ABQ Beer Week 2013 is here at last! Wondering what to do tonight? Here is all the info you will need for Thursday’s opening events. What: Special Beer Tasting. Where: Imbibe Cigar Bar in Nob Hill. When: 4 to 7 p.m. Cost: No cover charge. Details: Santa Fe Brewing will be bringing some of its…
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.
Rejoice for ABQ Beer Week is upon us again (part one)
Hey there everybody. It’s Stoutmeister, feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve. Thursday represents the start of ABQ Beer Week 2013, a 10-day celebration of all that is good in our world — beer. I think at this point we could all use a beer, too. There has been enough bad news from the world…
Rejoice for ABQ Beer Week is upon us again (part two)
This is a listing of the Crew’s day-by-day picks for Beer Week, plus co-creator Marne Gaston’s recommendations as well. In truth, Marne wants people to go as many events as they can, these are just the ones where you might run into her. And us, in a lot of cases. For a full introduction, look…
Broken Bottle finds its niche after one year
Years go by faster than most people think. Anyone with children can tell you that. For those of us without kids (including all six of us in the Crew), we tend to measure time in the ages of local breweries. We blinked, and Broken Bottle Brewery turned one year old right before our eyes. There…
ABQ Beer Week is creeping closer and closer
Well, hello there, ABQ-area beer lovers. Stoutmeister here, freed from the “shackles” of Isotopes Park for a few days. While I’ve been neck deep in baseball coverage, all those TBD events for ABQ Beer Week 2013 are suddenly coming into focus with full details and the like. With so much info floating around out there,…
Star of the Season: March’s most magnificent seasonal was …
Geez, March was a busy month. You don’t tend to realize it until you go and look at the long list of seasonal beers that came out and how few you managed to try. For me, Stoutmeister, the last month included lots of high school sports coverage, the Lobo baseball team being back, and my…
Star of the Season: The madness of picking March’s best seasonal
Ah, March, a month of promise, a month of rebirth, a month of madness, a month of a lot of stinking wind. It has also been a month of a lot of seasonal beer releases across the ABQ metro area’s many breweries. This has been an unusual month in how much it has combined to…
Beer Battle: Picking the finest Irish Red of them all
Sometimes inspiration can strike at the oddest hours. With the crummy weather coming in, E-Rock and I (Stoutmeister) decided to postpone our planned Taos Trek II that we had set for this past Saturday. Franz Solo actually had a Saturday off, and despite the Lobos going kaplooey, he wanted to watch basketball and drink beer….
Arizona Breweries, Take 2: Scaling the North Mountain
Stoutmeister wraps up his short trip through Arizona with a visit to the just-opened North Mountain Brewing in Phoenix and a quick stop by SanTan Brewing in Chandler. Despite all the beer and baseball, he should come home to ABQ soon. The only unfortunate thing about where my friend Chuck lives in the north end…
Arizona Breweries, Take 2: Facing off with Dragoon
Stoutmeister went back to Arizona for a little post-state high school basketball tournament vacation. He earned it. The possibility of a third-round NCAA Tournament game between New Mexico and Arizona does not excite some of us. OK, probably just me, since that pits my hometown team versus my alma mater, meaning I have to choose…
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