Time flies, which you tend to notice every time a brewery has an anniversary party number that makes you go, “Whoa, already?” Bow & Arrow is the latest, celebrating its seventh anniversary this Saturday, and the brewery will going all out with quite a celebratory event. There will be three special beer releases (see below),…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Celebrating Mardi Gras a few days early
What was once mainly a holiday for New Orleans and surrounding areas, Mardi Gras has spilled over into the mainstream across the country. Some of our breweries didn’t feel like being left out, but let’s face it, drawing big crowds on a Tuesday can be pretty tough (though two listed below will give it a…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Show your love for all the brews and events
After back-to-back quiet weeks, it became rather obvious what the breweries were waiting for, and that would be this weekend. The combination of Sunday’s Super Bowl and Tuesday’s Valentine’s Day leads to a lot of advance events, plus at least one major anniversary party, and some other bits of fun. The beer releases are looking…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A quiet start to a new month at local breweries
Remember when we wrote that last week was looking awfully quiet? It has nothing on this week. The beer releases are sparse, though there a few events to check out. I guess everyone is either gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday, or Valentine’s Day, or both. Either that, or the final toll of Dry January…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The stouts will keep you warm during this cold spell
The warm glow of a successful WinterBrew now fading behind us, we enter into another little quiet stretch before Super Bowl Sunday and, for the Crew, the return of our Stout Challenge to the big day. Amid the windy days and chilly temperatures outside, those wonderful dark beers truly keep us going at this time…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Well, someone has to enjoy the dark days of winter
As most of you probably know by now, our name does not derive from some Star Wars reference, but instead from our love of the darkest beers and blackest metal. So while many tend to fret and hide from the onset of a serious burst of winter weather, we are rather pleased with the gray…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The world is terrible so hide in a brewery or two
The ashes of your fantasy team have been cast into the winter winds. Your favorite football team didn’t make the playoffs. We are months away from filling out brackets and ignoring work more than usual. New Mexico can’t figure out what season is supposed to be happening now. These are dark days. Our advice? Take…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Get creative to show some extra support in January
With the advent of Dry January and all those New Year’s resolutions in general, January tends to be one of the toughest months of the year for breweries in terms of keeping those sales numbers up. Now, we don’t want anyone to overdo it in terms of drinking to show more support to your favorite…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Farewell to another up-and-down year
Well, 2022 is almost over. Good riddance? Nah, it wasn’t a great year by any means, but it wasn’t as horrible or featuring as much upheaval as the prior two years. We lost Toltec Brewing, but gained Echoes, Sunday Service Motor Company, Unhinged, and Vision City, and besides, the Toltec spot was quickly filled by…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Someone dropped a holiday in our weekend
As you are all probably aware, Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, which is leading to all sorts of schedule chaos for breweries, which we will cover in a separate article this week. Since this is basically a holiday week, the new releases are scattered at best, and driving anywhere is akin to pure…
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