North Texas Beer

“The release of North Texas Beer is timely. As co-authors Paul Hightower and Brian Brown state in their introduction, the beer industry has grown exponentially in North Texas over the past two years. Against the backdrop of this renaissance, the co-authors provide a rich historical primer on our region’s on-again/off-again love affair with malt beverages…” Continue … Continue reading →

It seems as if a new brewery pops up in North Texas every month. This hour, Krys Boyd talks about how we transformed from the land of Bud and Coors into one of America’s budding beer capitals with the authors of North Texas Beer: A Full-Bodied History of Brewing in Dallas, Fort Worth and Beyond. “Think,” … Continue reading →

“If you are at all interested in local brewing, two area writers are publishing a comprehensive history, North Texas Beer. The authors, Paul Hightower and Brian Brown, go back to the first short-lived attempts to run antebellum suds factories — by a Frenchman who stayed on after the demise of the utopian La Reunion community in … Continue reading →