Every now and again, the good folks at Jubilation hold a special beer tasting. And every now and again, someone interesting shows up to one of those tastings. Back on Thursday afternoon, Odell was the featured brewery, and Ryan Odell, a regional sales manager, was there in person to chat about his family’s enterprise. The…
Category: Out-of-Town Brews
Pagosa Springs: A land of beer and relaxation
When one thinks of Pagosa Springs, one thinks of a ski resort-based mountain town and not necessarily good beers. In the two trips that I’ve made to this wonderful place for a few days of soaking in the natural hot springs, I’ve had the pleasure of imbibing in some excellent micro brews as well. Pagosa…
Roosevelt Brewing well worth the trek to Portales
Editor’s note: While working on a film crew recently, Porter Pounder was in the Clovis-Portales area in Eastern New Mexico and asked all of us if there was anything to do there. I told him to stop by Roosevelt Brewing and check it out. He did that and wrote up a full review of the…
Duel Brewing making progress in its early days in Santa Fe
Welcome to part three of our three-part series on Santa Fe’s non-distribution breweries. You can find our recap of Blue Corn here and Second Street here. Franz Solo and I, Stoutmeister, visited these three breweries on Sunday afternoon, grabbing sampler platters at each so we could make it home in one piece. Duel Brewing has…
Second Street is still second to none
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on Santa Fe’s non-distribution breweries. You can find our recap of Blue Corn here, with our recap of Duel still to come. Anyway, much as we did with Blue Corn, Franz Solo and I, Stoutmeister, snagged an impressive sampler tray of all the beers that Second Street…
Blue Corn continues to raise the bar in Santa Fe
Welcome to part one of our three-part Santa Fe brewery series that does not actually include Santa Fe Brewing itself. Why not? We can drink SFBC beers anytime, since they’re all bottled or canned and sold down here in ABQ. We cannot, however, enjoy Blue Corn, Second Street, or Duel anywhere but at their breweries….
Holy s*** we’re finally going to Santa Fe
Beer drinkers are big talkers. Not just at the bar, but often when just sitting around, even if there’s no beer (especially if there’s no beer, when I think about it), we talk about beer and doing this and that with beer. For a while now, well, pretty much since the IPA Challenge, we’ve been…
Belgium has arrived, and challenges you to a Duel!
At long last there is an all-Belgian beer pub in the state of New Mexico! Tucked away off of Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe is our newest brewery to grace the land of enchantment, Duel (as in, we challenge you to a duel). We of the Dark Side Brew Crew have been patiently waiting for…
Metalheads rejoice! TRVE Brewing is your new destination
Stoutmeister here. Porter Pounder went up to Denver in between movie gigs, or possibly on his days off, the rest of us are never quite sure. Either way, while there he discovered a fairly new brewery that taps into our group’s metal-loving souls. Now that he has another brief break in filming, he sent in…
Taos Trek II: The Wrath of the $20 Cover
This heat sucks. It’s probably the most repeated line everyone in the ABQ metro area has heard since early last week. Shilling and I, Stoutmeister, had heard quite enough of it so we decided to do something about it. Specifically we decided to head up to the (slightly) cooler climes of Taos and do our…
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