Hops & Grain's Tap Takeover; Half Price At Parkside

NORTH CAMPUS -- Local brewery Hops & Grain is hosting a "Volumes of Oak tap takeover" at Hopfields tonight and tomorrow night, showing off their "Pale Dog, Alt-eration, and Barley wines 3 & 6 in French Oak Cabernet Barrels and also in Makers Mark Bourbon Barrels." [Eaterwire]

DOWNTOWN -- Close out this cloudy day with half price champagne and oysters tonight at Chef Shawn Cirkiel's seafood-centric Parkside at Sixth Street and San Jacinto. [Eaterwire]

CRIMEWIRE -- Jovita's owner Amado "Mayo" Pardo and his brother Jose Pardo were both denied bail at a hearing yesterday concerning their arrests--along with 16 other people--in an alleged heroin ring run out of the South Austin restaurant. [KXAN]

Hopfields. [Photo: Raymond Thompson/EATX]