Il Vicino regains Challenge Cup
Il Vicino edged Chama River Brewing to win the eighth New Mexico IPA Challenge.
Il Vicino’s Hop Goblin IPL earned 72 votes Saturday (July 25) to 67 for Chama River’s March Hare on the big final day of the competition to finish with 98 overall. Chama River, the 2008 winner, had 91. The Challenge began Tuesday in Farmington, went to Santa Fe on Thursday and finished at the Il Vicino taproom in Albuquerque on Saturday.
For the 236 IPA fans you turned out Saturday and wonder which beers were which (they were tasted blind, with the numbers only revealed at the end): #1 – Second Street, #2 – Chama River, #3 – Rio Grande, #4 – High Desert, #5 – Turtle Mountain, #6 – Scorro Springs, #7 – Three Rivers, #8 – Il Vicino, #9 – Marble, #10 – Hallenbrick, #11 – Santa Fe Brewing, #12 – Blue Corn, #13 – Eskes.

on January 6, 2010 at 6:48 pm
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hi homies…..its 2010 and im wonderin who what n where is up with the 2010 ipa challenge….please lemme know when you know,,,…