Little Woodrow’s and B.B. Rover’s finally has a little competition in North Austin. Opal Divine’s Marina is a watering hole up in my neighborhood that has a decent beer and scotch selection. I dropped into the newest location of Opal Divine’s Austin locations, which was previously a Sea Island restaurant, and grabbed a seat at the bar top with my lady friend. We browsed the beer selection and I got giddy.

The wall of taps I could see behind the counter gave me great hope for Opal Divine’s and the bartender was equally excited to tell me about all the cool beers they have.

As I looked over the "Wall of Paradise", the bartender ran into the back office to print out a description for the DogFish 120 IPA. We had been taking about DogFish and he was a real HopHead. The beer was almost 500 calories per 12oz.; potent as jet fuel and I was glad they didn’t have it because there is no telling where I would have ended up that night.

The food at this pub was nothing to scream about, so don’t expect anything other than AppleBee’s fare. Enjoy the outdoor deck with live music, the pool tables, darts and pub atmosphere the next time you find yourself in North Austin with some time to kill.