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Rio Bravo canned its cognac-barrel-aged Russian imperial stout for the trip to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival competition and awards ceremony, which will be earlier this year on September 10. The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to have an effect on annual craft beer events around the country, whether pushing things back or post ...

This Friday and Saturday, Hidden Mountain, the brewery formerly known as Blue Corn, is celebrating its grand opening at their South Side (and only) location at long last, and they’re pulling out all the stops. Slightly delayed by COVID restrictions, the Hidden Mountain team wanted to wait for the most opportune moment to throw a pa ...

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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeiste ...

Agri-Nature Center program manager Joshua O’Halloran will be among those showing the public how their hops harvester works during a special event in Los Ranchos this Thursday evening. (Photo courtesy of the Agri-Nature Center) Back before the pandemic, we were starting to see a lot of special events where local hop farms were getting a ...

General manager Allison York keeps things humming at Quarter Celtic, and has also joined the New Mexico Brewers Guild board of directors. Some people just love the chaos of a busy workplace, finding a home of sorts amid the hustle and bustle. Most of us in the Crew have known Allison York to be one of those unique people during her time at ...

The lunch crowd had already departed by the time we snapped this photo, but let us assure you that La Reforma is one busy brewpub these days. Sometimes, when searching for new story ideas, all of us in the Crew will go back through the archives and simply try to find which breweries have not written about for the longest stretch of time. I d ...

The signs are lit and the doors are open at The Taproom at Old Town. For the first time in, well, ever, Old Town has a local taproom among its many businesses. The Taproom at Old Town is now open, and I stopped in for a quick visit on Thursday afternoon, along with a slew of other industry personnel. The Taproom at Old Town is located at ...

Ebbie Edmonston has been in and around the craft beer industry for eight years. She’s almost always been behind the bar, and has seen nearly every situation from the other side of the pine. After working at Duel Brewery for three and a half years, she was beamed aboard the ship at Meow Wolf as bar manager, and then later moved on to T ...

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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeiste ...

Steel Bender’s first event since March 2020 looks mighty tasty! (Image courtesy of SBB) The Lavender Festival was an annual event, until interrupted by Covid in 2020, that celebrated the many unique businesses and people in the village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. It is quietly making its return this week, and Steel Bender Brewyard i ...