ABQ Beer Week: Join us in the Dark Ages

The day is finally upon us. Today is the day we in the New Mexico Dark Side Brew Crew turn ArtBar dark. Very dark. Dark cabaret, dark music, dark trivia, and above all else, dark beer. It shall flow tonight. Welcome to the Dark Ages! We realize some of you may still be going “what…

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: It’s all about giving back on Day 4

If there is such a thing as a theme to a day of ABQ Beer Week, you know, besides beer, it falls upon this day, Sunday, to have a singular trend. That trend is a good one as today features numerous charity events where you can give back in different ways. Sometimes it is easy,…

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…

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…

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…

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…