Some have outgrown wanting their alcohol to taste like a candy basket and falling into diabetic coma. For people with more adult tastes, Oklahoma Gazette recommends a few savory cocktails while visiting the warm hearts (and hearths) of these locally prepped adult beverages. First, we recommend a liquor store for real beer. Or, heck, visit […]
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Steak and ale
COOP Ale Works’ co-founder J.D. Merryweather says all four quarters represent a change in the beer industry and drinkers will definitely see heavier and more robust offerings this time of year. “COOP’s Octoberfest has seen great success,” said Merryweather, whose company is in the midst of a sizable expansion, going from a brewhouse of seven […]
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Spirited away
A float, also known as an ice cream soda, usually includes ice cream, a carbonated beverage and flavored syrup. However, when beer or spirits are added, it’s no longer for kids. Where can one go to sample some of these spiked milkshakes and floats in the Oklahoma City area? The first stop, S&B’s Burger Joint, […]
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Food, service
Above, from left: Kurt Fleischfresser, David Egan and Wayne Hirst present the Leadership Industry Award to Egan. Hirst has cancer, said his daughter, Kari Starkey, at an interview before the Nov. 4 awards ceremony at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. “He looks so healthy on the outside,” she said with tears in her […]
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Retro rebound
Oklahoma City businesses are appealing to a new aesthetic. Whether the Great Recession changed what consumers are looking for or the drive to find local options has empowered businesses to offer something beyond the mainstream, Oklahoma City’s shopping landscape has evolved to include some throwback products and services that resemble those of the ’80s. The […]
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I’d buy that for a dollar
Credit: Brad Gregg Low-point beer courtesy of good ol’ Dollar General will reside on its Oklahoma shelves probably between the paper plates and hula hoops. Or near the chew toys and potato chips. Or by the generic colas and sporks. Oh, heck. Just ask Barb at the front register. Dollar General no longer wants to […]
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Get crafty
Some 50 brewers will pour samples of more than 200 beers Saturday at the third annual Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival. Sponsored by TapWerks and the Oklahoma Craft Brewers Guild, the outdoor event will be at TapWerks, 121 E. Sheridan, and feature food and live music. At least two Oklahoma breweries will offer new or limited-edition […]
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Bolo
Bolo is a punch used by boxers — a wide, sweeping uppercut. It also is the title of Fall Films’ latest local production. We recommend skipping the former and taking the latter. With free beer from Titswiggle Brewing Co. and live music beforehand from local harpist Jessica Tate, Bolo premieres Saturday at City Arts Center. […]
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Toby Keith — Hope on the Rocks
For many years, on my late, lamented Colorado-based radio show, Damaged Hearing, whenever I felt like especially annoying the decidedly unpatriotic community-radio audience, I would sing along, loud and proud, to Oklahoma-born Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.” Of course, the more I would sing along to the song, the more I […]
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Choc it up
Choc Beer received a silver medal last month for its Signature Grätzer at Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, in the category of Indigenous Beer, which awarded “uniquely local or regional” beer types. Zach Prichard, owner of the Krebs-based Choc Beer, said Grätzer, a Polish-style wheat beer, was not being brewed anywhere in the world two […]