Driving through the Portuguese countryside in the Alentejo wine region, you could be forgiven if you momentarily thought you were in the Texas Hill Country—the sunbaked hills of granite and ...
After 10 years in politics and four years as a Marine Corps officer with one combat deployment, Mark Phillippe was searching for his next career and life path. An idea started brewing in 2010 while ...
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The Premise
Know the land. Respect the hands.
This simple statement, found on every bottle of wine from The Grower Project, pretty much says it all about the venture cofounded by respected ...
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Rather than start with just any old mash to make its new line of whiskey and gin, indie beermaker Real Ale Brewing Company turns to the complex brews already cooking up just a few doors down. Head ...
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If the Cinnamon Toast Crunch chef decided to enter a homebrew beer competition in Austin, Hazelnut Crunch is what he’d probably make. Seriously, it’s got actual Cinnamon Toast Crunch in it, ...
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While at Texas Tech in the late 1970s, Neal Newsom (Texas High Plains cotton farmer Doyle C. “Hoss” Newsom’s son) had the fortune to encounter chemistry professor Dr. Roy Mitchell. At that ...
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William Ball and Philip Speer started My Name is Joe Coffee Co. last February to offer people a pick-me-up—but not just via the caffeine. In a respectful nod to the ever-important number 12 (as in ...
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Observing Alicia Kim at the Texas Farmers Market at Mueller, you’ll notice that her youthful, warm and sparkling personality manages to upstage the row of jewel-toned juices and syrups that glow in ...
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