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High and Dry assistant brewer/bar manager Hannah B. has found a home in an industry that she never expected to join when she moved to Albuquerque from Reno. A fun part of this job of writing about breweries is often finding out just where everyone in the industry came from before jumping into their brewery jobs. While more and more new empl ...

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 staff at Jubilation is a wee bit excited for the Modern Times launch party set for this Wednesday. For the first time in what seems like forever, a major out-of-state craft brewery has launched a new distribution deal in New Mexico, and two Albuquerque craft institutions are jumping on board with special events this Wednesday. After ...

While beer festivals may not be back in full force just yet, the craft beer world is starting to find its way back to that good place that feels more like the normal we remember as events return to our taprooms. We in the Dark Side Brew Crew couldn’t be more thrilled that the times, they are a-changing, at last. This Tuesday, Rowle ...

Rio Bravo brewer Lindsey Baker created the recipe for this year’s Pink Boots Society collaboration beer, Golden Girls. Lindsey Baker has done it all at Rio Bravo Brewing, working in almost every job there is in both the front and back of house. Now, though, the spotlight is squarely on the young brewer, all thanks to the Pink Boots ...

Not all breweries will be increasing their indoor occupancy even with Bernalillo County moving to green. (Photo courtesy of Steel Bender Brewyard) The Wednesday news that much of New Mexico was moving to the green/turquoise levels on the state’s colored reopening chart came as a relief to many breweries. After a long period of being st ...

Bonito Valley is tucked inside this 150-year-old building in the town of Lincoln. The final stop in our recent tour of breweries in Southern New Mexico felt like a trip back in time. None of us had ever been to the small town of Lincoln, which sits along Highway 380, just east of Capitan. Many of the buildings here date back to the 19th ...

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 ...

Owners Dan and Jennifer Carey were a delight to interview at Lost Hiker Brewing’s midtown taproom in Ruidoso. At some point, all of us have probably that moment where we think it would be a good idea to quit the job, sell the house, move to a quiet little town and start anew. Most of us then sigh, shake our heads, and get back to w ...

The trio, from left, of head brewer Matt Meier, operations manager Ali Cattin, and owner Matt Biggs wave good-bye to the original Red Door location. Breweries can still surprise us from time to time. Take Red Door Brewing, which suddenly dropped the news late last week that it will be closing its original brewery and taproom on Candelaria th ...