One thing that’s easy to do on tour is drink. Whiling away the hours in a green room with little to occupy your time but patchy wifi and a box of beer, it’s inevitable they start to slip down rather easily. This time, however, instead of just knocking it back blindly, I would sample, savour, and critique it as the dilatant connoisseur that I am. As we’d added ‘local beers’ to our rider (largely to avoid the slap-in-the-face awfulness of Budweiser et al) I decided to pick out my top three:

3rd place - Elissa IPA 

Brewery: Saint Arnold, Houston

Taste: Complex hoppy notes complement a