19th annual Taos Brew Master’s Festival hits the slopes

This past Saturday, I made the trip up to Taos Ski Valley for their 19th annual Brew Master’s Festival, and I gotta tell you it was one smooth, powder-filled ride down beer mountain, and one of my favorite brewfests in recent memory.

From the moment the doors opened and the lines got moving, brewfesters were ID’d, braceleted, and tasting within minutes. Being their 19th festival, it was clear that Taos Ski Valley had done this before. Located inside Tenderfoot Katie’s and the Martini Tree, festers found themselves in a two-level, ski lodge cafeteria setting, with big windows framing picturesque mountain views, visible even after dark. The space, although cramped at times, worked very well for festing purposes. Both floors filled up quickly, yet even towards the middle of the event, there were places to sit, plenty of pouring stations to belly up to, and ample room to mix and mingle in between. I never really saw any long lines

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