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Lizard Tail hopes to eventually move out of their current location into a proper brewing space. A lot of things have occupied the space where Lizard Tail currently resides, but few have been as overwhelmingly successful. Owner Dan Berry spoke with me over a delicious tasting flight, telling me that they were actually surprised at how well recei ...

WinterBrew is sold out for 2016, so 800 lucky people are going to have some awesome beers this Friday! (Photo courtesy of the NM Brewers Guild) Well, the good news is WinterBrew is as popular as ever. The bad news is that means 800 tickets disappeared in the blink of an eye and the event is completely sold out. So for the lucky 800 of you who 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 ...

Brewer Andrew Krosche has taken the reins at Chama River. The brewers may change, but the quality beer remains the same over at Chama River Brewing. At least, that has been the case throughout the history of the popular brewpub. From Ted Rice to Jeff Erway to Justin Hamilton to Zach Guilmette, Chama has served as a finishing school for many a g ...

Zach Guilmette, right, has returned to Canteen as head brewer, where he will again work alongside the ubiquitous Doug Cochran. Let the great brewer shuffle of 2016 be official. Zach Guilmette has left Chama River and returned to Canteen as head brewer. Andrew Krosche has left Ponderosa to take over at Chama. Bob Hagerty, formerly of the La Cumb ...

Brace yourselves, for victory is ours! Earlier today (Friday), we teased the upcoming Victory at Sea Day, a collaborative effort between the Brew Crew and Ballast Point to bring you some awesome variants of this massively wonderful beer. Well, as you can see from the above poster, there will be some epic versions on tap Saturday, Jan. 30, start ...

Distillery 365 has entered into a new partnership which means more beer. Huzzah! (All photos by the awesome Mario Caldwell) A while back we heard rumors of a brewing operation moving into the Los Ranchos area. The rumor was never confirmed, we heard nothing more, and went back to work. It turns out that a combined brewery/distillery operation n ...

The Crew, and our assorted miscreant friends, indulged ourselves at Nexus many times in 2015 and plan to do so again in 2016. With the holiday hiatus behind us, I managed to corral owner Ken Carson and brewer Kaylynn McKnight over at Nexus on Wednesday afternoon for the next entry in our ongoing Look Back/Look Ahead Series. Before enjoying some ...

Back Alley hopes for some stability in 2016. On a recent, ice-cold December afternoon I sat down with Peter Moore, head brewer for Back Alley Draft House in downtown Albuquerque. We discussed the previous year as well as what may lie ahead in 2016. We started out by continuing a discussion we had in October at the New Mexico Brew Fest. I told h ...

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 ...