Normally, when one of us gets a text from a brewer, it pertains to a beer release, or perhaps a question about something related to his/her brewery. On Thursday afternoon, it was a text from eagle-eyed Ponderosa head brewer Antonio Fernandez that let us know about a surprising Facebook post from another brewery here in town. Four years after it opened on the Westside, Toltec Brewing is shutting its doors for good. Owners Robert and Diana Navarrette posted a letter sharing the reason they are bowing out of the local beer scene, which we are sharing in full below. Toltec opened in the spring of 2018 with award-winning brewer Kaylynn McKnight, formerly of Nexus, at the helm of its brewing operations. While having such an accomplished brewer from the start certainly helped put it on the map — including winning bronze medals at the Great American Beer Festival for Shaman Stout (2019) … |
Source: NM Dark Side Brew Crew
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