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It’s not the size of the brewery that determines its voting totals, as Differential proved by leading all ABQ-area breweries in votes in the first round. (Photo courtesy of Peter Moore) The last couple of times our brewery patio bracket-style tournament hit up the Albuquerque breweries — divided by Interstates 25 and 40 into Northwe ...

More news of breweries opening/ closing/ and making news today. This story out of Miami, where Boston Beer Company’s Concrete Beach Brewing announces that it will close its doors in order to rebrand and reimagine their space. From Concrete Beach … Continue reading → The post Concrete Beach Brewing to close its doors and rebra ...

If beer fairies were real, would they live in Bamberg or Gaithersburg? And would they hang around in caves sprinkling attenuation on barrels of underfermeted lager or would they drop off small care packs to frontline workers? In the case of Jen and Josh Bienstock, the latter. The Gaithersburg-based parents of two have dubbed themselves The Bee ...

This pandemic has been rough on many Florida craft brewers. We’re sad to say that whenever a brewery begins a post with an address aimed directly at their audience, beer enthusiasts hold their collective breath until the end of the … Continue reading → The post Big Blue Brewing announces upcoming closure appeared first on Flo ...

Meet your top vote getter among all 96 brewery patios in the first round. Can this Farmington-based brewery keep it up? Welcome back to the second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament. After revisiting the southern breweries on Monday, followed by the offsite taprooms on Tuesday, we have three more polls today to narrow down thes ...

The quadruple can release consists of three Double Dry Hopped Double IPAs and a fruited sour Grand Rapids, Mich. — During quarantine, Run the Jewels, rap’s marquee MC/producer duo, dropped “RTJ4,” an incendiary album of front to back bangers that could rile the staunchest couch potato to riot. For Ed Collazo, CEO at&nbsp ...

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 ...

Boxing Bear’s West Downtown Taproom received the most votes of any offsite location in the first round, but it was not quite enough to earn a bye to the regional final. The second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament rolls along as we return to the offsite taprooms. Last time, we had the taprooms outside Albuquerque in a se ...

Marble Brewery is still supporting local charities and charities in other markets it serves even during the pandemic. Gone are the days when Marble, or any other local craft brewery, could simply throw a big party on the patio and raise funds for worthy charitable causes. That does not mean, however, that giving back to the community has gone a ...

Continuing to leverage my time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program for beer professionals. To remain honest in my studies, I am reviewing DMV beers brewed in the classic styles and comparing them to the official style guidelines. This week I’m drinking Denizens ...