Ah, March, a month of promise, a month of rebirth, a month of madness, a month of a lot of stinking wind. It has also been a month of a lot of seasonal beer releases across the ABQ metro area’s many breweries. This has been an unusual month in how much it has combined to…
Month: March 2013
The Week Ahead in Beer—Everyone has something new
Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here to bring you another Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. As always, this column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around the Duke City. It seems like every brewery in…
Beer Battle: Picking the finest Irish Red of them all
Sometimes inspiration can strike at the oddest hours. With the crummy weather coming in, E-Rock and I (Stoutmeister) decided to postpone our planned Taos Trek II that we had set for this past Saturday. Franz Solo actually had a Saturday off, and despite the Lobos going kaplooey, he wanted to watch basketball and drink beer….
Arizona Breweries, Take 2: Scaling the North Mountain
Stoutmeister wraps up his short trip through Arizona with a visit to the just-opened North Mountain Brewing in Phoenix and a quick stop by SanTan Brewing in Chandler. Despite all the beer and baseball, he should come home to ABQ soon. The only unfortunate thing about where my friend Chuck lives in the north end…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Bosque serves up beer for a good cause
Editor’s note: E-Rock wrote this yesterday (Monday) and it should have been posted then, but a certain on-vacation-editor was busy watching baseball and drinking beer. Hey, it was work. All work, I swear. Anyway, even a day late, the news here is still fresh. Oh, lord, what a terrible saying. It’s before 8 a.m. Arizona…
Arizona Breweries, Take 2: Facing off with Dragoon
Stoutmeister went back to Arizona for a little post-state high school basketball tournament vacation. He earned it. The possibility of a third-round NCAA Tournament game between New Mexico and Arizona does not excite some of us. OK, probably just me, since that pits my hometown team versus my alma mater, meaning I have to choose…
The Week Ahead in Beer—TMBC St. Patty’s Day Jamboree
Greetings Burque beer lovers, this is E-Rock here to bring you another Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. As always, this column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around the Duke City. This week is a good one…
Tapping Casks: Il Vicino fires up the Festiveness
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final entry in a series on cask beers in the Albuquerque area, all in advance of the Cask Festival at Il Vicino on Saturday. The idea is to explain what cask beers are and how different brewers approach this sub-genre of craft brewing. Click here for our story…
Tapping Casks: La Cumbre keeps on keeping on
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series on cask beers in the Albuquerque area, all in advance of the Cask Festival at Il Vicino on Saturday. The idea is to explain what cask beers are and how different brewers approach this sub-genre of craft brewing. Click here for our story on Turtle Mountain’s…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Out with the old, in with the new at the Canteen
Greetings Burque beer lovers, this is E-Rock here to bring you a special Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. I spent last week in Saint Lucia in the Bahamas at my sister’s wedding, so I didn’t get back into Albuquerque until last night. As a result, I had to push back The Week…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 