It can be awfully hard to recap a three-day event featuring hundreds of breweries and thousands of beers, but by golly, the Crew will try to review our latest trip to the Great American Beer Festival. For yours truly, this was my third trip overall, second in a row via the magic of a press…
New Mexico breweries bring home 6 medals from GABF 2017
It was another successful Great American Beer Festival for our local breweries, as five different places brought home a total of six medals on Saturday morning at the annual awards ceremony in Denver. Marble Brewery won yet another medal for its Pilsner, taking home a bronze in the Kellerbier or Zwickelbier category. It is the…
A speed tasting that certainly did not bomb
I recently took a peek at the website for Bombs Away Beer Company for clues as to when they would open. I was shocked to find out they already had. Apparently, they just had a soft opening a few days prior. Although I already had plans right after work that day, curiosity and impatience got…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Still plenty to do here even during GABF weekend
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. While the cats are away, er, brewers, brewery owners, and beer writers are…
All the lowdown on GABF 2017 for New Mexico breweries
The Great American Beer Festival returns this Thursday through Saturday at the Denver Convention Center, and once again New Mexico breweries will be well represented. This year the Crew is dispatching yours truly, plus Franz Solo, via the magic of press passes (Luke will also be there, but as a civilian, and we just want…
A craft beer titan makes a stop in Albuquerque
Last week, before things got a bit crazy around here, Firestone Walker co-founder David Walker dropped in on New Mexico. He was checking out the landscape, seeing just how his beer was faring in our fine state. I was lucky enough to catch up with him at Nob Hill Bar & Grill, and once we…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Strike up a Dialogue for another anniversary weekend
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Another weekend, another anniversary party. Why, yes, here we go again. Dialogue Brewing…
A totally unscientific way to pick the best local Oktoberfest beer
Here in these final quiet days, before the Great American Beer Festival comes to dominate all beer-related news and conversation, the Crew is left to contemplate many things. First among them, once again, is how the heck did I drop the ball and not have a story for back-to-back days? The answer is, once again,…
An in-depth look at Saturday’s many beer-laden events
As we noted back in The Week Ahead in Beer, this Saturday is chock-full of beer-soaked events in Albuquerque and points nearby. To help everyone pick out where to go, we offer up a more detailed look at all of them. We already covered ULLR Fest in Los Alamos, with an updated entry for Boxing…
The time to honor the Norse god of winter is nearly upon us
The days are getting shorter, and there’s a bit of a nip in the air here in the higher elevations. Fall will be here soon, officially, and with it the prospect of snow. To many people, snow means skiing, but, only if there’s enough of it! To please Ullr, the Norse god of snow and…
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