Here’s to the Texas Brewpub
Twenty places across the state where the food is just as good as the craft beer.
Your guide to Texas bars, cocktail recipes, distilleries, wineries, breweries and more
Twenty places across the state where the food is just as good as the craft beer.
Here are fourteen of our favorite wines, ranging from blush to bold and shades of pink in between.
Our state took home eleven medals from the World Beer Cup in Nashville. Which are you drinking this weekend?
Texas vintners held their own at the competition, which included more than 3,200 entrants.
An Abilene man wants to know what our brew-lovin' columnist thinks of the mania for newfangled Texas ales.
San Antonio bartenders serve up tequila and mezcal concoctions perfect for celebrating at home.
In “Parties Around a Punch Bowl,” Kimberly Schlegel Whitman offers a year’s worth of seasonal cocktail recipes.
Go ahead and give these a swirl. Our favorites for the season, from crisp whites to juicy reds.
The owner of Houston’s Julep dives deep into the region’s beverage history and shares recipes perfect for porch sippin’.
The Austin speakeasy's updated menu, themed around the art of conversation, features the striking Paradox.
The Austin speakeasy's updated menu, themed around the art of conversation, features the striking Paradox.
The National Podcast of Texas hit the road for Texas Monthly’s second annual Whiskey Affair, held this week at Houston’s Silver Street Studios.
Rollin Soles spent his college days hanging out with Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett. Here's how he became one of Oregon's most prominent winemakers.
What does Keurig's acquisition mean for the national soft drink of Texas?
And why the company, started by Austin billionaire John Paul DeJoria might have been worth even more.
The Italian restaurant has built its drink program around this herbal liqueur. Try the Life Aquatic.
The Italian restaurant has built its drink program around this herbal liqueur. Try the Life Aquatic.
Despite its rich Texas history, sotol is a little-known spirit. The men behind new Driftwood distillery Desert Door want to change that.
By bringing head brewer Nate Seale back to Austin, the new brewpub draws beer geeks as well as fans of ’Supernatural.’
Everyone from the novice to the aficionado can get something out of the city's festival of drink (just pace yourselves, please).
Dripping Springs couple devote their resources to producing a whiskey known for its purity, simplicity, and elegance (and one ideal for the holidays).
Need a glass of something to make it through that one loud uncle’s political opinions after Thanksgiving dinner? We’ve got you covered.
In the age of gastropubs and microbreweries, Texas still boasts a few real dive bars—where the jukebox is irreplaceable, the beer is domestic, and the patrons feel like family—if you know where to look.
The 21 best whites and reds to emerge out of Texas this season.
From Drink.Well, in Austin.
The 22 best reds, whites, and rosés to emerge out of Texas this season.
With a little help from the cheesemongers at Antonelli's Cheese House, in Austin.
From Eight Row Flint, in Houston.
The wine cooler is back. And better.
Six Texas wines, beers, and cocktail recipes.
Jack Mason competes in "Uncorked," Esquire TV's new show about the quest to become a Master Somm.
Johnny’s Gold Brick, in Houston.
These six splendid wineries are setting the standard for Texas viticulture.
Chip Tate built Balcones into one of the country’s most innovative whiskey distilleries. But last year he lost the company in a bitter clash with his investors. Now he’s starting from scratch—again.
A decade and a half after I wrote about the poor quality of Texas wines for this magazine, Lone Star vintners are starting to turn heads.
The founder of Austin’s maverick Jester King Brewery talks about his big new project.
These eight breweries—as scenic as they are savory—are creating quite the buzz.
Alba Huerta, arguably the best bartender in Texas, chats about serving cocktails in Houston.
Inspired by Texas’s new array of homegrown hard alcohols, some of the state’s most innovative bartenders create five bold new cocktails.
ComfortBending Branch Winery’s Tannat grapes, a dark, inky variety from Southwest France and Uruguay, make for innovative wines with rich fruit concentration and grippy tannin. 2012 Estate Tannat, CM, $60. Del RioVal Verde Winery, founded in this sleepy border city in 1883, is the state’s oldest continuously running
Texans are a thirsty bunch, and our drinks package has everything you need to imbibe like Sam Houston's watching.
How one Colorado-based outfit is bringing its formula for urban winemaking to Texas.
The Townsend, in Austin.
A native Texan with a sharp business mind honed at Rice University and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, David Kuhlken didn’t originally aspire to be a winemaker. And yet, he’s making wine in Stonewall for Pedernales Cellars, a family operation that is among the
True Texans stock up with more than Topo Chico and Big Red.
This month, we’re launching a new column to introduce Texas Monthly readers to the people behind Texas Wine. Sometimes it helps to know a little bit about the person behind the wine in your glass. Todd Webster is the winemaker for Brennan Vineyards, a winery in Comanche located halfway between the
More than a dozen craft beers from Texas and beyond that will pair well with your holiday feast.
A dry rosé that can be enjoyed year-round.
From Wonderland, in Austin.
From The Pastry War, Houston.