GABF

So Texas did us proud with beer medals this year. It appears that, though we don't have many, our microbrews do an excellent job.

It's also great to see that there is so much interest in microbrewed beer and the Great American Beer Festival, that their site can't keep up with demand.

Check back for a list of those Texas medals.

Alamo Golden Ale

Several years ago, down on the Houston Street Fair, one of the guys from Alamo Beer Co. (a San Antonio company who has their beer brewed under contract by Real Ale Brewing Co. just north of Blanco) told me that they were thinking about opening a brewery over by Sunset Station. I never heard anymore about it until now. According to Travis E. Poling, author of Beer Across Texas: A Guide to the Brews and Brewmasters of the Lone Star State (sadly a very thin book), they now have their eyes on a facility on the near Eastside that may open in 2012 (it's certainly not a done deal). Eugene Simor, the founder of Alamo, Poling writes, "envisions building party and event space into the brewery location and perhaps a rooftop bar that would be independently owned and operated so as to not run afoul of archaic alcoholic beverage laws in Texas." They hope to up their brewing capacity to 60,000 barrels a year (from 3000 as of now). Obviously this would be another great boast for San Antonio and the Eastside, especially. It doesn't get any better than rooftop bars. Keep your fingers crossed.