Geez, March was a busy month. You don’t tend to realize it until you go and look at the long list of seasonal beers that came out and how few you managed to try. For me, Stoutmeister, the last month included lots of high school sports coverage, the Lobo baseball team being back, and my…
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The Week Ahead in Beer—April Fool’s or something
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 Duke City. I’m still recovering from a 12-hour…
Star of the Season: The madness of picking March’s best seasonal
Ah, March, a month of promise, a month of rebirth, a month of madness, a month of a lot of stinking wind. It has also been a month of a lot of seasonal beer releases across the ABQ metro area’s many breweries. This has been an unusual month in how much it has combined to…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Everyone has something new
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 Duke City. It seems like every brewery in…
Beer Battle: Picking the finest Irish Red of them all
Sometimes inspiration can strike at the oddest hours. With the crummy weather coming in, E-Rock and I (Stoutmeister) decided to postpone our planned Taos Trek II that we had set for this past Saturday. Franz Solo actually had a Saturday off, and despite the Lobos going kaplooey, he wanted to watch basketball and drink beer….
The Week Ahead in Beer—Bosque serves up beer for a good cause
Editor’s note: E-Rock wrote this yesterday (Monday) and it should have been posted then, but a certain on-vacation-editor was busy watching baseball and drinking beer. Hey, it was work. All work, I swear. Anyway, even a day late, the news here is still fresh. Oh, lord, what a terrible saying. It’s before 8 a.m. Arizona…
The Week Ahead in Beer—TMBC St. Patty’s Day Jamboree
Greetings Burque beer lovers, 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 Duke City. This week is a good one…
Tapping Casks: La Cumbre keeps on keeping on
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series on cask beers in the Albuquerque area, all in advance of the Cask Festival at Il Vicino on Saturday. The idea is to explain what cask beers are and how different brewers approach this sub-genre of craft brewing. Click here for our story on Turtle Mountain’s…
The Week Ahead in Beer—Out with the old, in with the new at the Canteen
Greetings Burque beer lovers, this is E-Rock here to bring you a special Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. I spent last week in Saint Lucia in the Bahamas at my sister’s wedding, so I didn’t get back into Albuquerque until last night. As a result, I had to push back The Week…
Star of the Season: Finding February’s finest seasonal no easy task
The end of the shortest month of the year is upon us and it is once again time to select the best seasonal offering from an ABQ-area brewing. February has been an odd month, but then it always is, representing the transition from the darker, burlier winter beers to the lighter spring offerings. It was,…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 