Beer Poll: Choosing Albuquerque’s favorite taproom

Believe it or not, the Marble Westside Tap Room will be celebrating its fourth anniversary today (Tuesday). It certainly changed the beer scene west of the Rio Grande when it opened back in 2012. It has been expanded three times in order to serve the growing number of Marble fans.

Now, Marble Westside was not the first brewery taproom to open in Albuquerque. One would have to go back to the early 2000s when Blue Corn Albuquerque (now Chama River) opened the Microbar on Second Street between Central and Gold. That was followed by the ABQ (now Alien) Brew Pub in 2010, co-owned by the folks at Sierra Blanca Brewing in Moriarty. After that came the Tractor taproom in Nob Hill, back when the main brewery was still located in Los Lunas, in 2011.

As you trek west to enjoy some 2014 Imperial Stout on tap (yes, a staff member told me it would be there today) and listen to Le Chat Lunatique from 7 to

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