The Flying Saucer beer bar in downtown Houston has been around for 16 years and still feels like a real original, no matter that there are 15 locations across five states and ours wasn't even the first — Fort Worth holds that honor. The Houston outpost has 85 beers on tap, with everything from local favorites, like Brash and Saint Arnold, to the best of Belgium, such as Maredsous and Westmalle. New, interesting brews arrive daily and are posted to the website so that beer nerds can keep up. (The list is even searchable by name, location or style.) A big part of the company's success is its community outreach and customer loyalty program, which includes getting a free beer party and their name on the wall after trying 200 brews. In 2016, Draft magazine named Flying Saucer one of the top six chain beer bars in the United States for being a company that "has set the standard since 1995.
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