In November 2016, I shared a story about a new place I visited in Hawaii that allowed you to try many different local beers in one location through a fun, serve yourself concept. Recently, Albuquerque got its own version of an electronic pour tap room located at 6910 Montgomery NE, Suite F. At Tap That…
Category: Beer Bar Review
New gastropub joins crowded ABQ downtown beer scene
There is a new gastropub set to open downtown, one with some familiar owners. Side Effex will celebrate its grand opening today (Thursday) at 8 p.m. The celebration will include a full food menu, beers, and cocktails. New Bullpen member Shawna and I met with one of the owners, Carri Phillis, to discuss her vision…
ABQ adds more options for local pizza and craft beer
On the way to meet some friends at Left Turn Distilling/Palmer Brewery and Cider House (by the way, their newly remodeled tasting room is fabulous!), I stopped in just to get a couple of pictures of Eclectic Urban Pizzeria and Tap House. This new establishment’s proprietors are the original owners of Torinos’ @ Home, so…
Open door quality applies to more than the name
It was a sad time for the west side earlier this year when the Stumbling Steer stumbled off into the sunset. Recently we learned that the new owners (the people behind Vernon’s and Wise Pies) opened a restaurant and bar in a portion of the building. What better time to make our first visit to…
Beer-hopping between 3 watering holes on Montgomery
As a part of the new DSBC series on beer bars, I volunteered to drop in to Sinners n Saints on the southeast corner of Montgomery and Eubank in the Northeast Heights. Unbeknownst to my editor (sorry, Stoutmeister!), I thought it might be kind of fun to do a crawl of sorts with the bars…
Say guten tag to Heimat House and its big German beer list
Every year the various “best of ABQ” restaurant polls come out, all with some variation of “what style of restaurant would you like to see here?” Personally, I put down “German” every year, but the hipsters always want Ethiopian, because they’re hipsters and German is so 19th Century or something like that. (Oh, go cry…
ABQ now gets to party every day
I’m not one to rush out to an opening of a new chain restaurant. I may get there eventually, but I’ll give it some time. The lure of 52 taps proved to be too much, and, against my better judgment I went to Rock & Brews on their first weekend (they opened the Monday before)…
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