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17th Annual San Antonio Beer Festival returns to Crockett Park on Saturday
This year’s festival features beers from more than 100 local, regional and global breweries.
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Explore the San Antonio drink scene with San Antonio Current. Find the latest on bars, breweries, cocktails, coffee shops, and where to grab a drink in the city.
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Table Talk: Checking what’s on tap with Idle Brewing’s Brandon Pettit
Idle Beer Hall & Brewery will soon make its debut at food hall Make Ready Market.
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Sudsy Strategy: Make your tasting plan now to get the most from the San Antonio Beer Festival
The 17th annual festival — the biggest single-day beer celebration in Texas — returns to Crockett Park on Saturday, Oct. 21.
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San Antonio’s Alamo Beer buying local craft beer brand VIVA
Alamo Beer, one of the city’s largest and oldest craft beer companies, has been producing VIVA’s beers under contract for more than a year.
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Fireball Cinnamon Whisky releases troll-worthy ‘sympathy shooters’ for 2023-24 football season
The ‘sympathy cards’ include spicy messages and a 50mL shooter of Fireball tucked inside.
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Bottoms Up: Whiskey Business taking over Witte Museum on Friday, Aug. 25
The event will bring tastings by a variety of spirits brands to the museum, along with local cuisine, art, live music and interactive seminars.
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When summer temps soar, cool off with something fancier than a standard frozen margarita
Icy relief for a hot summer’s day need not come from a played-out frozen margarita or syrupy, slushy daiquiri.
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San Antonio’s Busted Sandal Brewing Co. will open new Kerrville taproom Saturday, July 1
The Kerrville location will be the craft brewer’s third.
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Summer Sipping: These cocktails create a perfect remedy for San Antonio’s scorching heat
Here are four summer-ready cocktail recipes to kick off the sizzling season.
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Low-Octane Summer: With temps heating up, we sampled four N/A beer options with Texas ties
To help the N/A curious find the right match, we sampled a handful of Texas-produced or Texas-beloved varieties.
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Amor and Amari: Tasting flights of the bitter spirits reveals their wide variety and subtle differences
These spirits evolved through the toils of medieval monks who were involved in the making of bitter, allegedly curative, brews.
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Chilled Out: CBD cocktails proliferate in San Antonio, along with ingredients to make them
Freshly stirred CBD cocktails are available at a variety of Alamo City bars and restaurants, and also in cans on grocery and convenience store shelves.
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Nostalgic San Antonians, listen up: new Tampico Hard Punch doesn’t come in a gallon jug, but it does include booze
The brand many of us remember from our childhood now has an alcohol-spiked version.
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Drink Dok: The Manhattan cocktail offers almost infinite variations based on subtle changes
For those so inclined, the Manhattan lends itself to tinkering at home — and it’s almost bulletproof at any half-decent bar.
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With the ready-to-drink cocktail market taking off, Texas lawmakers weigh allowing them in grocery stores
Even though many spirits-based ready-to-drink cocktails contain no more alcohol than wine or many beers, they’re not available at H-E-B or in convenience-store coolers.
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New cycling-themed Breakway Brewing Co. now slinging beer, bites near downtown San Antonio
The new Government Hill brewery started pouring beer this past weekend.
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It’s illegal to serve intoxicated customers, but San Antonio bar staff say they feel pressured to
Scrutiny is particularly high after the high-profile arrest of Councilman Clayton Perry and his subsequent driving-while-intoxicated charge.
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High and Dry: Sober spirits are winning a permanent place on San Antonio bar menus
‘As people reevaluate their relationship with alcohol, more and more people are choosing to abstain or moderate their alcohol consumption,’ said Rogelio Sanchez, co-founder of HASH Vegan Eats.
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Industry insights, beverage education on the menu at inaugural Third Coast Cocktail Summit
The Third Coast Cocktail Summit will run Tuesday, Jan. 10 through Saturday, Jan. 14.
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Behind Bars: San Antonio wine pro Scott Ota aims to educate, one glass at a time
Ota has emerged as one of San Antonio’s most-celebrated sommeliers.