Last night, with some anticipation (I really liked this beer’s 2013 incarnation), I trekked over to Marble’s downtown pub with Stoutmeister to try Stout Americano. I am most certainly a fan of strong coffee stouts and from my initial impressions this looked damn good indeed. Americano has a strong oatmeal stout base matched with coffee…
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The Stumbling Steer rumbles to life at last
Editor’s note: While I was battling a cold last week, I dispatched Franz Solo and Porter Pounder to the West Side to check out Albuquerque’s newest brewery-restaurant. Their report has helped me get healthier faster. — Stoutmeister The Stumbling Steer has arrived at long last and holds quite a bit of promise for great things…
Bosque bolsters its brewing staff with a big-name hire
Back toward the end of WinterBrew I, Stoutmeister, was talking to the guys at Bosque when founding brewer/co-owner Gabe Jensen dropped some surprising news. I had to hang onto that news for a bit, but then the story broke late last week that Blue Corn brewer John Bullard, who has made quite a name for…
All is well at Tractor’s new Wells Park location
Four out of the six Brew Crew members were contemplating what to do with ourselves on a quiet Friday afternoon when the good word came down that Tractor’s new Wells Park taproom was going to be open for business at 5 p.m. So off we went, to indulge in some of the 16 beers on…
Super Bowl of Stouts, new Tractor opening, new brewer at Bosque all equal one big weekend
Happy Friday, everyone! Stoutmeister here with a roundup of all the recent beer news and notes, plus a preview of this big “it-should-be-a-national-holiday” weekend. Yeah, it’s Super Bowl time, and at least this year there are two teams involved that not everyone in the Crew utterly despises. I’m rooting for the Seahawks, personally, but that’s…
Digging up the details on Marble’s new Santa Fe taproom
A little while back, via various newspapers and their websites, Marble Brewery announced where its relocated taproom would be going in Santa Fe after they lost their lease on the Plaza. They would be moving into the new Luna Development at 505 Cerrillos Road, taking a downstairs space soon and then later moving into a…
Go big or go home: The new Tractor brewhouse is a behemoth
The new Tractor brewhouse and taproom located at 1800 4th Street looks relatively modest from the outside. As the old saying tells us, however, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. And that inside is big. How big? Well, look at this photo I (Stoutmeister) took from the south end of the brewhouse. That little…
T-minus one week till WinterBrew
It has to be said: It does not feel like winter out there. Hopefully that does not end up jinxing us all to a week of wind, snow, and ice, but this has been one mild winter. Nonetheless, in keeping with the spirit of what should be the season, the New Mexico Brewers Guild will…
New breweries begin to materialize across ABQ
The great Albuquerque brewery boom seemed to sputter out in 2012 and 2013, as only Bosque Brewing opened in the former year and no new breweries appeared in the city limits in the latter year. In fact, only three breweries — Little Toad Creek near Silver City, Kaktus Brewing in Bernalillo, and Duel Brewing in…
Bosque set to open taproom in Nob Hill
That’s too far to drive. Those are possibly the five most annoying words that people in the ABQ area like to string together. Clearly none of those people lived in a larger city, where 60-mile round trips to see friends are considered short. Nonetheless, it is a fact of life here, and something that can…
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