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Houston

Icehouses, stiff pours, and Montrose grit

Houston drinks outdoors under the oaks at century-old icehouses and inside candlelit downtown relics that feel frozen in the 1800s. Cheap, unpretentious, and beloved by every kind of regular.

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West Alabama Ice House

Houston's most iconic dive, an open-air icehouse since 1928 with picnic tables, ice-cold beer, and a gravel lot where bikers, hipsters, and old-timers all mingle. No frills, just beer under the oaks.

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