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Ponderosa’s new brewer Robert Haggerty rocks the orange shirt like no one else, not even Peyton Manning. Ponderosa Brewing has endured a fair amount of change since opening in September 2014. They are already on their third head brewer, yet have managed to build up a strong following in the Sawmill District and from beer lovers all around ...

Once again, the little items added up, so for the second week in a row we have a notebook to empty. NIPAC domination continues Scale Tipper has yet to be dethroned as the champion of NIPAC. The fourth round of the National IPA Challenge, hosted by The Brewing News, is complete with three of the five remaining New Mexico entries advancing to the ...

The newly re-branded Alien Brew Pub in Albuquerque’s Uptown area. For this next installment of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series, I talked to brewer/owner Rich Weber of Sierra Blanca/Rio Grande Brewing Company in their (newly re-branded) brewpub location in the Uptown Mall in Albuquerque. He told us of a 2015 with much behind the scenes gro ...

They couldn’t blindfold everyone and put them on a shuttle, so this is the next coolest way to do this event. It has been a little while since the first Bosque Brewing Insider event back on December 2. Fear not, it shall not be the last of those events, as they have just announced a new Insider event for Thursday, March 10. Bosque general ...

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 four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...

That’s all she wrote, folks. (Photo courtesy of Courtney Bell) A little piece of Albuquerque’s craft beer history died on Monday. The Chama River Microbar, the tiniest little taproom attached to the back (west) side of the Sunshine Theater, abruptly closed its doors for good. There was just the sad sign pictured above, plus a few me ...

Hello, beautiful darkness! What do you do when you have the best stout in Albuquerque, as decided by the Brew Crew? If you are Chama River Brewing, you take that winner and throw it in a cask. They tapped it Wednesday night and I knew I had to head over to try it out. The result? Well, no mere words can truly describe the experience of the firs ...

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born On the recommendation of Stoutmeister, who managed to grab a taste of this one before me, I was struck with love at first pint by the glory of Boxing Bear’s Vantablack Russian Imperial Stout. We begin with a roasted, sweet aroma, and a hint of hops. A ...

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 four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...

The magic word! The Brew Crew recently received word that there is Yet Another New Brewery out there. We take for granted that there will be a new one every week in Albuquerque (and are very happy about it), but this one is about a stone’s throw from being in the middle of nowhere. If you’re going to Ojo Caliente’s f ...