Behold, the hopped mysteries of the pint. “In the broader sense, I’m wondering how many medals New Mexico will score at Great American Beer Festival,” said New Mexico Brewers Guild director Christopher Goblet. “IPA is only one section within GABF, but let’s wave that ‘NMIPA’ flag proudly.” He&rsqu ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: A jam-packed holiday weekend looms
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without partic ...
Read More »Bosque bottles up the Scale Tipper goodness for the benefit of us all
We have no shame when it comes to stealing awesome fliers from breweries’ Facebook pages. In case you have missed it, but judging by the social response you have not, Bosque Brewing is putting their award-winning Scale Tipper IPA into bombers and releasing it with a big old party at the Nob Hill Public House on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. S ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Dear summer, let us drink our beers in peace
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without partic ...
Read More »No fish tales, just great beer at Ballast Point in San Diego
Goodness comes from this place. So much goodness. I am back from San Diego, where it was a perfect 75 to 80 degrees all four days. What the literal hell happened here in ABQ while I was gone? I mean, it’s seriously scorching. Anyway, back to the beer talk. Last month, a team of folks from San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing and Spirit ...
Read More »New breweries update: Checking in on the progress of the many
We all get excited when we see a new brewery’s signage going up. (Photo courtesy of the NM Brewers Guild) One thing I had hoped to do in June, before life got in the way, was to go around and see where all the forthcoming breweries are in their progress toward opening. It is something that is easier to think about writing than actually wr ...
Read More »Blue Corn’s Midnight Red is coming for your soul!
The best part is you can drink it anytime Blue Corn is open, not just at midnight.The Midnight Red is now available at Blue Corn Brewery. After a week on tap, it has certainly hit its stride. It’s been a while since Blue Corn released a beer as monstrous as this big, dark, malty Imperial Red Ale, and so I sat down with brewer James Warren ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: It’s Monsoon (IPA) season at Bosque
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without partic ...
Read More »Ponderosa plucks their new brewer from just down the road at Marble
Andrew Krocshe has made the jump from Marble to Ponderosa as the latter’s new brewer. (Photo courtesy of Ponderosa) A while back we reported on the pending departure of founding brewer Matt Kollaja from Ponderosa Brewing. At the time we did not know why Matt was leaving the nascent brewery, nor who his replacement would be. While serving ...
Read More »Mother Road Brewing to New Mexico: “It’s all your fault”
Mother Road Brewing founder Michael Marquess, left, and production manager Campbell Morrissey strike a pose in the new insulated shipping container that will hold the extra product needed for New Mexico “It’s all your fault, New Mexico,” said Mother Road Brewing founder and chief beer officer Michael Marquess with a big grin. ...
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