
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Houston-based college pal, Bob Conley, served as guide for my jaunt across Lone Star plains March ‘04. In Houston, two Spec’s Liquor Stores had finest beer selection, including local finds by Shiner, Saint Arnold, Great Grains, and Yellow Rose (reviewed in Beer Index).
Day trip to San Antonio’s
BLUE STAR BREWPUB (established 1996) uncovered preferable nut-browned wood-burnt coffee-embittered Irish-styled
Stout, feisty fruity-hopped
Pale Ale, grain-deepened yellow-fruited
Golden Lager, red-fruited off-dry bitter
King William Ale, fig-dried hop-fizzed
Spring Bock and buttery sludge
Apache Amber.
www.bluestarbrewing.com