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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Fear not, last-minute shoppers, there are a ton of holiday markets at breweries this weekend, which we will cover below under events. But, this is a beer-centric weekly roundup, so let us just dive straight into the awesome new brews rolling out this week. Many are in package format, so in the end, just give…

Good lord, it’s December as of this Thursday? Where has this year gone? Well, let us focus on the present, and this time of year, it’s all about presents. Yup, time to buy stuff for your friends and family, and the good news is some breweries are revving up the holiday markets. You get to…