#167: Moonlight

The Bar

Moonlight. 309 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701

Visited 12/12/20 @ 10:30pm.

The Drink

Sour skittles shot. Vodka, cherry pucker schnapps, pineapple juice, sweet & sour. $7.

"What's your favorite Skittles flavor" is classic listicle bait, but the correct answer, according to the company, is that red is the most preferred while yellow is the least. That's the flavor Nook wisely decided to go for, and I am happy to report that it does in fact taste like a red Skittle: cherry sweetness from the schnapps with a bit of tartness thanks to the pineapple juice. Fancy shots at Dirty Sixth bars are designed to be ripoffs, so this is not a bargain in absolute terms, but in relative terms this is a decent shot at the price you'll be paying anywhere else. In fairness, this does represent the bar fairly well, so a I give it a begrudging thumbs up.

The Crew

Aaron.

Notes

Moonlight used to be Nook, but you'd be forgiven for not really seeing much difference in the new establishment. Interestingly, rather than simply rebranding the property to keep it in the same family as Pop, etc, the ownership sold it off entirely. The new joint now has the same ownership as Thirsty Nickel, Chupacabra, Mooseknuckle, and Jackalope, so it's in solid hands; it's just another example of the business of Sixth Street behind the scenes. In front of the scenes, Moonlight offers a very similar Dirty Sixth experience to the other bars it abuts - loud dance music from the DJ in the corner, muted colorful lighting casting subtly mystifying illumination upon the strangers you might be talking to, people talking to each other everywhere. If you didn't know any better, you might think it had been here forever.