Well, it’s that tough time of year for dark beer lovers. The invasion of the white ales has begun. Those super-sweet, high ABV beers, usually just called Belgians, have begun to arrive at local breweries. The Professor Emeritus and I were hanging out at La Cumbre on Thursday afternoon when the first arrived. The Professor…
Tag: Tractor Brewing
Tractor Update: One Step Forward
Tractor Brewing got some good news at the Nob Hill Neighborhood Association meeting on Thursday night. The governing panel voted on whether or not to push through an amendment to the ordinance that prevents packaged liquor sales in Nob Hill, which keeps Tractor from selling growlers out of its taproom. In a show of support…
Beer Battle: The Stoutest Stout of All Is…
Marble’s Oatmeal Stout, or at least that was how we ended up voting after the first NM Dark Side Brew Crew Beer Battle. The battle took place during halftime of the Super Bowl (if anybody out there expected us to watch Madonna, then clearly something is amiss in your knowledge of the Crew). We brought…
Tractor: Back in Black
Black IPAs are rare creatures who only come out at night. Well, not really, but whenever a brewery manages to obtain the rare hops needed to make such a concoction, it is not merely the right but the duty of beer lovers to jump at the chance to indulge themselves. Tractor has cranked out its…
Tractor Makes the Evening News
The mainstream media picked up on Tractor’s no-growlers-in-Nob-Hill plight over the weekend. Read the story and make sure to watch the video, as well. http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/business/beer-battle-brews-over-nob-hil-growlers Hopefully it will encourage more people to visit Tractor and sign the petition in support of amending or lifting the ordinance. The battle against NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard,…
Tractor Could Use a Hand
The good folks at Tractor Brewing’s Taproom in Nob Hill are gathering signatures from beer lovers to take to a zoning meeting next Tuesday as the first step in the process of setting themselves free from government shackles. As reported Wednesday, Tractor ran afoul of an old ordinance for the Nob Hill district that prevents…
Tractor Stopped in its Tracks
Sad news has come in today that the City of Albuquerque has put a halt to all keg and growler sales at Tractor Brewing’s Nob Hill Taproom. Due to a complaint from a Nob Hill resident about Tractor violating a neighborhood ordinance, the City has decided that growlers now count as “packaged liquor,” which is…
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