Yazoo Brewing, Nashville!

There was SO much to do in Nashville... that we forgot to shoot any video.  Well, we shot video, but not enough video.  Well, let’s just say the Honky-Tonkin’ was CHOICE.  Nashville, or Music City as it is popularly called, is recently turning into a Brew City - thanks to Yazoo Brewing.

Started in 2003, after the owner gave up his ‘first life’ as a banker and begged the folks at Brooklyn Brewing for an unpaid summer internship,  our intrepid hero pooled his resources and started this fantastic place on a shoestring.  And goodness, are we glad he did. 

Many of the beers we sampled as Yazoo were memorable, but for our money we really enjoyed the Dos Perros, modeled after a Mexican Ale, and the Sly Rye Porter.

Video episode #104: Follow Your Beer Bliss at Founders Brewing!

The GreatTrail O Beer takes the Guys to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they find a Brewery making toe-curlingly great beer in a terrific setting.

Video episode #103: Seeing Flying Saucers in Texas!

In our continuing search for the existence of Extraterrestrial Beer Halls wemay have come up empty once or twice; however, if youre looking for a place with an incredible lineup of beer and otherworldly yet earthly fun, at the Flying Saucer, youve found it.

Video episode #102: Looking back at 2009!

2009 VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE! 2009 has been an incredible year for us. All in all, Mark and Jimmy travelled to 23 states and added 49 new video episodes this year. 49 new video experiences featuring John Wayne, absinthe, Dylan Thomas, winter warmers, Italian varietals, Marilyn Monroe, $1 Happy Hour Oysters, Miss America 1998 (aka Kate Shindle), a bar devoted only to Cask Ale, a prohibition-era Barber Shop, a bar fulla sharks, a Brazen Head, MURDER in Manasquan, The Civilization of Beer, Beer Wars, an amazing Man Cave, the Dark Lord (itself!), Antlers, maple syrup, Flying Dogs, a solar powered bar & restaurant, a Pony present, THE SUMMIT, the NY Spirit Awards, Victory Brewing's brews and food, Alien abduction, more wine, Aspen, Lancaster, New Belgium, Larry the Missouri River Rat, Sunflowers, Back to BROADWAY!, Boulder Beer's Paddy-OH, S.S. US Lounge, Mackenzie, Breckenridge Brewing's Baseball Brewery and BBQ, Avery Brewing's Barrels, Oskar Blues' NICE CANS!, some Catacombs, and a nice Drive around Denver.WHEW. You've gotta see this!

Video ep #101: Driving in Denver.

The Guys spend a day runnin' and gunnin' through the Mile High City, finding some great bars, great deals, (and wacky cool food!) for you.

Video #100: Oskar Blues, WOW Beer!

Mark and Jimmy take one more walk around the beer block in Longmont, Colorado with Marty Jones (of Marty Jones and the Great Unknowns) at Oskar Blues Brewing.

Lost (and found) in Austin: FRANK.

Deep in the wilds of Austin, Texas (actually, the only thing wild about Austin is the night life....) Okay, I’ll start over.  Deep in the newly refurbished WAREHOUSE DISTRICT of Austin, a bustling node of coolness rife with new bars and restaurants, lies FRANK.

One could best describe FRANK as... well, a very cool bar, restaurant, and sausage emporium.  Yes, I said sausage emporium, and I wasn’t being ironic in any way.  The subtitle of the place is “Purveyors of Artisan Sausage”.  The designer sausages available on the menu here are many, tasty and varied including Jackalope and beer soaked Brats, and they are all complimented beautifully by a wonderful variety of local craft beverages, from wines, to a local vodka, to many craft beers, both local and from favorite popular craft brewers nationwide.   

There are wonderful happy hour deals, daily specials, and side dishes like beanie weenies and waffle fry nachos.  Mouth watering yet? And any place that has a huge dachshund mural on the wall can’t be all bad, can it?   

Learn much more about FRANK as well as the warehouse district of Austin here:

http://www.hotdogscoldbeer.com/

http://www.austintexas.org/