What a fun day!
You never know exactly what you're going to get with a brewery. Some are great big, some are tiny, some do stuff, some don't. The beer crowd hang at their favorites on tour days. It's just the thing to do.
I will say that Martin House was a pleasant surprise. I had sampled their beers at one of the beer fests before, so I knew we'd be ok on that level. But, I just wasn't too sure about the building itself. Luckily, there was plenty of room for us to play inside. If you're not in the Texas area, just so you know, it's cold this weekend... like ice storm cold. Anyway, that was another unknown. No one knew if the weather was going to keep folks inside. Luckily, a few hundred showed up. Actually, I don't know the final headcount, but that's what it looked, somewhere around there. Not bad for a crappy day outside.
As we were finishing setup, we noticed a table going up. Oh boy, it was Junior's Lone Star Sauce! I had sampled (and purchased) their BBQ sauces at a previous beer fest as well. It's some tasty stuff and I highly recommend it. Go check out their Facebook page and tell 'em SDR sent you! In talking with them after the show, they're actually based in Roanoke (where I live). I think I see us playing some of the same venues again in the future. Beer, BBQ Sauce and Sand Dollar Rodeo. That combo works for me.
The show itself was fun. It was actually really fun. I haven't had that good of a time on stage in a while. And the beer... well, my personal choice for the day was called Day Break. I tried several others, but kept going back to Day Break. Heath, Brian & Cisco looked like they were having a good time as well. Later in the night, Heath and I were joking that we're just going to play breweries from here on out. I mean, beer fun folks and being done at 4:30pm rather than 1am... yup, breweries are ok by me. A big "thank you" to Cody Martin & the Martin House Brewing Company gang for having us, hopefully we'll be back there again next year.
Since I am horrible at remembering to take pictures, Brian was kind enough to email me some that he snapped. Oh, I did take a picture of the sauces that came home with me. Until next time...
Stay gold,
RFH
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| Good n plenty - Love the Juniors Texas Heat sauces! |
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| View from the Martin House loading dock - That's downtown Fort Worth. |
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| I think Pac Man won. I know it wasn't me. |
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| Yeah, just in case there's any questions where these pics came from LOL. Thanks, Brian. |
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| Pretzel Stout. |
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| Loved the keg benches at Martin House Brewing Company. |
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