Editor’s note: This is the first of our correspondent reviews of key Beer Week events that the Crew members were not able to attend. We called upon Kristin of the ABQ Craft Beer Drinkers Group to give us the lowdown on how things went at Marble. Needless to say, aside from the weather, it was…
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.
ABQ Beer Week 2015: The beer abides on Day Two, dudes
The rain be damned, that was a pretty damn fine start to ABQ Beer Week on Thursday. Whether you were indulging in some beer and cheese (and other foods) at Marble, or snagging a pint of the Strawberry Cream Malpais at Two Fools, or the Oak Aged Wake Up Dead at Nob Hill Bar &…
Introducing a new way to show your Enthusiasm for NM Brewers Guild
Before the Ballast Point Draft Kickoff Party began at Nob Hill Bar & Grill on Wednesday night, yours truly made a stop by Tractor Wells Park to talk to co-owner Skye Devore about a new initiative involving the New Mexico Brewers Guild and its member breweries. As the guilds do in other states, the NMBG…
ABQ Beer Week 2015: Day One kicks off with an onslaught of awesome events
Hello, Albuquerque beer lovers! And everyone else coming to town. ABQ Beer Week is here, a monolithic, 11-day series of events (167 total!) that is all about expressing our love of craft beer. The entire Crew, plus some special correspondents, will be doing our best to cover as many events as we can. Are we…
The guide to the Ballast Point beers on tap at Nob Hill Bar & Grill
So in case you have somehow missed the huge news, Ballast Point Brewing of San Diego will be making their New Mexico debut tonight (Wednesday) at Nob Hill Bar & Grill at 7 p.m. There will be 10 different Ballast Point beers on tap. But seriously, you should not have missed this news since the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Let the madness begin!
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without…
ABQ Beer Week 2015: We’re looking for a few good correspondents
Greetings, everyone! Only a few days remain before the epic madness of ABQ Beer Week 2015 descends upon us. All the participating members of the NMDSBC have worked out what events we can attend and provide coverage of, but needless to say with 160-plus this year, we cannot get to all of them. So we…
Distillery 365 prepares to celebrate their grand opening
Pardon the lateness of this post, but yours truly has been swamped with high school sports coverage this week that prevented me from posting these photos of Distillery 365 in a timely manner. Well, some high school sports, mostly just waiting out lots and lots of ridiculous weather delays. Seriously, New Mexico, you are outdoing…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Brewers take a little off the top for charity
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without…
The Crew ran a 5K for beer and no one died
We are alive. That was pretty much the best summation of the Dark Side Brew Crew’s experience at the first ABQ Brew Dash on Saturday. A bunch of mostly out-of-shape beer writers ran 5 kilometers. Why? Hey, why not? As Franz Solo once said, “Fit, drunk, and stupid is the way to go through life,…
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