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Boxing Bear and Gallo Negro Tattoo have teamed up to create this new IPA, which comes out on Saturday. (Hand model: Justin Hamilton) A few months back, when the pandemic was still dragging along, Boxing Bear released a different take on a collaboration beer. Rather than loop in another brewery to make something tasty, the brewery staff inste ...

Bandolero Brewery owner Andrew Logan has built an impressive brewpub in the heart of Clovis. In all the time that I have lived in New Mexico (1986-96, 2008-present), no members of my mother’s side of the family have ever made any part of this state my home. That changed recently when my cousin’s husband was assigned to Cannon Air ...

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 taproom is open, but the full move of the brewery will not happen until later this year. Sometimes, you just go to visit a new brewing site to enjoy a pint and take a cursory look around. Oh, but then along comes the unexpected behind-the-scenes tour from one of the owners, and you forget to record a second of it. Anyway, now that I ...

The stage at Marble’s downtown taproom has remained largely unused even as many of the pandemic restrictions have been lifted, but there is hope that will change in the coming months. Slowly but surely, things are starting to look normal out at the breweries again, but there is still one thing missing. Go to the event section on just ...

Marita Weil, one of the skilled brewers at Steel Bender Brewyard. As the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg wisely said, “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” And that, of course, includes breweries, where countless decisions are made every single day. Thousands of years ago brewing was a female-dominated craft, ...

While bar seating is still currently unavailable, the taps behind the bar at Turquoise Trail are full and ready to be poured for your visit Turquoise Trail Brewing had been open a mere seven months before the now infamous shutdown of 2020, and owner Sean Lawson entered a time which he described as a “big ol’ shitshow.” I ...

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 ...

Local art is returning to the walls of our breweries, like this exhibit at Tractor Wells Park, all thanks to Art on the Rio. (All images courtesy of Carlos Contreras) The pandemic shutdown and subsequent restrictions not only limited our craft breweries around the Albuquerque metro area, it also took a bite out of the many other creatives wh ...

Brewer George Gonzales has found a new home inside the 505 Central Food Hall. Plenty of people make reference to “pandemic limbo” these days, the long stretch of inactivity as the result of furloughed jobs, everything being closed, and generally not being able to figure out what’s next in life. Though he certainly would ...