The Week Ahead in Beer: Some final thoughts on special beer releases

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without participation from the breweries outside the I-25 corridor, it was futile.

This is one of those rare weeks where there is no major beer release, beer/food pairing event, festival, or anything. It’s just a regular old week, albeit a stupidly cold one. Rather than join in with everyone else and gripe about the weather, I wanted to reflect on some stuff I brought up earlier this week in regards to what seemed to us to be declining attendance/interest in some of the recent special releases. While most of you chimed in that there is no such as too many bottle nights, one person dropped a (rat

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