Hair of the Dog Dave | Los Angeles Beer Blog

This week I am visiting family in Galveston, Texas, an island about half an hour outside of Houston. There’s not much else to do here besides drink beer and hang out on the beach, so I should be reporting back with tales of local microbrews and any fine drinking establishments I happen across.

So far I’ve picked up sixers of Saint Arnold Summer Pils and Shiner Blonde. Strangely enough, I still haven’t put up my review of the almost ubiquitous Shiner Bock, so maybe I’ll get around to that this week.

This is my first time being in Galveston since I’ve been 21, so now I have a reason to go to the Strand besides my favorite Army/Navy Surplus Store, Colonel Bubbies. Interesting side note: the first bar I ever went to in my life was Fitzpatrick’s. I was 14 years old and my cousin Claire got married. The wedding party was staying at the hotel across the street, and me and a couple of my cousins snuck in and got absolutely hammered after the rehearsal dinner. Man Texas is great.

Also, since the last time I’ve been here, they’ve opened up a new Schlitterbahn, a German-themed water park which is pretty much the greatest thing ever. Home of the world’s first uphill water slide. We used to go to the original in New Braunfels every year, but it’s been at least 10 years since we’ve had our family reunions there. I’ve got to go back there some day and do some innertube beer drinking on the Guadalupe. I wonder if they still do bungee jumping over the river?

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