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Casual Champagne and Cognac Cocktailsnew

Champagne and cognac are dress-up drinks in most people's minds. But snifters and smoking jackets are not always required to enjoy brandies and sparkling wines. There are cocktails that may even benefit from using the more generic product.

San Antonio Current | Ron Bechtol | 12-22-2011 | Food+Drink

Area Distilleries Putting Texas Flavors on the Mapnew

When President Jimmy Carter made home brewing legal in 1978 the newly legitimated hobby spawned fledgling brewmasters across the country.

San Antonio Current | SCOTT ANDREWS | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

Two Current Critics Choose Their Favorite Drinking Songsnew

There’s a whole cannon of Holiday’s material we could choose from, but it’s her rendition of the standard “One More For My Baby (And One More For the Road)” that’s top shelf, an aching last-call confession to her bartender on a love affair gone awry

San Antonio Current | Chris Parker and J.D. Swerzenski | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

Bands Are Not the Only Thing on Tour at Ten Elevennew

Ten Eleven is well known for putting on some of the best indie/hardcore/unclassifiable shows in SA, but lately the Ave. B venue has been courting a different crowd: beer aficionados.

San Antonio Current | Chuck Kerr | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew

As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.

San Antonio Current | Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

Brave Resident Tasters Put Several Especial Bottles to the Testnew

'Tis the season when booze meets billboards all over town and flossy liquor images fill the pages of consumer magazines.

San Antonio Current | Ron Bechtol | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

What SA’s Bartenders (Slash Therapists, BFFs, Secret Crushes) Wish You Knewnew

Four Aggie fans are sitting in a bar, sipping beers, and spending an afternoon being ornery over a football game against their most bitter rivals, the Longhorns.

San Antonio Current | Adam Villela Coronado | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

Micro- to Middle-Brew Pubs Kicking Up Dust Need to Cling to that Vision Thingnew

Those who have caught the fever for brewing beer often become like little kids picking what they want to be when they grow up. And like most youngsters who want to be firefighters, ballerinas, astronauts, or benevolent dictators, home brewers aren’t quite sure what it takes to achieve the dream until they are in deep.

San Antonio Current | Travis E. Poling | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

One Part Perspiration, One Part Experimentation = Beers that Hit, Miss, Bewitchnew

It's not unusual for beginner home brewers to make a few mistakes even when playing it safe, but experienced brew-kettle commandos intentionally pushing the envelope have their own tales of woe and victory to share, too.

San Antonio Current | Travis E. Poling | 12-15-2011 | Food+Drink

San Antonio Families Returning to Traditional Food Practices with ‘One Bite at a Time’new

Industrial pizza interests passed under Congress’s rod with flying colors last month and corporations like Del Monte Foods and ConAgra must be celebrating the decision to allow pizza to be considered a vegetable in the government’s school-lunch program.

San Antonio Current | Liz Schau | 12-08-2011 | Food+Drink