TX Tap Takeover at BRC on TX Independence Day

BRC Gastropub is hosting a Texas Tap Takeover featuring five Texas craft breweries on Sunday, March 2nd. Celebrate Texas Independence Day with Texas brewed beers from a different brewery every hour starting with Saint Arnold at 2:30pm, Cyclers Brewing at 3:30pm, Fort Bend at 4:30pm, Rahr at 5:30pm and finish up the night with Karbach at 6:30pm. Raffle prizes, brewery glassware and special VIP growler specials will also be available.

TX Independence Day Celebration at League of Extraordinary Brewers

Celebrate Texas Independence Day a day early on Saturday, March 1st at the League of Extraordinary Brewers with a takeover of all seven house taps by Texas National Brewery:

Texas National Brewery will have their award winning Red Roggenhood Imperial Red Rye IPA AND the debut of SIX NEW beers never before available to the public! The new brews tap list includes:

- VladParticle Imperial Espresso Chocolate Oatmeal Milk Stout
- Wee Kevy
- Root Down Ale brewed with herbs and roots 
- Beer Brown on the Bayou Imperial Texas Brown 
- Hoppy Hoppy Hippo IPA
- Lola’s Panty-dropper Oatmeal Poire

Also available will be new beers brewed on site by The League and Warlocks as well as one brewed by the guys from Brews Brothers in Galveston. Additional special releases and brewery representatives will also be on hand.

TX Independence Day at Flying Saucer Sugar Land

Sunday, March 2nd is Texas Independence Day and the Flying Saucer Sugar Land will be celebrating with rare tappings of Texas beers, releases of special Texas bottles from the cellar and a selection of Texas pints for only $3. Commemorative Flying Saucer Texas Independence Day glassware will also be available.

Odell Brewing Arrives in Texas

Odell Brewing has quite the list of events planned for their inaugural week in Texas, including a tapping of a special collaboration brew:

The brewery has a full week of launch events planned all over the state, including a special tapping at Pinthouse Pizza in Austin, which was started by friend and former Odell Brewing brewer Joe Mohrfeld. Joe teamed up with Odell’s head of production, Brendan McGivney, to brew a collaboration beer that they once brewed together at Odell Brewing. “T.A.P. TX” honors that original recipe, but brings it into the culturally relevant Session Ale realm with just as many hops but a slightly lower ABV.

Their regular lineup of beers are quite solid and some of the their seasonals and other series can be highly sought after for enjoying and trading.

Odell is just another of some of the high profile breweries such as Founders, Southern Tier and Upland who have entered the Texas market recently.

Draft Beer Jelly Belly Jelly Beans

I don't typically eat candy of any kind, but when I stumbled across the Draft Beer Jelly Belly Jelly Beans on Amazon, I couldn't resist (thank you Amazon Prime).

They arrived double sealed in plastic bags and there was still a strong aroma of beer when I took it out of the Amazon shipping box. However, it's more of a stale beer smell. That smell that washes over you from all the empty bottles, cans and glassware left laying around when you wander into the kitchen the morning after a late night beer tasting. As far as the flavour goes, it's there, it's just pretty mild. Despite the strong aroma, you have to strain your taste buds a little to pick it up. According to their press release "...the company opted to pay homage to its German ancestry with a Hefeweizen-inspired ale flavor...". I would definitely say that the aroma does remind me of a hefeweizen. Perhaps they should have picked a beer with a strong flavour profile like a porter or double IPA. Although, this is apparently the result of three years of hard work, so it's obviously been a difficult journey.  If they're looking for a new project, I would perhaps suggest a line of hops flavoured Jelly Bellys. They could even shape them to look like hop cones.