For all you craft-beer nuts: The latest addition to the taps at the Old Monk, Idle and Blackfriar is a German wheat beer from Franconia Brewery, a new brewery based in McKinney.
The brewery doesn't have a website yet, but an article in the McKinney Courier-Gazette says the owner is Dennis Wehrmann, a master brewer (he has degrees in it) who moved to the U.S. from Germany in 2003 to work for Two Rows.
According to a press release I just got from Feargal McKinney, the Old Monk, etc.'s owner: "He adheres to the German Purity Law or Reinheitsgebot of 1565 using only four natural ingredients, water, yeast, malted barley and hops."
Wow, Reinheitsgebot! Haven't seen that name in awhile. That means you know this guy is good. Apparently he is also supplying some beer to Two Rows, too, but I'm not sure which type. Can't wait to try it.
We stopped by the Slip Inn last night just to see what it was like on a Thursday, now that they've changed their format. Earlier, we were at Barcadia -- tell you about that in a sec -- when a lady suddenly starts telling me how much cooler this Slip Inn is now that the Vickery Park guys bought it. The Vickery Park guys! Who knew? I love that bar, so maybe all these changes aren't so bad after all.
Then I saw the velvet rope.
We went inside -- luckily there was no one with a clipboard taking names at the door -- and it was pretty much the same crowd that came on old-school hip-hop Thursday nights. But no one was dancing and sweaty and throwing their arms in the air.
The music was mash-ups and dance classics with some 80's thrown in. Perfectly fine, but the place felt... odd. Like biting into a big, yummy-looking hamburger and realizing there's no meat inside. I missed the hip-hop too much.
We left and went to the Old Monk. On the way out, I snapped a pic of the rope, because I seriously could not belive that it was there. (Me, ranting: "Is Cosmo's going to have a velvet rope now? What is WRONG with the world?") Sorry for the blurry/darkness of my camera.
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