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North Texas Beer Blog is owned by Paul Hightower, a freelance writer for science, technology and educational topics. Writing about craft beer and local brewers has been a passion of his for decades. He has tried many different styles and concepts, some successful and some that fell flat. Explore his observations on the North Texas Craft Beer blog and Brewing Industry.
North Texas Beer Blog
3w ago
Several issues have arisen lately that, for some, call into question different aspects about drinking habits, drinking culture, and the effects of drinking on our health and well-being ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
1M ago
Over many years, I have amassed a substantial collection of branded glassware from craft breweries of a wide variety of shapes and styles taking up every available space ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
3M ago
Craft beer and brewing has been around for a long while now, but a new real and related concept would be the wider idea of craft beverages ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
4M ago
Sometimes, enough craft breweries arise in close proximity to make one take a longer look at the area. One such area is the cluster of small townships surrounding the county seat of Parker County immediately west of Fort Worth ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
6M ago
The lights may still be on and beer may still occasionally flow on weekend tours, but the local brewery that the craft beer faithful have known for years is no more ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
8M ago
Our story so far: Local craft brewery opens and is successful for several years. Needing capital for growth, local brewery sells itself to larger corporation with eyes toward expansion. Large corporation finds local brewery insufficient as an investment, and so liquidates local brewery.
You may think this little parable refers to the recent closure of Dallas’ own Deep Ellum Brewing. Of course it does, but the story is not unique and applies to several of our favorite Texas breweries, past and present:
Celis Brewing was acquired by MillerCoors in 1995, who closed the massively popular Austin c ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
10M ago
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Check with any group of two or more craft beer fans, gathered online or in-person, and the chatter will likely be about the same thing: new breweries that have opened, new beers that are being brewed, and old favorites of both that have closed or been discontinued.
Craft beer fans tend to follow breweries like sports teams, participating in the subculture spectator drama as much as they enjoy their wares. No doubt, when a local and beloved craft brewery is forced to close, this is felt as a loss for those commercially or emotionally vested in that business, as local bre ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
11M ago
This is an introduction to one of the most unique brewers and brewery owners in Texas craft brewing today, and whose name you likely have never heard.
For context, modern craft brewing tends to be a slightly younger man’s profession, with the average age of brewers and brewery owners hovering just below age 40. The traditional craft brewer progression is from amateur homebrewer to professional brewer or brewery owner, which usually coincides with early disenchantment of that first professional job out of college. Thus, brewers tend to enter the business sometime in their 30s, and those that ar ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
1y ago
American craft breweries seem to have a minor obsession with numbers.
Not the kind of numbers that matter, not real data like sales or profits or production totals, but in the completely irrelevant topic of what they choose to name their breweries. Let’s run the so-called numbers.
Obviously, 903 Brewers in Sherman looked to the local area code to identify their craft brewery, which has the advantage (or disadvantage) of forever tying it to a specific locale. This naming scheme would seem a natural default for at least one craft brewery in every area code, but in practice such brewery names are ..read more
North Texas Beer Blog
1y ago
Once upon a time (also known as the late 1990s to early 2000s), the Texas craft beer industry lived on an economic bubble. Commercial growth outstripped the market and that bubble tragically burst, and many good breweries closed. Craft beer fans were very sad, and have since cried Bubble! every time a craft brewery experiences trouble or is forced to close.
This idea happened once. There is no more “bubble,” nor is another one likely.
The past four to six weeks have been rough for some breweries and craft beer consumers in North Texas. At least four local breweries have been forced to close en ..read more