Nightclub & Bar - October 2009

Some of the faces behind the bar (from left): Kevin Floyd, Justin Burrow and Bobby Heugel.

“We regularly communicated
that we were doing this
project via updates [on the
blog] about the progress of
the bar being built. It got
a lot of attention right off
the bat, and in all honesty,
I didn’t know Drink Dogma
was going to have the level
of impact that it did.”

– Bobby Heugel, Co-owner, Anvil, Houston

space ourselves,” Heugel explains. “We are not an interior design space with cocktails. Anvil’s design is symbolic for us. We took old shelving from a piano store Kevin and I worked at when we were 13, all the glass is from thrift stores, the tables are made from wood flooring and the bathroom doors are old walk-in cooler doors we found in a butcher shop in Texas.”

Anvil’s Cyberlife

Lately, Drink Dogma’s posts haven’t been quite as frequent, as Heugel’s attention has been on making the bar launch and run smoothly, but since hiring and training four new bartenders, he’s now hoping to get back to writing. His passion for swapping cocktail knowledge online hasn’t changed, but some elements of

the blog have.

“What’s interesting now is that when it was just Drink Dogma, it was more formal. Now it’s a mixture of cocktail-related things that are interesting and some of ‘Hey, this is what we are doing at the bar.’”

When the group launched a beer program recently at Anvil, for example,

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