The Week Ahead in Beer — Nexus celebrates their second anniversary

Greetings Burque beer drinkers, this is E-Rock here to bring you my final Monday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. Starting next week, this column will be posted regularly on Tuesday in order to give me more time to expand coverage to Santa Fe and Taos. Other changes will follow in the coming weeks…

The Week Ahead in Beer — Get Belgian in Back Alley

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…

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…

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…

The Week Ahead in Beer—Beer Week Begins

Editor’s note: Sorry this is coming out so late on a Tuesday, folks. E-Rock’s on the road, and when he finished it this afternoon, I was busy covering high school softball in Valencia County. Hopefully we’ll be back on a normal schedule for TWAIB next week. At least I know I’ll be in the comfy…

ABQ Beer Week is creeping closer and closer

Well, hello there, ABQ-area beer lovers. Stoutmeister here, freed from the “shackles” of Isotopes Park for a few days. While I’ve been neck deep in baseball coverage, all those TBD events for ABQ Beer Week 2013 are suddenly coming into focus with full details and the like. With so much info floating around out there,…

Star of the Season: March’s most magnificent seasonal was …

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…