Bosque Brewing is growing up right before our eyes. This Saturday the north side brewery will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a party for its loyal customers and anyone else who wants to join. I sat down with brewers Gabe Jensen and Ryan Jameson to talk about Saturday’s festivities, as well as looking back to…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Preparing for Hopfest
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back to bring you this 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 New Mexico. Hopfest will be taking over…
The history of Hopfest: Brew it, and they will come
As craft brewing has exploded in New Mexico, so have the size and popularity of our beer festivals. Look no further than Albuquerque Hopfest, which kicks off its sixth annual run this Saturday at Isleta Casino. Thousands of beer lovers will descend upon the festival to try beers from over 60 breweries from New Mexico…
Beer Battle: The greatest pumpkin ale of them all is …
Way back in the spring the Brew Crew staged a mini-beer battle between the four varieties of Irish Red that were on tap around town. Here in the fall, pumpkin beers have become the predominant seasonal of the moment, even rising above Oktoberfest-style beers. A few years back I, Stoutmeister, wanted nothing to do with…
Duel Brewing making progress in its early days in Santa Fe
Welcome to part three of our three-part series on Santa Fe’s non-distribution breweries. You can find our recap of Blue Corn here and Second Street here. Franz Solo and I, Stoutmeister, visited these three breweries on Sunday afternoon, grabbing sampler platters at each so we could make it home in one piece. Duel Brewing has…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The classics are back!
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back to bring you this 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 New Mexico. A lot of old favorites…
Second Street is still second to none
Welcome to part two of our three-part series on Santa Fe’s non-distribution breweries. You can find our recap of Blue Corn here, with our recap of Duel still to come. Anyway, much as we did with Blue Corn, Franz Solo and I, Stoutmeister, snagged an impressive sampler tray of all the beers that Second Street…
Blue Corn continues to raise the bar in Santa Fe
Welcome to part one of our three-part Santa Fe brewery series that does not actually include Santa Fe Brewing itself. Why not? We can drink SFBC beers anytime, since they’re all bottled or canned and sold down here in ABQ. We cannot, however, enjoy Blue Corn, Second Street, or Duel anywhere but at their breweries….
New Mexico breweries rock out to some heavy medal
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…
Holy s*** we’re finally going to Santa Fe
Beer drinkers are big talkers. Not just at the bar, but often when just sitting around, even if there’s no beer (especially if there’s no beer, when I think about it), we talk about beer and doing this and that with beer. For a while now, well, pretty much since the IPA Challenge, we’ve been…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 