Last week I had the opportunity to watch some awesome history in the making. Santa Fe’s Second Street canned their first beer inside their brewery. “Why is that awesome?” I hear you asking yourself. Besides the fact that we can now pick up a canned version of their Pivotal IPA and take it along on…
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Tall tales in the Heights as Lizard Tail Brewing prepares to open
Editor’s note: Adam is our final Brew Crew Bullpen member debuting, though some can point out he did write for us previously as a special correspondent during ABQ Beer Week back in May. Anyway, this is his “official” debut story. So give it a read a let us know how he did! — Stoutmeister Exciting…
Beer Fiesta: Time to head to the mountains
Editor’s note: This makes the fourth debut story for a member of our Brew Crew Bullpen. This time around Reid tackles a preview of a beer festival right in his backyard of Los Alamos. Let him (and the rest of us) know how he did. And then head to Pajarito Mountain on Saturday afternoon! —…
Red Door and Pi Brewing move closer to opening
Yeah, we know, the Crew has been pretty quiet in the month of June. Our various jobs and/or families have taken precedence of late, so we’ve been away from our computers as far as writing about beer goes (I’ve been personally writing way too many variations of “the Isotopes lost tonight because …”). Well, no…
ABQ Beer Week 2014: All the info you need to know
Greetings, beer lovers! Rejoice, for one of the best weeks of the year is upon us as ABQ Beer Week returns beginning this Thursday. This is pretty much the single busiest week-plus (it’s technically 10 days long) of the year for the Dark Side Brew Crew, but fear not, we are all well-prepared for the…
Clash of the Titans: ABQ groups go head-to-head at Battle of the Beer Geeks
Well, folks, the calendar has rapidly turned to the month of May, the weather is ascending into our usual Albuquerque warmth (freak occurrences of snow and locusts aside), and that yearly tradition we here at the DSBC love so much is finally upon us again. What tradition would that be? The NBA playoffs? Not a…
Bosque’s new brewhouse is up and running
It has been well over 24 hours since Bosque Brewing’s new system went online for the first time. Heck, it’s even been 24 hours since I stopped by to check things out, and finally I’m getting around to the story. High school baseball is time-consuming, people. Anyway, as I said, I had the chance to…
And La Cumbre’s getting larger
Pardon the bad paraphrasing of a quote from “Airplane!” in the headline, but I could not resist. After having spent nearly two weeks doing nothing but writing about sports (Saturday’s six-hour high school track and field meet was the brutal finale), I have finally gotten back to the local beer scene. After Sunday stops at…
Second Street brews up plenty of new beer goodness
Lately the Crew has been writing a lot on all the new brewers and new breweries in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. That does not mean that the news has stopped with many of our old favorites. The folks at Second Street Brewery up in Santa Fe contacted us about all the wonderful things that brewer…
Blue Corn’s new brewer has some big shoes to fill
Every new brewer will always face a challenge when taking over an established brewery. Some, though, arrive in the shadow of a predecessor who just went out and put that brewery on the map. That is the challenge facing James Warren, the new brewer at Blue Corn, who succeeds John Bullard at the well-established Santa…
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