Beer Polls: Pick the best of everything in 2016 — Part One

A short while ago Albuquerque The Magazine revealed a series of beer-related categories were included in its annual Best of the City awards. The results were both surprising and not-at-all surprising, a mix of awards being given out to the kind of places that readers of the fancy, ad-stuffed, glossy, upper-middle-class magazine would visit, plus the standard popular answers that have been given for years.

In other words, their readers are not exactly true beer geeks.

We are of the opinion that our readers are the most selective, educated beer lovers in the state. The degree of your craft beer love probably varies as much as what your palates prefer. Thus, with this being a very, very slow week for beer news, we elected to recreate a lot (but not all) of the magazine categories for you, the true beer geeks of Burque, to vote upon.

Each poll will be preceded by a short, explanatory paragraph on what we

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