Marble’s Oatmeal Stout, or at least that was how we ended up voting after the first NM Dark Side Brew Crew Beer Battle. The battle took place during halftime of the Super Bowl (if anybody out there expected us to watch Madonna, then clearly something is amiss in your knowledge of the Crew). We brought…
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.
Tractor: Back in Black
Black IPAs are rare creatures who only come out at night. Well, not really, but whenever a brewery manages to obtain the rare hops needed to make such a concoction, it is not merely the right but the duty of beer lovers to jump at the chance to indulge themselves. Tractor has cranked out its…
Nexus Brewery: Where Malt is Good
It is nice to take a detour from the Hoplandia that Albuquerque-area brewing has become over the last few years. While there is nothing wrong with the strong, flavorful beers elsewhere in town (La Cumbre has been kicking us all in the face for over a year now, and we keep going back, begging for…
Tractor Makes the Evening News
The mainstream media picked up on Tractor’s no-growlers-in-Nob-Hill plight over the weekend. Read the story and make sure to watch the video, as well. http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/business/beer-battle-brews-over-nob-hil-growlers Hopefully it will encourage more people to visit Tractor and sign the petition in support of amending or lifting the ordinance. The battle against NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard,…
Meet the Crew
So just who are the five beer lovers who joined forces as the NM Dark Side Brew Crew? I am Chris “Stoutmeister” Jackson, the proud owner of a journalism degree from the University of Arizona (BEAR DOWN!) that’s probably worth less than the paper it’s printed on. It has enabled me to get paid for…
Tractor Could Use a Hand
The good folks at Tractor Brewing’s Taproom in Nob Hill are gathering signatures from beer lovers to take to a zoning meeting next Tuesday as the first step in the process of setting themselves free from government shackles. As reported Wednesday, Tractor ran afoul of an old ordinance for the Nob Hill district that prevents…
Tractor Stopped in its Tracks
Sad news has come in today that the City of Albuquerque has put a halt to all keg and growler sales at Tractor Brewing’s Nob Hill Taproom. Due to a complaint from a Nob Hill resident about Tractor violating a neighborhood ordinance, the City has decided that growlers now count as “packaged liquor,” which is…
The Beer Year Ahead
The chill of winter brings with it the avalanche of seasonal dark brews, a welcome respite for those of us who love beer we cannot see through. As a quintet of dark-beer-loving Albuquerqueans, this is when we are frequently inhabiting our city’s multiple microbreweries. Our goal with this blog is to share our opinions on…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 