All of us at the Dark Side Brew Crew and most of the craft beer drinkers we know are all aware that New Mexico has some great breweries. The breweries proved that belief, and then some, by pulling in a single-year-record eight medals at the Great American Beer Festival on Saturday morning. Dating back to…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Hop Kwan Do is back at Il Vicino
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, bringing you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. As…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A great time to try something new
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, returning from a triumphal trip to Northern California to bring you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The Beer Premier is almost here
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock, with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. So…
Pint for a Pint Blood Drive returns
Our friends in the ABQ Craft Beer Drinkers group are stepping up to organize a good cause in the middle of the summer. The Pint for a Pint Challenge Blood Drive, normally held at Tractor during ABQ Beer Week, will return with three chances at three different breweries for people to give blood and receive…
The Week Ahead in Beer — Santa Fe Brewery celebrates 25 years
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. As a programming note, I…
The Week Ahead in Beer — Grab a pint to beat the heat
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. Once again, I would like…
Babes and beer makes life peachy
Greetings friends! Forgive me for the rather late post. Got to love summer school, but a late post is better than no post. Back at the beginning of the month, Stoutmeister and I made time for a very quick trip up to the state capital to visit our state’s oldest brewery to get a sample…
The Week Ahead in Beer — More new releases than you can shake a stick at
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. Once again, I would like…
NM Brewers Guild brews up some Summer fun
Psst, hey you, beer lover. Come here for a second. It’s safe, I promise. I’m Stoutmeister, nice to meet you. Did you know there are some awesome upcoming beer events? Yeah, even in the summertime here in New Mexico. I mean, good lord, it’s hotter than hell out there and this drought isn’t going away…
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