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They passed something useful for a change! Thanks, NM Legislature. (Photo courtesy of capitolreportnewmexico.com) As many of you know, the legislative session closed several weeks ago, and we ran a rather popular article about it because, despite the session being called a rather “dead session,” our craft beer industry had quite a l ...

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 ...

La Cumbre’s shiny new 30-barrel brewhouse is just another sign of the tremendous growth of the craft brewing scene here in New Mexico and the support the industry is receiving from state government. The potential positive fallout from the New Mexico State Legislature passing multiple bills to help the craft brewing industry continues to b ...

Most of the time we have our subjects pose with a beer. The Tractor staff chose cute instead. From left, Melissa Martinez, Nicole Duke, and proud mama Skye Devore. And at least one baby was kind of looking at the camera. Back when the Crew decided to do a series on women in craft brewing, Tractor seemed like one of the more obvious places for u ...

For my third article in the NM Women in Brewing Series, I sat down and had a beer with experienced craft brewer, Jordana “Jordy” Dralle. This woman is a veteran of the industry. With one impressive brewing resume, she is an excellent example of strong women with even stronger passions for their craft, making a living doing what the ...

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 ...

Bosque co-owner Gabe Jensen gives thumbs up to the new brewing bills that passed through the state legislature. Bosque Brewing director of operations Gabe Jensen invited me over to his office, located just a few doors down from the brewery and taproom on San Mateo, to chat about just what all those new bills passing through the state legislatur ...

Why is there a picture of the Desert Darlings dancing at Tractor with this story? Um, why not? Greetings, all, hope you had fun on this past sunny weekend. It was a fun time, wasn’t it? I mean, aside from that whole rain of 3-point death by Wisconsin against my Arizona Wildcats (curse you, cheeseheads!), I think just about everyone I know ...

Second Street general manager Colleen Sager enjoys those quiet moments where she can sit down with one of their beers. Women have always been on the frontier of beer. Before hops, words like “craft,” and before there was an industry, women kept their households stocked with the ancient ales. Traditionally they were the brewers, or & ...

It’s time to get rid of some useless calories by running, and then replace them with better, beer-flavored calories! At some point we have all joked about running to get a beer. And at some point we have probably heard about insane people doing those “beer mile” races (drink a beer per lap around a regulation track, so it&rsqu ...