Arkansas Beer Scene: 2015 Brewery Tour Adds A Few

February 20, 2015

2015 Brewery Tour Adds A Few

We had another wildly fun road trip last weekend for Valentine's Day, this time in Fort Worth. I found a few new good places for beer downtown near our hotel, including Little Red Wasp with it's wonderful selection of brews.. They even had a couple of different beers from one of my favorite (and hard-to-find) breweries, Jester King, so we got to have both Mad Meg and RU55 there right across the street from our hotel, then picked up a bottle of "Das Wunderkin!" elsewhere and drank that liquid love last night at home.

But anyway, despite not getting to several of the breweries we planned to get out to, I did add 3 more breweries to my list for the year; 2 in Fort Worth and 1 in Texarkana, TX on the way down.

Here's where I've been so far in 2015 with newest additions at the bottom:

Diamond Bear (North Little Rock, AR)
Vino's Brewpub (Little Rock, AR)
Stone's Throw Brewing (Little Rock, AR)
Lost Forty Brewing (Little Rock, AR)
Blue Canoe Brewing (Little Rock, AR)
Marshall Brewing Companay (Tulsa, OK)
Wiseacre Brewing Company (Memphis, TN)
Memphis Made Brewing (Memphis, TN)
High Cotton Brewing (Memphis, TN)
Pecan Point Brewing Company (Texarkana, TX)
The Collective Brewing Project (Fort Worth, TX)
Zio Carlo Magnolia Brewpub (Fort Worth, TX)

At Pecan Point Brewing Company I tried the Wavelle Chocolate Rye with a nice burger. The food and beer both were good and our bartender was fantastic and informative. It's a new spot with a whole lot of potential and already the attention to keeping it looking "historic" plus clean and modern made it feel super laid back. Lots of nice woodwork.

In Fort Worth, we wandered a bit from our hotel to the Magnolia area. We found Zio Carlo Magnolia Brewpub, s a cool little pizza pub that reminds me a lot of Vino's. Certainly nothing fancy, a bit of a dive actually, but a cool vibe with some good pie and house brews. I had a Shields Up, a nice lightly hopped, satisfying, crisp American Pale Ale.

Back towards downtown, The Collective Brewing Project was a really cool taproom. Lot of choices of brews and I had their Mustache Rye'd and Funky Pale both while the wife and I played a little Baggo and hung out with the friendly people, watching some play giant (loud) Jenga.

Here's a few pics.