Stoutmeister here, hoping you’re all having a wonderful Friday afternoon. Hey, cool temperatures never hurt anyone, right? (also, the Isotopes are on the road, so I welcome the rain) We are less than 24 hours from ABQ Hopfest opening its doors to the Crew and many other beer lovers at the Hard Rock Hotel &…
Hump Day at Chama River
Shilling here. School is back in session and what better way to relax after a day of hitting the books than drinking a beer? Stoutmeister and I decided to meet up to discuss our “plan of attack” for Hopfest (well, we were really just mostly trying to figure out how to get from the NE…
ABQ Hopfest is nearly upon us
Our apologizes for not posting about this sooner, but this Saturday, Stoutmeister and Shilling will be present at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for the fifth annual ABQ Hopfest. The Hopfest is a fundraiser for the New Mexico Make-A-Wish Foundation, raising money to grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. This year the festival features 50…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Curious Concoctions
Greetings and salutations beer aficionados! My name is E-Rock, and I’m here this Monday, as I am every Monday, to tell you what seasonal beers, musical acts, and other assorted events can be found this week at breweries in and around The Duke City. With summer quickly disappearing in the rearview mirror and autumn looming…
Turtle Mountain’s Yardsale Amber: Everything but the kitchen sink
If you recall our multi-post series with Turtle Mountain owner Nico Ortiz from earlier this summer, he talked to us about a semi-annual brew that consists of, well, all the remaining ingredients from their storage room. After hearing the history about this one-of-a-kind batch, we were left excited to try it. Lo and behold the…
Beer Notes: The Crew is back from the dead
Stoutmeister here. To paraphrase Monty Python, “We’re not dead yet!” It’s been a while since any of the rest of us posted, save for E-Rock’s Week Ahead in Beer, so by golly, this is an overdue post. Think of it as a massive download of all the beer goodness I have sampled in the last…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Celebrating Summer on the West Side
Greetings beer lovers! My name is E-Rock, and I’m here this Monday, as I am every Monday, to tell you what seasonal beers, musical acts, and other assorted events can be found this week at breweries in and around The Duke City. The big news this week is that Broken Bottle and Turtle Mountain Breweries…
T-minus two weeks until two breweries start growlin’ (hopefully)
Tractor Brewing and Broken Bottle Brewery both went before yet another set of city officials in a final effort to obtain the right to sell growlers. The verdict? Wait two more weeks. Yup, two more weeks. But at the end of those two weeks both breweries should learn their respective fates. The amendment to the…
The Week Ahead in Beer—August is upon us
Hello there. My name is E-Rock, and I’m here this Monday, as I am every Monday, to tell you what seasonal beers, musical acts, and other assorted events can be found this week at Albuquerque-area breweries. Leading off news for this week is Turtle Mountain’s fourth annual fundraiser for MS, where $1 from every Chimayo…
The NM Dark Side Brew Crew presents the House IPA Challenge
With the New Mexico Brewers Guild’s 2012 IPA Challenge in the books, we feel that it is time for a challenge of our own. The original idea of the IPA Challenge was to see which brewer had the best regular IPA on tap. Over the years, the Challenge has featured some of the state’s hoppy…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 