This is E-Rock, back for my weekly preview of new beers in and around the Duke City. As you know, summer is here, and it is ridiculously hot in the city. The good news is there is plenty of locally brewed beer to quench your thirst including new cans of La Cumbre’s Elevated IPA. Plus,…
Durango beer trip: Embracing the darkness at DBC
Stoutmeister and E-Rock continue their quick trek through the breweries of the Four Corners area with a stop at Durango Brewing Co. After an hour or so break following our time at Ska on Wednesday afternoon, E-Rock and I headed up Main Ave. to the north end of Durango, where at the intersection of 30th…
Durango beer trip: Rockin’ out 90s style at Ska
Stoutmeister and E-Rock continue their quick trek through the breweries of the Four Corners Area with a stop at the most famous of the bunch, Ska Brewing. After the general disappointment of Steamworks on Tuesday night, our bar dropped pretty low for Durango-area breweries. Not surprisingly, Ska said “to hell with that” and reminded us…
Beer Notebook: Local stores are getting Elevated
Stoutmeister here. Shilling has kept track of some local beer news of note while E-Rock and I were in Durango. Speaking of Durango, we will have our next post (Ska Brewing) up shortly. We hit three breweries on Wednesday alone and were not in shape to do much in the way of write-ups that day….
Durango beer trip: Steamworks falls just short
Stoutmeister here. E-Rock and I arrived late in Durango on Tuesday night, cursed by traffic, construction, a long Isotopes game, etc. So by the time we got into our hotel room and took a moment to unwind from the drive, it was after 9 p.m. and there was not much left to beckon us. The…
Beer road trip No. 2 beckons
Stoutmeister here, checking in from a lovely Isotopes day game in ABQ. I say lovely because I am in the air-conditioned press box, with pulled-pork sandwiches and cake for dessert. But enough about spoiled sports writers, it is time to talk beer. Just not beer from here. E-Rock and I are hitting the road (again),…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Cold beer to cure a dry heat
This is E-Rock, here as I am every Monday, relaying what’s new in the Albuquerque metro-area craft beer scene. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s ridiculously hot right now. Luckily your local breweries are cranking out refreshing summer beers to make long summer days bearable. Chama River Brewing Company has three new summer beers on…
Belated recap of the beer-filled weekend that was
Stoutmeister here, finally getting around to recapping the beer awesomeness that was this past weekend. If I had a good excuse for waiting this long to write about things, I would use it, but in the end it was just the usual stuff (Topes, watching Euro 2012) and some unusual stuff (moving furniture around, a…
The Week Ahead in Beer—A good time to catch up
This is E-Rock, here to bring you up to speed on what’s going on in the exciting world of Burque-area breweries. It turns out that many breweries are either brewing new beers or waiting for taps to open up to serve beers that are ready for the tap. In the tap rooms, there’s not a lot…
Beer Weekend: Festivals and other fun stuff
It’s been a long time since there has been reason to write up a Beer Weekend post. Things have been fluctuating between busy, crazy busy, and FUBAR busy for the Crew for a while now, so it will be nice to take a step back and enjoy some good beer again. I, Stoutmeister, have been…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 