An interesting article about craft beer trends was shared to the New Mexico Lets Talk Craft Beer page on Facebook this morning. It asked if a brewery could be considered a sellout if it goes all-in too heavily on hazy IPAs, putting profit ahead of variety and quality. Well, leaving out the fact that the…
Category: Beer Polls
Selecting biggest beer news story of 2017 is no easy task
The year is nearly over, so it only makes sense that the Crew would sit down to review everything that happened in the last 12 months. We ultimately decided that while we could pick out the top news story, this site would not exist without the support of our readers, so we are asking all…
A totally unscientific way to pick the best local Oktoberfest beer
Here in these final quiet days, before the Great American Beer Festival comes to dominate all beer-related news and conversation, the Crew is left to contemplate many things. First among them, once again, is how the heck did I drop the ball and not have a story for back-to-back days? The answer is, once again,…
Beer Polls: The final results were predictable and surprising
In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the Crew put out a series of beer polls (you can find them here, here, and here) to see if all of you would vote differently than the readers of Albuquerque The Magazine in its Best of the City awards. In four categories, our readers and theirs were…
Beer Polls: Pick the best of everything in 2016 — Part Two
Time for round two of our year-end polls to pick the best of the best in the Albuquerque metro area as far as craft beer goes. Once again, we are calling upon you, dear readers, the best beer geeks in the area, to pick your favorites and let us know why. Monday saw four polls…
Beer Polls: Pick the best of everything in 2016 — Part One
A short while ago Albuquerque The Magazine revealed a series of beer-related categories were included in its annual Best of the City awards. The results were both surprising and not-at-all surprising, a mix of awards being given out to the kind of places that readers of the fancy, ad-stuffed, glossy, upper-middle-class magazine would visit, plus…
Beer Poll: Choosing Albuquerque’s favorite taproom
Believe it or not, the Marble Westside Tap Room will be celebrating its fourth anniversary today (Tuesday). It certainly changed the beer scene west of the Rio Grande when it opened back in 2012. It has been expanded three times in order to serve the growing number of Marble fans. Now, Marble Westside was not…
Finding a comfort zone at local breweries and taprooms
For those who don’t follow us on social media, we asked for some reader ideas for stories on Thursday, what with the current news lull around our craft brewing scene. One of the best ideas came from our good friend Karim, whose regular hangout is the recently expanded/renovated Marble Westside Taproom. While the rest of…
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