Right About Beer

There’s a Banksy on the wall next to the irrigation canal, or something like one. A shadow little girl holding a heart-shaped balloon. You can’t even see it unless you’re sitting on this platform, where I am, drinking a beer. Or maybe from the nearby parking lot, if  you looked hard enough. I’m sitting on…

You know how, when you’re sitting down to eat someplace, looking at the menu, there’s that section most people skip right over, because it’s not really an entree, and sometimes they’re really small anyways, but most people mostly skip the salads. I think it’s okay if we admit that, and if we did, then we…

I have just gotten poked by several needles in short succession; until a few years ago, this would have been incomprehensible for someone like myself (mostly healthy and not prone to infection by most measures). One of my arms has already started to feel sore – or maybe that’s just my imagination. I can’t really…

WordPress can be a fickle format, and some of my recent posts appeared out-of-order but actually in order based on the date of their drafting. It’s hard to keep this blog linear when I intend on visiting places multiple times before writing about them, and – as I’ve lamented in depth – it’s a challenge…

Sometimes things work out as planned, and you’re left almost wishing plan B had been needed. You know how it goes – you make the best plans with the best of intentions, knowing full well something is going to go wrong along the way that will probably diminish or change the responsibilities you thought you…

There’s never been a time in my life when I couldn’t duck out for a pint on a patio somewhere with some shade and maybe a light breeze, and this afternoon is no exception – I’m sitting in the expansive outdoor area of Flock of Moons brewing in Albuquerque, one of the most-recommended  microbreweries in…

That’s the tagline for one of my favorite beers from ABQ, one of the OG IPAs that popped up when there were still new hop profiles to entertain the tongue. Elevated has a big malt base with a rustic but dry hop profile. A nice thick head sticks around and a resinous finish lingers. It’s…

SItting in a sunny spot at the bar in a central-ish part of Albuquerque. There were pedestrian obstacles wandering the streets nearby, oblivious to my desire to get a cold pint in my hand ASAP. It’s not that I was in a hurry, but once I’ve made up my mind to get serious about beer,…

I’m sitting in the relaxing, shaded beer garden of Ex Novo, another recent addition to the Albuquerque brewing scene, drinking a honey-lavender kolsch that is uniquely sweet and flowery. It’s got a fragrant head that reminds me of ‘relaxing bath soap’ and the lavender is the dominant flavor of this one. Slightly hazy in the…

This morning, I packed up my collection of pint glasses again. It’s a fairly modest collection compared to what I had a few years ago, when an accident resulted in ‘broken everything’ I owned. I’ve picked up more than a few in the year and a half since then, and they’re usually the last thing…