Greetings friends! Forgive me for the rather late post. Got to love summer school, but a late post is better than no post. Back at the beginning of the month, Stoutmeister and I made time for a very quick trip up to the state capital to visit our state’s oldest brewery to get a sample…
Author: Jonny Scumbag
First responder, educator, mental health advocate, photographer, recovering musician.
ABQ Beer Week: Behold, the Il Vicino Irish red on cask
Editor’s note: Yeah, I know I said none of us went out to do any beer reviews last night. I was wrong. Shilling got free for the first time in, well, he’ll tell you. We’re just glad to have him back. — Stoutmeister Greetings beer lovers. After a damn near 15-week hiatus to focus on…
Beer events to kick off the New Year
Editor’s note: Shilling wrote this with Jan. 1 in mind, but we had to hold off until things were finalized with our anniversary party. What party? Read on and find out! — Stoutmeister Happy New Year, folks! Man, it feels like its been forever since I’ve gotten to write one of these. The Great American…
2012: A Brew Crew Year in Review
Happy New Year’s, friends. 2012 was a big year for us. It was the start of the Brew Crew, we got to meet many of our local brewers and brewery owners, we got to check out many of our local beer festivals as well as the Great American Beer Festival, and we got to watch…
Saturday Night Sixer: Getting in the holiday mood
Greetings folks! Shilling here, filling in for the hard working Cryptogrind while he is working on a big post for the site. While he is slaving away with studying for finals and writing blog posts, I will be bringing you this week’s holiday edition of the Saturday Night Sixer. With the holidays getting closer, we…
The 1st Annual Dark Side Food Drive to support Roadrunner Food Bank
Greetings, Hopheads and Malties! With the holiday season quickly approaching, the group was trying to think about a way to give back to our community and what better way to do so than with a canned food drive! The Dark Side Brew Crew has teamed up with the Albuquerque Craft Beer Drinkers Group along with…
Broken Bottle does it again
So when the Crew first met the folks from Broken Bottle earlier this year, we were blown away by their pride and their creative and unique ideas for beer. So it is no surprise that when Chris and Donovan posted on their Facebook page about a Sunflower Seed Ale and an Irish Coffee ale, we…
Hump Day at Chama River
Shilling here. School is back in session and what better way to relax after a day of hitting the books than drinking a beer? Stoutmeister and I decided to meet up to discuss our “plan of attack” for Hopfest (well, we were really just mostly trying to figure out how to get from the NE…
ABQ Hopfest is nearly upon us
Our apologizes for not posting about this sooner, but this Saturday, Stoutmeister and Shilling will be present at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for the fifth annual ABQ Hopfest. The Hopfest is a fundraiser for the New Mexico Make-A-Wish Foundation, raising money to grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. This year the festival features 50…
Turtle Mountain’s Yardsale Amber: Everything but the kitchen sink
If you recall our multi-post series with Turtle Mountain owner Nico Ortiz from earlier this summer, he talked to us about a semi-annual brew that consists of, well, all the remaining ingredients from their storage room. After hearing the history about this one-of-a-kind batch, we were left excited to try it. Lo and behold the…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 