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The Week Ahead in Beer: Last-minute scramble

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister 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 tap rooms in New Mexico. E-Rock is about one week…

Sizing up the superb selection at Son of Septemberfest

The Crew tackled the dirty dozen beers at Marble’s Son of Septemberfest on Saturday. Without further adieu, here are our quick reviews of those beers. Abbey Brewing, Monk’s Tripel Sweet, but not overly so. You don’t taste the alcohol, which could be an issue with this 9.2-percent ABV beast. It is easy to find in…

The Son (of Septemberfest) also rises

It was a sad day a while back when news came in that Marble’s Septemberfest had been canceled for 2013. A bad case of “festival fatigue” was blamed for the end of this popular event. Yet the thirsty public cried out for Marble to still do something to celebrate the end of summer and start…

Beer Roundup: Back from the dead

As promised a little while ago, the Crew has resurrected this bi-weekly feature. This is where we share short reviews of the various beers we have tried of late from local breweries and from microbreweries across the nation. Since it has been a while since we have done one of these, I fear some of…

The Great White North has come south

Howdy, all, hope you’re staying nice and dry amid this freakish weather. This is Stoutmeister with a little review of the beers I tried Wednesday. Yeah, I know, a bit late, and before anyone asks about the Beer Roundup, it’s on life support at this point. No one else in the Crew has time to…

Kaktus Brewing brings good craft beer back to Bernalillo

Just up the road from Albuquerque along I-25 sits the small, sleepy town of Bernalillo. Back in the day it had the Milagro Brewery, but that place did not last. Amid the post-2010 brewery boom in New Mexico, Bernalillo had been left behind until now. Kaktus Brewing is now undergoing a “soft opening” before a…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Better late than never, right?

NOTE: The listing for Nexus is from last week (they must be packed with customers since no one is answering the phone). Once we get this week’s info we will update their section. Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister filling in on this installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column…

Fighting that post-major-beer-event-malaise

Happy Friday, beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with one of those posts where I write about a bunch of stuff that we hope to write in the future. Yeah, it’s kind of lazy, but it’s what we’ve got right now. There is always that period of post-event exhaustion. Now, the IPA Challenge did not wear us…

Meet me at the Fair for another beer competition

Before the actual NM State Fair kicks off — and come on, you know it’s coming soon since friend of the Crew Lauren Poole is playing Lynette in the commercials again — they hold a Pro-Am competition where a bunch of judges figure out some of the best beers in the land. Our friends at…

IPA Challenge: And the winner is …

For the first time in the 12-year history of the IPA Challenge, a brewery outside of the Albuquerque metro area will take the trophy home. Blue Corn’s Resurgence captured the title with a resounding victory after the fourth and final round at Marble’s downtown pub on Saturday afternoon. “It’s pretty good,” said Blue Corn brewer…