Hey everyone in in Dallas for the weekend and was wondering what local brews to try and if there were any local breweries I needed to go to.
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Deep Ellum does great beers. I'm a big fan
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Take a look at Community brewery. They are pretty good.
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Deep Ellum is fantastic. If you can make it out to Ft. Worth, Martin House is also great, and Rahr has a great tour, and decent beer.
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Oh man I forgot about Community.
http://www.beerinbigd.com/p/production-breweries.html
Here you go. One stop shopping. As you can see the tours are mostly Saturday afternoon, you pretty much have to pick one. Everybody has taproom hours, in addition.
Deep Ellum is over-rated, unless you enjoy pretentious snobbery. The brewery is not bad, but the people that go to Deep Ellum are pretty full of themselves.
I would recommend either Community or Lakewood. Community is state of the art and climate-controlled. Lakewood is in Garland, and is about 100 stoplights away from downtown. At Lakewood the emphasis is on Belgian, and has an impressive brewery. Community has a bit of everything.
LUCK is a very impressive restaurant with a fabulous line of taps, mostly local, mostly $5.00. Its in Trinity Groves, right next to the highly outlandish Margaret Hunt Hill bridge.
Here you go. One stop shopping. As you can see the tours are mostly Saturday afternoon, you pretty much have to pick one. Everybody has taproom hours, in addition.
Deep Ellum is over-rated, unless you enjoy pretentious snobbery. The brewery is not bad, but the people that go to Deep Ellum are pretty full of themselves.
I would recommend either Community or Lakewood. Community is state of the art and climate-controlled. Lakewood is in Garland, and is about 100 stoplights away from downtown. At Lakewood the emphasis is on Belgian, and has an impressive brewery. Community has a bit of everything.
LUCK is a very impressive restaurant with a fabulous line of taps, mostly local, mostly $5.00. Its in Trinity Groves, right next to the highly outlandish Margaret Hunt Hill bridge.
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So Tried to go to Community and they were either closed cause of the holiday or shutdowwn completly. Gonna try again tomorrow. Is there any on the other side of Dallas me and the GF are headed to The AT&T stasium tomorrow (which I hate but ya know). Thanks again guys.
Wait, no mention of Peticolas? Velvet Hammer is the best beer in Dallas hands down. I don't think they have a tour until this coming weekend and they're only on draft. Most craft beer places will have it. Check out Meddlesome Moth, Common Table, and The Gingerman.
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There's a new brewery up in Denton called Audacity. Good beer and entertaining owner
Gentlemans_Ale
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Nope, but I've brewed some alongside Michael.
Here is the Dallas Beer Index I've been working on:
http://www.iliveindallas.com/thank-you-for-downloading
Still working on a winter edition.
AT&T stadium sounds like JerryWorld in Arlington, two thirds of the way to Fort Worth.
There is a lot of cool beer stuff in Fort Worth, not much in Arlington. Coincidentally, I will be at Shannon Brewery Friday in Keller. Thats probably thirty or forty minutes from JerryWorld, but they have a Red that is as good as it gets. The Chocolate Stout is world class too if youre into that.
If you stay on I-30 you will quickly be in Fort Worth. Famous landmarks to consider:
Flying Saucer , opened in Fort Worth in 1995.
Pour House , many taps
Rodeo Goat, creative burgers and local beer.
Ginger Man, friendly, knowledgeable
T&P tavern, a restored train station art deco diner.
Zio Carlo , real Italian pizza brewpub.
BTW, do not ever refer to Tarrant Co as the other side of Dallas. Seriously, dont.
Zman, I agree on the Velvet Hammer, a strong ale that really hides it's alcohol bite. Quite addictive. I have met Michael but I don't know him well. Peticolas is a good tour, but it doesn't have a taproom.
There is a lot of cool beer stuff in Fort Worth, not much in Arlington. Coincidentally, I will be at Shannon Brewery Friday in Keller. Thats probably thirty or forty minutes from JerryWorld, but they have a Red that is as good as it gets. The Chocolate Stout is world class too if youre into that.
If you stay on I-30 you will quickly be in Fort Worth. Famous landmarks to consider:
Flying Saucer , opened in Fort Worth in 1995.
Pour House , many taps
Rodeo Goat, creative burgers and local beer.
Ginger Man, friendly, knowledgeable
T&P tavern, a restored train station art deco diner.
Zio Carlo , real Italian pizza brewpub.
BTW, do not ever refer to Tarrant Co as the other side of Dallas. Seriously, dont.
Zman, I agree on the Velvet Hammer, a strong ale that really hides it's alcohol bite. Quite addictive. I have met Michael but I don't know him well. Peticolas is a good tour, but it doesn't have a taproom.
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Lmao alright and yes it was Jerry's world and the GF loved it. Me well while I almost burst into flames it was a pretty cool dome to see. Found a local home brew shop with 40 beers on tap about 15 minutes outside of the stadium called Dr. Jeckel's beer lab. Had the community chocolate stout and a left hand. Then I found these at some store. It's pretty good blonde. Not gonna make it back down town tonight have a 10 hour drive back to TN in the morning. I'll be back though. Thanks for all the info guys. If you ever find yourselves in or near Nashville hit me up. There are at least 5 breweries worth trying. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1420249921.255058.jpg.
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
That's the only Rahr beer I would pay money for.
