Yeah, we need to find this beer. (Courtesy of Upslope Brewing) The other day, Stoutmeister and I met up with Eddy Madani from Upslope Brewing Co., based out of Boulder, Colo. They’re in New Mexico spreading the craft beer love at the moment and we were delighted at the opportunity to have some time with him to talk about their brewery, ca ...
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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 ...
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We took this picture of Marble’s massive downtown expansion in late October; it has progressed much further since. If anyone out there thinks that 2015 was a massive year for Marble, just wait, because 2016 could be massive. For this next entry in our Look Back/Look Ahead Series for 2015-16 (following La Cumbre, Bosque, Tractor, and Disti ...
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Distillery 365 opened in 2015 with both their own spirits and beer. Editor’s note: Just in case anyone thought I might be dooming myself by trying to write every article in the 2015-16 Look Back/Look Ahead Series, what with so many, many breweries out there now, I present the first article in the series written by another member of the Cr ...
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It’s been a busy year with big crowds on the Beer Farm. (Photo courtesy of Tractor) Week one of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series wraps up with a trek over to Tractor, where things have been on an even keel for most of 2015. Much like La Cumbre and Bosque, however, there could be some big things coming in 2016. To help guide me through what ...
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Yeah, it got a little weird up in Portland last week. Each year, the Portland Holiday Ale fest sets me right into my holiday mood, and this year was no exception. The festival was more expensive, yet more crowded than any of the previous years, with a $35 entry fee. Entry included a plastic mug and 12 tickets (so essentially the price just to w ...
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A couple weeks ago, John Rowley, head brewer of Sub Rosa Cellars, which, as you now know, is the new brewery opening soon in Santa Fe, contacted me to let me know that he had some big news. It wasn’t good news, but it wasn’t devastating, either. It was news of a roadblock that happens to thousands of breweries and a lesson that man ...
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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 ...
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It was a big, fun, award-winning year for Bosque Brewing. The most obvious evidence of Bosque Brewing’s big 2015 came in the form of the successful opening of the Nob Hill Public House. Or, perhaps it was in all of those bottle releases. Then again, maybe it was their victories in the National IPA Challenge and New Mexico IPA Challenge, p ...
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Attendees line up for beer and food samples at the first Bosque Insider event. (All photos courtesy of Mario Caldwell) The other night three of us in the Crew — myself, Adam, and AmyO — got a chance to be a part of the first Bosque Insider event. This invite-only experience happened inside the brewery, where we got to try out some o ...
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