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 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.