Three years ago, Sherman’s 903 Brewing owners Jeremy and Natalie Roberts were in Florida at a beer festival, when they encountered a decidedly unusual beer style from Indianapolis’s 450 North Brewing Company. Situated next to the brewery’s booth at the festival, the Robertses noticed that 450 North’s line seemed constantly packed with people itching to try its slushy-style beers.
“We were wondering why people wanted these beers so much,” Roberts says. “And then we tried it and saw how refreshing it was. We said, ‘Look, no one else in Texas is really doing a slushy-style beer, and we need to.’”
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Our man with a van, Kevin Curtin, surprised this year s Austin Music Award winners with a novelty check, gifts, and the appreciation from a thankful city. You voted and we re celebrating your choices with a little help from our sponsor, Cap Metro.
Below you can find video proof of that celebration thanks to some production assistance from Arts & Labor. Thanks also to photographer David Brendan Hall who not only captured his trademark incredible images but also distracted our winners while Kevin did his best to sneak up on them in a massive van.
Album of the Year (presented by Real Ale Brewing): Jackie Venson
, 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 (or in one case, a wider release) from Texas breweries, wineries, and distilleries.
Beer
$9.99 per six-pack
If heavy IPAs are not your thing, never fear. This new offering from Blanco’s Real Ale Brewing Co. weighs in at only 8.1 percent alcohol, which is fairly low for a double IPA these days. But it’s loaded with four varieties of hops and still packs a punch.
Saint Arnold H-Town Pils
$9.99 per six-pack
This new Bohemian-style pilsner is available only in Saint Arnold Brewing Company’s hometown of Houston, for now. It’s wonderfully biscuity and crispy, two attributes that are hallmarks of this style, which originated in the Czech Republic and is darker than German pilsners.
Photo illustration by Texas Monthly
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 were lost, and family and friends got sick. Yeah, it’s been bad. So let’s talk about beer.
Choosing the best Texas beers of the year is almost an impossible feat, not unlike choosing your favorite Bill Callahan song. There are too many great choices, and too many variables that could sway your opinion. I’ve spent most of this year working from home, quarantining with my family in Brownsville, and riding my bike around the perimeter of Texas. All that meant I had plenty of time to drink lots of beer, but the experience was far from my usual routine of visiting breweries around town and throughout the state. When at home in Austin I stuck close to the house, which meant I bought beer from either H-E-B or WhichCraft, a neighborhood beer store
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