3 Texas Craft Cocktail Bars That Are Stirring Things Up
The movers and shakers behind the state’s craft cocktail scene keep it interesting with these hot spots, all opened in 2018.
The movers and shakers behind the state’s craft cocktail scene keep it interesting with these hot spots, all opened in 2018.
Our five chefs recommend cocktails, wine, and beer that go well with their menus—as well as with football, fall, and cooler weather.
Out of the 180 new vintages we tasted from across the state, these are the bottles we highly recommend this season.
Yes, there will be pumpkin.
Why are the world’s biggest wine names spending August in a Dallas suburb? Take a trip inside TEXSOM.
Summer may be wrapping up, but your next tropical night out is just around the corner.
Enjoy them straight, on the rocks, or in an inventive cocktail, such as the Tejas Ponche from Treaty Oak in Dripping Springs.
Parishioners of all ages can come for divine service, cold drinks, and an ambitious menu.
The recently acquired delivery startup will bring its parent company’s beer and wine to customers in under an hour.
These tropical drinks are a breeze to make.
Vianney Rodriguez's 'The Tex-Mex Slow Cooker' offers easy recipes for comfort food—plus slow-cooker cocktails.
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 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.
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.