Pete Wann also contributed to this fine piece of internet bloggery.

• Can Wendy Davis Turn Fort Worth Blue? | The Texas Blue - “You can tell that [Brimer] is running scared,” Nieto said. “You can tell he’s seen the writing on the wall and he’s basically running for his political life.”
• Food and Fort Worth, Texas: More Restaurants: the Mid-Price Range “Indies” - A quick round up of the affordable independent restaurants in Fort Worth. “[T]he family owned and operated restaurants have moved aside to big business establishments[...]It is a market-driven reality, but, we have lost something”
• Two Fat Ladies: Way to Go Arlington! Fort Worth, What’s the Hold Up? - Eddie moved from Fort Worth to South Korean and he’s keeping a blog to document his adventures. Here he talks about life without plastic grocery bags, encouraging Fort Worth to follow Arlington’s lead.
• A Southern Missive–Fort Worth Reenactors - See what happens to Civil War re-enactors that try to get too friendly with the local saloon girls

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This shocked the hell out of me—I thought the Covey Restaurant and Brewery was just home to a really pricey menu. Turns out they are also home to one highly regarded Vienna-style lager.

The Covey’s Vienna Lager beat 24 other entries to win the gold medal at the Brewers Association World Beer Cup in San Diego last week. Rahr Brewing won a bronze medal for its Bucking Bock in the German-Style Heller Bock/Maibock category which featured 31 entries overall.

Although the idea of a Beer Olympics sounds made up, it’s true. The Brewers’ Association created the World Beer Cup in 1996 to celebrate the art and science of brewing by recognizing outstanding achievement. It’s a rough job, but someone has to do it.

Congratulations to the winners!

UPDATE: Barry Schlachter had more on the Covey this morning.

Editor’s Note:At about 5 minutes into the show, the air compressor kicks on in the bike shop. Turn your speakers down. It only lasts about 15 seconds.

This week’s guest is Don Young, the man behind the Friends of Tandy Hills and lead organizer of Prairie Fest, which will be held on Saturday, the 26th from 11AM to 7PM.

Also this week:

Don’t forget to get out and vote on Tuesday in the Democratic Primary runoff for Railroad Commissioner.

There will be a $60 buy-in charity poker tournament benefiting the Euless Trinity Trojans Football team this Friday at the Rahr & Sons Brewery. The tournament starts at 7PM. I have no info on prizes.

If you’re looking for a way to spend your morning on Saturday the 26th, you could do worse than to start at Dane Fest in Keller. (Why NOT hit two Fests in one day?) Normally we don’t plug things outside the city limits, but this is a good cause.

Special thanks to this episode’s sponsor: Rahr and Sons Brewing. They tell me that Summertime Wheat is in the works and should be out within the next two months, just in time for 100 degree weather. The Monk tells me that local beer is the best no matter the style, because it’s as fresh as it can be without drinking directly from the bottling line hoses. (He also says that the “local is better” rule only applies if your local brewery makes good beer.)

 

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You know that bar and grill in every college movie? The place with the nice long bar, cheap beer, bar food, and close enough to campus that you could stumble back to the dorms after closing it down for the night?

That’s what Buffalo Brothers is like.

The difference here is that it’s not in a movie, it’s in Fort Worth, just down the street (easy stumbling distance) from TCU.

Buffalo Brothers is the result of a collaboration between John Bonnell (of, obviously, Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine), and Ed McOwen, chef de cuisine at Bonnell’s. It joins Grady Spears’ Dutch’s Burgers next door as the latest in the trend of local chef-celebs opening lower priced “everyday food” joints on University just north of Berry. (Yes, I’m aware that both have been open for a while, but I like to get to know a place before I write about it.)
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I have it on good authority that a number of the Rahr faithful will be meeting at Dutch’s Burgers on University (just south of TCU) at around 5:00 PM tonight for a pub crawl in that area and then down to Bluebonnet Circle.

This is your chance to visit with Fritz Rahr, the brewery’s founder, who’s in town for a brief visit from his temporary job down in the Virgin Islands. (Sounds like a tough life, eh?)

I’ll be there, and I hope to see as many of you there as can make it!

Earlier this month I conducted Mass in celebration of Winter and specially crafted winter and Christmas beers. A few parishioners gathered here at the Abbey for a blind taste test.

I went to my local purveyor of fine alcoholic beverages and selected a random assortment of winter and Christmas-themed beers, pictured below.

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Beer Abbey,

I heard in England, they drink their beer at room temperature! That sounds disgusting! Are they retarded? I like an ice cold brew on a hot Texas night. I heard their food sucks too.

Cheers,
Bud

Like many who wander, you’re half way there, my son. You merely need to put the other half of the knowledge with the part you already have, and you’ll come to understand the deeper meaning of beer. Follow me into the cellar where we’ll talk about which “room temperature” people are referring to…
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