How Beers Spiked With Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Pickle Juice Helped a Fort Worth Brewery Thrive During the Pandemic
Thanks to its weekly series of increasingly wacky beers, Martin House Brewing Company has figured out how to make it work in these complicated times
Bloody mary pickle beer, one of Martin House’s most popular creations |
When the pandemic started almost a year ago, breweries were in a particularly precarious position. Forced to shutter their taprooms and facing declining sales as bars across the state closed their doors and restaurants limited capacity, Dallas-Fort Worth’s breweries contended with a future that looked more uncertain than ever.
Austin-based artist Deborah Roberts’s evocative collaged images of Black children have been shown in London and New York. Now, she’s finally getting an exhibition in the city where she was born and raised.
Random notes I jotted down this week …
January is a weird month. Christmas is a nice distraction from our regular lives, but there’s always a bit of a letdown when the new year rolls around, even in years when we don’t have to social distance and wear a mask to buy milk. It’s those post-holiday blues that make everything feel a little “off.” No more trees in our living rooms or lights in our window or peppermint bark for another year.
We stay inside more during the winter months and even more so right now. I’ve gotten to know my friends Mrs. Smith, Sara Lee, and Little Debbie a little too well. But whatever gives us comfort.