Jun 25, 2026 | 10:00 am
For decades, Texans have considered Lone Star as one beer with one story. A new book from San Antonio author Jeremy Banas argues we’ve all been getting it wrong — two separate breweries shared the name, and the first one never brewed a drop of Lone Star at all.
“There’s really two histories, not one, and that’s the misconception,” Banas said.
His “Lone Star Beer: A History of Two Iconic San Antonio Breweries,” arriving on July 21, untaps a complicated story that is as much about how suds shaped Alamo City’s past as it is about the “National Beer of Texas.”…