Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Tag: Marble Brewery
Brewery Patio Bracket Round Two: The Battle of Burque rages on with no clear-cut favorite
The last couple of times our brewery patio bracket-style tournament hit up the Albuquerque breweries — divided by Interstates 25 and 40 into Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest (Downtown) regions — there was not as much separation as we expected. The Northwest had two at the top, but figuring out fourth place was difficult, while…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round Two: Time to separate the best of the best offsite taprooms
The second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament rolls along as we return to the offsite taprooms. Last time, we had the taprooms outside Albuquerque in a separate story from the two sets on the east and west sides of Interstate 25, but now we are putting all three polls in this story. Why?…
Marble Brewery properly pivots on its ongoing charitable efforts
Gone are the days when Marble, or any other local craft brewery, could simply throw a big party on the patio and raise funds for worthy charitable causes. That does not mean, however, that giving back to the community has gone away with the pandemic. It just means that marketing and events coordinator Geraldine Lucero…
The Crew reviews Marble’s Heller Bock and finds a perfect way to beat the heat
With the governor’s next press conference looming this afternoon, and most breweries sweating it out already, we decided this morning needed a little levity. After Marble’s Geraldine Lucero generously donated a couple of six-packs of the new Heller Bock on Tuesday afternoon, we gathered on Zoom for the first time in a while for our…
Marble goes to Heller (and) Bock with new canned seasonal
The annual seasonal releases at Marble Brewery have become staples in the craft beer community for many years now, from Reserve Ale and Imperial Stout at the end of the year to other big hits like White Out and Pumpkin Noir. This year, however, a number of new additions to the seasonal menu have taken…
The Pink Boots Society collaboration beer arrives on tap and in cans at 13 local breweries
Long, long ago, in a more innocent time, many of the women in our craft brewing industry gathered together at Canteen Brewhouse to create a special beer. Yes, in those days of yore, otherwise known as early March, the 2020 collaboration brew for the New Mexico chapter of the Pink Boots Society came into this…
Albuquerque’s two biggest breweries survive the initial onrush of returning customers
Over the course of the next few days and weeks, the Crew will be catching up with as many breweries as we can to see how they survived the lockdown, how things are going with customers allowed back inside and on patios at 50-percent occupancy, and what additional changes and developments are afoot. To kick…
Virtual Albuquerque Beer Week kicks off with multiple beer releases and events
Beer festivals and the like are among the many event casualties of the current pandemic. Gathering people in large numbers anywhere is not a particularly good idea, so it has forced event organizers to get a little creative in how to keep annual traditions going. Take ABQ Beer Week, the annual multi-day, multi-event extravaganza that…
Beer Notes: The first brewery casualty of the shutdown has been named
We have a few small news items that cried out for a Beer Notes. We only wish it was all positive news, but alas, it is not. 1933 Brewing closes its doors permanently We started hearing rumors about the Rio Rancho brewpub closing a few weeks ago. The last Facebook post said 1933 was closing…
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