Susan’s Fine Wine & Spirits is one of the best beer stores in Santa Fe. In honor of IPA Day, I went in search of the best out-of-state session IPAs that can be found in Santa Fe. Susan’s Fine Wine and Spirits (1005 S. St. Francis Drive) is my go-to place, conveniently located between home and office. I found the beer manager, Ma ...
Read More »Kick off the soccer season with some early pints at Red Door
We take our soccer seriously in the Crew. See just how serious by joining us Saturday morning at Red Door. It can be tough being a fan of European soccer and living in the Mountain Time Zone. The games are on ridiculously early, at least for those of us more nocturnal types. Every now and again, though, you just have to make the extra effort to ...
Read More »Enjoy some Founders for a good cause in Flagstaff
If you needed to get away this weekend, might we recommend this event in Flagstaff? This time of year is a bittersweet one for craft beer lovers. Bitter for those who didn’t score tickets to the Great American Beer Festival and SWEET for those who did. If you need to nurse those wounds, there is an event coming up this weekend in Fl ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: All hail IPA Day! For it may be our last
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...
Read More »DSBC’s Hat Trick: Mostly Evil this week, but with a little Stillwater
DSBC Hat Trick is a weekly series dedicated to those craft beers from beyond the Land of Enchantment. Want to know what’s new and tasty in coolers gracing your favorite craft beer retailer? We’ve got you covered! Check out our three favorite picks for the week; you can’t go wrong with anything out of this trifecta. All beers l ...
Read More »Bathtub Row Brewing achieves beer independence
Time to party, Los Alamos! Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos is about to achieve yet another milestone. All of their taps will finally be serving home-brewed beer this weekend. Though the place has been open for months now, they’ve had to supplement their own limited number of brews with those from nearby breweries, including Santa Fe Bre ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Take the train to start a brewery tour or two
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...
Read More »Sub Rosa Cellars soon to be Santa Fe’s fifth brewery
Santa Fe will have a new brewery before long, as local homebrew club president John Rowley has assured me. You’ve probably already heard the rumors. You’ve probably already seen their Facebook page. Well, at least 527 of you have. The Dark Side Brew Crew wouldn’t be the most-read beer blog in New Mexico if we didn’t bri ...
Read More »Nexus’ McKnight seeks a balance between being a trail blazer and a top-notch brewer
Kaylynn said we could reuse this somewhat ridiculous photo of her, so, we did. Many, many moons ago when we were in the midst of our NM Women in Brewing Series, I was asked by one of the Brew Crew writers when I was going to do a story on Nexus’ Kaylynn McKnight, the only current woman to hold the title of head brewer anywhere in the stat ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Pulling no punches or twists at the tender age of one
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...
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