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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,…

Time to hit the ground running at the ABQ Brew Dash

Here is hoping most of you out there have done a lot more training than I have, because the ABQ Brew Dash is this Saturday. The 5K kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with the mile run right afterward. The course organizers recommend you should get there at least 45 minutes before the race begins. You…

Upslope set to make their ABQ debut at Nob Hill Bar & Grill

Adam from the Bullpen had a great interview last week with Nob Hill Bar & Grill bar manager/craft beer aficionado Thomas DeCaro about all the upcoming fun he has planned. Well, one of those plans has come to light rather quickly. Upslope Brewing Co. of Boulder, Colo., will debut their beers on tap at NHBG…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Enjoy these last days of quiet

Marble’s marvelous duo of Rice and Kornke keep the brewery rolling

Before the Isotopes returned to Albuquerque to suck up all of my available free time last week, I trekked over to Marble Brewery to interview Amberley Rice and Anna Kornke, two women with very different but equally important jobs, for our ongoing NM Women in Brewing series. Amberley is Marble’s director of marketing, and as…

Blaze a trail to Las Cruces to kick off festival season

The third annual Blazin’ Brewfest will hit Las Cruces this Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m., officially kicking off festival season in New Mexico. The event will be held again on Main Street, with plenty of food trucks and live music to go with the offerings from 15 different breweries, including the event’s four host…