Day Two of ABQ Beer Week rolls along with the release of the 505-Five Collaboration beer, a hoppy, yet malty, imperial-strength beast of a beer that lies somewhere between a red and an IPA. It will be available today/tonight at Chama River, Il Vicino, La Cumbre, Marble and Nexus, aka the five breweries that joined…
Month: April 2013
ABQ Beer Week: Beer 101 tops Day 1 events
ABQ Beer Week 2013 is here at last! Wondering what to do tonight? Here is all the info you will need for Thursday’s opening events. What: Special Beer Tasting. Where: Imbibe Cigar Bar in Nob Hill. When: 4 to 7 p.m. Cost: No cover charge. Details: Santa Fe Brewing will be bringing some of its…
Rejoice for ABQ Beer Week is upon us again (part one)
Hey there everybody. It’s Stoutmeister, feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve. Thursday represents the start of ABQ Beer Week 2013, a 10-day celebration of all that is good in our world — beer. I think at this point we could all use a beer, too. There has been enough bad news from the world…
Rejoice for ABQ Beer Week is upon us again (part two)
This is a listing of the Crew’s day-by-day picks for Beer Week, plus co-creator Marne Gaston’s recommendations as well. In truth, Marne wants people to go as many events as they can, these are just the ones where you might run into her. And us, in a lot of cases. For a full introduction, look…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Beer Week Begins
Editor’s note: Sorry this is coming out so late on a Tuesday, folks. E-Rock’s on the road, and when he finished it this afternoon, I was busy covering high school softball in Valencia County. Hopefully we’ll be back on a normal schedule for TWAIB next week. At least I know I’ll be in the comfy…
Broken Bottle finds its niche after one year
Years go by faster than most people think. Anyone with children can tell you that. For those of us without kids (including all six of us in the Crew), we tend to measure time in the ages of local breweries. We blinked, and Broken Bottle Brewery turned one year old right before our eyes. There…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Broken Bottle’s One-Year Anniversery
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 Albuquerque metro area. On Saturday, Broken Bottle Brewery…
Sold my soul for stout at Il Vicino
On a recent Wednesday, I, Franz Solo, happened to stop by the Il Vicino Canteen for some libations after a long day at work. My initial intent was to do a couple samples of some of the newer seasonals and fill a growler with the much-hyped Milk Chocolate Cherry Stout, but, much to my delight,…
ABQ Beer Week is creeping closer and closer
Well, hello there, ABQ-area beer lovers. Stoutmeister here, freed from the “shackles” of Isotopes Park for a few days. While I’ve been neck deep in baseball coverage, all those TBD events for ABQ Beer Week 2013 are suddenly coming into focus with full details and the like. With so much info floating around out there,…
Kellerbier aus Deutschland und Amerika
Editor’s note: Franz Solo recently found some time in his busy, busy life to write about some of the beer he’s had recently. Let us all give thanks for this rare but wonderful contribution to the blog, especially when a certain editor is buried under baseball box scores. — Stoutmeister Hails and Horns for good…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 