Your Guide to Lake Travis, Austin TX
The gas-fired barrel roaster rumbles along for a few minutes, then a crackle sounds. It’s like a dry twig snapping. Scott Bogart checks a temperature gauge.
He nods, twists a handle, and pulls out a hot sample.
The coffee beans in the sample tube are turning from the delicate green of new lettuce to a shade like straw.
[Read more…] about Kuxtal Coffee and Tea in Lago Vista: Direct from the Farmer to the Consumer
Walk in to Lago Vista Physical Therapy and you’re likely to catch the tail end of a lively exchange between patients.
From a stationary bicycle, one gentleman notes how crazy expensive it is to replace a bumper these days.
Exercising on a set of steps, another patient says he knows a guy — the best guy — who does body work for less. A series of beep sounds, and it’s time for the first patient to move on to his next drill.
[Read more…] about Lago Vista Physical Therapy: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
In the middle of 2011’s grape harvest, Flat Creek Estate lost its winemaker to a rival in California. Desperate to save the vintage, owners Rick and Madelyn Naber asked Tim Drake, then an itinerant wine scientist running Texas Wine Lab, for help. Drake turned out to be a winemaker in search of a winery.
Since then, the wines produced at Flat Creek — and the vineyard where estate grapes are grown — have been under Drake’s purview.
The Nabers’ goal had always been to make world-class wines. Once they settled on wine as the product, anyway. They bought what was known as Flat Creek Farm on East Singleton Bend Road to save the agricultural land from development in 1999.
[Read more…] about From the Vineyard to the Glass at Flat Creek Estate in Marble Falls