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Jason Fitzpatrick (general manager), Jason Kirkman (assistant brewer), and Hector Santana Jr. (head brewer) Bathtub Row Brewing (BRB) in Los Alamos had a phenomenal first year and said they hope to keep the ball rolling in 2016. As part of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series for 2015-16, I sat down with general manager Jason Fitzpatrick and br ...

Your choice for the best beer name of 2015 was Red Door’s Baby Got Bock. Baby Got Bock! Yes, Red Door’s homage to a “classic” song was the winner of our first poll. Since we did not add a timing element to the poll itself, we just decided all votes after 10 p.m. MST would not count. Thus, Baby Got Bock proved to be the w ...

Surprise! They’re open! (All photos by the awesome Mario Caldwell) Quiet weekends can be nice sometimes. Other times, they get downright boring. Luckily for craft beer drinkers in Albuquerque, this weekend saw the surprise opening of Sidetrack Brewing downtown. I originally visited Sidetrack back in September and they looked to be a month ...

Starr Brothers Brewing is moving closer to opening early in 2016. Everything old is new again. Starr Brothers Brewing is going back to the old school, opening a true brewpub in an era where kitchens have been eschewed in favor of food trucks. The forthcoming brewery is located on San Antonio east of I-25 in the San Antonio Commons retail center ...

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 ...

Kaktus’ rooftop patio has some of the best views in town. The folks over at Kaktus Brewing might be nuts. Or, maybe they are just ambitious. But, probably nuts. They are currently in a mad rush to have their new Nob Hill taproom ready for a New Year’s Eve celebration. I stopped by Monday afternoon amid the chaos, and more than anyth ...

We know what the most awarded beer was in New Mexico in 2015, but which beer had the coolest, funniest, funkiest name? It’s up to you to decide below! Every now and again in New Mexico a beer gets released whose name alone catches your eye. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes they are simply creative, and other times they are downright we ...

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 ...

A 2016 membership card taken atop the laptop that this story was being written on … it’s the most meta photo of all time. A while back we asked for info on every brewery’s membership/mug club for 2016. And we waited. And we waited some more. So here, with much fanfare, we finally present our annual guide, as we could not wait ...

While he won’t be pouring beers at Nob Hill Bar & Grill anymore, friend of the Crew Thomas DeCaro will still be promoting craft beer. There are times in life when someone we know gives us great news, but it is also news that gives us pause. Perhaps it has to do with a friend getting a great new job, but having to leave town. Sometimes ...