Interviewer: Niko Tonks
Location: Southern Star Brewing Company, 3525 N Frazier St, Conroe, TX 77303
This interview is a production of Foodways Texas.
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Interviewer: Niko Tonks
Location: Southern Star Brewing Company, 3525 N Frazier St, Conroe, TX 77303
This interview is a production of Foodways Texas.
On July 4, 1935, Joe T. & Jessie Garcia opened Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant in part of their home in Fort Worth, Texas. Upon opening, the tiny house had a maximum seating capacity of sixteen. The Garcias served their famous enchiladas in the front room while they slowly expanded their home over the next few decades to accommodate more customers and their growing family. Today, the restaurant encompasses most of a city block and can serve around 2000 customers on the weekends.
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Location: Rahr and Sons Brewing Company, 701 Galveston Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104
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Interviewer: Niko Tonks
Location: Freetail Brewing Company, 4035 N Loop 1604 W, Ste 105, San Antonio, TX
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Interviewer: Niko Tonks
Location: Live Oak Brewing Company, Austin, Texas
This interview is a production of Foodways Texas.
Live Oak Brewing Company (audio file via Foodways Texas Archive at the Briscoe Center for American History).
Brock Wagner is the founder and brewer at Saint Arnold’s Brewing Company in Houston, Texas. Growing up in Cincinnati and then Brussels, Belgium, Wagner gained an appreciation for wine and beer which carried through his college days at Rice, where he was introduced to home brewing. After a stint in Investment Banking, Wagner realized he needed to follow his true passion, brewing. For more than twenty years Wagner had been creating an institution that Houston and the region is proud to call their own.
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