During my series of interviews last week with local brewers and brewery owners I found that even some of them have never attended an IPA Challenge before. “I haven’t actually been to an IPA Challenge,” said Bosque co-owner Jotham Michnovicz. “Bosque hasn’t been there yet, but I’ve never been to one (either). Every year it’s…
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IPA Challenge: Taos hates IPAs, or something like that
Stoutmeister here with the actual voting totals from round two of the IPA Challenge at Taos Mesa on Saturday. That’s it? A total of 24 votes? On the day of Taos Mesa’s one-year anniversary all that showed up were 24 people? Wow. That’s sad. Deeply sad. Either people in Taos don’t like IPA or something…
IPA Challenge: Turtle’s Genesis takes lead after Round 1
Stoutmeister here with a quick tally of the votes from Round One of the 2013 IPA Challenge. Held at Las Cruces’ High Desert Brewing on Friday night, a total of 102 voters cast their picks in the blind taste test for the best IPA in New Mexico. The results, well, were a bit surprising. Sitting…
In with the new: The Beer Premier unleashes some unique creations
Editor’s note: Yeah, we know, The Beer Premier was back on July 20. Brandon took his time. Part of it was the fact he took audio notes and by the end of the event (you’ll understand as you read this) it was a little, uh, hard for him to understand what he was saying. So…
The Week Ahead in Beer — Santa Fe Brewery celebrates 25 years
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back with another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is now hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, music, and events served up in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. As a programming note, I…
Babes and beer makes life peachy
Greetings friends! Forgive me for the rather late post. Got to love summer school, but a late post is better than no post. Back at the beginning of the month, Stoutmeister and I made time for a very quick trip up to the state capital to visit our state’s oldest brewery to get a sample…
NM Brewers Guild brews up some Summer fun
Psst, hey you, beer lover. Come here for a second. It’s safe, I promise. I’m Stoutmeister, nice to meet you. Did you know there are some awesome upcoming beer events? Yeah, even in the summertime here in New Mexico. I mean, good lord, it’s hotter than hell out there and this drought isn’t going away…
Beer Notes: The Crew shall rise again
Hello, friends. I know, I know, we’ve kinda sucked since ABQ Beer Week ended. We went from churning out tons of content to being a bunch of lazy bastards. Well, lazy as far as the blog goes. We’ve been a collection of busy people for various reasons. Franz Solo went to Barcelona (the beer was…
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…
New Mexico Cup in Review: Plusses outweigh minuses at first-time event
Greetings, everyone, Stoutmeister here with our recap of the first New Mexico Cup. Saturday’s big event at the Albuquerque Convention Center had its ups and downs, like most first-time events, but overall felt like another successful beer festival that should take its place as an annual event. The Crew — myself, E-Rock, Shilling, Brandon, and…
