Flying Saucer had us out for a North Coast food pairing with North Coast co-founder Tom Allen the other day. It was pretty swanky. Sam and Rob flexed their cicerone muscles and put together a very interesting seafood pairing for the beers. As a journalistic [...]

  • TabbedOut iPhone Application

    2/10/10 • (0)

    When I go out to a bar for drinks with friends I usually end up opening a tab with the bartender. I never feel comfortable doing this. I usually wish I could just pay cash. Leaving a credit card with a bartender, who usually puts [...]

  • Over a Pint Episode 17 wt Black Star Co-op

    2/02/10 • (2)

    Welcome to Over a Pint episode 17. We recently got a chance to sit down with Steven Yarak, Jeff Young, and Karrine Karen Thornblom of Black Star Co-op. We talked for a while. Over 15 minutes. We posted the first ten minutes here. We’ll post [...]

  • BeerCloud Mobile Application

    12/15/09 • (1)

    Coming to you from GreatBrewers.com is a mobile application that will blow your mind, BeerCloud. BeerCloud gives you detailed descriptions on thousands of beers and hundreds of breweries. The amount of information can be overwhelming at first, but

  • Black Star Co-op Brick and Mortar Reveal

    12/13/09 • (0)

    Early November, the fine folks at Black Star Co-op held a brick and mortar location reveal. It was great. The ideas of Steve Yarak, Jeff Young, and a handful of other entrepreneurial, idealistic, passionate beer drinkers envisioned in a back yard behind Monkey Wrench on [...]

  • Hops & Grain Tasting

    12/11/09 • (5)

    Last night Josh Hare and Jeff Russell introduced Austin to Hops & Grain. The tasting event was hosted by Rogue Equipment on the East side of 5th. There was a solid showing and the place was packed out way before they even rolled out their [...]

  • Over a Pint Episode 13 with John Brack of Austin Homebrew Supply

    12/07/09 • (6)

    Welcome to Over a Pint episode 13, the baker’s dozenth. Recently we went out to Opal Divine’s Marina with homebrew extraordinaire, John “JB” Brack

  • Bike Pub Crawl Recap

    11/25/09 • (0)

    So we had a Bike Pub Crawl raincheck ride a few weeks ago… and it rained again. At least it wasn’t cold this time. Just wet. Really wet. We cheated too. Shawn and I drove our bikes to Dog & Duck just in case anyone [...]

  • Over a Pint Episode 11 with Travis Poling of Beer Across Texas

    11/18/09 • (0)

    Welcome to the eleventh Over a Pint… I feel like we’ve already done eleven, but I guess it’s been a few weeks since the last one, #10, and my biological clock has already developed a pattern.

  • Draught House 41st Anniversary Time Lapse Video

    11/15/09 • (4)

    November 7, 2009 Draught House celebrated 41 years of slinging cold ones. We made a time lapse video to capture most of the party. We started shooting at 1 pm and stopped a little after 9 pm.