BeerUtopia

Over the holiday weekend, Hubbell & Hudson held their 2nd Annual Beer and Cheese Festival in their store. We arrived about an hour after it started and the store was already pretty packed. The beer and cheese sampling stations were spread around throughout the store in what little open areas… Read More →

I was fortunate enough to be hosted by Deschutes Brewery at their Beer Dinner last night at Plonk! Beer and Wine Bistro. The local Deschutes rep for Texas and a few others direct from the brewery in Oregon were on hand pouring samples and talking about their beer. The beer… Read More →

According to one of the organizers, about 1,500 people attended the inaugural TX Beer Fest last Saturday at the Humble Civic Center Area. The venue was about as good as I’ve seen for holding such an event as there was plenty of room to move around, covered to protect from… Read More →

Beer dinners have been popping up everywhere around Houston lately, but Liberty Station deviated last night from the typical format by hosting one that combined Texas breweries with local food trucks. Each food truck was paired with a brewery and created two dishes that were prepared and served with a… Read More →

Last weekend, Independence Brewing organized its first pub crawl in Houston. However, Neil, the local brewery rep and avid cyclist, decided to make it a cycling pub crawl. Instead of wandering just a few blocks from pub to pub, participates peddled their way over 16 miles between four different stops. … Read More →

Another session of Camp Beer has come and gone. This particular installment was titled From Scandinavia With Love, in honour of the beers being served. As always, Cathy did a great job of organizing the event and wrangling up all the beers while Kevin resumed the role of Beer Captain for… Read More →

Camp Beer V – Holy Beer Night took place yesterday afternoon and it was a fantastic time of sampling holiday and non-holiday related beers.  Cathy did another great job of organizing and running the event and Kevin once again provided running commentary about the beers we were tasting. I, however, did… Read More →

This was the fourth Camp Beer event but the first one that concentrated on a single style of beer. Given the name Stoutapalooza, this installment of the event concentrated on stouts and included vertical tastings of the very rare Darklord from Three Floyds Brewing and The Abyss from Deschutes Brewery,… Read More →

Another Great American Beer Festival has come and gone. Over 455 breweries served more then 2,200 different beers in the festival hall to over 49,000 attendees. Just over 3,500 beers were entered into the judging competition which is up from the 3,300 last year.  I did prepare a little… Read More →