Shelley Carrol plays tonight at Bad Ass Jazz

Shelley Carrol at The Amsterdam Bar at 10 tonight. Shelley Carrol - tenor sax. Should be a good crowd. Hope to see you there!

If you want a table, better get there early.

Live Music on September 29th at the Amsterdam Bar!

The Uncle Bill Roach Band & The Hacks
Thursday, September 29 at 9:00pm - September 30 at 12:00am

The Amsterdam Bar
831 Exposition
Dallas, Texas

The State Fair opens on the 30th. We're going to user it in appropriately with The Uncle Bill Roach Band & The Hacks.

Rockabilly by a group of Tex-Mexicans & Bluegrass by some fine southern rednecks seems like the perfect way to welcome the Big Tex, Corn dogs, Funnel Cake season. Come on out; it'll be fun. You can enjoy the last night of free easy parking before the fair!

New beers on tap: Pine Belt Pale Ale and Wasatch White

From Conroe, Texas, Pine Belt Pale Ale is a deep copper colored American pale ale with a substantial malt backbone accented with British crystal malts with aggressive hop bitterness (IBU: 45) and substantial American hop flavor and aroma. The alcohol by volume ("ABV") is a comfortable 6.3%. From a review at Beer Advocate:

"This one smells of pine, fresh hops, ample orange and lemon citrus, and has a nice caramel finish. The taste is very similar, beginning with the hops, pine, and some earthen tones before a blast of citrus takes over; again, the finish is a rich, almost amplified caramel and toffee flavor. The mouth is very smooth, and finishes well; not dry or sticky, just clean."

From Salt Lake City, Utah we have Wasatch White, an easy-drinking Belgian-style White Ale with 6% ABV. Wasatch White is seasoned with orange peel and coriander. From a review at Dallas Beer Snobs:

"The beer is a fine example of a Belgian Wit beer with a golden, hazy pour with not much head to speak of. The smell is of coriander, banana, citrus and malts and the flavors follow along that same line. You will find the texture to be quite thin, but not watery, and low carbonation."

Master Brewer Pierre Celis has passed away

A very important figure in the craft-brewing movement passed away back in April 2011.

​Pierre Celis, the "King of Belgian White Beer", died over the weekend. He was 86.
In spite of several unfavorable transactions with major brewing companies, Celis is widely considered one of the forbearers of the craft-brewing movement in America. His self-named brewery operated in Austin from the mid-1990s to 2001. He was also the founder of Hoegaarden beer.

Celis was born in Hoegaarden, Belgium, and founded the beer named after his hometown in 1966. Hoegaarden had been without a witbier brewery, a specialty in the area, for 11 years. Though the wheat beer style had been a Belgian staple since the 1400s, Celis was widely considered to have reignited the declining popularity of the beer style.

The Houston Press has the rest of the story.

You can pay tribute to Pierre Celis by coming by the Amsterdam to enjoy a delicious wheat beer--we carry several kinds.

Fashion shoot at the Amsterdam

A recent fashion shoot in and near the Amsterdam Bar.

A very cool night of jazz on tap with Brad Leali and Claus Raible

The Amsterdam Bar is proud to be hosting an amazing night of jazz tonight, August 15, 2011. Tonight, the Brad Leali Group with pianist Claus Raible will bring their special brand of jazz to Dallas, Texas. Bad Ass Jazz at the Amsterdam Bar is already the single best night of jazz in Dallas, Texas, but this is a do not miss show.

Read about Brad Leali here.

Read about Claus Raible here.

Get to Jazz Night at the Amsterdam early tonight if you want a seat: this is a show that cannot be missed.

Have the Blues?

Of course you do: you're late for Jazz Night.

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Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo.

D Magazine profiles one of our neighbors!

D Magazine has an interesting profile of one of our neighbors, Mathew Posey of The Ochre House:

Mathew Posey lives in storefront on Exposition Blvd. steps from Fair Park. Instead of a kitchen table he has forty-five plastic orange chairs. Instead of living room couches, he has a ten-by-twelve foot wooden stage. During the day, the space is called home. At night, home transforms into The Ochre House, an in-your-face performance space.

Visit The Ochre House online, see one of Mathew Posey's shows, and join us for a beer and a discussion of avante garde theater afterwards.

Randy Lee with the Shelley Carrol Quartet for Jazz Night

Hello my jazz babies; just a quick note to let you know that Randy Lee will sit in with the Shelley Carrol Quartet (minus Shelley) at The Amsterdam Bar this Monday night. As always, the jazz will be cool and the beer will be cold. That is all, my babies.