New Mexico Beer Talk

Eye Candy
A few of my (many) NM beer pix:

Taken on the back wall of mi casa in ABQ, NM the week Elevated was released in cans:



Taken sitting in the window sill of my spare guest room here in southern Germany thx to my frau who brought this back after a trip back home to ABQ in Oct


Another




Taken back home in the ABQ Foothills

 

Beautiful pics, mate.

 

a great compliment indeed.

 

Hey - y'all notice 3 of the final 8 IPA in the National IPA Challenge are all from NM?

http://brackets.brewingnews.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=456997&tclass=National IPA Championship 2015

La Cumbre
Bosque
Second Street

(The Canteen's Exodus IPA made it to the Sweet 16)

 

correction - Second Street is out, Canteen Brew House is still in

 

Just looking at the NM IPA challenge alone, the fact that La Cumbre comes in 5th place year after year (for either elevated or project dank) says a lot... a whole LOT. Underrated is an understatement imho.

Fyi, NIPAC final four is set.. Two NM breweries advance.. LC Project Dank is out.

It's Canteen Exodus IPA vs. 10 Barrell Brewing Boise, against Bosque Brewing Scale Tipper vs. Melvin Brewing Morris (the brewery that knocked out Project Dank).

 

50% of the top ipas are brewed in ABQ.

 

That's big time for the state and these breweries. Exodus doesnt show it in ratings here (most beers don't). I don't know what it is. People like to keep things to themselves here in the state? We seem to live in some sort of bubble. Nothing really wrong with that I suppose. Well now, one of these guys will have some new fans flocking their way.

I wonder how ratings/perceived rankings will go with the winning beer. I've had both and from past notes, found Scale Tipper a bit more "WOW" worthy on the taste buds. Both seemed to be of the same elevated IPA lineage.. At least I found some comparisons between them all.

 

It's going to be harder & harder to get tickets to the NM IPA challenge I'm afraid. I believe all of these beers have won at one time or other

 

I've actually never been. Now if I go with all these award winners, who's the bandwagon chaser now? lol. I hear they are never really sold out until the day before or so. A couple hundred sold, with pre sell at many locations. I do hope they plan for something bigger this year. It may be that tipping point where "fans" REALLY jump on it. I think it's normally been three locations. One north near SF area, one south, and one in ABQ. There may be enough buzz for two-three samplings in ABQ alone

 

Winner is Bosque!!

 

Pardon the ignorance, are both of these two year round beers? Should be in ABQ in the next few weeks and may have to venture beyond La Cumbre and Marble if so

 

Be the first to try national & international award winning IPAs before the rest of the world learns about them:

The New Mexico IPA Challenge tickets:

http://www.holdmyticket.com/event/201727

 

As Miggs pointed out, Canteen is very close to La Cumbre so absolutely worth checking out. Exodus comes and goes, so no guarantees it will be on.

Bosque is absolutely worth going to. Outstanding brewery that just gets better and better. As Miggs said, even if Scale Tipper isn't on, some other delicious IPA will be. John Bullard pumps them out and they're good.