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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 ...

We masked up. We stayed home. When we drank at breweries, we did so outside, or in taprooms operating at 50% capacity or less. We shopped local, and bought local, via BierMi, or other platforms. And yet, here we are. This year-long group project where only some of us do the work, carrying the rest, is hopefully maybe almost over; there&rsqu ...

Head brewer Matt Meier, left, watches carefully as the canning line do its thing in pre-COVID times. (All photos courtesy of Red Door Brewing) Strange times call for remote interviews as I forged on with this year’s Look Back/Look Ahead Series with our friends at Red Door Brewing. On the call with me this time around were head brewer M ...

We've had a lot of local beers over the last few weeks. This week is mostly about the out of market selection. Enjoy!Policy Kings - Festival City Lager : This is the first lager to come out of Policy Kings and is named for the town of Cedar City. No notes on this. Please check it out. 5.0% - Only at Policy Kings. Uinta - Oatmeal Stout ...

Just before the most recent two-week closure, we visited the Beer Hall to see the new landscaping. Though Santa Fe Brewing Co. is the oldest and largest of New Mexico’s craft breweries, with a great deal of veteran experience inside and outside of our local industry, nothing could have prepared them for this year. At all levels, from p ...

Today, Thursday, December 17th, Cigar City Brewing took to the internet to allude to changes in the format of the Tampa brewery’s 11-years-strong beer festival celebrating the release of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout. From Cigar City Brewing: The planning and execution … Continue reading → The post Cigar City Brewing announc ...

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 ...

Back in the before times, at the Stout Invitational at Bathtub Row in Los Alamos, someone snapped this wonderful photo of Brewers Guild executive director Leah Black, left, and board of directors president Anne O’Neill hamming it up. Ah, the memories. (Photo courtesy of Red Door Brewing) Back in March 2019, Leah Black accepted the role of ...

Tis this giving season, and what better way to give than with the gift of beer. Sure, a 4- or 6-pack works, but let’s set our sights on something a bit bigger, with an overview of various memberships, societies, and even academies. Oooh, fancy! Giving breweries cash up front for beer later allows them to plan for the upcoming year–a ...

Bosque Brewing and its six locations have endured an up-and-down year, but remain optimistic for the future. (All photos courtesy of Bosque) Taprooms open, taprooms closed. Kitchens open, kitchens closed. Patios open, patios closed. One taproom open, another closed. The early weeks of the pandemic left Bosque Brewing’s employees, owners, ...