Amid all the seriousness of the weekend, the Brew Crew was still able to gather to hold our annual Stout Challenge before the start of the Super Bowl. While the game featured an improbable rally by the favorite, our blind taste test featured an upset by one of the newer breweries in town. For the…
Author: Stoutmeister
Former sports writer in Tucson, LA, and Burque. Now I write about craft beer, which is a totally reasonable way to support my hobby of spending afternoons and evenings indulging in the finest stouts, lagers, and more.
Stout Challenge VI: The not-so-sweet sixteen dark ales of doom
Well, it is that time of year again. The Super Bowl is this Sunday, which means it is also time for the sixth annual NM Dark Side Brew Crew Stout Challenge. We fill up growlers of stout from breweries around the ABQ metro area and then hold a blind taste test to determine which one…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Feeling Super with lots of local brews
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Social media has been rife with strife since a certain…
New reciprocity bill set for Thursday hearing in Santa Fe
The good folks out at Ale Republic alerted us to the fact that the first notable piece of legislation that affects craft breweries comes up this Thursday in Santa Fe. A new reciprocity bill is due for a vote before the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee, which meets at 1:30 p.m. in Room 309….
Nexus goes boldly into 2017 with plans for a 3rd location
Things are going good at Nexus Brewery. How good, one might ask? Owner Ken Carson is already planning a third location, even though he only opened his second this past June. For this edition of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series, I sat down with Ken and head brewer Kaylynn McKnight to recap the year that…
Beer Notes: We got shirts, The 377 has their own brews, and more
A belated thank you to everyone who came out to our fifth anniversary celebration at Tractor a couple weeks ago. Well, even if you did not make it out there, we still have quite a few shirts for sale. Our friend Michael Wieclaw, a.k.a. the mad genius behind Metal the Brand, made this batch of…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Sidetrack and Rowley ratchet up the fun
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. This anniversary party thing is gaining steam. Last week, it…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Come party with the Crew, we’re big kids now!
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. It may be hard to believe, but the Dark Side…
Santa Fe Brewing continues its rapid expansion project into 2017
Ever since Luke, and later Julie, joined the Crew, we have had them handle just about all the stories on the breweries in Santa Fe. Every now and again, though, some of us Albuquerque-based folks still have to step up and fill in, as I did with the Santa Fe Brewing entry for our Look…
WinterBrew returns with some intriguing beer lineups
All right, this is one of those posts where you can react one of two ways: Be excited, because you bought a ticket Be seriously bummed, because you did not and the event is sold out If you fall under No. 2 there, you might want to just move on with your internet browsing. Unless…
