Houston's best hot dog spots includes a sudsy Good Dog July

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We're midway through baseball season, which might have Astros fans craving for the obligatory ballpark accessory: hot dogs.

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The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates that baseball fans will "consume nearly 19 million hot dogs and more than 4.1 million sausages during the 2017 Major League Baseball (MLB) season." That's a tube-meat stretch that reaches from "San Francisco's AT&T Park to the new SunTrust Park in Atlanta," the council reports.

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"Year after year, hot dogs continue to hit it out of the park at the concession stand," NHDSC president Eric Mittenthal said in a prepared statement. "As teams innovate to offer more food choices and inventive creations, one thing is certain: hot dogs and baseball are inseparable."

In Houston, gourmet hot dog restaurant Good Dog is celebrating the quintissential summer dish with a month-long promotion that continues through August.

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Good Dog, which is the only dedicated hot dog spot to claim a place on Houston Chronicle food critic Alison Cook's 2016 Top 100 Restaurants list, has two Houston locations: 903 Studewood in the Heights and 1312 W. Alabama in Montrose.

"We're having an event every Saturday in July with a different local brewery celebrating National Hot Dog Month," Good Dog co-owner Daniel Caballero said.

"Each weekend, (co-owner Amalia Pferd) is creating a special bratwurst using beer from each (Houston) brewery in her cooking process. This weekend's 'Bratwurst Special' is a Currywurst," he explained. "Amalia is making a scratch-made curry ketchup using 8th Wonder's Weissheimer beer along with a great curried onion relish using 8th Wonder's IP8 (double IPA)."

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That's for this weekend alone, since it marks a special collaborative effort with Houston's 8th Wonder Brewery.

The rest of this month's weekend events include:

July 15: Eureka Heights Brew Co.

July 22: Lone Pint Brewery

July 29: Saint Arnold Brewing Company

Good Dog's sudsy July weekend parties will also include a live band at the restaurant's Montrose location. The Journey Agents will be playing "something new and special" from 3 to 6 p.m.

One more reason to head to Good Dog this month? Caballero said they "just introduced our new Texas Smoked Bratwurst in July!"