Today is like Christmas Eve for craft beer lovers. Yes, here on May 16, an otherwise average Wednesday, the community braces itself for the start of ABQ Beer Week on Thursday. The NMDSBC is preparing for the onslaught of flavorful delights that are coming our way over the next 11 days (which, yes, I realize…
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Beer Weekend—Release the hounds!
Well, it’s that annual event that makes the start of May a crazy time. No, not Cinco de Mayo, the latest foreign holiday that’s been turned into an excuse for Americans to get wacky. It’s my birthday. Yes, old Stoutmeister is, well, older. So what does a 34-year-old beer blogger do to celebrate? Drink beer,…
Tractor passes penultimate hurdle
Tractor Brewing took another big step toward being able to sell growlers again after the Environmental Planning Commission approved an amendment to the Nob Hill zoning plan Thursday afternoon. The EPC voted unanimously in favor of altering the Nob Hill Highland Sector Redevelopment Plan as there was no public opposition during the meeting. The key…
Tractor Brewing’s Pilsner: The taste of summer
Ah, spring time. Warm weather, shorts, sunlight till 8 p.m., hurricane-force winds, and intense sneezing attacks (when in NM … sometimes). After a freak snow storm earlier this week, the weather is warm again with a slight breeze, which means local watering holes now have patios, which also means summer beers are coming on tap….
Trekking to Taos and the four northern breweries
After a really busy week, just about every member of the Crew is looking forward to this weekend. Anyone that reads this blog probably realized that, considering we did not come with a single post since the previous Beer Weekend entry that went up last Friday. Rest assured, Shilling and Cryptogrind will have multiple posts…
Beer Weekend—We drink our own
Stoumeister here, on the eve of a big event for the Dark Side Brew Crew. Saturday will mark the world debut of Cryptogrind’s homemade ESB. The Crew will gather at his house for food and the first tasting of his first beer. I will let him take you through the plans below, but let it…
Beer Weekend—On the road again
This week has been just a tad chaotic. At least for the sports writer in this group, who has barely had a chance to breathe while spending hours at the Pit and Santa Ana Star Center. The good news is the weekend is almost upon us, which means the high school basketball tournament is almost…
Shadow boxers, milk mustaches and more midweek beer joy
It’s been a busy week already, but before I became a semi-permanent resident of both The Pit and the Santa Ana Star Center for the state basketball tournament, I managed to trek out to try a couple new beers here in ABQ. First up was the Shadow Boxer Black IPA at Chama River. It appears…
Beer Mondays and other notes
Clearing out the beer files… In case you haven’t noticed, every Monday members of the Crew gather at various watering holes to kick off the week the right way. Why Mondays? Well, who honestly enjoys that first day back to work after a two days away? (and Stoutmeister’s freelance gig for the local paper doesn’t…
Beer Weekend—Finding time for beer amid the chaos
This is the first of what we hope will become a weekly feature in which all the members of the Crew try to figure out what they are doing for the upcoming weekend, beer-wise. We hope to inspire others to set forth and explore our local breweries, or in some cases those locations outside the…
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