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Commemorative glassware for an outdoor festival? Man, it’s been a minute! Due to the lingering Covid-19 restrictions throughout New Mexico, we did not expect to see any outdoor festivals this summer. Oh, not so fast, Brew Crew, because Kaktus Brewing has gone ahead and organized the first event since the fall of 2019, and it is goi ...

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 ...

Body Czech Pilsner and Huell Melon Lager are available at Boxing Bear. Welcome to our new miniseries of articles to highlight the season’s best local offerings. We will be doing spot reviews on recent releases in the lager family of beers from around the state. **DISCLAIMER** Please be advised that these reviews do not indicate current ...

If you know any of the Brew Crew personally, you’ll know that we are massive football/soccer fans. With tailgates and stadium brews, beer is clearly a big part of the soccer world, but seldom does that relationship go the other direction. Thankfully, New Mexico breweries are beginning to partner with our source of local pride, New ...

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 ...

Felicia “Fee” Gonzales keeps the front of house humming at all four Boxing Bear taprooms. Felicia “Fee” Gonzales is on the move these days. Oh, she is not leaving Boxing Bear Brewing, but as the director of people operations for the brewery, she is putting some miles on her car these days thanks to the expansion into ...

Bell’s Brewery and The Storehouse are joining forces again to fight hunger in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of The Storehouse) The pandemic and its associated restrictions might be winding down these days, but many of the same issues that predated it are still present in New Mexico, hunger being chief among those. So once again, Bell ...

Former Turtle Mountain and Tractor head brewer Mick Hahn has found a new happy place at Hollow Spirits Distillery. The last time any of us talked to Mick Hahn, he had just taken over the position of head brewer at Tractor Wells Park, having just left Turtle Mountain a few months after winning the first Great American Beer Festival gold medal ...

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 ...

The new cocktail menu is on the left, while beer and cider is on the right. Back when we sent out requests for interview times for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, a few breweries turned us down this year, mainly due to the simple exhaustion of talking about the pandemic and its wide-ranging effects over and over again. A few oth ...