Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock back to bring you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and…
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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…
IPA Challenge: A history lesson for one and all
To the brewers and brewery owners who have been involved since the beginning, the IPA Challenge has come a long way as its 12th incarnation is set to begin this afternoon at High Desert Brewing in Las Cruces. Taking the way-back machine with Il Vicino’s Brady McKeown and Turtle Mountain’s Nico Ortiz, the origin of…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Bad Breaks and Challenging IPAs
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock and bringing you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Hop Kwan Do is back at Il Vicino
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, bringing you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and tap rooms in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos. As…
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: A great time to try something new
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, returning from a triumphal trip to Northern California to bring you another Tuesday installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. 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 Albuquerque, Santa…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The Beer Premier is almost here
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is Stoutmeister, filling in again for E-Rock, 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. So…
The Great Beer Roundup: Slowdown summer
Stoutmeister here with another Beer Roundup. We did the last one three weeks ago but hope to stick to more of a biweekly schedule from here on out (the July 4 extended holiday weekend threw us off). As we stated last time, the idea of the Beer Roundup is to provide our readers with short…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 