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.
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