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At the start of 2020, the outlook for local breweries was generally very bright. The Maryland and Virginia brewers’ guilds had significant legislative victories in 2019. The DC Brewers’ Guild had success in pushing back against Initiative 77, achieved progress on reforms to gain regulatory parity for brew pubs, a ...

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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeister p ...

At the start of 2020, the outlook for local breweries was generally very bright. The Maryland and Virginia brewers’ guilds had significant legislative victories in 2019. The DC Brewers’ Guild had success in pushing back against Initiative 77, achieved progress on reforms to gain regulatory parity for brew pubs, and for DC breweries ...

The last remaining piece of the first major brewery in Albuquerque, which was completed in 1899. With our next few stories in the Look Back/Look Ahead Series delayed for various reasons, we put out a request to our readers on Facebook for some story ideas. One that caught our eye, or specifically mine, was to type up a single, comprehensive ...

We sat down with Augie from Carton about beer, life, beer and well, Carton. Here’s the video.

This weekend Hellbender Brewing Company will release a second collaboration with Tim Bryson. We covered the first, Amplify Black Voices, when it was released in August. Michael Stein sat down with Hellbender’s co-founder and owner Ben Evans to discuss the latest release.  MS: How did the beer, Support Black Businesses, come to be?&n ...

I apologize for this half-assed New Beer Friday, but I'm under the weather and unable to deliver the goods to you in a proper way. Here's what I was able to track down.TF Brewing - Haze Series (Batch 2): This is a single hop NEIPA featuring one of my favorite hops, Mosaic. TF Brewing - Kiss From a Gose: This German wheat sour wa made wit ...

Nexus Brewery has managed to hang in there even in the face of all the restrictions caused by the pandemic. (All photos courtesy of Nexus Brewery) Nexus Brewery, like many of its contemporaries, had to figure out to how to adapt to the many challenges and restrictions of a pandemic world in 2020. The popular brewpub was able to survive with ...

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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeister p ...

The sun is still shining on Boxing Bear even after all that 2020 threw at the brewery. (All photos courtesy of Boxing Bear, unless noted) Since we got the bad puns out of the way in the headline, we can now focus on the heart of the story, which is of course Boxing Bear Brewing. After debuting more than six years ago, these now-veterans of t ...