The real fun with the Outside Bike & Brew Festival in Santa Fe begins today (Friday) and continues through the weekend. The main event will take place at Fort Marcy Park tonight and Saturday from 3:30 to 9 p.m. There will be live music, a beer garden, and a whole lot more. On the music…
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Food Truck Festival features sizable selection of regional craft beer
The Great New Mexico Food Truck Festival returns to the grounds of the Balloon Museum on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. General admission tickets cost $5 in advance and $10 at the gate. There is also a VIP option for $20/$25 that gets you in at 11 a.m. (tickets were said to be limited,…
San Diego, part three — The best beer tour that almost wasn’t
Hello, beer lovers. Our friends from Oregon and Las Vegas meet up with us regularly when we can all arrange a convenient location. A couple of years ago we started doing beer tours when we meet in San Diego. Last week, our third San Diego beer tour got off to a bit of a shaky…
Fear not Santa Fe for you get your own Victory at Sea Day
Distance is the enemy of the beer lover. Often times great beer is tapped too far from where you live, forcing you to stay at home and bitterly wonder what might have been. Many in Santa Fe probably found themselves in this situation when they saw Victory at Sea Day will be happening down here…
Avast, Victory at Sea day sails toward us later this month
Earlier today (Friday), we teased the upcoming Victory at Sea Day, a collaborative effort between the Brew Crew and Ballast Point to bring you some awesome variants of this massively wonderful beer. Well, as you can see from the above poster, there will be some epic versions on tap Saturday, Jan. 30, starting at 4…
A farewell, of sorts, to a good friend of craft beer
There are times in life when someone we know gives us great news, but it is also news that gives us pause. Perhaps it has to do with a friend getting a great new job, but having to leave town. Sometimes it is far more personal. We are happy for our friend, but at the…
Palate Fatigue: All the hop bombs you can safely fit into one place
A while back we wrote up a full preview on Palate Fatigue, the special event being held this Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. at Sister Bar downtown. The only thing we did not have back then was the final list of beers that would be poured. Well, now we have them, or at least…
Brace yourselves for a happy dose of serious Palate Fatigue
Hop harvest season is upon us, in case you have not noticed by all the pictures of brewers stuffing their noses in mounds of fresh-picked hops that are floating around social media these days. Of course, one could argue hop season is year-round in New Mexico, judging by IPA sales remaining steady even in the…
The Crew’s annual Hopfest survival guide
The Albuquerque Hopfest returns this weekend, featuring 70 breweries and a whole lotta beers down at the Isleta Casino. Once again, the Crew will be in attendance, as we are veterans of this annual event. So we present our picks for what beers to try and all the other advice we can think of sharing….
No fish tales, just great beer at Ballast Point in San Diego
I am back from San Diego, where it was a perfect 75 to 80 degrees all four days. What the literal hell happened here in ABQ while I was gone? I mean, it’s seriously scorching. Anyway, back to the beer talk. Last month, a team of folks from San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 