The great reopening: Most breweries ready for full occupancy

Unless you have been in a complete boycott of all things news and social media, by now you are aware that today, on this first of July, the state of New Mexico is lifting all pandemic restrictions and allowing businesses to fully reopen.

That, of course, includes our 80-plus craft breweries throughout the state, so we set out to ask as many as we could in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas as to their status going forward. Not all will welcome back crowds at 100-percent occupancy, mainly due to staffing issues, but for the most part, it will be back to business as usual for the first time since early March 2020.

We could spend a moment reflecting on what the last 15 months have been like for the breweries, but once again, Steel Bender co-owner/marketing director Shelby Chant sums it up better than we ever possibly could

…