This is E-Rock, here for a special Tuesday installment of the Week Ahead in Beer. I took yesterday off to observe Memorial Day, recover from Blues and Brews, and relax with fellow beer drinkers and music lovers at Marble. But now it’s time to get back to business. A lot of beer was consumed in…
Month: May 2012
Beer Week: And so it ends
Well, that’s all she wrote, the fat lady has sung, the sun has set, and 8000 other cliches. ABQ Beer Week 2012 has come to a close with Blues & Brews as the mega-sized finish to all the fun. Thank goodness, because E-Rock needs a nap. With others working or ailing, he put the Crew…
Beer Week: Finishing with a flourish
First off, happy birthday to Franz Solo, who turns the big 3-0 today (Saturday), though the celebration began last night as he and E-Rock took in some more ABQ Beer Week events before I caught up to them to close the night out at Marble and Tractor. E-Rock recaps things below, since after all, we…
Beer Week: Colorado and Oregon invade, we approve
E-Rock and Franz Solo each made trips out for Thursday’s ABQ Beer Week events in Nob Hill. They offer up their thoughts on all the great beers that were available. Once again, I found myself at beer tastings on Nob Hill. I started the day’s tastings at Two Fools where I ran into the ABQ…
Beer Week: The reality of real ales
E-Rock reports on his ABQ Beer Week experience from Wednesday: After spending most of Tuesday at several different establishments doing beer tastings, I decided to take it easy and enjoy Marble’s Real Ale night. Marble had three cask beers to choose from, including their Maibock (7.0% ABV), Doppel Bock (7.0%), and the collaboration beer 505…
Beer Week: E-Rock tackles taste-a-palooza
Many breweries had tastings on Tuesday night. I made it to four different establishments to see what was new for Beer Week. I started the evening at Two Fools where Sierra Nevada released Hoptimum (100 IBU, 7.8% ABV). This dry and hoppy double IPA was what Stoutmeister would refer to as a kung-fu kick to…
Beer Week notes: So many events, so little time!
ABQ Beer Week keeps rolling right along, with a slew of midweek events that we are all trying our darnedest to keep up with. Monday got a little too busy for most of us (I was covering the Isotopes, E-Rock wrote up his last post and then had rehearsal, Franz Solo is being a good…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Beer Week is upon us and brewers keep on brewin’
This is E-Rock, back for another weekly installment of the Week Ahead in Beer. As most Albuquerque-area beer aficionados have noticed, we are smack dab in the middle of Beer Week, with tastings occurring all over town at establishments such as Imbibe, O’Neill’s, and Two Fools. What you might not know is that Albuquerque-area breweries…
Beer Week: The Scottish ales are free!
Well, not really free as in you don’t have to pay for them, but two new variations on the popular Scottish genre were on the loose on Sunday. Two Fools had a peat-smoked version of Il Vicino’s excellent Sasquatch Scotch on tap for the nice, low price of $3.75, while Nexus unleashed the burly Beam…
Beer Week notes: Lazy weekend, shifting venues
The Crew took Saturday off from attending any ABQ Beer Week events, but there were actually only three things going on. The ABQ Trolley Ale Trail sold out long before we ever tried to buy tickets and none of us were worthy of giving blood (in my case, I am unable due to living in…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 