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 »The Brew Crew Bullpen reloads for the winter
Attrition is inevitable in any group writing project. Real life gets in the way, whether through the jobs that pay, family matters, or other aspects that consume the time that was once spent writing about beer. In addition to losing some of our original Crew members to such things, the Bullpen has lost a few writers. Fear not, we still love the ...
Read More »Ponderosa’s renaissance man takes the brewing reins
Head on down to Ponderosa this Saturday for some aged barley wine and lots of additional fun. Ponderosa Brewing is about to celebrate their second anniversary with a party on Saturday. The festivities include a special release, a 2014 barley wine that has been aging for 18 months. The impressive, or at least unique, fact is that beer was made f ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: All Hallows Weekend is set for ABQ
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 »Beer Poll: Choosing Albuquerque’s favorite taproom
Marble Westside Tap Room will celebrate its fourth anniversary today. (Photo courtesy of Marble) Believe it or not, the Marble Westside Tap Room will be celebrating its fourth anniversary today (Tuesday). It certainly changed the beer scene west of the Rio Grande when it opened back in 2012. It has been expanded three times in order to serve th ...
Read More »The 377 Brewery flies in for stealthy soft opening
Wait, what, the 377 is open?! Surprise! A new brewery opened Friday afternoon in Albuquerque. It would be easy to miss that The 377 Brewery was pouring beers at the corner of Yale and Gibson, directly west of an ubiquitous Applebee’s. The 377 has no social media page, not Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, so in the end it was just word of ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Helping our four-legged friends
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 »The Crew could use a little help
Think you have what it takes to join this motley bunch and write about local craft beer? Send us an application! (A beard is not required, FYI) Pardon the lack of fresh content so far this week. Things are conspiring against us in terms of timing right now. There has not been any big, breaking news (yet), just a few stories we are trying to cha ...
Read More »Oktoberfiesta returns bigger and better than ever at Santa Fe Brewing
This the season for Marzen! It’s Oktoberfest season once again, and you have plenty of choices to visit Oktoberfest celebrations around the state this year. Adding to the list is Santa Fe Brewing Company with their zany twist on a traditional Oktoberfest celebration, Oktoberfiesta. Sure, there will be brats, contests, dirndls, and a great ...
Read More »Beer Notes: Tart times at Rio Bravo
The Raspberry Sour makes its debut today at Rio Bravo. Rio Bravo head brewer Ty Levis said, long ago, that he fully planned to take advantage of the many barrels in his possession to branch out beyond simply doing standard barrel-aged stouts, porters, and barley wines. A sour program was coming, at least as soon as things finally settled down i ...
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