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Celebrate Negroni Week with locally made gin
The Negroni is disarmingly simple — one part gin, one part sweet vermouth and one part Campari, stirred and served over ice with an orange twist — but its balance of botanical bite from the gin, the …
Month: May 2015
Hill Country vineyards not yet devastated by recent floods
For many involved in Texas’ wine community, it’s a question that so far doesn’t have an answer: How does all this rain affect the quality of the grapes being grown in the Hill Country and …
Infamous brewing up funds for leukemia and lymphoma research
Although less than a week remains until the end of May, that’s plenty of time to help out Infamous Brewing’s Josh Horowitz with an important cause: raising money for the South Central Texas chapter of …
Austin bars prepare for summer with seasonal cocktails
Summer is my favorite time of year, and not just because my birthday falls at the tail end of it. Just the thought of running into the ocean spray with the coconut smell of sunscreen …
Austin’s June Rodil becomes 7th Texas master sommelier
It’s extremely difficult to become a master sommelier, the highest ranking of wine specialist that exists. In Austin, only two sommeliers had reached that echelon — until McGuire Moorman Hospitality’s beverage director, June Rodil, joined …
Bindlestick Brewing sets up shop in Leander
Dan Kernek and Matt Bigler have been friends since the fifth grade — and after having lived in the same city for so long, even going to the same college and sharing the same office …
Monkey 47 Dry Gin made with Black Forest botanicals
One look at the label on Monkey 47 Dry Gin’s quirky bottle (replicated from the cork-stoppered medicine bottles of old) and you’d think the name comes from its 47 percent ABV.
But Black Forest Distillers founder …
Uncle Billy’s cans new beers alongside brand redesign
The new cans Uncle Billy’s Brewery and Smokehouse is rolling out in June feature a bearded likeness important to Austin’s history: the man the Barton Springs brewpub is named after, William “Uncle Billy” Barton.”
In 1837, …
Rogness Brewing to celebrate 3 years Saturday
Rogness Brewing, like many of Austin’s breweries, had humble homebrewing beginnings — the owners, husband and wife team Forrest and Diane Rogness, once owned the Austin Homebrew Supply Store — but the Pflugerville-area brewery has come far …
Busch family legacy continues in Texas with arrival of Kräftig beer
Although the name of Billy Busch’s line of light, sessionable lagers might sound like the beers belong on store shelves next to craft offerings like Saint Arnold, he’s not marketing them that way.
Busch — yes, …
