Twisted X Party for Cinco de Mayo

One thing you don't see too much of among microbreweries are ones crafting Mexican-style beers. Twisted X, which I wrote about in my round-up of new Austin-area breweries last year, aims to change that. Check them out on Cinco de Mayo at the Dig Pub, the best beer bar in the 'burbs. Announcement of the event from Dig Pub:

Introducing Twisted X on Cinco de Mayo!

Thursday, May 5 @ 7:00 p.m.

We are super excited and proud to host the beer release party of Cedar Park's first, very own microbrewery, Twisted X! The folks at Twisted X are the pioneers of the TEX MEX BEER revolution! The revolutionary masterminds, Jim Sampson and Shane Bordeau, will be available for a meet & greet, and they will obviously be bringing some beer: a Mexican lager, a Vienna lager, and a jalapeno pilsner. There will be a glass giveaway, a naming contest (where your suggestion could end up being the official name of the beer), live music from Drew Womack, and food specials from The Dig Pub.

Drinking in Cedar Park

It's pretty unlikely that I ever would have made it out to the Dig Pub or the Tap Room if it weren't for my longtime good friend Pub Knight coming back to Austin. In fact, in the old days, the bicycle-centric Pub Knight would never have been seen driving a car out in the 'burbs. But since he landed a free place to stay out there, that made those two places (and to a lesser extent, North by Northwest) the more viable options for getting together.

Rather than write the places up myself, I'm going to be lazy and just link you his reviews, since he pretty sums up the way I felt. Nice places to which I might never return, just for logistical reasons – with NXNW, the Pour House, Billy's on Burnet, and the Draught House all nearby, there just isn't much reason to go that far north. And heck, if I just have a craving to go to a strip mall, Bagpipes and Sherlock's are close by, too. But if I lived out there, Dig Pub and Tap Room would probably be regular stops for me.