It’s a fairly mellow Friday … oh, wait, no it’s not, mainly because of one bonkers tapping after another. That was still a lot of beer on Thursday, but we gotta admit that we like limiting the number of events to 10 or less per day. It keeps us more focused, cuts down on our Lyft/Uber expenses, and so on. There are only six e ...
Read More »ABQ Beer Week: Day One fun begins with sours, cheese, collaborations and more
Day One will see the return of Beer, Cheese & More at Marble, Sour Hour at Tractor, and more! All right, people, it’s go time! Again! Make sure you have your Lyft and/or Uber accounts up to date, and then start checking off the events you can’t miss. The Crew will be here for you every day with info on every single event. Look f ...
Read More »ABQ Beer Week: Steel Bender gets in on the fun this year
Steel Bender is diving head-first into ABQ Beer Week. When ABQ Beer Week rolled around last year, Steel Bender Brewyard had only been open for a couple months. Knowing that it was better to ease into things, the owners waited until this year to go full-bore into the annual madness. To follow up on our stories on all the events going on at Tract ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Boxing Bear throws a block party
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Las Cruces also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in ...
Read More »ABQ Beer Week: Marble rolls out more bountiful events
Beer, Cheese & More will be back at the downtown taproom this Thursday. In order to help everyone plan out how to handle ABQ Beer Week, the Crew is once again visiting with the breweries hosting multiple events prior to everything kicking off this Thursday. After catching up with Tractor Brewing, the next stop was Marble Brewery, where I vi ...
Read More »ABQ Beer Week: Tractor plows ahead with nearly an event per day
Sticking with tradition, this will be one of the headquarters for ABQ Beer Week events in 2018. Tractor Brewing is at it again. Just like in past years, the brewery and its taprooms are gearing up for a slew of events encompassing almost every day of ABQ Beer Week, which kicks off this Thursday. To make sure we did not overlook any events, I sa ...
Read More »ABQ Beer Week: Rare beers set for Sister’s 21 and Over event
A slew of specialty brews will be arriving at Sister a week from today. When just glancing at the name, the 21 and Over event at Sister sounds kind of odd. After all, of course one has to be 21 and over to go drink beer at the downtown bar next Friday, May 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. What the title actually refers to, however, is the age of the brewer ...
Read More »Beer Notes: 30 breweries to vie for NM IPA Challenge trophy this July
Can anyone pry the trophy from Justin Hamilton’s hands this summer? There was just enough news piling up to require a short notebook this week. The NM Brewers Guild released the list of 30 participating breweries in this summer’s NM IPA Challenge. We also have news on some of the new breweries coming to our state, plus a couple note ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Tractor is abuzz with annual festival
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Las Cruces also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in ...
Read More »Bosque serves up a new project with an uplifting twist
The future home of Restoration Pizza by Bosque Brewing, across the parking lot from Cabela’s. While doing a weekly perusal of pending small brewer licenses, the Crew stumbled upon a new one that threw us off for a minute. Restoration Pizza by Bosque Brewing was a new addition, but also one we had heard nothing about. After contacting the ...
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