For those who like hoppy beers, the market resembles that of metal: lots of contenders, each with a unique story and cool logo, but very few that are keepers, meaning of the highest relevance and quality.
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Paradigm Brewing – Tropical Precision (2026)
It is always wise to waft. Wave the air over the mug and the first notes that hit your nose are yeasty, but then the citrusy scent emerges; the first sip on the other hand conveys a champagne-like lightness and a strong hops flavor.
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Eureka Heights Brewing Company – Mini Boss
From the light beer version of IPAs, this is the oat-infused version, which makes it an American adjunct beer underneath the surface, and it tastes like one, with a thin bitter flavor concealing an inner sweetness.
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Founders Brewing Company – All Day IPA
Brewers are not more competent now, per se, but they are much more attuned to the market, such that it is rare to have a truly horrible beer. This one is barely an IPA and tastes like tea but has a nice clean flavor.
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Big Country Brewing Company – Hazy IPA
Imagine a nice grapefruit-juice IPA but poured into a Pabst Blue Ribbon. There. That is the review. Oh fine, we will add more: it has a nice earthy flavor, good bitterness, excellent alcohol.
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Stone Brewing – Stone IPA (2021)
This is one of those things that is not terrible, but also is not good enough that you would seek it out again, mainly because this IPA still tastes like a normal beer with some lemon juice added.
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Karbach – Texas Lager (2026)
So, you wanted an ideal summer beer. This comes very close. Tasting like a hybrid between 1980s Miller and Coors, it is an American adjunct beer which favors the barley flavor but keeps the easy drinking sweet soft texture of Murkan beer.
No CommentsWernesgrüner Brauerei AG – Pils Legende (2025)
When you travel through Germany, you encounter many cities and towns each with their own local brewery, and they all make beer slightly differently. Like Warsteiner, Wernesgrüner Pils Legende offers a light beer with a slight spicy malt flavor and relatively low sweetness.
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D&Q The Beer Station (Houston, TX)
If you are stuck in Houston, more pity to you. It has renown only for being less suck than Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, and less hipster than Marfa or Marble Falls. But if you like hot, wet, and flat places which are more international than the UN, it might warm your heart.
14 CommentsCecil’s Pub Reopens In Blighted Concrete Culturevoid Houston
It baffles the mind as to why someone would try to open a killer pub in Houston, but Cecil’s Pub comes from an older time, when Houston had culture (Anglo nerd pioneer cowboy) and was a small city instead of the place people go when they fail in Los Angeles and New York.
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