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The Week Ahead in Beer: Last-minute fill-in

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in for E-Rock for 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 taprooms in New Mexico. There is nothing quite like…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Head north, beer drinkers

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 taprooms in New Mexico. All you New Mexico craft beer…

The Week Ahead in Beer: One crowded Canteen

Editor’s note: Pardon the delay, but E-Rock’s new summer work schedule at CNM collided with my Beer Week responsibilities. Hopefully we can reorganize how we do this column and start getting it to you on Tuesday now instead of Wednesday. If any brewer or brewery rep who serves as our email contact is reading this,…

ABQ Beer Week Review: Ascending the Tower of Sour

It’s a big day for the Brew Crew as Mrs. Solo debuts with her first story! (With help from E-Rock.) They attended the Second Annual Tower of Sour at Back Alley Draft House on Friday night. Here is their review of the beers they sampled and recommendations for what to seek out the next time…

ABQ Beer Week: All hail Blues and Brews on Day Four

We are eschewing our usual format, well somewhat, to give Blues & Brews some extended coverage this Sunday. The mondo festival usually concludes Beer Week, but as scheduling would have it this time around, it all goes down today. Brace (and pace) yourselves for the fun of Day Four of ABQ Beer Week 2014. Today’s…

ABQ Beer Week: Variety is the word on Day Three

Hello, weekend! While some of us are currently flying to Chicago (well, me), there are still plenty of events (10 total) going on as ABQ Beer Week rolls into Day Three. There are a lot of different types of events Saturday, so there should be something for everyone. And by something we mean great beer….

ABQ Beer Week: Sours rule on Day Two

Day Two of ABQ Beer Week 2014 will feature eight different events, including two devoted to that heavily debated beer style — the dreaded/beloved sour ale! Viva Friday! Oh, and by the way, thank you to everyone that came out for the Battle of the Beer Geeks on Thursday. We’ll have a little more on…

The Week Ahead in Beer: The 505-2014 Collaboration Beer arrives

ABQ Beer Week 2014: All the info you need to know

Greetings, beer lovers! Rejoice, for one of the best weeks of the year is upon us as ABQ Beer Week returns beginning this Thursday. This is pretty much the single busiest week-plus (it’s technically 10 days long) of the year for the Dark Side Brew Crew, but fear not, we are all well-prepared for the…