Beer shop, popular restaurant heavily damaged in overnight incident

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A popular beer shop and a noodle house in the Montrose area are both picking up the pieces Sunday after an SUV drove into the front of the shops, destroying merchandise and causing extensive damages.

Jugs Draft, in the 3100 block South Shepherd, sells and refills growlers of craft beer and also offers keg service.

The owner of Jugs Draft, Steve Barron, told those at the scene Sunday morning that he got a phone call in the early morning about the accident.

“I got a call at 5 a.m. this morning that someone decided to turn Jugs into a drive-thru,” he said. ‘They plowed through the front and destroyed my entire bottle collection.”

Four bottle coolers were destroyed, Barron said, including a collection of sour beers.

Jugs is a locally-owned shop and Barron says that they are currently looking at being closed for the next two weeks or so. The shop opened in 2014.

On Sunday afternoon Barron was trying to sell as much of his remaining stock for $2 a bottle, which should be a bargain for craft beer fans.

A Jenni’s Noodle Shop location next door was also heavily damaged in the incident, with the vehicle entering Jugs and stopping in the noodle shop’s dining room.

Scott Tran-Weaver who owns Jenni’s with his wife Jenni said that this location will be closed for the next five days. They have two other locations, one in the Heights and one in the Galleria area.

No one was at that location when the SUV drove through both shops. He did managed to capture video of the incident as it occurred via remote surveillance cameras.

He also joked that the driver apparently had a hankering for noodles and craft beer.

Police told Barron that a driver in an SUV was speeding through the nearby intersection when they lost control and drove into Jugs.

Tran-Weaver learned that the errant driver wasn’t drunk, just speeding.

The driver didn’t appear to be hurt in the accidental remodeling job either.

The smoke shop next door didn’t appear to be harmed.

Meanwhile, old-school Houstonians might know the Jugs Draft address (3109 S. Shepherd) better as Record Rack, a long-running record store that succumbed to a changing market in the early 2000s.