Every new brewer will always face a challenge when taking over an established brewery. Some, though, arrive in the shadow of a predecessor who just went out and put that brewery on the map. That is the challenge facing James Warren, the new brewer at Blue Corn, who succeeds John Bullard at the well-established Santa Fe institution. All John did ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: The new face of Turtle Mountain
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, back to bring you this installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and taprooms in New Mexico. E-Rock, left, has uncovered all the beers worth sneaking up on this week. When ...
Read More »The math adds up over at Pi Brewing
Amid all the recent news and rumors about new breweries springing up around Albuquerque, all of us in the Crew were surprised when one place we had never heard about suddenly sent us a message on Facebook. That was all by design, as Franz Solo and I found out when we trekked over to the as-yet-unopened Pi Brewing Company. Located on Coors Blvd. ...
Read More »Brewology: Trials, errors, and the joys of chocolate porters
Such a magical place… Greetings faithful readers and beer connoisseurs, the NMDSBC is here to bring you another installment in the Brewology series! With a few amateur home brewers in our collective, these articles are dedicated to the craft of making beer right out of our homes from scratch. We attempt to document the process ...
Read More »We’re all a bunch of Untappd badge whores
We, the great beer-loving human collective, spend way too much time buried in our smart phones. Look around the next time you’re at a brewery or taproom, especially during quieter times, and count the number of people texting, emailing, or playing with their various apps. Once upon a time, some very smart people noticed this, and thus the ...
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