Every day of Beer Week seems to have a different underlying theme that covers most of that day’s events. If there is one to be found today (Saturday), it is food. Yes, today is the day of beer and food pairings galore. There’s a brunch with beer, two separate donuts-and-beer pairings, more beer-and-cheese pairings, and…
Category: ABQ Beer Week 2019
ABQ Beer Week: Food trucks prepare for battle at Red Door
As Beer Week approaches its opening weekend, calendars fill up, and schedules start to get hectic. It’s nice to take a step back and consider the important questions — specifically, who is going to win this year’s Red Door Food Truck Battle? The battle goes down from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday at Red…
ABQ Beer Week: Blues & Brews beer lists are now available
Sunday will mark the return of the annual ABQ Blues & Brews Festival at Sandia Casino, and as per usual, we have done our best to track down the beer lists for the local breweries in attendance. For those who have not been before to Blues & Brews, it is a sizable festival located indoors…
ABQ Beer Week: Day Two brings out the big guns
This thing is only getting started, so there is no time to rest. This is one of the biggest days of ABQ Beer Week, with 16 events scheduled, so choose carefully. Much like Thursday, we had a hard time picking our featured event. On one hand, the beer lineup for the 21 and Over Tap…
ABQ Beer Week: Marble curates an impressive list of events
With every one of the major brewery participants in ABQ Beer Week, we endeavor to put together a separate summary of their many events. After already checking in on Tractor Brewing and Steel Bender Brewyard, we present the Marble Brewery summation. First up, today (Thursday) is one of our annual favorites, Beer, Cheese & More….
ABQ Beer Week: Steel Bender ramps up number of varied events
ABQ Beer Week 2019 is upon us with a true blitzkrieg of funky events and new brews, and a Los Ranchos brewery is right at the heart of it. Steel Bender Brewyard is embracing its neighborhood roots by branching out across the city, while still staying close to home. “We really did want to build…
ABQ Beer Week: Day One is loaded with everything from beer and cheese to Sour Hour
Once again, we kick off 11 days of craft beer madness around Albuquerque venues big and small, featuring local and regional breweries. There are a lot of big events over the opening three days of Beer Week, so pace yourselves accordingly. The hardest thing will be picking which events to attend. At least it will…
ABQ Beer Week: Kaktus celebrates farmhouse ales and country music with a fiesta
New Mexico in the spring — cool weather, quiet patios, and the smell of green as the snow melt brings the bosque and the fields back to life. We can tell when winter leaves us. (Well, at least until the last couple days. — S) Oddly enough, it means our beer palates shift as well from…
ABQ Beer Week: Tractor plows ahead with smorgasbord of events
As one of the more event-focused breweries in town, Tractor Brewing has long been a prominent participant in ABQ Beer Week. While there are not quite as many events on the calendar as years past, the brewery is still hosting eight events split between three of its four taprooms. To get a handle on all…
ABQ Beer Week returns in just 10 days so here is a not-too-early preview
Some mornings you glance at the old beer calendar and try to figure out what to write about. Well, at least that’s how it works for us, and our glance today brought us to the stark realization that ABQ Beer Week 2019 is just 10 days away. Guess we should probably get our annual early…
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