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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Be ...
Read More »Ale Republic starting to make its mark in the East Mountains
Ale Republic has found its niche as a mountain brewery. Traveling over a mountain pass can create the illusion of having crossed into a different world. Opposite sides often display vast differences in culture, landscape, and energy. Maybe it’s just evidence of growing up in a place without mountains, but I confirm this magic every time I ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Come party with the Crew, we’re big kids now!
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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Be ...
Read More »Santa Fe Brewing continues its rapid expansion project into 2017
The massive new packaging warehouse, left, was completed alongside the existing brewery in 2016. Ever since Luke, and later Julie, joined the Crew, we have had them handle just about all the stories on the breweries in Santa Fe. Every now and again, though, some of us Albuquerque-based folks still have to step up and fill in, as I did with the ...
Read More »Rowley Farmhouse Ales has a barrel of fun in 2016, and will continue to roll out the good stuff in 2017
John Rowley stands amid a few of his creations. The Look Back/Look Ahead series continues to roll with a look at Santa Fe’s newest brewery, Rowley Farmhouse Ales (RFA). Though the brewery is new to the industry, the owners and partners certainly are not, and that’s why their first year went as well as it did, and why this year, and ...
Read More »A Look Back/Look Ahead for the entire New Mexico brewing industry
An enduring image of 2016 will always be the Boxing Bear staff celebrating after being named Mid-Size Brewpub of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival in October. Looking back over the year, 2016 was a doozy, to put it lightly. The political, social, and economic struggles of 2016 made us glad we have plenty of great places to go for a b ...
Read More »WinterBrew returns with some intriguing beer lineups
If you got the tickets, we’ve got the beer lists to whet your appetite! All right, this is one of those posts where you can react one of two ways: Be excited, because you bought a ticket Be seriously bummed, because you did not and the event is sold out If you fall under No. 2 there, you might want to just move on with your internet brows ...
Read More »La Cumbre grows with purchase of adjacent property
La Cumbre has purchased the empty building next door, adding 6,000 square feet. Back when we ran our Look Back/Look Ahead Series entry on La Cumbre, Jeff Erway said he was getting close to acquiring “a property very close to here” that would help expand the brewery’s distribution footprint. The only thing Jeff left out was whi ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Satisfying the sweet (stout) tooth
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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Be ...
Read More »Bathtub Row Brewing continues its roll
Incoming GM Doug Osborn, outgoing GM Jason Fitzpatrick, and head brewer Nic Boyden. For this edition of our ongoing Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we are focusing on one of the more distant breweries in New Mexico (for most of you, at least). Bathtub Row Brewing (BRB) in Los Alamos has now been in business for over a year and a half, and things a ...
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