IPA Challenge: Turtle’s Genesis takes lead after Round 1

Stoutmeister here with a quick tally of the votes from Round One of the 2013 IPA Challenge. Held at Las Cruces’ High Desert Brewing on Friday night, a total of 102 voters cast their picks in the blind taste test for the best IPA in New Mexico. The results, well, were a bit surprising. Sitting…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Bad Breaks and Challenging IPAs

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock and bringing you another Tuesday 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 tap rooms in and around…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Hop Kwan Do is back at Il Vicino

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, bringing you another Tuesday 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 tap rooms in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. As…

The Week Ahead in Beer: A great time to try something new

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, returning from a triumphal trip to Northern California to bring you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa…

The Week Ahead in Beer: The Beer Premier is almost here

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock, with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. So…

The Great Beer Roundup: Slowdown summer

Stoutmeister here with another Beer Roundup. We did the last one three weeks ago but hope to stick to more of a biweekly schedule from here on out (the July 4 extended holiday weekend threw us off). As we stated last time, the idea of the Beer Roundup is to provide our readers with short…

The Week Ahead in Beer — This column is harder than it looks

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in for E-Rock, with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. So E-Rock…

The Great Beer Roundup: No swoon in June

We drink a lot of beer. Shocking, I know, but between the six members of the Dark Side Brew Crew, we really do have a lot of different beers every month. The more I thought about this, while of course filling out another beer check-in on Untappd, I realized we were missing a perfectly good…

NM Brewers Guild brews up some Summer fun

Psst, hey you, beer lover. Come here for a second. It’s safe, I promise. I’m Stoutmeister, nice to meet you. Did you know there are some awesome upcoming beer events? Yeah, even in the summertime here in New Mexico. I mean, good lord, it’s hotter than hell out there and this drought isn’t going away…

The Week Ahead in Beer — Give a pale ale for Father’s Day

Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. I am happy to announce…