Saturday, June 3, 2017

Beer Week: Saturday, June 3rd

Cazuela's is hosting Yappy Hour, an adoption/fundraiser event benefiting Watermelon Mountain Ranch. You could spend your money on worse things. Event goes till 3.

Quarter Celtic releases their first Gose style beer, Mangose. Gose is where the money is at these days. Anderson Valley isn't selling much Hop Ottin' here anymore, but the Blood Orange Gose is chugging along.

Upslope continues their close Beer Week friendship with M'tucci's Market and Deli as they host a beer dinner together. Din-din served at 7.

Some pretty special Great Divide beers at Nob Hill Bar and Grill: Barrel-Aged Yeti and She Said, I Brew: a barrel-aged Imperial Stout. Possibly wine-barrel aged?

The girl scout cookie/Sierra Nevada beer flight pairing returns to O'Niell's, this time at the Juan Tabo location. Shouldn't this be a milk stout pairing? Milk and cookies? No? Oh.

Tractor Nob Hill hosts Cider Day Night fever. Tractor cider and DJ Wae Fonkey spinning disco "hits". And you don't have to drink cider if you're there, so you've got that going for you. Which is nice.

Red Door hosts a Food Truck Battle at noon. Try treats from a number of local food trucks and drink some milk stout. Or cider. But you don't have to drink cider, which is nice.

Friday, June 2, 2017

Beer Week: Friday, June 2nd

Rock and Brews hosts a rock paper scissors event with Upslope beers featured throughout the night. Top 5 finishers get prizes. I'm the world's worst at this game so I don't approve. I suck at chess as well. F you Bobby Fischer. The cutting/covering/crushing starts at 5.

Oskar Blues breaks out the secret stash on Friday night at Nob Hill Bar and Grill. You already know NHBG gets the best taps. Come see what Oskar Blues has to offer for Beer Week.

Is this the most anticipated event of Beer Week? For Tums it is. Tower of Sour returns to Back Alley Draft House at 6 with over 20 sours, live music, and a New Belgium bike giveaway! $25 gets you 6 samples and a 10 oz. pour. $45 gets you unlimited sampling. $55 gets you an hour early admission, unlimited sampling, food, and superiority. $10 just gets you in the door. Because I like to watch.

Tastings and tappings: Sierra Nevada at both Gecko's locations at 4. Total Wine is serving up Goose Island Samples, and Whole Foods on Academy is sampling La Cumbre beers. La Cumbre Brewing Company is also serving La Cumbre samples.

Tractor Wells Park hosts Art Fight 32: Electric Boogaloo at 7. Or Beer Week edition. One of those. Come watch angst in the form of art being created live, soon to be available at your local thrift store.

Night Out Cards at Tractor Nob Hill, 7 pm. Apparently, this is the "traveling truth or dare game for adventurous people". Alcohol and a game of Truth or Dare, nothing bad could ever come of that, right?

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Beer Week: Thursday, June 1st

Whole Foods' Sandia Saloon hosts a tapping of Marble's new Guava Gose. Not into guava? Hit up the produce section and squeeze your own choice of fruit into your beer.

Beer dinners abound: Freight House hosts an Upslope dinner at 6:30. Bien Shur hosts a Marble dinner at 6. Decisions, decisions. Which dinner features pizza?

Nob Hill Bar and Grill does it again, this time with a keg of Cascade's Sang Royal, a cabernet/port barrel-aged sour.

Battle of the Beer Geeks once again at Tractor Brewing. The event features local beer groups (no solo acts welcome, apparently!) as they pit their Tractor-brewed creations against one another in a public vote. There is no partisanship to see here; move along! Dark Side Brew Crew vs. Babes in Brewland vs. Wort Hogs vs. Dukes of Ale vs. ABQ Craft Beer Drinkers. Tasting begins at 6, voting ends at 8.