Brewsed up from all the drinking? Albuquerque Beer Week Day 7



Shrimp and Grits fa ya.



Yeah, bwoy. It's been a week now of beer week events here in Burque. I've been doing my part by trying to make as many events as possible and leaving no bottle undrank.

Last night I headed out with the family to the Prohibition Era-themed, Yelp-sponsored (Howie K., holla) Food Truck Rumble at Marble Brewery. Rather than get in to some long drawn out account of how things went down, I'll share some pics and let you know that The Supper Truck was the people's champ by night's end. They were among four other trucks serving a little suntin suntin from their menu paired with a Marble beer. Everything was good, but yo, nobody effing with Supper Truck's Shrimp & Grits. This combo is like the roided-up Bash Brothers in '89. It's like the sexual position sixty-nine. Shit is just perfect.

Ayo, these roids really work, dude.

As for today, seems like another full day for all you beer-chugging whippersnappers. Here's what you should peep if you hate washboard abs, love Homer Simpson's figure and would rather have a good beer than a good run aka you ain't going to any beaches soon aka you expect people to love you with all your rolls aka my life story.

Marble Cask Ale Night at the Westside Tap Room (Time: 3PM-12AM)- I haven't been to this tap room yet because I got no reason to with the downtown brewery, but if you live way out there on the border with Arizona (aka the West Side) then this is your best bet. I mean, before this tap room your options were that We'll-Be-Outta-Business-Soon-If-We-Keep-Making-Beer-Like-This Broken Bottle Brewery and that We're-a-Brewery-But-We're-Known-for-our-food Turtle Mountain Brewing, so this place is like a godsend. God felt terrible for you guys with your drinking choices and he said, "Ayo, these people need some good beer if they gon' be living on the worst side of town." And pom pom, there was the West Side Tap Room. Enjoy that shit, motherfuckers.

Anyways, 505-2013 will be among the beers on cask so that alone is reason to hit this event.

Double IPA Tapping at Kelly's Brewery (Time: 4-7PM)- Kelly's don't really think they fooling anybody into coming here just for this beer, right? When heads talk about the Albuquerque breweries, you guys aren't even part of the discussion. We know you make beer and all that, but nobody really drinks that shit. So you think we gonna go to try this special beer? My guess is y'all gonna serve negative five of these at your events, because the people that try 'em gonna send em back like they're homeruns from the opposing team at Wrigley, ya heard?

Yeah, don't bother with this.

La Cumbre Project Dank Tapping at Two Fools (Time: 5PM onwards)- La Cumbre been kinda off the map this whole Beer Week. I know they collabed on that 505-2013 and that junk is like something reserved for Roman gods that some mischievous demigod swiped and popped at his own private party with strippers and water guns, but yo, you can't just kick back and say "Dassit, chico" and take the rest of the week off. That's either some over the top hubris or that collabo beer just took all their energy. Either way, I had a Project Dank IPA earlier this year and it was cool, though La Cumbre be annoying the fuck outta me sometimes by making 50 billion pale ales and IPAs, but I think this might be a different style, so let's see.

In general, these cats put in work and the results are memorable, so fuck with this.

Stone Brewing at Sister Bar (Time: 5PM to 8PM)- Again, Sister coming through with some ill beers. Stone Cali-Belgique IPA, Old Guardian, and Espresso Imperial Russian Stout. C'mon, son. I don't even have to sell this shit to people. Speaks for itself.

Otherwise, we still got Lips of Faith tastings at Gecko's, O'Niell's still doing samplings at their two locations, including Left Hand and Oskar Blues on the east side, Odell's Amuste will be at Horse and Angel, and Boulder Beer will be tapping a blueberry wheat at Billy's Long Bar.

I don't go into great detail about these events because I don't really give a shit, just in case that's not apparent.


Lastly, I finally noticed a little Instagram action last night, though it seemed more #FoodTruckRumble than anything else. I guess most Burque Beer Drinkers is either too busy drinking (Chucky from Sons of Anarchy voice: "I respect that.") or just ain't up on thangs (Snoop voice).

Oh and a bunch of beer groups are going to be meeting at Marble Brewery today for a meet-and-greet. My only question is, how the fuck is this different from any other day of the week? This is what we do! We drink, we talk shit, meet new people like "Oh shit, you like good beer? You like beautiful women/men (cuz women like they good beer too)? Sports? Did we just become best friends?"

Word life.

And here a couple more Marble pics from last night.