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Jensen Ackles Isn’t the Only Star at Family Business Beer
With all of the breweries opening in Central Texas, it can be hard for a new beer business to get the attention it wants or deserves. But when a celebrity is involved—a brewery is started by a famous...
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Texas Beer Is the Best Beer
The Brewers Association held its biannual World Beer Cup in Nashville, Tennessee last night, and Texas breweries won big—bringing home eleven medals. Austin’s Pinthouse Pizza won three of those medals,...
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Here’s to the Texas Brewpub
In Texas, a brewery can call itself a brewpub even if it doesn’t serve grub. This has been happening since 2013, when the Legislature overhauled the state’s beer laws to allow brewpubs to distribute to...
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Worship at the Altar of Craft Beer at Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston
With Texas’s craft beer boom, there’s no end to unique breweries in Texas. Jester King Brewery is housed in a rustic farmhouse. With its bare metal beams and rainbow neon lights, the taproom at Austin...
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Oktoberbest! Five Texas Beers to Enjoy this Fall
There’s perhaps no better season for drinking beer in Texas than fall, when the weather finally cools off—or at least cools off enough to sit and sip outside. These five beers will help you forget the...
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With Its New 24|7 Beer, Lone Star Goes on a Diet
There’s a new, slimmed-down version of “The National Beer of Texas.” 24|7, the new light lager from Lone Star (owned by Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewing Co.), contains a measly 68 calories and weighs in at a...
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The 10 Most Important Texas Beers of 2019
There are nearly three hundred breweries in Texas, and many are pumping out new offerings weekly. To help narrow these new beers down for a top ten list, I enlisted a few experts around the state:...
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We Could All Use a Quarantine Beer
We’ve all had our moments of insanity during these past two months of lockdown. Mine came the other night, when I shaved off the beard I’ve worn for nine years. The sudden reveal freaked out my...
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Tour de Texas: Why I’m Cycling the 3,000-Mile Perimeter of the State
There’s really no good reason to do what I am doing, riding around the entire state of Texas on my bike. Last year I rode my bike on every street in Austin, and as I was finishing that 385-day,...
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Tour de Texas, Week 2: Riding Behind the Pine Curtain
If I quit now, I’d have made it a quarter of my trip around the state of Texas, 782 miles. That’s pretty good, but there is no way I can quit now. I have so much more to see. While spending this past...
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Tour de Texas, Week 3: Riding the Northeast Texas Trail and Relishing Local...
When I look back at this week, two things stand out: the Northeast Texas Trail (NETT) and beer. I remember reading about the NETT in Texas Monthly a couple years ago and really wanting to ride the...
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Tour de Texas, Week 4: Battling High Winds and Exhaustion in the Panhandle
This week had it all—highs and lows. I spent most of the week traveling through the Panhandle, a region of Texas I had never visited before. It challenged me with a few long rides and rolling hills,...
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Tour de Texas, Week 5: Getting by With a Little Help From My Friends
This was my final week in the Panhandle, traveling from near the top of the region’s western side all the way to its bottom, near Kermit. I got to spend a day off with my family, which was not long...
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Tour de Texas, Week 6: The Underrated Beauty of the Guadalupe Mountains
This week presented me with a number of challenges in the form of dangerous roads, epic climbs, and high winds, but it also took me places I’d never been before. El Paso may be my new favorite Texas...
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Tour de Texas, Week 7: Tough Climbs and Spectacular Views in West Texas
I am almost 2,600 miles into my quest to circumnavigate Texas. This week was spent in the much-loved West Texas. It was great experiencing the vast and beautiful landscapes with friends and family....
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Tour de Texas: I Just Biked Around the Entire State
I made it—3,014 miles in 58 days. There were a few times I had my doubts, as in the Panhandle town of Booker, where I felt very close to calling it quits. I’ve had some difficult days, but many more...
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The Texas Beers That Helped Us Get Through 2020
It’s been a rotten year. Let’s get that out of the way. The coronavirus pandemic, combined with social, political, and economic unrest, has ruined 2020 for most of us. Businesses were shuttered, jobs...
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Stoutin’ Around: Ten Hearty Texas Beers to Cure Your Winter Doldrums
Winter weather can mean pretty much anything in Texas. Last month, near Christmas, I was sunning myself on the beach on South Padre Island. Fast-forward a couple weeks, and we were throwing snowballs...
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What to Drink Now: The Best New Texas Beers, Wines, and Spirits
As part of the twentieth edition of our Where to Eat Now package, which looks at our favorite to-go dishes from restaurants that opened in 2020, we’ve paired it with a look at a few great new offerings...
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Everything We Know About Elon Musk’s Tesla Beer
Elon Musk has had a busy year so far: multiple SpaceX launches from Boca Chica, announcing Tesla headquarters’ move to Texas, hosting Saturday Night Live, and pumping up Dogecoin not quite to the moon....
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What to Drink Now: The Best New Texas Beers, Wines, and Spirits
Imbibers who want to drink locally have more options than ever. If you’ve got a thirst for some Lone Star libations, these nine pours will scratch that itch—and they’re just scratching the...
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Ten Truly Tree-mendous Texas Trees
There are countless trees in Texas, vastly outnumbering the thousands of Californians who have flooded the state in the past few years. But unlike our new neighbors, trees serve a purpose—many, in...
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Invest in Hefeweizens During This Hotter-Than-Hell Summer
My love for hefeweizens goes back to my earliest days of drinking “good beer.” In the early 2000s in Orlando, I drank Tucher Helles Hefe Weizen with my soon-to-be fiancée. Once married, we moved to New...
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I Biked the I-35 “Hell Route” From Austin to San Antonio So You Don’t Have To
I’ve always wanted to ride my bike to San Antonio from Austin. The cities are separated by about eighty miles—a nice distance for an adventurous cyclist—and the trip can make for a very pretty ride, if...
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Texas’s Newest Mountain Bike Park Was Built by a Fearless Teen Entrepreneur
On a sunny Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, my fourteen-year-old son and I pulled into the newest mountain bike park in Central Texas—Station Mountain, in the hilly lakeside hamlet of Marble...
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