Larry Koestler

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Bacon Blue Hellfire Sampling limited edition burgers from Proper and Stuffed Belly; and a discussion on hamburger/smashburger specialty spots vs. the "restaurant hamburger" experience

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Coming through in the Clutch, part II My Top Burger of 2024—and #4 burger in all of Houston—continues to prove its otherworldliness

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What are some of your faves in CO? As a lover of the haziest, hoppiest beer imaginable, Lyric has been my #1 from your state

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

There’s still plenty of interest in *high-quality* beer—but it’s never gong to be found at the supermarket.

Smaller breweries focused on world-class quality are still thriving with the on-premise-only model.

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Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

Overall mass-market craft may be down, but that’s what these death-knell articles always miss. All the breweries that are closing don’t make anything interesting—they’ve effectively become macro themselves in their product offerings.

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Whoa. New Saturday PR just dropped

The Tampa Bay Rays are useless. What a terrible team.

The unique, signature flavor of Crypto Burger's Bunqua smash When is a smashburger not a smashburger?

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I’m probably having a better Saturday than you

It's burger-chan's world... Revisiting my number-one burger in all of Houston for the first time since April

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No Substitute Pincho's revives a Bernie's Burger Bus classic; while Boom Baam—located inside a gas station mini mart—underscores the Houston burger scene's dedication to innovation

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Man Jazz has gotten rung up at least 3 times on non-strike-threes these last few games

Coming through in the Smash The rich get richer as yet another exceptional smashburger joint opens up in Houston, a.k.a. Hamburger City

Two blog posts in one day? What is happening?? larrykoestler.substack.com/p/coming-thr...

A (rare) great night as a Yankee fan at the home of the Astros, and a note on the new blog name Finally, a Yankee win in-person in Houston for the first time since 2018

What’s this? I have a new blog post? What is this, 2009? larrykoestler.substack.com/p/a-rare-gre...

What’s the ideal blog/newsletter platform that’s also SEO-friendly? Patreon posts never seem to show up on Google, nor do Substack’s

Beloved Houston burger makes comeback at an Italian restaurant Longing for those pre-pandemic vibes?

Beloved Houston burger revived in ... an Italian restaurant's menu? www.chron.com/food/article...

It’s been a whirlwind since Chris Shelton left Whole Foods Brewing in October 2023. Some of you may recall he briefly brewed out of the now-defunct Klaus. These past few months he’s been getting dialed in on a new system at Neches Brewing in Beaumont, brewing and..

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It’s pretty bonkers that a good team can play this putrid a brand of baseball for nearly a week straight. I get it, long season and all, but when this team goes bad they truly don’t mess around.

Yankees haven’t held a lead since Thursday

Really hard to win when you go into your opponent’s ballpark and have a lead for 0 innings for an entire weekend

There is no greater lock on earth than the Yanks losing in extras on the road 😂 good grief

Dave Sims is fantastic. Tough shoes to fill and he already feels like home

Judge with a .643 OBP in the early going 😂

So if the torpedo bats were around last season, where were they in the World Series? Probably looking at a bit of a different outcome.

Also anyone crying about these bats — they’re available to every player in MLB

Looking great, my man! 🙌🍻

What the hell is this and why isn’t it Dandy @scottyneuro.bsky.social

I for one am shocked — *shocked* — that no MLB team wants to pay $10M for him to ground out to 2B 600 times a year

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A very good birthday 👌