Maggie Villarreal, who owns Blue Star Brewing, and Blue Star employee Alicia Spence (handing the beer) distribute another tasty sample at Views and Brews.
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Freetail servers fill sample cups preparing for the long line of beer enthusiasts.
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It was a packed house at Hermann Sons in downtown San Antonio
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Alamo Beer sponsored this Views and Brews event. Alamo is not considered a 'microbrewery' so their product was available to purchase at the bar.
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Rep. Mike Villarreal (second from left) is making a push in the current legislative session to ease Texas beer restrictions.
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Alamo Beer owner Eugene Simor (in denim shirt) speaks with Zac Harris of Monk's Toolbox (to his left), and Mike Dicicco and Joseph Alvarado of Busted Sandal Brewing before the discussion began.
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The Views and Brews panel (from left to right): TPR News Director David Martin Davies, Rep. Mike Villarreal, Scott Metzger, Tim Campion, Travis Polling
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A Texas beer lineup -- for sale at the event -- includes brews from Alamo Beer, Shiner and Real Ale
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Both Blue Star Brewing and Freetail Brewing each featured three different samples.
There is speculation that beer is the reason the first human tribes stopped their nomadic wanderings and began to set up permanent settlements. They wanted to plant and cultivate the ingredients to beer.
Even before the first loaf of bread was baked these prehistoric partiers were home brewing their own suds. The settlement’s brew master was the community’s wise man, scientist, doctor and law giver.