Patience, young Grasshopper, the beers are starting to arrive

Rio Rancho finally has another hometown beer. If you have ever doubted the demand for craft beers in “The City of Vision,” just keep reading.

The Blue Grasshopper has been serving local beers from other breweries and their own wood-fired pizza since they opened late last year through the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Now, they finally have one of their own beers on tap. I decided to make a quick stop over the weekend to check out this new beer, a 7-percent ABV “Dubbel Dunkel.” It’s a good thing I did because they are already almost out. They went through two kegs in the first four days and I would say that’s pretty impressive for the first offering from a small brewpub located in a strip mall behind a Wendy’s just west of Rio Rancho Blvd./Highway 528. This Dunkel offered some interesting dark, dried fruit notes (date? fig? raisin?) in the middle and a slightly bitter finish. It was not overly sweet. Ad

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