Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here to bring you another Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. As always, 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 the Albuquerque metro area. As per usual, I am…
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ABQ Beer Week: That’s a (belated) wrap!
Well, that was fun. ABQ Beer Week 2013 has come and gone, and now that a certain baseball team is on the road, ol’ Stoutmeister here has a chance to catch up and recap the last two days of events, Friday and Saturday. These were a couple of big days for the Brew Crew with…
The Week Ahead in Beer — Back to business as usual
Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock back in Albuquerque to bring you another Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. As always, 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 the Albuquerque metro area. Now that I’m…
ABQ Beer Week: Join us in the Dark Ages
The day is finally upon us. Today is the day we in the New Mexico Dark Side Brew Crew turn ArtBar dark. Very dark. Dark cabaret, dark music, dark trivia, and above all else, dark beer. It shall flow tonight. Welcome to the Dark Ages! We realize some of you may still be going “what…
ABQ Beer Week: Behold, the Il Vicino Irish red on cask
Editor’s note: Yeah, I know I said none of us went out to do any beer reviews last night. I was wrong. Shilling got free for the first time in, well, he’ll tell you. We’re just glad to have him back. — Stoutmeister Greetings beer lovers. After a damn near 15-week hiatus to focus on…
ABQ Beer Week: A fearsome foursome on Day 6
Beer Week just keeps on keeping on, rolling into Tuesday with four events on tap. That might not seem like a lot, but they all have the potential to be awesome, and there are always the ongoing Lips of Faith/Tapas pairings at Geckos and Hot Sunner Nights at Desert Fish for those who have not…
The Week Ahead in Beer — Wrapping up Beer Week
Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here in Houston, Texas, to bring you another Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. My apologies for the late post last week. The logistics of traveling, calling all of the breweries in Albuquerque, and writing this column proved to be more difficult than I anticipated. I…
ABQ Beer Week: Recapping all the special releases to date
Stoutmeister here, palate intact after last night’s bruising pair of special release beers. While Brandon was busy indulging in the Tower of Sour at Back Alley, the rest of us were scattered about. Derek and I visited Two Fools for the special tapping of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Coffee Stout. This was followed by a…
ABQ Beer Week: Double Barrel tapping tops Day 3
We have completed two days of ABQ Beer Week and already we have had a slew of awesome events and beer tastings. The Crew was all over the place Friday, so look for our reviews coming up as the day goes along on events such as the Goose Island Tapping at Two Fools, the Beer…
ABQ Beer Week: Release the 505-Five!
Day Two of ABQ Beer Week rolls along with the release of the 505-Five Collaboration beer, a hoppy, yet malty, imperial-strength beast of a beer that lies somewhere between a red and an IPA. It will be available today/tonight at Chama River, Il Vicino, La Cumbre, Marble and Nexus, aka the five breweries that joined…
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