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  • First Pour – Drye Tears / 11 Below Brewing Company
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    First Pour – Drye Tears / 11 Below Brewing Company

    Check out Jackie’s first pour of Drye Tears, a 16.9% rye barrel aged imperial stout from 11 Below Brewing Company Visit the taproom for this limited time release, starting Saturday 9/2/2023 📍11 Below Brewing Company – 6820 Bourgeois Rd, Houston, TX 77066 📸 Steve Fraga Photography

  • Contributor Introduction: Jackie Von Panda
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    Contributor Introduction: Jackie Von Panda

    Greetings all. My name is Jackie Von Panda, a lifelong Houston resident and craft beer aficionado. Like many in this town, my first experience with beer was finding the Saint Arnold brewery in 2000 and that it was literally down the road from where I was living. Over the next few years, I spent almost

  • Fancy Lawnmowers and Love
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    Fancy Lawnmowers and Love

    If we’ve ever spoken about life defining events it’s likely that you’ve heard this story. Back in 1999, I was taking a beverage class at San Jacinto College Central in Pasadena. Part of the curriculum was a field trip to a then mostly unknown little brewery called Saint Arnold. It was my first exposure to

  • New Video Contributor Introduction:  Dan Beck
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    New Video Contributor Introduction: Dan Beck

    HEEEYYY !!!  I’m Dan Beck (BREWS WITH BECK on YouTube), and how the hell are ya??!!       I grew up in Coors Town (Golden, CO), attended CU Boulder (party / craft beer school) and have lived in Los Angeles for 20 years now pursuing entertainment, sports glory, and stellar beers. Beer used to be something I wanted cheap

  • Contributor Introduction: Lazeric “Z” White
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    Contributor Introduction: Lazeric “Z” White

    In the words of the great musical icon & billionaire business mogul, Jay-Z, “Let me re-introduce myself.” I am the one and only Z. White!  Co-Host of “What’s Up In The Cup” and a proud resident of Houston, Texas for more than 20 years. I am thrilled to bring you insight on what makes Houston

  • Contributor Introduction: Bryan “CHoPS!” Soliz
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    Contributor Introduction: Bryan “CHoPS!” Soliz

    My journey into beer started with my HATE for beer… my father’s beer (Bud Light). I remember being offered sips of this beverage at parties and many social gatherings of our expanded hispanic family, when I was younger, and never understanding how anyone could enjoy. When I finally became of age I figured beer just

  • Contributor Introduction: Tristin Marcks
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    Contributor Introduction: Tristin Marcks

    My journey into craft beer was a bit of a winding one beginning in 2012 with some curiosity over the “fancy” beers in the coolers at my local gas station and my boredom with drinking the same old macrobrews I had been since college. Over time as I visited more craft beer bars, tap houses,

  • Contributor Introduction: Cody Miller
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    Contributor Introduction: Cody Miller

    I wasn’t always a beer drinker. In college my go-to drink was wild berry rum mixed with Sprite, because it *ahem* got the job done. About the time I graduated college in 2015, 11 Below Brewing opened up near my parents’, and when we visited, a whole new world opened up to me. I learned

  • Contributor Introduction: James Weiss
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    Contributor Introduction: James Weiss

    My love of beer began (aside to my parents…EARMUFFS) before the law officially told me it could. I was then introduced to what were at the time known as micro brews by a friend my freshman year of college at a bar with a liberal ID policy, and my liver and wallet still haven’t forgiven

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