Posts Tagged ‘Houston’
Rice Village Pub Crawl Featuring Four Houston Breweries
The Rice Village will be host to a pub crawl this Saturday featuring four Houston area breweries, including the two newest, Buffalo Bayou Brewing and Karbach Brewing. Start at any of the 5 participating locations. Kahn’s Deli, The Gingerman, Hans Bier Haus, Kelvin Arms and Little Woodrows, have a beer and receive a “Pub Crawl [...]
TxBF Happy Hour to Benefit Houston Food Bank at Ginger Man
The Texas Beer Fest has helped to organize a special Happy Hour to benefit the Houston Food Bank at the Ginger Man this Friday, Sept 23rd starting at 7:00pm. Barrel-aged versions of Real Ale’s Lost Gold IPA and Anniversary Ale as well as Black Wit-O from No Label will be available and for only $ [...]
Eleventh Anniversary Party at Flying Saucer Houston
The Flying Saucer in downtown Houston is celebrating their 11th Anniversary with a party stretching over two days on Aug 20th and 21st. The festivities start on Saturday with the tapping of a variety of rare beers and continues on to Sunday with the addition of a build-your-own Michelada bar. Saturday’s Tap List (starting at [...]
Freetail Brewing Co. to Open Brewpub in Houston
Well, its finally official, Freetail Brewing Co. has announced that their second location will be in downtown Houston. Scott Metzger, Founder and CEO of Freetail, announced it this afternoon on Twitter and followed it with a live chat Q&A session. The exact location is not being announced at this time out of respect to the developer, [...]
Deschutes Base Camp Week in Houston
Deschutes Brewery will be holding a week long series of events called BASE CAMP WEEK in Houston starting on Monday, May 16th: Deschutes Brewery descends on Houston for its Base Camp Week of specialty beer tastings, beer and food pairings – a week-long celebration of all things Deschutes at some of the city’s best places [...]
Independence Brewing Bicycle Pub Crawl in Houston
Independence Brewing is having its first pub crawl in Houston this Saturday, April 9th from 2:00pm ~ 6:00pm. However, there’s a bit of twist… its a cycling pub crawl. There will be four stops across the inner loop area: 2:00pm Canyon Creek 3:00pm Moon Tower Inn 4:00pm Mystery Stop 5:00pm Liberty Station. Get your Indy Pub Crawl card punched [...]
Houston Two Rows Closing
When I moved to Houston in the mid 90′s, there was at least half a dozen operating brewpubs in the area (click here for info and history of Houston’s brewpubs). However, by the early 2000′s, they were all closed except for Two Rows which has continued to brew beer in their Rice Village location for [...]
Houston Beer Week ends with a Roar
The first ever Houston Beer Week ended on Sunday with a beer festival called Monsters of Beer. Nine Texas craft breweries were featured, allowing the approximately 600 attendees to sample beer from both established breweries and a couple of the new startups: (512) – IPA, Pecan Porter Independence – Stash IPA, Saison Jester King – [...]
Houston Beer Week Begins Sunday
I posted about it when it was first announced, but now that Houston Beer Week is almost upon us, it needs to be mentioned again. Starting with a kickoff party on Sunday, Oct 10th and running through to Sunday Oct 17th, the week is filled with various beer events, dinners and tastings at bars and restaurants around [...]
Final Visit to Two Rows Houston
I made what is most likely my final visit to Two Rows brewpub yesterday after work. I went to enjoy a few final pints and pick up my mug that’s been hanging above the bar for a dozen or so years. It was actually very quiet when I arrived with only a few people scattered around [...]



