The special 10th anniversary goblet, filled with the delicious new Beam Me Up (Higher) Scotty, is ready for this weekend. (Photo courtesy of Nexus Brewery) You know a brewery’s anniversary is a big deal when they send out a full press release. That was the case this week as Nexus Brewery announced that its (slightly delayed) 10th anniv ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Slowly getting back into the events groove
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 ...
Read More »New Mexico Brewers Guild unveils 2021 events calendar
All the IPA on a tray will return this November! Thanks to an out-of-nowhere stomach bug, yours truly has been on the injured list over the last 24-hours-plus. While that has kept me from venturing out to talk to any brewery folks, it does not mean that the beer news has stopped. The New Mexico Brewers Guild included the events calendar ...
Read More »High and Dry slings some wieners while other breweries alter their hours for Fourth of July
Get a free hot dog this Sunday at High and Dry, no masks required this year! (Photo courtesy of High and Dry) A quick glance at the calendar on your phone (or your wall, if you are old fashioned) shows that this Sunday is the Fourth of July, that annual holiday where grilling is a must and making things go boom tends to happen, even amidst a ...
Read More »The great reopening: Most breweries ready for full occupancy
Remember big crowds and sitting at the actual bar? Yeah, it’s all coming back, starting today! (Photo courtesy of Mario Caldwell/Steel Bender Brewyard) Unless you have been in a complete boycott of all things news and social media, by now you are aware that today, on this first of July, the state of New Mexico is lifting all pandemic r ...
Read More »Marble and Meow Wolf team up for unique new collaboration beer
Another unique collaboration between a brewery and a non-brewery arrives on Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Marble) The days of collaboration beers just being between two (or more) breweries have been over for a while now. As if to hammer that point home, one of the biggest breweries in the state is teaming up with one of the most unique art co ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Run, do not walk, to load up on brews
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 ...
Read More »JUNO picks up where Dialogue left off and then looks to go beyond
Another closed brewery has been reborn, this time down in the Wells Park neighborhood. It is not exactly a theme, but for the second time this year, a brewery lost to the pandemic has come back to life, with new owners and a new name. JUNO is the new brewery that has taken the place of Dialogue Brewing at 1501 First Street NW, following ...
Read More »Second Street’s passion for the game goes Beyond the Pitch
Head brewer Tom Ludzia is a member of The Curse, so this collaboration seemed a natural fit. (Photo courtesy of Second Street) Today (Friday), Second Street Brewery in Santa Fe is releasing Beyond the Pitch, a canned beer collaboration with The Curse, one of the official supporters groups of New Mexico United. With the can release da ...
Read More »Beer Notes: Updates on all the new places still in progress
You can once again sit amongst the sculpture garden, only the brewery is now called Juno, not Dialogue. With the recent openings (re-openings?) of two closed-turned-new-breweries — Lizard Tail Industrial (neé Cantero) and Juno (ex-Dialogue) — we figured it might be a good time to catch up on what is still in the forth ...
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