ABQ Beer Week keeps rolling right along, with a slew of midweek events that we are all trying our darnedest to keep up with. Monday got a little too busy for most of us (I was covering the Isotopes, E-Rock wrote up his last post and then had rehearsal, Franz Solo is being a good…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Beer Week is upon us and brewers keep on brewin’
This is E-Rock, back for another weekly installment of the Week Ahead in Beer. As most Albuquerque-area beer aficionados have noticed, we are smack dab in the middle of Beer Week, with tastings occurring all over town at establishments such as Imbibe, O’Neill’s, and Two Fools. What you might not know is that Albuquerque-area breweries…
Beer Week: The Scottish ales are free!
Well, not really free as in you don’t have to pay for them, but two new variations on the popular Scottish genre were on the loose on Sunday. Two Fools had a peat-smoked version of Il Vicino’s excellent Sasquatch Scotch on tap for the nice, low price of $3.75, while Nexus unleashed the burly Beam…
Beer Week notes: Lazy weekend, shifting venues
The Crew took Saturday off from attending any ABQ Beer Week events, but there were actually only three things going on. The ABQ Trolley Ale Trail sold out long before we ever tried to buy tickets and none of us were worthy of giving blood (in my case, I am unable due to living in…
The 505 Five debuts as Beer Week rolls on
First off, I want to say the ABQ Beer Geek, or Patrick as we know him, is a gentleman and a scholar and someday people will sing songs about him! At least, that was went through my head when he poured me a pint of the 505 Five at Marble about five minutes before the…
Kicking off Beer Week with Beer 101
I had the opportunity to begin ABQ Beer Week with Beer 101 at Marble Brewery. We tried 10 beers — two of the beers were brewed by Marble, with the other eight being non-local beers established as prime examples of classic beer styles including a pilsner, witbier, Irish red, IPA, barley wine, doppelbock, rauchbier, and…
ABQ Beer Week arrives at long last
Today is like Christmas Eve for craft beer lovers. Yes, here on May 16, an otherwise average Wednesday, the community braces itself for the start of ABQ Beer Week on Thursday. The NMDSBC is preparing for the onslaught of flavorful delights that are coming our way over the next 11 days (which, yes, I realize…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Only 4 days until 505 Five Collaboration Beer!
For the second consecutive week, this is E-Rock, bringing you beer news for the week ahead from all of the breweries in the greater Albuquerque metro area. And once again, I may even expand to cover the rest of New Mexico once I get a little better at this (I’m guessing after Beer Week). Before…
The Week Ahead in Beer—All that is fit to blog
This is E-Rock. I’ve been threatening to write this column for the past month. I just finished everything I need for my master’s degree, and I am hoping to use my newly found free time to bring news from all of the Albuquerque breweries each week. I may even expand to cover the rest of…
Beer Weekend—Release the hounds!
Well, it’s that annual event that makes the start of May a crazy time. No, not Cinco de Mayo, the latest foreign holiday that’s been turned into an excuse for Americans to get wacky. It’s my birthday. Yes, old Stoutmeister is, well, older. So what does a 34-year-old beer blogger do to celebrate? Drink beer,…
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