Stoutmeister here with the actual voting totals from round two of the IPA Challenge at Taos Mesa on Saturday. That’s it? A total of 24 votes? On the day of Taos Mesa’s one-year anniversary all that showed up were 24 people? Wow. That’s sad. Deeply sad. Either people in Taos don’t like IPA or something…
Month: August 2013
IPA Challenge: Buddy, can you spare some voting totals?
Stoutmeister here with the recap of the second round of the IPA Challenge. And by recap I mean a big, fat “huh?” because no one out there seems to have the results from Taos Mesa. In order to try and clear this up I put in a phone call to the good folks at Taos’…
IPA Challenge: Turtle’s Genesis takes lead after Round 1
Stoutmeister here with a quick tally of the votes from Round One of the 2013 IPA Challenge. Held at Las Cruces’ High Desert Brewing on Friday night, a total of 102 voters cast their picks in the blind taste test for the best IPA in New Mexico. The results, well, were a bit surprising. Sitting…
IPA Challenge: A history lesson for one and all
To the brewers and brewery owners who have been involved since the beginning, the IPA Challenge has come a long way as its 12th incarnation is set to begin this afternoon at High Desert Brewing in Las Cruces. Taking the way-back machine with Il Vicino’s Brady McKeown and Turtle Mountain’s Nico Ortiz, the origin of…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Bad Breaks and Challenging IPAs
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock and bringing you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around…
Vegas Sands: Sampling some new brews in a unique location
Imagine a big old warehouse in northeast Albuquerque set up with sand volleyball courts. Then imagine a bar in with all those courts, pouring beers from a Las Vegas brewery. Sounds a little odd, doesn’t it? Yet that is exactly what the Brew Crew found at the Sandbar inside Charlie’s Sandbox, located west of Jefferson…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 