Meanwhile, Austinites are blessed with the fantastic Redbud Berliner Weisse by Independence Brewing, which at ~$9 per 6-pack is flying off the shelves faster than they can brew it.

Sweet Tea Vodka plus Lemon Vodka (both available from Austin’s Deep Eddy vodka) kicks that up another notch.

“But if you’re looking to sell some beer, it’s still a good idea to take a competent hop onto the IPA bandwagon.”

that was the only “strong beer” at a lot of restaurants in Oklahoma for a while, so I drank a lot of it and ended up wrongly dismissing Boulevard as a brewery until relatively recently.

Glad to see this review, was thinking of picking this one up at the bottle store tonight and your description seals the deal.

I generally do 2 calculations when choosing between fancy beers: oz/$ and ABV/$

I don’t have that cilantro->soap gene, but I guess I can relate to people who do now (except, as I said, it didn’t bother me as it’s really mild). Sorachi Ace is well up on my list of favorite beers. Didn’t get any dill though, maybe I’ll try again (pretty easy to find in Austin, which is now basically the Brooklyn of…

But I did actually have chicken wings cooked by Paul Qui once! I told him that I would have liked them to be spicier.

Lone Star, the National Beer of Texas, preferably in tallboy form. Almost always a few in my fridge, and after a couple of heavy craft beers, if I want to keep going, I switch to this. I have a small collection of Lone Star breweriana, as well as two belt buckles (Texas, ya know).

I assume at Which Craft it’ll be for beers that aren’t available in bottle or can form, because given the option I’d get a 6-pack (or 4-pack) as well. But since, as you mentioned, a lot of nice local seasonals don’t get bottled at all, it gives me another way to enjoy and share a good beer that I might not otherwise…

Right after I read this, I see on Twitter that my awesome local bottle shop (Which Craft) has just acquired the means to start doing growler fills.

the Rodeo Clown Double IPA is also fantastic.

That show did 2 bars in Austin. One of them made up a storyline about marital problems between the owners, and kept the new name of the bar for what I assume was a contractually mandated weekend before going back to the old name. But I hear they got a kickass entertainment system out of it! The other was turned from a…

Love Blood and Honey, been drinking a fair bit of that lately. Also, it’s on sale for $6.99/6-pack at the brand new Total Wines in Austin.

I’ve heard that the regular production tastes a little different/better than the prior limited release (only available in the 12-pack sampler). I thought it could be so much better than it is, not enough of the prickly pear flavor and with a soapy finish (and not the tasty kind like with Sorachi Ace).

My go-to summer beer here in Austin since it first came out. I even named one of my cats for Ruby Redbird. Nice review, although I might go with 50/30/20.

Whenever people ask me what my favorite beer is, I say “Free.”

Things that crack me up about Austin: people who bitch about all the Californians who move here but got stoked when Trader Joe’s and In-and-Out opened here.

Put me on the “Was this ever good” list? I also wasn’t aware it was a fruit beer, despite now realizing that the weird taste was likely the apricot.

Mine was surprisingly hot jalapenos, but did the same thing.