The Week Ahead in Beer — Welcome Santa Fe and Taos

Greetings New Mexico beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here to bring you my first official Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. I started writing this column a year ago, and one thing I always wanted to do since I started was expand the scope of this column to include Santa Fe and Taos….

La Cumbre and New Belgium join forces to benefit us all

La Cumbre has gone and sneaked up on us again. When word came down via social media on Monday that one of Albuquerque’s best breweries had joined forces with Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing to create a collaboration beer called May’s Maize, we are all a bit floored by the news. So we trekked over to…

The Week Ahead in Beer — Nexus celebrates their second anniversary

Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here to bring you my final Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. Starting next week, this column will be posted regularly on Tuesday in order to give me more time to expand coverage to Santa Fe and Taos. Other changes will follow in the coming weeks…

The Week Ahead in Beer — Get Belgian in Back Alley

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. As per usual, I am…

ABQ Beer Week: That’s a (belated) wrap!

Well, that was fun. ABQ Beer Week 2013 has come and gone, and now that a certain baseball team is on the road, ol’ Stoutmeister here has a chance to catch up and recap the last two days of events, Friday and Saturday. These were a couple of big days for the Brew Crew with…

The Week Ahead in Beer — Back to business as usual

Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock back in Albuquerque 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. Now that I’m…

ABQ Beer Week: Join us in the Dark Ages

The day is finally upon us. Today is the day we in the New Mexico Dark Side Brew Crew turn ArtBar dark. Very dark. Dark cabaret, dark music, dark trivia, and above all else, dark beer. It shall flow tonight. Welcome to the Dark Ages! We realize some of you may still be going “what…

ABQ Beer Week: That’s almost a wrap on Day 9

The ninth day of ABQ Beer Week is almost the finale. Only Blues & Brews remains after this, but as far as finales go, that one is pretty epic. This day, however, is the one the Brew Crew has been looking forward to the most. After all, it has our very own event, the Dark…

ABQ Beer Week: E-Rock returns for a little Left Hand

Editor’s note: E-Rock made it back from Texas on Wednesday night and headed over to Two Fools for a Left Hand beer tasting event. He’s trying to play catch-up on all the things he needs to do in advance of Friday’s Dark Ages show, so I’m posting this on his behalf. — Stoutmeister On Wednesday…