Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, back to bring you this 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 taprooms in New Mexico. New head brewer appreciation month continues…
Month: April 2014
Second Street brews up plenty of new beer goodness
Lately the Crew has been writing a lot on all the new brewers and new breweries in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. That does not mean that the news has stopped with many of our old favorites. The folks at Second Street Brewery up in Santa Fe contacted us about all the wonderful things that brewer…
Blue Corn’s new brewer has some big shoes to fill
Every new brewer will always face a challenge when taking over an established brewery. Some, though, arrive in the shadow of a predecessor who just went out and put that brewery on the map. That is the challenge facing James Warren, the new brewer at Blue Corn, who succeeds John Bullard at the well-established Santa…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The new face of Turtle Mountain
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, back to bring you this 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 taprooms in New Mexico. When Turtle Mountain Brewing Company recently…
The math adds up over at Pi Brewing
Amid all the recent news and rumors about new breweries springing up around Albuquerque, all of us in the Crew were surprised when one place we had never heard about suddenly sent us a message on Facebook. That was all by design, as Franz Solo and I found out when we trekked over to the…
Brewology: Trials, errors, and the joys of chocolate porters
Greetings faithful readers and beer connoisseurs, the NMDSBC is here to bring you another installment in the Brewology series! With a few amateur home brewers in our collective, these articles are dedicated to the craft of making beer right out of our homes from scratch. We attempt to document the process as much as possible and…
We’re all a bunch of Untappd badge whores
We, the great beer-loving human collective, spend way too much time buried in our smart phones. Look around the next time you’re at a brewery or taproom, especially during quieter times, and count the number of people texting, emailing, or playing with their various apps. Once upon a time, some very smart people noticed this,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: So much news!
Editor’s note: If you’re seeing this, be happy, for you are now reading the edited version. E-Rock hit “publish” instead of “save” this morning while he was hustling out the door to go to work. I was busy running in the Bosque (yes, really, I am trying to get in shape; better shape = more…
Beer Notes: More medals, more interviews, more brews
This edition of Beer Notes might count as the most random grab-bag of stuff ever. The news has started to pile up on our doorstep again, now it’s just a matter of finding that precious thing — time — in which to go more in-depth. Until then, well, here’s a summary of all the fun…
Winter is coming with Ommegang’s latest release
Editor’s note: Franz Solo actually meant to release this review to coincide with GoT’s season premier last weekend. His work and mine got in the way. These things happen. Enjoy it before episode two debuts this Saturday. — Stoutmeister Amid the ludicrous and interminable weather changes that are called “spring” in the Land of Enchantment,…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 