Community Beer Co. has announced they re relocating to a new 70,000-square-foot facility. Their new digs will be at the recently renovated Pegasus Place, formerly the Exxon Mobil campus, at 3110 Commonwealth Drive. This is just 4 miles northwest of their current Design District space.
According to a statement released by Community Beer Co., the new location will offer expanded brewery and distilling operations, a two-story taproom, a restaurant, an outdoor beer garden, multiple event spaces and a concert venue.
Distilling operations, you say? Yep. Community is expanding its product line, which currently includes beer and hard seltzer, to whiskey, vodka and gin.
So, who needs a beer? One silver lining of Gov. Abbott’s I m so over this mask thing announcement is that taprooms can now open. And while some local breweries applied for a food and beverage permit allowing them to operate as a restaurant over the past years, others have been shuttered for almost a year now. So, they, like
Peticolas Brewing Co, are dusting off the divan for guests once again. Most taprooms in North Texas are still adhering to social distancing and mask protocols.
Community Beer Company gets gold stars all over their chart for helping out a lot of local homeowners who had busted pipes and no water after the winter storm. After Hurricane Harvey hit Houston they created non-profit, The Greater Good, with the intent of helping communities, specifically low-income and elderly homeowners, after crisis hit. Needless to say, they ve been busy.
D.G. Yuengling & Son is America s oldest craft brewery, having first poured frothy pints back in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Since that time they have remained a family business, passed down through generations, always father to son, until the fifth generation of all daughters who are now at the helm. Despite being the largest craft brewery by volume of sales in the United States, this brand has never been sold in Texas.
But that will all soon change. Last year the brewery formed The Yuengling Co., a joint venture with Molson Coors, and sometime this year will be brewed at the latter s Fort Worth facility and distributed throughout the state.
Tables are already set up with stacks of cookies and wee little Girl Scouts hiding behind them, honing their sales skills and testing your gullibility. Despite the pandemic, they re still out at some regular spots, but there are some online options and delivery. Asking Facebook is the best bet on finding out specifics on that.
We spend a lot of time thinking of ways to support the local economy and fulfill our own vices. This might be our best marriage of those two things yet: Here we look at some of our favorite Girl Scout cookies and local beers.
Shortbread/Trefoils + Peticolas’ Velvet Hammer