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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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Beer. For anyone o ...

Last year I was happy to bring you the news that Ogden's own Rooster Brewing Company would be creating a production brewery/pub to service it's growing outside accounts. Today I am once again happy to bring you the news that Roosters B Street Brewery is set to break ground tomorrow Thursday, December 7th. With this new dedicated facility an ...

Campaign Series Bargoed club The Real Ale makes it into finals for top accolade Campaign Series A CLUB in Bargoed has been named as one of the top four in the country. The Real Ale Farm was named as one of the top four in CAMRA's Club of the Year awards. CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale) is an independent voluntary consumer organisatio ...

Blue Corn’s dynamic duo of head brewer Paul Mallory, right, and new assistant brewer Andy Lane. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That’s right, it’s Stout Season, and if you’ve been keeping up with us all these years, you know that also means it’s time for the Crew’s annual Look Back/Look Ahead ...

The Drinks Business Colin Valentine is stepping down as CAMRA chairman The Drinks Business Valentine announced on Monday that he will not be standing for re-election to the National Executive at CAMRA's AGM in April 2018, and will hand his role over to current vice-chair Jackie Parker. Parker was elected by her colleagues at the Nation ...

It never slowed down at Albuquerque’s oldest brewery in 2017. (Photo courtesy of Canteen because someone forgot to take new pictures, again) It seems like only yesterday that the Crew sat down with Canteen head brewer Zach Guilmette for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series. At least that is what he told us when we dropped by last week. ...

There was a recent post asking about the hype around Cold Mountain. “I don’t get it,” the poster inquired asking others to help fill in the blanks. There was nothing malicious about the inquiry. Simply, this release is different from what many of us may be used to. Cold Mountain is a great beer and is always a signal that the ...

Kidderminster Shuttle Wyre Forest CAMRA raise a glass to Stourport pub award Kidderminster Shuttle Black Star, in Mitton Street, was named pub of the autumn by the Wyre Forest Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) group. The award was presented to the Black Star landlords, Maria and Andy Gooding. Branch members said they were impressed with th ...

Jerseybites For the Love of Craft Beer Jerseybites The food was served family style on long rows of tightly packed tables which was intentionally done to promote dialog among homebrewers, pros, and beer fans. For me, FLOC was a little sweaty, a little raucous exuberance, and a lot of education. It ...

Modern Farmer Fish Are Fed With Booze Waste at this Distillery/Winery/Brewery/Fishery On the Shores of Lake Erie Modern Farmer But in western New York, along the shore of Lake Erie, there's a project unlike any we've seen: a fish farm attached to a combination brewery/distillery/winery in which waste from the alcohol-making process is ...