Beer festival season hits its highpoint in October both in New Mexico and nearby, starting with the fourth annual New Mexico Brew Fest this Saturday at the Villa Hispana on the state fairgrounds. With Valhalla (aka The Great American Beer Festival) and then Hopfest later in the month, beer drinkers will be kept awfully busy…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Back in the Saddle
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 tap rooms in New Mexico. For those of you keeping…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Last-minute scramble
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister 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 tap rooms in New Mexico. E-Rock is about one week…
Sizing up the superb selection at Son of Septemberfest
The Crew tackled the dirty dozen beers at Marble’s Son of Septemberfest on Saturday. Without further adieu, here are our quick reviews of those beers. Abbey Brewing, Monk’s Tripel Sweet, but not overly so. You don’t taste the alcohol, which could be an issue with this 9.2-percent ABV beast. It is easy to find in…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Slowly rolling into autumn
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this E-Rock (and Stoutmeister) 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 tap rooms in New Mexico. The whole everything-by-email system…
Beer Roundup: Back from the dead
As promised a little while ago, the Crew has resurrected this bi-weekly feature. This is where we share short reviews of the various beers we have tried of late from local breweries and from microbreweries across the nation. Since it has been a while since we have done one of these, I fear some of…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Now statewide!
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this 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 tap rooms in New Mexico. The time has finally come for…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Better late than never, right?
NOTE: The listing for Nexus is from last week (they must be packed with customers since no one is answering the phone). Once we get this week’s info we will update their section. Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister filling in on this installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Don’t labor for your pints this weekend
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back 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, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and…
Fighting that post-major-beer-event-malaise
Happy Friday, beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with one of those posts where I write about a bunch of stuff that we hope to write in the future. Yeah, it’s kind of lazy, but it’s what we’ve got right now. There is always that period of post-event exhaustion. Now, the IPA Challenge did not wear us…
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