From 2023
It’s not just a brewery anymore: Community Beer Co. is a distillery now, too. Under the Society Spirits label, it showcases its own vodka, whiskey, and agave spirit in the taproom as neat pours or as the basis of a new cocktail menu.
The cocktail list is full of refreshing drinks that are geared for patio sipping: a simple, proper ranch water; a smooth, orangy Old Fashioned, or the Community, a vodka soda with hibiscus and lime. None of the cocktails is what you’d call complex or connoisseurial. Instead they fit Community’s mood: sit at a picnic table in the huge patio space, watch people play with their dogs, snack on a giant pretzel, and enjoy an easy-drinking cocktail.
About the phrase “agave spirit”: although this is prepared in the same way as a tequila, the word “tequila” is protected by the Mexican government, designating a certain range of products from five specific states in Mexico. Even other Mexican growers can’t call their tequila “tequila,” let alone an American producer like Society Spirits. It’s best to think of “agave spirit” like a generic branding term, on the same lines as “sparkling wine” versus “Champagne.”
If you’re taken with the wares on your visit, bottles of Society Spirits are available to go.
Society Spirits, 3110 Commonwealth Dr. 214-751-7921.
This story originally appeared in the October issue of D Magazine with the headline, “Neat Trick.” Write to brian.reinhart@dmagazine.com.
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